Yan Fu deserves some of the credit for the marathon sea swimmer Leslie Abigail Hamilton’s groundbreaking lap around Staten Island this summer. Mr. Fu did not jump in for the 14-and-a-half hour, 37-mile swim in July that earned Ms. Hamilton the distinction of being the first woman to officially complete the route. His role, instead,…
Before Felix Rameshad Allen III had even heard of Brandon Aaron Marshall, Mr. Allen’s grandmother, Bertha Mae Allen, was already a fan of Mr. Marshall. She had watched him on KWTX-TV News 10, an affiliate of CBS in Waco, Texas, where he was a reporter. Mr. Allen and Mr. Marshall first connected in November 2015…
Ray Anthony Biggs II and Rakim Hassan Daquan Brooks both describe themselves as “genteel” — leave it to a nightclub to loosen them up. One night in November 2017, Mr. Biggs was invited to go dancing by Aaron Rodgers, a mutual friend. Mr. Biggs went over to Mr. Rodgers’s townhouse in Anacostia, a neighborhood in…
After only a few weeks of dating, Mr. Roberts said “I love you” — in Mandarin. He had studied Mandarin in college and was desperate to express his feelings, but in a manner that wouldn’t alarm Ms. Green. She deciphered what he meant almost immediately and was not scared off. In fact, she said, she…
This time, though, I was old enough to understand the root of her despair, to know that she would slip into a pale shadow of herself for months. Besides me, only one pregnancy had been successful — my little brother, whose wide liquid eyes reflected my own anxiety every time the shroud fell over our…
The Latin American Fashion Awards has named its icon of the year ahead of its biennial ceremony, which recognizes and champions leading and emerging Latinx talent in the fashion industry. J Balvin will received the ceremony’s prestigious Latin Fashion Icon of the Year award at the event, taking place on November 4. “I’m excited to…
Some of my favorite Japanese restaurants are bars. Of course, there are the izakayas scattered around the city, where eating and drinking are as inseparable as sushi and rice. But there are also bars that happen to have excellent food even though they are best known for their beverages (cocktails and highballs, most often, but…
For Eiesha Bharti Pasricha, the artistic director of the London members’ club Maison Estelle, entertaining is sacrosanct. Growing up in an Indian family in New Delhi — her father is the businessman Sunil Bharti Mittal — she understood early on that hospitality was not just a nicety but a cultural value to be upheld. “Hosting…
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One of the many things I adore about my friends is that we will text each other, apropos of nothing and with zero pleasantries, about what we’re eating at any moment. “I just made the most delish green tahini,” a girlfriend texted me Sunday evening. She had whirled together tahini, scallions, spinach, lemon juice, honey,…