From the sleek totes and compact clutches of her debut collection, called Initiale, Ms. Ahmimou has gravitated toward more voluminous shapes, which she said recall the rectangular bag for a JVC camera that her family used to take on trips, and multipocket designs she likens to “mobile architecture,” worked in sunbaked tones of clay, olive…
OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers, AirPod wireless headphones with longer battery life and HomePod Mini speakers in three more colors. But a different and unheralded Apple release is garnering so much interest that it has become the company’s most back-ordered new product: a…
Three months after they were introduced, Dr. Abby Brecher and Gregory Alan Marcus finally met in May 2020 for a walk in Riverside Park in Manhattan. “I never dated casually,” said Dr. Brecher, 34, a pediatric dentist at Slim Dental Kids in Manhattan. “I wanted to have a lifelong partner. I could have plenty of…
The first time Marideth Leigh Batchelor met Austin Jeffrey Telenko, she was wearing wiener dog pajama shorts and a baggy T-shirt. “I looked crazy,” Ms. Batchelor, 23, said with a laugh. Both professional dancers and choreographers, Ms. Batchelor and Mr. Telenko in September 2019 had been cast in “Dead Man’s Party,” a Halloween-themed production at…
Bill Prady and Jessica Queller both remember almost every twist and turn in their nearly two-decade-long journey together. The details of their relationship trajectory align like those of a good romantic comedy. It’s the subplot that trips them up. The couple agree on the basics. They met in Los Angeles in 2003 as staff writers…
Since meeting in February 2012, Natalie Joumblat and Harrison Van Der Linde have spent more time apart than together. The pair met in a business class at the University of California, Davis, during their junior year and started dating soon after. “We sat together in class, studied together, ate together, worked out together,” Dr. Van…
Were it not for two goats named Thelma and Louise, Lauren Trout and Chris Angeloro may not have had a love story. When they met in June 2016, the women lived in Austin. Ms. Trout is a Texas native; Ms. Angeloro, who was born in Massachusetts, moved there as a child. While they had friends…
When Emily Feeks, a Navy cryptologist based in San Diego, was transferred to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., in 2013, she viewed the move as a chance at a fresh start. The year before, on Aug. 16, 2012, her husband of 11 months, the Navy SEAL Patrick Feeks, was killed in a helicopter…
Fall is all fun and games and tricks and treats, but before you know it that cool breeze turns into a dreaded winter chill. Come this time of year, it can be tempting to default to slouchy hoodies and shapeless puffers, but Amazon is here to rescue you from your sartorial woes with shearling coats,…
After Halloween comes Thanksgiving, and then Hanukkah and Christmas: All days just asking for pain when your family is going through an upheaval. Even MLK weekend had me distraught one year. (I was convinced that, unlike us, all the intact families had amazing plans. Possible but, I now realize, unlikely.) Halloween 2021 The spooky season is…