When Trevor Bates and Shahnaz Singh-Kandah met at church, both were overcoming personal challenges and neither was looking for love. But through divine intervention, they had a change of heart.Trevor Jovan Bates knew Shahnaz Singh-Kandah would be his wife even before he asked her out. “I heard the ...

Small gestures can build relationships — and also tear them down.She offered to bring fancy cheese, the kind that costs $35 per pound. I said a couple of supermarket slabs would be fine, for one-fourth the price.Four days later, she dumped me.Was it the cheese? Did the cheese ...

Small gestures can build relationships — and also tear them down.She offered to bring fancy cheese, the kind that costs $35 per pound. I said a couple of supermarket slabs would be fine, for one-fourth the price.Four days later, she dumped me.Was it the cheese? Did the cheese ...

Jamie Kalman needed a fire performer for an event she was producing and was about to hire Aubrey DePew, but then the pandemic happened.Jamie Leigh Kalman was looking for someone who could eat and breathe fire for an upcoming event she was producing in Pensacola, Fla. So she ...

The musician enlisted Online Ceramics, a brand known for its idiosyncratic T-shirts, to remake Casio’s G-Shock.It’s not uncommon to see clocks or hourglasses alongside the snails, skeletons, scarecrows and other imagery on Online Ceramics T-shirts. The label’s founders, Elijah Funk and Alix Ross, said the passage of time ...

Once, more than a decade ago, Rosetta Getty was asked by her daughter’s elementary schoolteacher, “Are we going to discuss the elephant in the room?”Ms. Getty didn’t know what she meant.“The fact that Violet basically acts like a boy and dresses like a boy,” the teacher said, according ...

Once, more than a decade ago, Rosetta Getty was asked by her daughter’s elementary schoolteacher, “Are we going to discuss the elephant in the room?”Ms. Getty didn’t know what she meant.“The fact that Violet basically acts like a boy and dresses like a boy,” the teacher said, according ...

On a recent evening in the West Village of Manhattan, Dorothy Wiggins, a petite 98-year-old woman wearing a dark coat and a pink scarf, left her townhouse to check out Little Ruby’s Cafe, a chic new restaurant in her neighborhood. Inside, she approached the hostess.“I remember this place ...

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Apple Podcasts | Spotify‘His earnest love had become repulsive, imagining the way he wanted to care for me. The inevitable loyalty and acceptance and protection filled my throat with ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.The Psychic’s StareOctobers ago, I crossed a psychic’s door. She examined me, one gray eye roaming. “Don’t marry your boyfriend,” she said. “I don’t have one,” I bluffed. Both of her eyes focused on me: “You ...

“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions.Lady Bird Johnson embodied contradiction, cloaking her gravitas in Southern charm. Even her name made that clear. From infancy onward, Claudia Alta Taylor (born in 1912) was known to everyone as Lady Bird, a lighthearted, ...

“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions.Lady Bird Johnson embodied contradiction, cloaking her gravitas in Southern charm. Even her name made that clear. From infancy onward, Claudia Alta Taylor (born in 1912) was known to everyone as Lady Bird, a lighthearted, ...

A French artist is taking macramé, the traditional technique long associated with 1970s wall art and plant hangers, to a new level.Detailed. Delicate. Colorful. Laurentine Périlhou’s three-dimensional flowers look more like embroidery than macramé, the traditional knotting technique long associated with 1970s wall art and plant hangers.“People never ...

“Dead Letter No. 9,” “Cocktail Magique” and “Hypnotique” are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife.A funny thing happened at Dead Letter No. 9, a new performance space in Brooklyn. It was just after 10 p.m. on a Saturday in late October. The evening’s show had finished, but the ...