Before Charli D’Amelio became the most popular creator on TikTok — she currently has 132 million followers — she danced on the competitive contemporary-dance circuit in the Northeast, the sorts of theatrical styles you might know from “So You Think You Can Dance?” Once she began posting to TikTok in 2019, and especially after her…
Maybe Pert Plus was on to something. Ditto for Puffs Plus. The year was 1987 when the shampoo-and-conditioner in the green bottle and the lotion-infused tissues both incorporated the word “plus” into the names of flagship product lines. Pert became the top-selling shampoo in the county. Now, more than three decades later, a multitude of…
Zach Lewis swears he was just resting his eyes. But when a fellow student at Stowe Middle High School in Vermont surreptitiously snapped his picture during English class and shared it with the school’s “sleep account,” it was hard to dispute the evidence. There he was, book open, lids shut. After Zach was tagged in…
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After Midtown was officially deemed cool again and espresso martinis made a comeback, it was only a matter of time before New York’s young tastemakers — the people who have mined the city’s cultural history for inspiration and defined its present on their own terms — found their way to the Metropolitan Opera. As Lincoln…
James Abraham, 35, who runs the popular Instagram account @90sanxiety, which he started in 2016, sees the intrigue as related to the sense of something uncompromising about the period — the “rawness, the realness,” Mr. Abraham said. “‘Purity,’ that’s the keyword.” ‘Hot and Unbothered’ In the ’90s and aughts, Ms. Northman said, people seemed more…
On a snowy Monday afternoon at a cafe in Hudson, N.Y., Malu Byrne and Rick Van Streain Low, partners in the jewelry line En Studio, were discussing how they work together. “If we aren’t 100 percent aligned on an idea or material, it’s a cue it’s not quite right and can get better,” said Ms.…
A record number of Americans — 13.6 million — have signed up for health plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces for 2022, after Congress lowered the cost of Obamacare insurance; the Biden administration boosted advertising; and the pandemic disrupted many Americans’ employer-provided coverage. The Covid-19 public health emergency helped usher in an era of…
Princeton, where a student died by suicide while studying remotely last spring, has seen a 15 percent increase in demand for services, a record. “More students were reporting various cases of homesickness, where they really felt kind of lost about not having their parents around,” said Calvin R. Chin, the school’s director of counseling and…
Three separate teams of scientists on two continents have found that Omicron infections more often result in mild illness than earlier variants of the coronavirus, offering hope that the current surge may not be quite as catastrophic as feared despite skyrocketing caseloads. The researchers examined Omicron’s course through populations in South Africa, Scotland and England.…