When a Good First Impression Lingers

When Christine Sun and Michael Hurwitz first encountered each other, at a party hosted by the University of Virginia business school in 2015, they talked for a few minutes and both came away from the conversation a little surprised. Ms. Sun, who was beginning her second year at the university’s law school, couldn’t really make…

Waiting for That Defining Moment

Jaeyeon Janice Park and Dr. Joseph Jisoo Hong began dating shortly after meeting on the dating app Hinge in December 2019. Six weeks later, Ms. Park, 33, became frustrated with Dr. Hong, 34, for what she said was “his lack of communication where our relationship was concerned.” “I kept waiting for Joseph to tell me…

A Summer of the Thirst-Trap Short Shorts?

“It’s short-shorts summer,” said Milo Ventimiglia, the “This is Us” actor who created a social media stir this April when he was photographed leaving a Los Angeles gym in teeny shorts that barely covered his muscular quads. After a year in Zoom shirts, guys were ready to chuck their baggy sweatpants and embrace thirst-trap short…

Model Shaun Ross Charts a Musical Path

Shaun Ross is fond of flouting public perceptions. In 2013, he appeared in the music video for Beyoncé’s “Pretty Hurts,” playing an imperious beauty pageant instructor who browbeats the pop diva as being too curvy. “I’m probably the only person in her life who has ever been told to rough her up,” he said. At…