I love tattoos, much to my father’s dismay. I think they’re really cool. Some people say it’s too daunting to decide if they like something enough to wear on their skin forever, and I get that. It makes sense. But that’s not my problem. My struggle is more so that there are so many I’d…
In late 2012, the best-selling author and journalist Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) was at a dinner party in Berkeley, Calif. Among his fellow diners was a prominent developmental psychiatrist, in her 60s, who spoke at some length about a recent LSD trip. This pricked up Pollan’s ears. His first thought, as he shared during…
Daisy Edgar-Jones bravely walked onstage, her face a ghastly white. Under her arm, a human head. “How could you do this to me!” she bellowed at Henry VIII. As the ghost of Anne Boleyn, Edgar-Jones, the hitherto quiet child, now slathered in face paint and clutching a homemade severed body part, found herself suddenly enamored…
Name: Maude Latour Age: 22 Hometown: New York City Now lives: In a four-bedroom apartment near Columbia University, with the same four roommates she has lived with since freshman year. Claim to fame: Ms. Latour is a singer-songwriter whose plush indie pop grapples with impermanence. She writes about composing a letter to her future self,…
Christine Quinn dipped a mother-of-pearl spoon into the bowl resting in its ice bath. Spreading caviar across a blini, she lifted the bite to her rose gold lips. “That tastes rich,” she said. “This is giving me rich vibes. This is the classiest breakfast I have ever had in my life.” This was on a…
Si sientes que estás cayendo en la desesperanza por la situación mundial, existen varias soluciones. Acá reunimos algunas estrategias para mantener los pies en la tierra, sin perder la cabeza.
Philip Andrew Kuntz and Patricia Lynn Parent first met as across-the-street neighbors in Parsippany, N.J., when both were 3 years old. “She wasn’t exactly the girl next door, but,” Mr. Kuntz said, “close enough.” Kelly Craig Heflin and Carol Diane McNitt were well into adulthood when they met at a public garden in Edgewater, Md.,…
Though Truett Clay Manning matched with Bimal Jayprakash Patel on the dating app Bumble, Mr. Manning did not lift a finger to do so. His friend Marette Gillen was the one who swiped right on Mr. Patel’s profile, on Mr. Manning’s behalf, in November 2018. Despite their presences on the app, neither man was that…
“Stringing along,” “states by attractions” and “famous pairs” were among the categories on the episode of “Jeopardy!” that featured Sarah Elizabeth Bauer and William Greer Mackebee as contestants. Though it would take several years, that appearance would set the two on a course to pairing up themselves. The episode, which aired as part of the…
At work, the headline flashed across my social media feed: “Man with Incredible Beard in Desperate Need of Kidney.” I closed a tab of political chatter and read the heart-rending plea. The wife of the man with the incredible beard was asking the universe to send her someone who would donate a kidney and save…