Courtesy Did you even quarantine if you didn’t wear tie dye sweatpants? Now that we’re six months deep into lockdown, the comfort we once found in psychedelic sweatpants is starting to wane. Sure, we still succumb to the oversaturated swirly splattered patterns like our lives depend on them, but like our sourdough starter, we’re starting…
If there’s ever been a year in need of sweetening, it’s this one. So I’ve been looking forward to Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, more avidly than usual. Like many Jews, my family will dip apples and challah in honey, and bring sweet fruit-laden dishes to the table as a harbinger of the year…
Last year, Amanda Morgan watched a production of “My Fair Lady” at the Sydney Opera House, drove from Queenstown to Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island, roamed through lavender fields in Provence and spent a week in Mykonos. She celebrated Christmas in Amsterdam and New Year’s Eve in Paris. When the coronavirus struck the United…
The Midtown mansion that was a longtime home of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Iran’s last shah, finally closed in August after several years on the market and some legal wrangling. The sale price was $11.5 million, a hefty discount from its nearly $50 million initial price tag. The stately building, at 29 Beekman…
In March, the threadbare couch in the living room was merely an annoyance, but Megan Barney, a book publicist in Cambridge, Mass., was not ready to spend hundreds of dollars to replace it. By August, after six months of working from home, Ms. Barney could not stand looking at what had become an unsightly beige…
Khloé Kardashian’s color-coded hair-extension closet might sound like some kind of art installation about late-stage capitalism, but it’s actually a thing that exists in Kardashian’s Los Angeles home, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: a carpeted room dedicated entirely to 50 or so clip-in extensions arranged on uniform black hangers in order of lightest…
When David Adam Guggenheim stretched out his hand to greet Michael Scott Bosworth in February 2017, the handshake cemented what he already knew from their long conversations. “He was a relationship person and the idea of family was so important to him,” said Mr. Guggenheim (left), who matched with him on the Tinder dating app.…
Kaitlyn O’Hagan, 28, and Rohaan Menon, 29, spent the summer of 2007 messaging each other on AOL’s instant messaging service, AIM. They were rising juniors at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, and were in the same friend group at the end of their sophomore year. But when school started again in the fall, “nothing really…
Elizabeth Cuthrell, a Manhattan-based film producer, used to work in an ergonomic office space: comfortable desk chair, monitor at eye level, external keyboard. Then came Covid-19. During stay-at-home she worked on a laptop from a wicker chair, or sometimes on a couch with “cushions like marshmallows.” A month later she felt pain in her neck,…
The pandemic tension in my house reached its peak this summer the night my dad switched off the Wi-Fi. He claimed that “You spend too much time on your phones and not enough time with the family! I never had the internet when I was your age; we used to play on the streets.” With…