The Los Angeles County Museum of Art drew a who’s who of Hollywood stars and artists to its 10th annual Art+Film Gala on Nov. 6; the Gucci-sponsored event honored Amy Sherald, Kehinde Wiley and Steven Spielberg. The literary world gathered at the New York Public Library’s annual gala on Nov. 8.; this year’s Library Lions…
Contrast that with life on the feed, where each post is a performance informed by the user’s specific and invisible perspective of a platform they don’t totally understand. Chat’s blessing and curse has always been that it’s hard to monetize talking — it would feel, much more than an ad in a feed, like interruption.…
Elisabeth Röhm and Peter Glatzer met in 2015 at the Los Angeles home of their mutual friend, the producer Robbie Brenner. If it wasn’t an immediate love connection, there was certainly a strong like. Ms. Röhm, 48, had been talking about Yaddo, the artist’s retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Mr. Glatzer, 57, a film producer…
Ryan Runge, the president of Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies, who sold the couple their block-making machine, said the blocks are mold-proof and, when reinforced with rebar, earthquake-resistant. The walls are so thick that they retain heat in winter and remain cool enough in summer that air-conditioning isn’t necessary, at least on the first floor. “It’s…
Rasha AlMahroos thinks of her Thanksgiving table and chuckles: A big turkey sits in the center, and right next to it, as if hiding under its wing, a very small chicken. “My mother-in-law cannot get used to turkey, so she always stuffs a tiny chicken with hashweh,” said Ms. AlMahroos, a lawyer who was born…
For his first date with Elizabeth Comer, Dr. Denrick Kimathi Cooper Jr. had to ask his dad for a favor. “Unfortunately, I was broke, and had to ask my father for $20 for my first date with Liz,” he said. Dr. Cooper, 34, who was born in New York City and goes by his African…
“When you cannot plan things on your day off, it can break your morale,” said Edison Fraser, the transportation coordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, a union that represents reservation agents for Southwest Airlines. Emirates, which employs 1,900 people to handle calls, says that the median wait time to get an…
Name: Flora Collins Age: 28 Hometown: Upper East Side Currently Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Claim to Fame: Ms. Collins’s first novel, “Nanny Dearest,” a psychological thriller loosely based on an unsettling “babysitter situation that my family had when I was a child,” was highlighted by Vogue as one of “the best…
A methodical approach to dating, an open-mindedness about baseball and a mutual appreciation for a wager. These were a few of the elements that led Petra Schaefer and Bruce Hunsaker to fall in love. In 2015, Ms. Schaefer, recently divorced for a second time and having consulted a dating coach, decided that finding love again…
Audrey Han and Dong Frank Han met in the summer of 2012 when they sat next to each other at an investment banking internship run by Morgan Stanley in New York. But despite sharing a last name, Ms. Han, then a sophomore at Harvard, and Mr. Han, a junior at Yale, did not share a…