Weeks after Maria Sandomenico’s Chihuahua, Luigi, died last August, she shared a long post in a Facebook group for residents of the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn about how she was struggling to come to terms with her adopted rescue dog’s passing. In an interview in January, Ms. Sandomenico said that in the seven years…
Behind the closed door of my closet lies a world of possibility. Give me a few hours to clean it out, and perhaps I’ll finally become a person with a wardrobe of chic, coordinating neutrals instead of someone with four different black turtlenecks that I hate for four different reasons. I know there can be…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Walk along a certain stretch of North Sixth Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and you might wonder if you’ve stumbled into any upscale shopping district in the United States. A block away from an Hermès store,…
Algunas mañanas pueden parecer excepcionalmente hermosas sin razón aparente. Una mañana de hace muchos años, 18 meses después de que mi mujer y yo nos mudáramos a Nueva York desde Daca, Bangladés, mi corazón se sentía tranquilo. El sol brillaba con fuerza, disipando la penumbra que había nublado el cielo durante días. Quizá me sentía…
A flock of mostly 20-somethings gathered on Tuesday night in a chapel-like building in Brooklyn to hear about a subject that has been a hot topic in religious spaces for centuries: celibacy. Except no one was using that term. Instead, they were calling it “boysober.” “I hate the word celibacy,” said the host of the…
Moments before MJ Zayas and Donald John Krams exchanged vows on Sept. 24, 2022, at the Loft by Bridgeview, an events space in Island Park, N.Y., Mr. Krams was brought to tears when he saw his soon-to-be spouse for the first time. “The green was a must. It’s my favorite color,” said Mx. Zayas, who…
Coco Jones is ready for the Grammys. Ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, the singer joined her fellow nominees at Spotify’s Best New Artist Party last night, where she dazzled on both the red carpet and the stage. First, she arrived in a look by Moschino, mixing textures in a lace corset top and a crochet midi…
Things were going well for Cody Fry, a singer-songwriter and producer known for his lush pop songs. He was looking forward to a pair of concerts with Ben Rector and the Colorado Symphony at the Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver. And on Monday his management team called him with exciting news: One of his songs,…
You are who you know — a truism forcefully demonstrated this week when Kristin Juszczyk, who happens to be married to the San Francisco 49ers fullback, Kyle Juszczyk, signed a deal with the N.F.L. to use its logos on the football jersey-like puffer jackets she designs. That agreement, first reported by Sportico, came on the…
Taylor Swift often encourages her fans to devise fanciful theories about her music, but this week a very different type of wild speculation sprung up around her: political conspiracy theories being peddled by Fox News, Trump surrogates and the extended MAGA universe. The theories range widely, but include outlandish claims that Ms. Swift is secretly…