Warren Braxton Luckett was working as a wholesale wine distributor when he first encountered Karinn Andrea Chavarria in April 2016, at the Menu of Menus culinary event held at Silver Street Studios in Houston. “I should have been focused on promoting my wines, but this amazing woman had an aura about her,” Mr. Luckett, 37,…
Before the end of 2017, she had relocated. Three days after her arrival, Ms. Flores was spending New Year’s Eve with Mr. Morris, whose relationship had ended. They toasted to the start of 2018 with champagne at a now-closed bar in Brooklyn and started dating soon after. By March 2018, the two had become exclusive.…
Sarah Elizabeth Weiner was working as a law clerk when she matched with David Samuel Schulman, who was in business school, on the dating app Bumble in September 2017. Setting a first date required a process by then familiar to both: negotiation. “He originally proposed going to the Cloisters,” Ms. Weiner said, referring to the…
There’s a picture of us meeting in person for the first time on the second floor of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, taken via self-timer on Snapchat. It was September 2020. You can sense the awkward nervousness we felt, with his arm carefully placed behind my lower back and me giving the camera a big…
The travel rebound is shaping up to be even stronger than airlines expected, helping to make up for rising fuel prices. Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways said on Thursday that their revenues in the second quarter were on track to be higher than the companies had projected. The announcements are the latest sign that people…
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Anyone else who appears in court risks being lifted into an internet folk hero or smeared as a liar. Heard’s attorney Elaine Charlson Bredehoft is branded a “Karen” (once a term for a racist white woman, it has since been flattened into an all-purpose misogynistic slur) and conspiratorially constructed as an undercover Depp fan, while…
Since then, the brand has expanded to include 12 different shades, though that is still slim pickings compared with the dozens of shades that other brands, many of them newcomers, offer. And, most important, Glossier’s longstanding resistance to working with third-party retailers made it harder and harder for the brand to acquire new customers organically…
I was initially struck by the salinity of the Chagnoleau, a wine that was lean in texture compared with the other two bottles, and with earthy, floral and herbal flavors underscored by that salty quality. The salinity was there as well, though to a lesser extent, in the Merlin, which was both richer and more…
Among French wine regions, Alsace is unusual. It’s one of the few places in which the name of the grape takes precedence over the plot of earth in which the vines grow. In that respect, Alsace may have more in common with Germany than France, which only makes sense. Because of its location in France’s…