Updated May 6, 2022, 7:16 p.m. ET The Never-Ending Job Interview I applied for a position and over the course of two months, I had several interviews. I was asked to complete an assessment that included addressing four hypothetical situations. They paid me $500 for this work. Next, they want me to do several more…
Being a celebrity certainly has its perks: travel, red carpets, photo shoots, etc. But oftentimes, these glamorous work commitments often mean you’re away from your family longer than you might like. This Mother’s Day, Naked Cashmere is inviting loved ones to be part of the fun with its “Love” campaign supporting the Breast Cancer Research…
Their Mexican neighbors were bemused. The Zihuatanejo historian Rodrigo Campus Aburto, a young teen in the 1960s, recalls that the community thought the mostly American trippers were lunatics. He also remembers older teens sometimes attended fiestas that IFIF hosted on the beach. “Moon, fire and beer,” is how he describes the parties. Some smoked marijuana…
For more than half a century, the art collector Hester Diamond called the imposing, twin-towered Eldorado on the Upper West Side home. It was there, in her sprawling duplex, that she put together extensive collections of Modernist and old masters works, entertained art world dignitaries and raised her family. “My parents didn’t separate their social…
Some care facilities are giving older adults a way to visit their pasts to boost their well-being.
“I like to find the most impossible shot and then get really disappointed when it doesn’t happen,” the actress Greta Lee said, leaning over a billiards table in the Koreatown section of Manhattan. “I don’t know what that says about me.” She aimed at a solid red ball, which obediently dropped into a center pocket.…
Sometimes my aunts and uncles would take the constant communication a little too far, sending pictures of their bruised legs (from bumping into tables) or bloody noses (from the dry heat), positioning their wounds in perfect lighting. Other times I would check my messages in the morning to find a picture of spilled juice with…
Eric Kugler likes to say he met Judge Dean Hansell through Ed Sullivan and Ingrid Bergman. What actually brought them together in February 2011, though, was GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Now on the Superior Court of California, Judge Hansell, 70, had helped to start the alliance’s Los Angeles chapter in 1986.…
Alexandra Scott Goodman was perusing Tinder in September 2017 when the three-word bio of Christopher Nicholas Masullo, who went by his nickname Chris on the dating app, caught her eye. “Perpetually in awe,” it read. Ms. Goodman, who goes by the nickname Zan, was struck by its brevity. Her bio on the dating app also…
Though he admitted he was not ready for a serious relationship when the two reconnected, as they continued to see each other over the following months, Mr. Singley, a graduate of Bradley University who was born in Bettendorf, Iowa, and raised in Orion, Ill., said he became “crazy about Julie.” By October 2019, when Ms.…