Ms. Arthur proposed in July 2021 in Daddy’s Plants, a plant shop in Buffalo. After she went down on one knee, Mx. Cohen read out loud a poem that they had written for Ms. Arthur and had kept in their wallet for months. The two framed the poem in their apartment in Park Slope, where…
Neither Diana Ming nor Jonathan Barrett Gold seemed to want their first date to ever end. After connecting on the dating app Hinge, the two agreed to meet on March 22, 2018 at Goodnight Sonny, a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. “We instantly bonded while consuming spicy margaritas and laughing,” said Ms. Ming, 30, a…
When I was 13, my mother learned that she had multiple sclerosis. By that point she couldn’t drive, get dressed or walk by herself. My father became her sole caretaker, and she was less than appreciative. When she rang the buzzer, he never got there fast enough. When he brought her a glass of water,…
For circus performers, it takes a lot to stand out at a festival. But when Ryan Shinji Murray heard about how Juanita Cardenas arrived at the Montreal Complètement Cirque festival in 2015, he was intrigued. “I heard that a couple people had ridden their bikes from Brooklyn to Montreal and I thought, I need to hang out with…
Body mass index has long been a standard, but controversial, measurement of weight and health.
Why It Matters: Some people remain at risk. Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax have made it clear that they need time to make tens of millions of doses of the shots that would be available in the fall. “I think that’s what today’s discussion is about — how to best to come up with what goes…
Robert Mondavi paved the way for Napa Valley to take a place among the leading wine regions of the world and raised the bar for all American producers. By the force of his charismatic personality, Mr. Mondavi, a hard-driving visionary who established the Robert Mondavi Winery after being forced out of the family business, practically…
I’m trying with all my might not to be a broken record here…but I have to live my truth, and my truth is that I live in the Dr. Martens Jadon platform boot. I confess! I like playing with trends and fads as much as the next fashion editor, but as with many things in…
In Milan, there’s one unofficial but very important entertaining rule: Never throw a party on a Saturday night. Monday through Friday, the city is brimming with creative people — the quiet engines running the design and fashion industries — but, when the weekend rolls around, they tend to leave for the nearby Swiss Alps or…
By Kin Woo The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is known for her ambitious oversize sculptures that frequently elevate everyday objects. Her 2005 Venice Biennale contribution, “A Noiva” (The Bride), was a chandelier made of 14,000 tampons and “Valkyrie Miss Dior,” the imposing, tentacular fabric-wrapped installation that formed the backdrop of Maria Grazia Chiuri’s fall ’23…