It was 11:30 a.m. on Labor Day, 2018 and everyone was gushing over the birthday boy, Mannie Corman, who wore a black shirt that read “Vintage 1918; Aged to perfection,” and a matching hat with the number 100 printed in white. Mr. Corman, who sat in an electric wheelchair, reveled in the company of his…
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Victoria Oliver placed the upright satin rabbit ears atop her blond tresses. A fluffy white cottontail had already been fastened with a snap to her backside. Moments before, a seamstress had cinched the boned shell of a black leotard up and over Ms. Oliver’s hip line. Her bow tie was straightened, her cuff links aligned.…
In a world where affordable Instagram shopping makes items available minutes after they’re spotted on the runway, the fast fashion game is moving at lightspeed. But unlike other brands, you can get your glen plaid fix while buying Cheez-Its and toilet paper with Target’s latest endeavor. Prologue is the department store’s solution to filling what…
Over the weekend, Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) released an animated visual for his new single “Feels Like Summer,” which featured a crying Kanye West wearing a MAGA hat while being consoled by our forever first lady Michelle Obama; Nicki Minaj building up her castle only to have Travis Scott destroy all her hard work,…
“I’ll start driving when Saudi Arabian women are allowed to!” I would declare to my mom as a teenager, as if I were one of those celebrities who used to promise that they wouldn’t marry until gay people could. I was always half-kidding, but jokes have a way of dressing up inertia in a glossy…
My wife, kids and I live in the house where I grew up, across the street from a woman who was a dear old friend of my parents. Judging by her lawn signs, she has become much more politically extreme than when I was young. The coming midterm elections are important to my family: My…
“For five years I had been a prisoner of the establishment,” he wrote in a memoir, “All the Cowboys Were Indians” (originally published in 1969 as “Jungle Cowboy”), “strangled by a stiff white collar, black tie, gray drainpipe trousers and an ill-fitting jacket, herded like a convict, carrying armfuls of Chaucer, Homer and English history.”…
The sick passengers on the Emirates airline flight that landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York on Wednesday were most likely suffering from the flu and common cold, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Benjamin Haynes, the spokesman for the agency, said 11 people were taken to the…