The soccer World Cup final in December 2022 ended with a nail-biting win for Argentina. For Yuna Yang and Christopher Mun-Yin Seck, the day was exciting for other reasons, too: After watching the match at a private club, the two spent hours together in New York, where they both live, and by the end of…
Katherine Ward Tsyrlin was friends with one of Alan Gerard Harbron’s roommates, and when she heard stories about him and how much he cared about his friendships, her interest was piqued. The roommate mentioned that Mr. Harbron was using dating apps, including Hinge. So to ensure they would meet — and to avoid asking the…
Getting sick is not usually something for which people are grateful. But Victoria Virginia Voos and Corey Alexander Buresch certainly are. “It seemed like illness, one way or another, kept our relationship progressing to the next level,” Ms. Voos said. The two began chatting on the dating app WooPlus, which markets itself as “the dating…
For years, my husband told me, “You’re the love of my life. Nothing you do could ever make me leave you.” Then he met someone else, and it was over. As promised, it was nothing I had done. It had been the second marriage for both of us, and he had come with young daughters,…
Carissa Anne Bauman had no idea who Dylan Taylor Jakobsen was when he handed her a flier on Dec. 26, 2010, outside El Corazon, a downtown Seattle music club, while she and a friend waited in line to see Scene Aesthetic, a local acoustic rock band. “I was out there slinging fliers, trying to get…
On Wednesday night, a throng of actors, cycling through a swirl of events — awards season, New York Fashion Week and the Super Bowl — assembled in Midtown Manhattan, wearing Chanel, dressed by Chanel and for Chanel. Over cocktails, guests mingled for the opening of the brand’s first U.S. watch and fine jewelry flagship boutique…
On Wednesday night, two sturdy bouncers framed an unmarked doorway between a pizzeria and a vape shop on West 57th Street. Those granted entry descended a narrow staircase to the door of Silencio New York, where a new offshoot of the swank Parisian nightclub was hosting its inaugural party. The Silencio on rue Montmartre has…
In my first dispatch since returning from my stint on The Times’s Live team, I shared a laundry list of exciting developments in the restaurant world, including that Regina’s Grocery & Deli, a beloved Lower East Side staple, had opened a third location on the Upper East Side. (Over Instagram messages, the owner, Roman Grandinetti,…
The Negroni, a strong Italian-born classic with a huge and committed fan club, fits every season and most occasions. “It’s bitter, it’s sweet, it feels like it has a bit of salinity to it,” said Isabel Tulloch, the head bartender at Milady’s in New York City. “There’s that beautiful orange expression that makes it a…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an outbreak on a luxury cruise ship after more than 150 people reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, including diarrhea and vomiting. The ship, the Queen Victoria, operated by Cunard Line, departed Southampton, England, on Jan. 11 on a 107-night cruise that included recent stops in Florida…