Season 1 filming began in June 2016. Despite Mr. Cooke’s effort to be single, Ms. Batula’s plans overlapped his at the restaurant Grey Lady in Montauk in July. The serendipitous run-in introduced Ms. Batula — and the pair’s complicated status — to viewers. “The misconception on ‘Summer House’ is that she was a booty call,”…
Name: Paulina Alexis Age: 21 Hometown: Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Reserve, Alberta, Canada Currently Lives: A one-bedroom apartment in Edmonton, while her family home on the reservation is being renovated. Claim to Fame: Ms. Alexis is an Indigenous Canadian actress whose portrayal of Willie Jack on the FX dark comedy “Reservation Dogs” has garnered praise,…
In September 2018, participants in a Yom Kippur meditation began to arrive in front of the Turtle Pond in Central Park. Daniel Bloch Jeydel introduced himself to Danielle Casey Bloch. “She had curls in her hair and big blue eyes, she was incredibly beautiful,” said Mr. Jeydel, 32, a graduate of N.Y.U. and the founder…
Chris Baker was with a group of friends at a nightclub in Hollywood, Calif., over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2013, when he spotted John Federspiel smiling at him from across a crowded dance floor. But because of the venue — which was not a gay bar — he was unsure how to interpret the overture.…
For their first date five years ago, Ben Lee took Kerrie Knox for a ride in his 1947 Beechcraft B35 Bonanza, flying in and out of a tiny airstrip near where she was living in Cleveland, Tenn. “One of the first things I noticed about Kerrie was just the excitement.” he said. “There was no…
A postgraduate summer fling with Jurema Gobena, in New Haven, Conn., in 2016, just wasn’t enough for Enyi Okebugwu. “The final conversation we had before leaving was, ‘This is a natural end, this is great,’” said Mr. Okebugwu, 30. But, he said, “It did not feel good at all. On my end, I thought, let…
“It feels good,” the actor Penn Badgley said on a recent Friday morning, in an echoing studio at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn. “I’m clumsy as hell. But it feels good.” Mr. Badgley, 34, who played lonely boy Dan on the original “Gossip Girl” and now stars on the Netflix thriller “You,” hadn’t…
When Meghan Louttit first contacted Joseph Iervolino on the dating app OkCupid in November 2015, he was sitting in a plane on a tarmac at Newark airport, bound for Thailand. Ms. Louttit was impressed. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, here’s someone with a nice smile who likes to travel and seems very adventurous,’” she said.…
Drs. Kate Carlisle Stoeckle and Jeffrey Russell Arace broke the rules when they first met. Their meeting took place in 2013 in a neuroscience lab at the Rockefeller University, where they were working as research assistants. “We walked in on the first day and someone was taking me around the lab to meet everyone,” Dr.…
Jamie Antoinette Cooke and Dr. Joshua Ryan Zeiger figured they had been to at least 20 of the same social events while at Georgetown, starting with a welcome party in their freshman year. “We knew each other from afar,” said Dr. Zeiger, 31, who was reintroduced to her in June 2014, two years after they…