Despite his best efforts, Timothy Raymond Murray could not get Michael Alexander Hoy Bullard to give him the time of day — that is, until a mutual friend intervened. The two met in November 2014. Mr. Bullard was a bartender at Bareburger in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Mr. Murray would often sit at…
In August 2022, Jennifer Leigh Tullock was at the film premiere for “Spirited,” which she had a role in, when Marie Lenia Ronn tapped her on the shoulder. “I turned around, and when I did, I was looking at this beautiful person in a very smart outfit,” Ms. Tullock said. “I realized immediately that she…
The main character at Dolly Lana Meckler’s wedding was probably her dress: a theatrical, reconstructed Pucci gown that was more than two years in the making. Her parents, both “eccentric” artists, first spotted the dress at a Pucci store at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Woodbury, N.Y., in February 2022, Ms. Meckler said. They sent…
On a weekend evening in April 2016, Jonathan Runge Stewart came home to his apartment in Manhattan’s West Village from a first date with Enrico Lagasca, elated, his adrenaline running high. At that time, almost no one knew that Mr. Stewart was romantically interested in men. Mr. Stewart knew Mr. Lagasca from Holy Trinity Lutheran…