This week’s newsletter was inspired by a craving that struck like a lightning bolt. It was Sunday evening, and I had to have stuffed shells. It was too late for me to get to the store, buy the ingredients and make them myself. I texted people who I thought might know where to get it…
Courtesy Amazon It’s officially sweater season. Those hot, hot days are behind us and crisp air is regularly making an appearance. Whether you live in a climate where you’ve already pulled on jeans and ankle boots or someplace warmer that still allows for some denim shorts, odds are your torso is covered by a knit.…
BRICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Darkness had fallen by the time a crew unloaded the 17 boxes filled with bones from a truck on a Thursday night in September. After all the boxes were carried into a Home Depot near the Jersey Shore, some of them were placed near its entrance, while others spent the night…
Name: Saad Amer Age: 28 Hometown: Medford, N.Y. Now lives: Shares a two-bedroom, walk-up apartment in Midtown Manhattan with a roommate and a dog. Claim to fame: Saad Amer is a socially connected climate activist and founder of Plus1Vote, a nonprofit that mobilizes young voters through social media, fashion designers, celebrities and old-fashioned canvassing. Past…
The rules were loosely defined, which is to say, there were none. My boyfriend and I didn’t discuss what was happening, other than a breathless, “Isn’t this incredible?” We knew the Third’s internship would end in August regardless, so why fret? There was no time to waste. In mid-July, I realized we were falling in…
By the end of June, their connection had deepened, courtesy of a few more casual meet-ups at clubs and parties in Manhattan. In July, both had trips to Berlin scheduled for a fashion trade show. “We were like, OK, cool, I’ll meet you there,” she said. The rendezvous in Germany brought them closer still, but…
Taylor Many Scruggs was reading through Natalie Anne Labriola’s profile on Hinge when an astrological prompt caught his eye. “Natalie’s said, ‘Way to win my heart is to guess my sun, moon and rising signs,’” Mr. Scruggs said. An astrology enthusiast himself, his interest was piqued. Though he didn’t guess her Taurus sun or Sagittarius…
Something on Robert Alexander Sparks’s Tinder page made Katherine Leonard Turner hesitate. “His profile read ‘I don’t have kids, I don’t want kids,’” said Dr. Turner, who has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Delaware — and two children. But she was just looking for something fun so she messaged him anyway, saying:…
When Janine Renae Lee and Janeine LeCorday Spencer met in 2006 at the Chevron Corporation in Concord, Calif., where each had worked, they quickly bonded over their commonality. Both were biracial Black women with a similar given name (though spelled differently, it was pronounced the same). One day after work, Ms. Spencer invited Ms. Lee…