When I graduated from college in Portland, Ore., eight years ago, I dreamed of taking my Spanish major and spirit of adventure and moving abroad, where I would quickly acquire a gay lover who would introduce me to new languages, foods and sex. Instead, I moved back home to St. Paul, Minn., and into my…
Steven Nicholas Romo and Stephen Robert Morgan have a lot in common. They have the same first names. They’re both reporters. They were both raised in religious homes that eschewed homosexuality. And they both had the same fear: that being gay would mean there could be no happily ever after for them. One of those…
Mr. Humphreys had remarried in 2014. A month before he knocked on Ms. Burke’s door, his second wife died from Covid. He missed talking to Ms. Burke. “I didn’t feel I was as compatible with anyone else,” he said. “We had the same friends, we liked the same music.” On Oct. 10, 2021, Mr. Humphreys…
After several well-meaning nudges from her mother, Mollie Ann Finkel signed up for Tawkify, a matchmaking service, in January 2021. She was tired of the dating apps. Ms. Finkel, 44, selected the three-date package and left it up to her matchmaker to come up with someone who first and foremost loved dogs and skiing. Her…
The wedding honored both sides of the family. The bride and groom smashed plates at the altar during the ceremony, a tradition in Armenia that symbolizes new beginnings, and served mini lobster rolls as an appetizer in a nod to Maine, where the bride’s father’s family lives. The mothers of the bride and groom read…
The best way to navigate a surgery recommendation is to ask a lot of questions.
The eggs were a problem again, but this time not for James Corden. Corden, the comic actor and host of CBS’s “The Late Late Show,” was having breakfast on Thursday morning in the Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges on Manhattan’s Upper East Side when he overheard another patron at a nearby table curtly rebuking a waiter…
Customers at Van Leeuwen Ice Cream in New York City can be certain of two things at checkout: paying at least $6.50 for one scoop and paying only by credit card. One of those is changing. The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced on Thursday that it had entered into a…
Fall is the season for pumpkin-picking, cider-sipping and apple-pie baking, but this year, as food prices continue to rise, it’s also the season for inflation-friendly cooking. Here are 19 recipes that will get you excited for seasonal produce and chilly weather, but won’t break the bank. Colu Henry combines bone-in chicken thighs, apple, fennel and…
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