This article is part of our latest special report on International Golf Homes. The traditional 18-hole round of golf may be for those who play the game, but the recent spins on the sport and ways to enjoy a course are options for anyone who doesn’t. Recently, residential developments where golfing is usually a highlight…
We’ve shaken the sand from our shoes and tucked away our swimsuits until next summer, and the busyness of fall has begun: The calendar is filling up with to-dos and appointments, and if you can believe it, holiday plans. The days can sometimes feel like they’re slipping by, but stopping to make a simple meal…
“Golf is changing in Rwanda, and many kids here are now starting to play, too,” he said. Leonard Nkurunziza, 39, also knew little about the sport when he first started as a caddie 20 years ago. At the time, he said there were only about 100 members who would come and putt around the course’s…
This article is part of our latest special report on International Golf Homes. The gourmet food event that came to Punta Mita in Mexico in December had all the bells and whistles — Michelin-starred chefs, intimate wine tastings and mixologists shaking up creative new cocktails. But in between tastings, diners on the white-sand private peninsula…
Early this year JetBlue stopped bringing in professional cleaning crews to clean tray tables between flights, something they started doing in the spring of 2020, according to a flight attendant. Similarly, by August 2020, Southwest said it had stopped disinfecting armrests and seatbelts between flights. Tidying up chips on the floor, of course, is different…
When I bumped into him on the street in Rome last summer, we hadn’t seen each other for nearly a decade. You know how people say that you’ll fall in love when you least expect it? I am never not expecting it. On every plane, at every coffee shop, I’m always hoping for a spark…
Jennifer Noinaj didn’t think she would ever get married, but after a year with Andrew Perry Chu, who goes by his middle name, she changed her mind. “You know that feeling, you trust yourself?” she said. “I’d never felt that trust in anyone else except him. And it was at that point — that I…
When Carly Lena Sophie Stein first saw Oliver Samuel Kremer’s profile on Hinge, she almost swiped left. “My bro radar went off,” Ms. Stein said. “He’s handsome. He’s fit.” And, thus, he wasn’t quite her type. But then she saw that he liked her favorite blog, Tim Urban’s “Wait But Why.” Her interest piqued, right…
Jordan Leigh Rutter and Vincent Joseph Covatto both say a certain magnetism drew each to the other at Heartbeat Opera’s annual Halloween drag gala in October 2016. “There was just something about the energy I was getting from this person that was mesmerizing,” Mr. Covatto said of Mx. Rutter, who uses a gender neutral courtesy…
Kobina Amani Johnson and Abrielle Kiana Moore had been talking for weeks by the time Mr. Johnson asked Ms. Moore for her phone number with the intention of inviting her on a date. But Mr. Johnson waited a week before sending his first text message to Ms. Moore at around 11 p.m. on a Saturday…