Before the pandemic, Ms. Zima mostly catered to business travelers. But with business travel down, anything goes. At a seven-bedroom shared house she manages, one guest, a middle-aged man, decided to parade around in a Speedo, then tried to get back into the hostel after his stay had ended. “Seriously, almost anything can happen,” she…
Isn’t summer grocery shopping just pure ecstasy? The possibilities are endless: succulent stone fruit and berries as far as the eye can see, all the fresh seafood you could ever want, and vegetables — summer squash, okra, corn — that taste as if they were plucked from the sun-warmed dirt just hours earlier. Last month,…
In-person galas are back. While some benefit parties remain virtual, charities and cultural groups are finding that there is no substitute for the real thing. On June 22, the Moth, a nonprofit devoted to storytelling, held a starry gala at Spring Studios in TriBeCa. The Hollywood-heavy crowd included Regina King and Kemp Powers, who were…
As the pandemic ebbs in the United States, many travelers have been favoring outdoor, away-from-it-all getaways. According to the travel planning site TripIt, over Memorial Day weekend, major cities like Washington, D.C., and New York were trending down, while outdoorsy spots like Palm Springs, Calif., were newly popular. “Two-thirds of my clients are booking houses,…
On the day Kevin James LaBuz married Molly Elizabeth Corbett, the groom’s mother made a toast that flowed like a river — the Susquehanna River, to be exact. “Kevin grew up as a boy near the mouth of the Susquehanna River in upstate New York, and he married a girl from Baltimore, where the Susquehanna…
Vicky Guo and Patrick Roath were not playing games. From an animated first-date debate on charter schools after the 2016 presidential election, to discussing long distance after three months of dating, the couple were clear about their intentions from the start. “She’s really thoughtful and direct about her feelings,” Mr. Roath said, citing one of…
In 2011, Dr. Edward Ryan Horton spent about a month of his summer break working in the reproductive endocrine unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was approaching his final year as an undergraduate at Brown, and focused on securing a full-time job at the lab when he graduated. “I was this kind of…
“You hear stories about kids fleeing the pandemic to be with their parents, and the opposite happened to me,” said Jose Madrigal Jr. “And, honestly, it feels great.” To wit: His parents are less inclined than past tenants to complain about his stereo sound system. “I don’t think he ever thought he’d live with his…
Like other single guys his age, Mack Knight, 40, a software company executive in Los Angeles, has a crew of buddies who like to explore the city, travel and workout together. They take their exercise seriously: Each wear a fitness tracker called Whoop that monitors their body’s vital signs (including heart rate, breathing and sleep),…
Jason Bolicki and Adam Schloff each realized that they were in love just a few months after they initially met, which was in July 2015. By New Year’s Eve of that year, both had concluded that they should get married. But neither of them was quite clear on the protocols involved — who should propose…