The Metropolitan Museum of Art honored its new acquisitions, including Ronald S. Lauder’s promised gift, at a black-tie gala on Dec. 7. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrated Robert Battle’s 10 years as artistic director at its opening night gala on Dec. 1, held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. And the New York Philharmonic held…
Seniors also stand to gain, she said, noting that her own mother, Donna Wilkinson Nitchun, has benefited from the rental unit attached to her home in Princeton for more than 20 years. “She can pay the taxes, put food on the table, and meet people from all over,” Ms. Sacks said. And the tenants, who…
Space was hard to avoid thinking about in 2021. We entered a new era of star treks, with the long-promised era of space tourism finally upon us — at least for those who are extremely well-funded. The rest of us terrestrial plebes made do with video clips and telescopes, watching the six-hour partial lunar eclipse…
With a raised eyebrow and the kind of smile that makes his fans swoon, the actor Murray Bartlett tipped his head back and slurped a freshly shucked oyster. This was on a gleaming morning just before Thanksgiving at Marlow & Sons, the restaurant that Mr. Bartlett, 50, frequented when he lived in the Williamsburg neighborhood…
I stood at my kitchen counter and eagerly ran my scissors down the packing tape. It was about a year ago, and the arrival of a package with my name on it — that wasn’t from Amazon — was a rush. Pushing down the box’s flaps revealed a midnight blue ceramic mug with a whimsical…
According to federal data, about 5.5 million 16- and 17-year-olds — two-thirds of that age group — have received at least one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. More than 4.7 million have received two doses. Roughly three million got their second shot at least six months ago and would be eligible for a third shot this…
When Opera Memphis staged a production of “Porgy and Bess” at the city’s Orpheum Theater in the fall of 2006, there were at least two love stories playing out in the room. One centered on Gershwin’s titular opera characters; the other, two high-school students in the audience. Talibah Safiya and Bertram Williams Jr. were different…
Just three words had passed between Will Jardell and James Wallington when each said they knew they had found the “one.” The two met in February 2014 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles during auditions for the reality TV show “America’s Next Top Model.” Mr. Wallington was a casting assistant, Mr. Jardell, an…
But when their relationship crossed a platonic line in October 2015, Ms. Newman said that their difference in age was initially hard to swallow by her parents and some other friends and family. “In those early days, we had to deal with a lot of anger and pushback from family and friends,” she said. “Of…
Dr. Jasmine Cecilia Huynh called off her first date with Vivek Viswanathan in June 2017 without an explanation. “I was not fit for a date,” said Dr. Huynh, 32, who had connected with Mr. Viswanathan on the dating app Tinder a few weeks earlier, and canceled on him after experiencing what she called the worst…