After spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build an immersive “Star Wars”-themed hotel at Walt Disney World, Disney said on Thursday that, amid sweeping corporate cost-cutting, it would close the underperforming attraction in September, only about 18 months after it opened. The attraction, called Galactic Starcruiser, was marketed as part luxury hotel, part theme…
About five months ago, in the middle of a deadly and ferocious blizzard, Alexander and Andrea Campagna answered a knock on the door of their home near Buffalo. Outside were 10 South Korean travelers whose van had become stuck in the snow on their street. The Campagnas welcomed the stranded travelers in, and, in doing…
Encontré a Soph en una aplicación. La conocí en un bar de vinos iluminado con bombillas rojas del West Village. Era exactamente como en las fotografías, pero más cálida, más brillante. Tímida y encantadora, con una carcajada que quise tragarme, me abrazó cuando me le acerqué. Ya sabía que era australiana. Por mensajes de texto,…
From breakup bangs to back-to-school trims, a change in hairstyle has long been a visual shorthand to recognize major milestones. The latest in a lifetime of momentous haircuts? The mid-wedding chop, a hair transformation that celebrates the start of a new chapter as a spouse. “There’s a rich history of hair reflecting relationship status,” said…
Last weekend at Paul Choi and Ashley Austin Morris’s wedding in a little stone church on Roosevelt Island, there was the sort of giddiness in the air that you might expect to find at an actual island destination wedding. That’s because most of their guests, despite years of living in New York City, had never…
The four-bedroom house that Ray and Beth Nygren had lived in for 20 years in Auburn, Wash., measured about 2,400 square feet. The two-bedroom apartment that awaited them in a nearby independent- and assisted-living complex was less than half that size. They were moving — “maybe a little reluctantly,” said their daughter, Bonnie Rae Nygren…