Summer in the Cities: Chicago

As the pandemic ebbs in the United States, many travelers have been favoring outdoor, away-from-it-all getaways. According to the travel planning site TripIt, over Memorial Day weekend, major cities like Washington, D.C., and New York were trending down, while outdoorsy spots like Palm Springs, Calif., were newly popular. “Two-thirds of my clients are booking houses,…

A Love That Bloomed in the Lab

In 2011, Dr. Edward Ryan Horton spent about a month of his summer break working in the reproductive endocrine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was approaching his final year as an undergraduate at Brown, and focused on securing a full-time job at the lab when he graduated. “I was this kind of…

Their Route to a Future Was Clear

Jason Bolicki and Adam Schloff each realized that they were in love just a few months after they initially met, which was in July 2015. By New Year’s Eve of that year, both had concluded that they should get married. But neither of them was quite clear on the protocols involved — who should propose…

From Fast Friends to Suddenly in Love

Despite now undertaking a doctoral degree in psychology at Pepperdine University, Mr. Song, 26, continued to land D.J. gigs. In the summer of 2016 after Ms. Kinsolving’s graduation, while watching their favorite D.J. in a Las Vegas club, the duo became an “official” couple. Within weeks, the two would “unofficially” move in together. While working…

The Right Answer to a Different Question

Kalyn Saulsberry’s profile on the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel said that she liked 1990s things, which Vincent Fong saw as a perfect opportunity for connection. So he posed a question: Backstreet Boys or ‘N Sync? “She said Backstreet Boys,” he said. “Not the right answer, but it was a great jumping off point.” It…