For the past 10 years, Alex Boughen made big, determined New Year’s resolutions. “It was always eating healthier, working out more, that kind of thing,” he said. The problem was he could never keep them. “I was one of those people who went to the gym on Jan. 2,” said Mr. Boughen, 28, who works…
Looks like it’s time to break out the games again. Though, if you’re one of thousands of people around the world who play Warhammer, you probably never put it away in the first place. Warhammer 40,000, a tabletop game set in a dystopian fictional universe, is not new. But a pandemic-fueled frenzy for science fiction…
Name: Wallice Age: 23 Hometown: Los Angeles Currently Lives: In a three-bedroom bungalow house in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles with her longtime boyfriend, Callaghan Kevany, and a friend. Claim to Fame: Wallice (whose full name is Wallice Hana Watanabe) is a singer-songwriter best known for “Punching Bag,” a song about self-deception in…
With Everyone We Saw Looking back at a year of pictures from the Styles Desk. “After taking this picture, I asked Kim if she could see where she was going, and she said she could only see shapes and shadows, which I thought was just marvelous.” — Landon Nordeman on photographing Kim Kardashian at this…
On New Year’s Day, Black American families around the country will sit down to eat a variation on green vegetables and cowpeas, joining in an enduring tradition meant to usher in opportunity in the year ahead. “I don’t let a New Year’s Day go by without having some form of greens, pork and black-eyed peas,”…
The setbacks were evident for travelers around the country. On Christmas Eve morning, mats, blankets and pillows lined the floors of the Twin Cities airport, where people had been forced to sleep the night before. Catherine Lynn, a sales specialist in Watersound, Fla., said she had spent more than two hours on Friday attempting to…
Welcome. When my streaming music service of choice fed me its annual report of my most-listened-to songs from the past year, many were by the pianist Hania Rani. I was unfamiliar with Rani’s work until one of my colleagues, the art director Jaspal Riyait, included Rani’s “F Major” in her Best of 2020 picks. This…
While sitting at a bar with her on-and-off fling, Melody Federer, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, gave a stranger the ugly Christmas sweater right off her back. In return for her good deed, he dug into his bag and offered them purple sex tape, used for light bondage. Could this be what…
Hi, old friends! Margaux here, filling in for Em today. Once I file this newsletter, I’m taking off for an almost two-week break. (But with kids at home and 892 presents to wrap before tomorrow morning, I use the term “break” very loosely.) I’m not traveling, but my goal is to watch too many holiday…
“Anguish arising from the inescapability of personal choice and the inability to avoid personal consequences may become a problem for many,” he wrote in a 2011 paper. “For others, exhilaration may come from recognizing that the goal of a vigorous long life may be an attainable one.” James Franklin Fries was born on Aug. 25,…