“I let people lean on me as the coach,” said Becs Gentry, one of Peloton’s running instructors. Since she records classes while running herself, Ms. Gentry uses her own internal battles as motivators. If she feels exhausted she’ll say: “I know this sucks, guys, but we are gonna do this together. Don’t let me down.”…
I have always had a large bust, but I am about to undergo a bilateral mastectomy. I do not intend to undergo any reconstruction. I want to try to make the best of this transition and embrace the fashion options a flat chest offers woman that were never available to me. I am looking for…
Late last month, the TikTok influencer Addison Rae went on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and casually performed a suite of recent viral dance routines in a comedic skit. Critics reacted with cries of appropriation — the dances’ creators, many of them Black, were not credited — and with dismissals of Rae’s dancing ability.…
Managing Motherhood One of my responsibilities is managing a team in another state. That department is used to a lot of freedom. I’ve implemented structure, and it’s going smoothly. Recently, I’ve come upon a challenge of managing a long-term employee who is also a mother of two small kids. Prepandemic, this employee would drop her…
By Charanna Alexander Spring cleaning season is here. And, for some, that doesn’t only apply to cluttered closets: Sometimes relationships get purged, too. (Consider it “uncuffing season”!) After four years of dating, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez confirmed on Thursday that they’ve called off their engagement. Both shared in a joint statement that they “are…
Name: Snuffy Age: 30 Hometown: White Plains, N.Y. Now Lives: In a tiny two-bedroom apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Julius Margulies, better known as Snuffy, is a close friend of Pete Davidson and Colson Baker (a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly) who drew attention as a tattoo artist after creating artwork for…
“People have started this hobby of gardening that’s addictive,” said Jane Latman, the president of HGTV. “We get letters and comments on our social feed constantly. Where is the gardening? You’re HGTV. Put the ‘G’ back in HGTV.” The first two seasons of “Martha Knows Best” were filmed with a skeleton crew on Ms. Stewart’s…
In her first show at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea, the painter Cecily Brown showed a large triptych, “A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!” (2016). The 33-foot-wide work, which draws its title from an Emily Dickinson poem, was an energetic field of colorful marks typical of Brown’s expressionistic style. According to her usual preference, it…
Gucci is singing a brand-new tune. (Emphasis on “brand.” Or maybe “branded.”) The designer Alessandro Michele called his newest show “Aria” — he rejected the whole spring-summer, fall-winter groupings as false seasonal equivalencies at the start of the pandemic — but a more appropriate name for the first salvo of the company’s centenary year might…
George Hahn loves New York. But in 2016, the writer, actor and sartorial pragmatist wrote an essay about how the city — his home for 22 years — had become unsustainable for his creative lifestyle. He decided to move home, to Cleveland, Ohio, where he marveled at his 1,000-square-foot apartment (with in-suite washer/dryer). But he…