Imagine a painting of a pastoral scene on a fair summer day, a splendid feast laid out, fine carpets for lounging and guests nibbling on carefully transported morsels — a proverbial picnic in the grass, with dogs and children at the edges. That’s one kind of picnic, but there are so many ways to picnic.…
The love story of Mina Shankar and Dr. Aditya Radhakrishnan shares a theme with many others of late: he got Covid and she stood by him, even though their relationship was still new. While important in their journey as a couple, that experience is not what their love story is about. It is instead based…
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Long before they became a couple, Dorothy Kaplan Zoller and Stephen James Epstein had begun to double date. Mr. Epstein’s first wife, Rozanne Epstein, had been a high school friend of Ms. Zoller’s first husband, Joseph Zoller. After college, they all settled in Chicago and became fast friends. Living just a few blocks from each…
In the days leading up to the finale, the ovations grew longer and louder. Fans blew kisses, made heart shapes with their hands and screamed the host’s name. The outpouring signaled the end of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” a daily hour of daytime escapism that had reached its peak in less contentious times, when Beyoncé,…
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Edward BerthelotGetty Images Gather around your computers, phones, or any Internet-supporting device, because Amazon Prime Day is (kind of) almost here. Historically held sometime in the summer, the two-day shopping bonanza hosts a slew of deals on just about everything your shopping-fanatic heart desires. Whether that be your next favorite designer find or a beauty…
Eventually, he sent a sample to the Smithsonian Institution, the American museum and research complex, which identified it as a pectolite. Mr. Méndez said he traveled to the United States to buy equipment to grind the stone, which is harder than amber, coral and other materials familiar to Dominican artisans at the time. He also…
A tennis bracelet is a classic: small stones in simple, linear settings. But that minimalist look is now being reinterpreted with new materials, design advances and other changes. Customers want different takes on the style, according to Elyse Walker, founder and chief executive of the California fashion boutiques that bear her name. “Jewelry has gotten…
LOS ANGELES — In the mid-1980s, Jacqueline Rabun was in her early 20s and studying fashion design in Los Angeles when she wandered into a contemporary jewelry gallery on Sunset Boulevard. The visit changed her life. “It was a beautiful shop called M Gallery,” Ms. Rabun, now 60, recalled recently. “The person who owned it,…