Today’s Love Letter is written by Anna Martin, the host and a producer of the Modern Love podcast. I spent most of middle school listening to Usher’s “U Got It Bad.” It was almost uncanny; the ballad seemed to have been written expressly for me and my debilitating obsession with a drummer in a church…
The guest of honor at the Louis Vuitton cruise show, held Thursday evening at the Salk Institute in San Diego, was not the Olympic skier Eileen Gu, though she walked the runway. It was not the brand ambassador Gemma Chan, though she was in the front row. It was the sun. The sun? The ball…
Tatjana Freund, Beauty E-Commerce Writer “I’m a simple girl when it comes to lingerie, so I was immediately drawn into Skims branding. Nudes? Blacks? It pleases my minimalist heart. The Fits Everybody line is so soft. Ridiculously soft. On a day-to-day basis, thongs are for daytime (no panty lines here) and a brief is for…
Before the pandemic, the chef and artist Laila Gohar would throw a dinner party at her Manhattan apartment at least once a week — inviting artists, designers, writers, actors and others to gather at her table over food and drink. “My house has an open-door policy,” says Gohar. “I always think, ‘If you can have…
This month, she’s introducing her first major project under her own name. Gohar World is a line of home décor pieces created with her sister, the painter Nadia Gohar, 32. It’s something they’d discussed for years, but that didn’t quite start materializing until the pandemic, when Laila’s events-based work largely came to a standstill. Available…
Maya Ergas Shwayder left her first outing with Nicholas Anthony Quaranto in November 2017 thinking they would just be friends. Both Americans living in Berlin, Mr. Quaranto, 34, had arrived six months earlier with his wife, who had taken a full-time job there, and their two young sons, then ages 2 and 4. Though not…
In a tumultuous time, many adults under 35 have stopped playing it safe. Instead of banking as much of their pay as they used to, they’re saving less, spending more and pursuing passion projects or risky careers. Nimarta Narang, 27, said she was prudent about almost everything until the end of last year, when she…
More than 34,000 people in the United States have tested positive for alpha-gal syndrome, according to a 2021 paper. A map publicly generated by individuals who say they suffer from the condition indicates that the syndrome may have spread as far as Washington and Hawaii, though this does not mean the sufferers were bitten by…
But after their first date, they “talked on the phone every single night, with few exceptions,” Mr. Woods said. “We also met nearly every single weekend,” alternating between Richmond and Washington, he added. In April 2019, while they were on a trip to New York, Mr. Smith told Mr. Woods he loved him and asked…
In May of last year, video footage emerged from a spinal clinic, Incheon 21st Century Hospital, that showed nursing assistants performing incisions and putting in sutures. Choi Jeong-kyu, a lawyer who has represented medical malpractice victims, said he received the footage from someone who had worked at the clinic and recorded it secretly. Mr. Choi…