Brenetta Smith used to buy brand-name foods like Oreos and Doritos without thinking twice. But when she noticed that food prices at her local supermarket, Aldi, were soaring, she realized she had to do something different: “I have to change the way I shop,” she said. So Ms. Smith, 40, a stay-at-home parent in Memphis,…
At an N.B.A. game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on March 17, Hasbulla Magomedov got the full celebrity treatment. He chatted pregame with the Mavericks star Luka Doncic, who posed with him for a photo. When Hasbulla’s face appeared on the Jumbotron, the crowd went wild. And, like everyone who’s anyone,…
Replacing ill will with good will has marked mental health benefits.
In the mid-1950s, when Jane Davis Doggett was earning a master’s degree at Yale’s Graduate School of Art and Architecture, she was surrounded by students and professors who were focused on the arenas, malls, medical centers, transit hubs and other huge projects that were coming to define America’s postwar era of prosperity and urban renewal.…
Since receiving a bachelor’s degree in theater arts from State University of New York at New Paltz in 2014, Ms. Bonnick, 30, has worked in theater. In 2016, she had her big break as the production assistant for “Hadestown” at the show’s Off Broadway debut at New York Theater Workshop. She went on to work…
I had been having a conversation in my head with David Schwimmer, who played Ross on the TV show “Friends,” for more than 10 years. When I found out he was going to be speaking at a conference I could plausibly convince my boss to send me to, I wondered if this might finally be…
Two days after Allie Mendez Mitchell and Kyle Joseph Carlock went on their first date, Mr. Carlock received a call from one of his best friends growing up: “I heard you went on a date with Allie,” he said. The friend’s mother was a close friend of Ms. Mitchell’s mother. Baton Rouge, La., where the…
Simon Halliday used to scoff at the notion of a friendship evolving into a romance. But after meeting Michelle Bryant 10 years ago at a photo shoot in London, he was gladly proved wrong. At the time they met, both Mr. Halliday, now 55, and Ms. Bryant, 38, were in relationships, yet a friendship took…
Nicholas Brandon Matcheck arrived with a single red rose the first time he met Chunyu Hu face to face in June 2020 on a grand marble staircase in the lobby of the Kimpton Gray Hotel in Chicago. “There was no initial shyness,” said Mr. Matcheck, 40, who described their first kiss minutes later as “very…
On Tuesday night, a procession of writers, editors and publishing-industry veterans stepped past the lions outside the New York Public Library’s main branch on Fifth Avenue as they made their way to a dinner celebrating the acquisition of the archives of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. The vast collection, which the library bought in…