On Saturday March 12, Bria Pugh found herself wide-awake at 4 a.m. She isn’t an early-riser, nor did she have pre-wedding jitters. This was the call time for her hair and makeup before she walked down the aisle to marry Matthew Norman six hours later. “I was optimistic as long as I could wake up…
Courtesy April marks Earth month, and while we at ELLE.com believe the planet should be prioritized 365 days a year, we’ll take the timely opportunity to call extra attention to the issue. As more information and statistics about our impact on the earth comes to light, it’s no longer excusable to turn a blind eye.…
When Janelle Ashley Clark accompanied her friend Tiara Lewis to a 2007 service at the Resurrection Deliverance Church International in Yonkers, N.Y., she encountered a “tall, handsome and very talented” man playing the piano. That man was David Christopher Funchess, who said he was attracted to Ms. Clark as soon as she walked through the…
SILENT INVASION: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It’s Too LateBy Deborah Birx On March 2, 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx took up her new position as coronavirus response coordinator within the White House Coronavirus Task Force. She was fresh off a plane from South Africa, where she…
Hannah Cha and Anthony Kim Elfering met in quintessential rom-com fashion: They were seated next to one another at a wedding in January 2019, at which both also gave speeches; Ms. Cha as a friend of the bride, and Mr. Elfering as a friend of the groom. “I looked over at him and two things…
On their first date at a San Francisco restaurant in April 2014, enough wine flowed and sparks flew between Elizabeth Krasney Berman and Richard Alan Fiedotin that the two soon found themselves “giggling like teenagers at the bar,” she said. “I was immediately attracted to him from the start,” added Ms. Berman, 42, the owner…
By the end of their first date at Mother Burger, a restaurant in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, in late June 2015, Megan Cunningham O’Conor had sensed something special in Thomas Peter Cordell. “I’m not always the easiest person to get along with,” said Ms. O’Conor, 30, “but he seemed like the perfect man for me.”…
Christopher John Rogers’ designs are hard to miss. His audacious, “pragmatic glamour” (his words) is instantly identifiable, and decidedly not shy. It’s a bit ironic, then, that Rogers was visibly nervous to take the stage for his first-ever live interview last night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogers joined the stage with fashion journalist…
When state officials and government regulators were concerned that some counties in the United States would be left without a carrier willing to sell insurance under the Affordable Care Act, Mr. Neidorff agreed to provide coverage in some of those markets, said Jesse Hunter, a former chief strategy officer for Centene, and “there was never…
The culture of dolls, it seems, is everywhere. In February, the New York Times reported that the American Girl Cafe has become a go-to destination for the influencer set. Elsewhere, TikTok star Hal.Baddie has popularized the term “dolls” for her legion of 320.5k followers. Megan Fox recently got Bratz doll-inspired nails, a new season of…