Elisabeth Claire Rivard rarely found anyone who spent as much time as she did in art museums and galleries. Alec Jason Woletz was one of those rare people. “This is someone I’d like to get to know better,” Ms. Rivard, who goes by Lizzie, recalled thinking. It was June 2013, and the two were hanging…
In 2017, they finally landed in the same place. They moved in together in Rosslyn, Va., just outside of Washington. Mr. McFawn was in graduate school and Ms. Chen was a news anchor at WJLA-TV. In February 2020, Ms. Chen moved to New York City for a job as a correspondent at CBS Newspath, and…
In July 2020, Lawrence James Handerhan walked from his home in Washington to a local brewery for a date — his first ever from the dating app Hinge. His date, Donnelly Lon McDowell, lived four blocks away from him. While the two had mutual friends, they had never crossed paths before. They sat outside with…
Hi, I’m Pete Wells, restaurant critic for the Times and unarmed duck hunter. Each October, I get hungry for duck. There’s no good explanation for my timing. In some parts of the country, fall is when you pull on waders, whistle for the retrievers and crouch in a marsh waiting for mallards and teals to…
“It took weeks to get the walls rebuilt,” his daughter, Anuschka, said, “and during that time, my father’s medical students came on a schedule, protecting the house with broom poles and sticks, sitting out all night. There was so much love from his community of students.” In addition to his son and daughter, he is…
An international team of scientists has mapped the human brain in much finer resolution than ever before. The brain atlas, a $375 million effort started in 2017, has identified more than 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously reported. The researchers have only a dim notion of what the…
In meal-train cooking — be it for an ailing friend, a weary new-parent neighbor or a grief-stricken co-worker — the cheesy casserole often prevails. Few things can comfort like, say, a tray of easy-to-freeze lasagna at the onset of difficult times. But the reality of hard times is that they can outlast even the biggest…
When Mary Lou Retton, the decorated Olympic gymnast, accrued medical debt from a lengthy hospital stay, her family did what countless Americans have done before them: turned to crowdfunding to cover the bills. On Tuesday, Ms. Retton’s daughter started a fund-raising campaign on social media for her mother, who she said was hospitalized with a…
Glancing inside the back of the 15-foot U-Haul truck parked near McCarren Park in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on Sunday, you might think someone had moved in. There was a chrome-legged couch placed in front of a decorative folding screen. A blue Persian-style area rug covered the floor; shelves filled with graphic T-shirts and…
Depending on where you fall on the scale from “extremely superstitious” to “not at all,” Friday may be the most frightful day of your year. It’s the 13th. It’s Friday the 13th. It’s Friday the 13th in October, the spookiest month of all. The superstition that the date is unlucky is widespread in Western culture.…