Though it was nearly five decades ago, Gay Blackstone can still vividly recall the first time she was sawed in half onstage. Her screams were an intended element of the illusion, but nerves and fear made them genuine that time. For Ms. Blackstone, that gig assisting the master illusionist Harry Blackstone Jr. turned into a…
Last year Charlene Truong Launer, a social media content creator, bought a real Christmas tree from a seller on a sidewalk in Manhattan. Ms. Launer, 29, and her husband carried the tree 15 minutes to their apartment in TriBeCa and spent hours setting it up. “I was so excited,” she said. The next morning, however,…
El año pasado, dos días antes de cumplir 29 años, me resbalé con hielo en el restaurante donde trabajaba y me torcí el tobillo. Me dijeron que me quedara en casa para recuperarme, pero enseguida me aburrí e hice lo que haría cualquier soltera con tiempo libre: volver a descargar mis aplicaciones de citas. En…
Deep inside the CBS Broadcast Center in Midtown Manhattan, I stood in a corridor observing a melee. The soap opera where I worked was going off the air, and the wardrobe department had filled an empty suite of offices with piles of designer purses and handbags. With a limit of four per person, everything was…
Stuck at home in 2021, and unsure if he would perform again, he began to write in a more personal way about the place he was from. He turned Strafford into his version of Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley. He name-checked Alger Brook Road, his childhood address, and sang, “I’m mean because I grew up in New…
In the end, it may have been the luxury goods that brought down George Santos. Not the lies about going to Baruch College and being a volleyball star or working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Not the claims of being Jewish and having grandparents who were killed in the Holocaust and a mother who died…
Fans in silver hats, pants and boots flooded movie theaters on Thursday night as they came to see Houston’s own Beyoncé on the silver screen. The premiere of her nearly three-hour concert movie, “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” featuring performances and behind-the-scenes footage from her worldwide tour, had finally come to town. Movie theaters nationwide…
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Jordan Mailata, the 6-foot-8, 365-pound left tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, was nervous for his next matchup. It was August, and he was heading into the recording studio to duet with the Godmother of Soul, Patti LaBelle. “He sings his face off — I was shocked,” Ms. LaBelle said on Thursday. “I said, ‘OK, let’s…
New Year’s Eve is fun, sure, but the best part is getting dressed for the fun. From sequins and sparkles to understated cocktail attire, this is the night to make your look anything you want it to be. So even if they’re not in your typical repertoire, close out 2023 with statement pieces that you’ll…