With a raised eyebrow and the kind of smile that makes his fans swoon, the actor Murray Bartlett tipped his head back and slurped a freshly shucked oyster. This was on a gleaming morning just before Thanksgiving at Marlow & Sons, the restaurant that Mr. Bartlett, 50, frequented when he lived in the Williamsburg neighborhood…
I stood at my kitchen counter and eagerly ran my scissors down the packing tape. It was about a year ago, and the arrival of a package with my name on it — that wasn’t from Amazon — was a rush. Pushing down the box’s flaps revealed a midnight blue ceramic mug with a whimsical…
According to federal data, about 5.5 million 16- and 17-year-olds — two-thirds of that age group — have received at least one dose of Pfizer’s vaccine. More than 4.7 million have received two doses. Roughly three million got their second shot at least six months ago and would be eligible for a third shot this…
When Opera Memphis staged a production of “Porgy and Bess” at the city’s Orpheum Theater in the fall of 2006, there were at least two love stories playing out in the room. One centered on Gershwin’s titular opera characters; the other, two high-school students in the audience. Talibah Safiya and Bertram Williams Jr. were different…
Just three words had passed between Will Jardell and James Wallington when each said they knew they had found the “one.” The two met in February 2014 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles during auditions for the reality TV show “America’s Next Top Model.” Mr. Wallington was a casting assistant, Mr. Jardell, an…
But when their relationship crossed a platonic line in October 2015, Ms. Newman said that their difference in age was initially hard to swallow by her parents and some other friends and family. “In those early days, we had to deal with a lot of anger and pushback from family and friends,” she said. “Of…
Dr. Jasmine Cecilia Huynh called off her first date with Vivek Viswanathan in June 2017 without an explanation. “I was not fit for a date,” said Dr. Huynh, 32, who had connected with Mr. Viswanathan on the dating app Tinder a few weeks earlier, and canceled on him after experiencing what she called the worst…
A graduate of William Woods University in Fulton, Mo., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English communications, Ms. Kunkler is now a senior vice president, financial adviser and the global sports and entertainment director at Morgan Stanley in Kansas City, Mo., where she lives and grew up. Born and raised in Phoenix, Ms. Todare…
Our boys didn’t know about Andy’s past. He and I met two years after the earthquake when our work overlapped. In time, Andy and I fell in love, married and had twin sons. As the boys turned 3, then 4, I found myself searching online, “What is the right age to talk to children about…
In the spring of 2017, Roseanne Blair and Houston Hardaway played a married couple onstage while performing improv at Dallas Comedy House. Four years later, they became husband and wife. The two had become acquainted in 2016, through the local improv scene. “We really loved the comedy chemistry we had, which turned into friendship,” said…