“Can you make sure people know I’m not a Scorpio?” asks Rowan Blanchard. It’s a trippy request, but we are in Laurel Canyon—a California landmark home to so much psych rock history, even the tap water is rumored to make you high. For the record, Blanchard is a Libra (“which makes me crazy”) who is…
When a standard one-piece feels too covered, but a bikini feels too bare, a low-back swimsuit is subtly sexy and über chic. Running the gamut from high-cut legs and slinky straps to square necklines and sweet details, this year’s crop suits (ha, sorry!) every taste. Shop our top 27 picks, including minimalist cuts, glamorous metallic…
Name: Stefania LaVie Owen Age: 21 Hometown: Born in Miami and raised in Pauatahanui, New Zealand, a small town north of Wellington. Now lives: In her family’s home in New Zealand and, most recently, a room in her friend’s three-bedroom apartment in the East Village of Manhattan. Claim to fame: Ms. Owen is a young…
Apr 3, 2019 Stephanie Gilmore carves her baby pink board against the turquoise waves at Mākaha Beach in Hawaii with a measured force. While other surfers fight the waves, she slices through them in double the time. She emerges from a crowded break, and beachgoers rise from their towels and squint to see who she…
“Kim Kardashian West looks like she might be the 20-something nanny or assistant of Kim Kardashian West,” wrote Molly Young. It was for ELLE’s April cover story in 2018, and guess what? Yesterday in Bel-Air, exactly a year later, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Kim Kardashian West wears a Mugler jacket with pierced…
Image CreditIllustration by Brian Rea What kind of love story can you share in a tweet, an Instagram caption or a Facebook post? The Modern Love team is inviting college students worldwide to tell us a love story from their own lives — happy or sad, capturing a moment or a lifetime — in no…
For three decades, Winnie’s, an old-school dive and raucous karaoke bar, lured Chinatown residents and fashionable visitors for boozy singalongs in the shadow of the Tombs (otherwise known as the Manhattan Detention Complex). When it shut in 2015, it became another casualty of a gilded city. But an unlikely resurrection occurred on Valentine’s Day this…
If you’re thinking about going to couples therapy — and, really, who isn’t? — but are wondering what to expect, you can now pop in your earbuds for a podcast preview. There’s a show for just about any relational issue: the effects of 24-7 technology, unintended consequences of 50/50 parenting, the intricacies of polyamory. Perhaps…
Watching Other People Fall for My Boy I fell in love with a boy when I was only 18. Both of us were raised in conservative Christian households, and we said “I do” at 20. Twelve years and two children later, we’re still in love. But I kept falling in love with other people, too.…
[A newsletter for parents with evidence-based guidance and personal stories for your transformed life with kids. Sign up to get NYT Parenting in your inbox every week.] Last spring, about a week into a family visit to Prague, my hometown, I overheard my then 2½-year-old son mumble to himself in Czech: “Are you trying to…