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Las cejas pobladas están de vuelta
A finales de enero, una amiga me envió un correo electrónico para avisarme que su experta en cejas favorita iba a hacer una residencia en el norte de la ciudad, no muy lejos de donde yo vivía. Me reí. “No tengo cejas”, respondí. “¡Pertenezco a la gran generación de las cejas desaparecidas de Carolyn Bessette!”.…
Monica Lewinsky se reinventa como modelo
¿Cuál es el siguiente paso en la carrera de Monica Lewinsky, la exbecaria de la Casa Blanca convertida en activista contra el acoso escolar, escritora y productora? Modelar. Lewinsky es la estrella de una nueva campaña que la marca de moda Reformation presentó la semana pasada. La campaña, intitulada “You’ve Got the Power” (El poder…
My Husband Keeps Leaving Me
A month after Andrew proposed to me, he and I went to couples counseling, where, in our first session, he said, “If I have to choose between you and the Army, I choose the Army.” His words knocked the air out of my chest. Five years earlier, on our first date, he had said (after…
Love Italian American Style: That’s Amore
Christopher Joseph Marazzo did the unthinkable one Friday evening in October 2019. He left his bowl of pasta unfinished, and walked over to Rose Angelina Teresa Minutaglio’s booth in the back room at Forlini’s Italian restaurant in Lower Manhattan. “She has this old world beauty, like a black-and-white photo,” said Mr. Marazzo, who turns 33…
A Wedding Do-Over After a Broken Heart (Not the Kind You’re Thinking)
On May 6, 2023, about 10 minutes after they were pronounced husband and wife in front of 120 guests, Dr. Erika Frances Amundson and Eli Brownlie Newell were in the back of an ambulance speeding toward Los Angeles General Medical Center. From his gurney, as sirens wailed, Mr. Newell signed their marriage certificate. Major medical…
An Instant Crush Over Mashed Potatoes
The cardboard cup of mashed potatoes Gustavo Chagas Lopes handed Luke John Robinson III on Oct. 11, 2021, was not meant to be an aphrodisiac. But for Mr. Robinson, something in the way Mr. Lopes, then the manager of the Brooklyn restaurant Sally Roots, had passed them off was spellbinding. “Gustavo is just so striking,”…
Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide
More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s last global estimate in 2016. While the data shows that in some countries a new generation of parents have chosen to forgo the practice, in…
Self Service for Airport Security? It’s Happening in Las Vegas.
As most air travelers can attest, the experience at an airport’s security checkpoint can be far from serene. There are many rules — often shouted by Transportation Security Administration officers — about what you can bring with you, how to array your belongings and where to stand. Lines can be painfully long and anxieties sky…
Paris Fashion Week Moments That Kept Us Talking
This year’s fashion weeks have been going on for almost two months now. (You would be forgiven for not noticing, given the current news cycle.) They started in January with the men’s wear shows, which were followed by the couture shows, which were followed by fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Paris…