Shere Hite, who startled the world in the 1970s with her groundbreaking reports on female sexuality and her conclusion that women did not need conventional sexual intercourse — or men, for that matter — to achieve sexual satisfaction, died on Wednesday at her home in London. She was 77. Her husband, Paul Sullivan, confirmed the…
Six weeks ago, as TikTok grappled with escalating tensions between the United States and China, the social media app’s top executives huddled together to figure out their next steps. Vanessa Pappas, 41, was worried. TikTok’s North American business, which she has run since 2018, was dealing with an uproar. President Trump had threatened to ban…
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Summer is almost over, but outdoor socializing doesn’t have to end. So before you light up the firepit, here are some nifty things to keep the wood pile stocked and the company warm. Image Outerknown Blanket Jacket, $148 A shirt jacket is an ideal transitional item. This one, by the sustainable brand co-founded by the…
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. Celestially speaking, we are still in summer, but as soon as we pass Labor Day, I start thinking of roast chicken, squash and apple cakes. (This may have something to do with the fact that your hard-working NYT Cooking staff is currently preparing for Thanksgiving.) But I’m not…
Welcome. I like to get up while it’s dark, before anyone else has begun to stir, walking through the apartment on tiptoe with the world on mute. I fix my coffee in the dark and wake up slowly. There are fewer variables, minimal stimuli. At 5 a.m., New York’s famed sleeplessness is repudiated. This morning,…
To understand ballroom culture is to know the inner workings of the house. In the ball community, “houses” refer to the collective group of individual performers. They are typically presided over by a central figure, called mother, and named after high-fashion brands or pioneering figures. But very rarely do said fashion labels collaborate with the…
Ziggy Marley, the eldest son of the reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley, isn’t letting the pandemic get in the way of his music. Since March, he has been hunkered down at his Mediterranean-style home in the Toluca Lake section of Los Angeles with his wife Orly Marley, four children — Judah, Gideon, Abraham…
Name: Corey Knight Age: 23 Hometown: East Flatbush, Brooklyn Now Lives: A one-bedroom apartment in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: A classically trained dancer and former teenage football player, Corey Knight is now flexing his acting muscles in Hollywood. He plays a young paratrooper stationed at an Italian military base in…
As theaters look to see how they might reopen with safety accommodations including mask use, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it will likely be more than a year before people feel comfortable returning to theaters without masks. “If we get a really good vaccine and just about everybody gets vaccinated,” he said in an Instagram Live…