My divorce, though comparatively gentle and humane, still left me shattered, bone-tired and distrustful. Throughout our 12-year marriage, I felt like I had been playing the role of a high-society Hollywood wife and mother, and I no longer knew who I really was. The combination of a domineering stepfather (who was overly concerned with propriety)…
Veronica Mae McCracken and Mitchell Henry Karr first met in May 2014 on her first day at the Minneapolis architecture and design firm MSR Design, where she works as an interior designer and he as an architect. The two were dating other people at the time. It wasn’t until the annual Fusion Fashion Show hosted…
Dominique Isabel Pascale Crenn receives countless DMs on Instagram from people trying to get a table at her San Francisco restaurant, Atelier Crenn. She doesn’t usually respond. But when Maria Elaina Bello sent her a DM in April 2018, the message resonated with her. Lorraine Silvera, a friend of Ms. Bello’s and a fellow food…
Nora Patrice O’Neill and Gabriel Grand had only been dating a couple of months when her twin brother, Patrick, posed a jaw-dropping question. “Gabe, when are you going to marry my sister?” he asked over dinner with Ms. O’Neill’s parents in November 2014 at a now-closed French restaurant during Harvard’s freshman family weekend. After a…
A committee of experts that advises the Food and Drug Administration voted by large majorities on Thursday that a new blood test to screen people for colon and rectal cancers was safe and effective, and that its benefits outweighed its risks. But the group cautioned that the blood test had limitations and added that they…
For the first time on record, cannabis has outpaced alcohol as the daily drug of choice for Americans. In 2022 there were 17.7 million people who reported using cannabis either every day or nearly every day, compared with 14.7 million who reported using alcohol with the same frequency, according to a study, published on Wednesday…
When you’re one of the biggest brands in the world, how do you continue to level up and outdo yourself? For Louis Vuitton, the answer may be in Spain. The megabrand staged a takeover of the iconic Parc Güell in Barcelona, the Gaudí masterpiece of a park situated atop a hill overlooking the city, with…
Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, followers of events known for being fashion spectacles — the Oscars, the Met Gala, Eurovision — have watched them become venues for making sartorial as well as political statements about the conflict. The Cannes Festival in France has not been immune to this trend. Several attendees have used…
I may get my good-taste card revoked for this (and maybe never be asked to fill in for Nikita Richardson here again), but I’ll choose a cookie — any type, really — over a flaky, complex pastry every time. In a city of increasingly intricate laminated creations, there’s something refreshing about a straight-up cookie: an…
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