Elsewhere in southwest Houston, Ms. Lakshmi tastes suya, bole, fufu, asun and jollof, tries her hand at pounding yam and practices the art of scooping soup with swallows. She moves from the kitchen at Margaret Chibuzo’s Safari restaurant to the dining room, where she shares egusi soup with the gospel singer Stacy Egbo. Their conversation…
Good morning. I had an exceptional lobster roll the other day, sitting with my family on the dock at Archie’s Lobster in Bass Harbor, Maine, as gulls soared on a southwest breeze. Some very good steamed clams, too. But it was the crab roll we ate there that’s been haunting my dreams, that makes me…
On Monday night, luminaries of music and film, dressed in ruffles, sequins and tulle, gathered in Harlem at the Apollo Theater and in SoHo for a Tribeca Film Festival dinner. Uptown, the Apollo hosted its annual Spring Benefit, where musicians and philanthropists celebrated the theater’s 90th year and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Sean Combs accepted awards.…
For an escape in the San Juan Islands, a little more than two hours north of Seattle, Joe Herrin knew he wouldn’t need much. Growing up, the highlight of every summer was a two-week boat trip around those islands near the Canadian border, where his family slept within the confines of a 26-foot-long boat hull.…
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As Hugh Stephen Baran headed home in April 2015 to the Upper East Side of Manhattan after a Passover Seder with some high school friends in Englewood, N.J., Jacob Ellis Kaplan Rozenberg messaged him on Grindr, a dating app for gay men. The next day he met Mr. Rozenberg at a bubble tea shop near…
Andrew Douglas Ousley and Fay Eva Leshner met through mutual friends on Aug. 9, 2014 while having cocktails at the now-closed Portuguese restaurant Pão! in SoHo. They bonded instantly, as creative New Yorkers often do. Ms. Leshner, 35, is a freelance fashion stylist and designer from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Mr. Ousley, 40, who is from…
Ms. Arthur proposed in July 2021 in Daddy’s Plants, a plant shop in Buffalo. After she went down on one knee, Mx. Cohen read out loud a poem that they had written for Ms. Arthur and had kept in their wallet for months. The two framed the poem in their apartment in Park Slope, where…
Neither Diana Ming nor Jonathan Barrett Gold seemed to want their first date to ever end. After connecting on the dating app Hinge, the two agreed to meet on March 22, 2018 at Goodnight Sonny, a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. “We instantly bonded while consuming spicy margaritas and laughing,” said Ms. Ming, 30, a…
When I was 13, my mother learned that she had multiple sclerosis. By that point she couldn’t drive, get dressed or walk by herself. My father became her sole caretaker, and she was less than appreciative. When she rang the buzzer, he never got there fast enough. When he brought her a glass of water,…