Mr. Ristic had him practice a typical forehand swing and Mr. McLaughlin obliged, before politely revealing that he is in fact left-handed. Switching grips, he practiced again — drop and swing, drop and swing. Then Mr. Ristic moved to the backhand. The Upside-Down World of ‘Stranger Things’ After a three-year wait, Netflix’s sci-fi series returns…
Name: Lydia Ourahmane Age: 30 Hometown: Saïda, Algeria Currently Lives: In a two-bedroom apartment in Barcelona, above Sala Parés, a venerable art gallery Claim to Fame: Ms. Ourahmane is an Algerian-British artist known for sprawling installations that defy geopolitical boundaries. A recent work, “Barzakh,” (it means “separation” or “a barrier between two things” in Arabic)…
Even if you’ve spent no time on TikTok, you probably have some idea of what’s happening there. Headlines about dance challenges, aesthetics (WitchTok! Cottagecore! Coastal grandmother!) and viral audio clips have proliferated over the last few years, each trend treated as a way to decipher the habits of Gen Z. That tendency — to extrapolate…
PHOTOGRAPHED BY CAMILA FALQUEZ They were walking, breathing Slim Aarons photos come to life—literally. The photographer who defined midcentury style by taking photos of “attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places” frequently captured them at home and at play, and often both. Some 60 years later, much like “walkers” and long lunches at La…
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you: You are, in fact, seeing cobalt blue everywhere. It’s popping up in the design of Instagram-famous brands like Glossier and Great Jones; it’s featured prominently in new lines of cookware, glassware, loungewear and even cookbooks. When millennial pink dominated in 2016, it was believed to be a response to current…
Erika Graves and Bradley Cameron had been together for roughly six years, and engaged for more than two, by the time they set off on a five-month road trip from Oakland, Calif., to New York and back in April 2021. Despite everything they had learned about each another in all that time as a couple,…
I was dying the morning I met Sarah. I ordered a latte from the campus coffee shop because she had done the same. To make up for it, I starved myself until late that night. Luckily, it had been made with skim milk, not whole, so I was allowed to have dinner. With a pandemic…
He didn’t. Instead, he got her interested enough to agree to a weekend with him at Mohonk Mountain House, a resort in New Paltz, N.Y., a few weeks later. When Ms. Richard-Nagle, who lived in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, arrived at his Chelsea apartment for the road trip, she made note of his luggage. “He packed…
Of all the traits that have attracted Stephanie Nicole Insalaco and Thomas John Ciccotta to one another over the course of their relationship, perhaps none has drawn them closer than how each has treated other people along the way. The two first connected on the dating app Tinder in August 2017. A Queens native, Ms.…
Despite their fast courtship, marriage was not always a priority for either. In 2017, they registered as domestic partners in Washington and, at first, “thought that was enough,” Mr. Gann said. But in the years that followed, the couple realized that “it is important to secure our rights” to marry, he added. The two became…