Chocolate is an easy choice for homemade Valentine’s Day desserts and this trio of recipes has something for everyone. Like relationships, they range in commitment: simple hot fudge sundaes get some help from store-bought ice cream; a dramatic soufflé cake takes about an hour but is big enough to serve a group; aspirational Earl Grey…
In the summer of 1992, Niffer Marie Desmond and her friend Caitlyn Meeks hosted a late night radio show called “the Bucket Sisters” at University of California, Santa Cruz, where they were undergraduates. On the show, they played CDs that were stacked on a shelf in the campus studio. One night, they stumbled upon a…
In July 2019, after a committee meeting of their homeowners association, Dorine Ruth Seidman, 77, asked Harvey David Starin, 76, if he wanted to grab dinner at Papa Giuseppe’s, an Italian restaurant in Delray Beach, Fla., where both lived. Her invitation was made in a neighborly way, without a hint of romance. “I think she…
Paula Sapion Miranda and Deidre Lillian Olsen were both skeptical about finding love, but that began to change one blustery afternoon in April 2021 after they met for a picnic during Covid lockdown in Berlin. “Hey, I’m here,” Ms. Sapion Miranda texted Ms. Olsen, who was nowhere in sight at a späti, or convenience store,…
It’s no secret celebs like Hailey Bieber and Kendall Jenner are major fans of UGG boots—and specifically, UGG Ultra Mini boots (we are too!). The viral shoes are some of the most comfortable ankle boots and they’re versatile enough to take you to and from the gym, out running errands or even hitting the town…
Synonymous with love as it is with Old World charm, One if by Land, Two if by Sea, located at 17 Barrow Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, is a restaurant that is not only a fine dining landmark, but also the perfect setting for a romantic proposal. The two-story brick building was built in…
As protesters took to the streets last summer, decrying the overturn of Roe v. Wade, fashion was, understandably, the last thing on anyone’s mind. However, the attack on bodily agency rippled into the sartorial world a few months later, with spring 2023 collections—from Rick Owens to Prada—featuring sheer, nipple-baring looks that both celebrated and called…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Gucci launched a line of gorgeous accessories in a range of pretty pastels. The collection features the iconic GG monogram print—reimagined in a jumbo size—plus new colorways including lilac, light pink, mint green, and banana. After all, nothing cures winter blues quite like pretty spring colors, am I right?…
But the rule doesn’t always hold. And in two popular destinations for foreign tourists — Los Cabos, at the tip of the Baja California peninsula, and the Caribbean coast — local and state officials have recently sought help from the United States to take on organized crime that threatened to drive off tourists. A spasm…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. A spider whose body resembles two inner tubes. A mermaid with a silk damask tail. A neon butterfly. A goth octopus clad in all black. Terrence Zhou’s designs take fashion’s current mood of meme-ready surrealism (for proof, just look at this…