When I went to the office, Fancy would stay home alone all day, so her mother sent a young girl to help her with household chores. This was a source of nuisance to me. When I returned home from work, Fancy would open the door, and I would carry her in my arms to the…
Once Mr. Caneco responded, he displayed what she considered a weirdness of his own: After only a few messages, he asked to switch to phone calls. “I’m somebody who only talks on the phone for work,” she said. Overcoming that aversion for Mr. Caneco seemed worth it, though. His devotion to Beanhead, whose mystery illness…
After a brief introduction at La Terrasse, a bar on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus that has since closed, on Sept. 29, 1983, Pamela Ann Dillon spent the next few hours hanging on to Stephen Michael Dillon’s every word. “I didn’t want the conversation to stop,” said Ms. Dillon, who had just started her master’s…
At first, the striking similarities in the Rev. Peter Manning and Garth Wingfield’s life paths made for fun first-date fodder. And then the parallels became too pronounced to chalk up to coincidence. When Mr. Manning first matched with Mr. Wingfield on the dating app Hinge in March 2022, he discovered that they had long run…
After a portion of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner’s fuselage blew out in midair minutes after taking off from Portland, Ore., on Jan. 5, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded about 170 Max 9 planes, causing airlines that rely heavily on the aircraft to cancel thousands of flights and inconveniencing many passengers. On…
Back when Nikki Haley, the last woman standing in the race for the Republican nomination, began dating her now-husband, she took a look at him and asked him what his name was. Puzzled, he told her it was Bill, which she already knew. “You just don’t look like a Bill. What’s your whole name?” she…
During the 49 years that Estée Lauder worked at her namesake company, she oversaw the creation of a dozen scents and encouraged women to create fragrance “wardrobes” tailored to every occasion and mood. The brand’s Legacy Collection, which comes out on Feb. 1, revives five of Lauder’s creations with the help of Frédéric Malle (whose…
Fancy seeing you here. If you’ve only started reading “Where to Eat” in the last four months, then you may not know me: I’m Nikita Richardson, and I’m freshly returned from a stint on The Times’s Live team covering breaking news. (Thank you so much to Pete Wells for covering for me while I was…
The planned execution of a death row inmate by the state of Alabama on Thursday evening will be carried out by a procedure that has never been used for capital punishment in the United States. The inmate, Kenneth Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 stabbing murder, will be put to death by inhaling nitrogen…
In the doldrums of January, it can feel most natural to eat like the weather: beige foods inside to match the shades of taupe outside. But inevitably, when that little voice inside my head cries out for something green, there is one vegetable that comes to mind first: broccoli. Maybe because it’s a vegetable many…