Last week, the Modern Love podcast featured “You May Want to Marry My Husband,” a moving essay written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal shortly before she died of ovarian cancer. This week, the Modern Love podcast presents “My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me,” an essay written by Ms. Rosenthal’s husband, Jason B. Rosenthal,…
A model in a print Batsheva dress appeared at a microphone on a balcony on West Broadway and solemnly declaimed. “I am doll parts,” she said. “Bad skin. Doll heart.” If you knew these words, you really knew them. This was the rallying cry of an angry slice of a generation: one that had blossomed…
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] One day in seventh grade, Rasheda Herndon walked up to Clyde Edwards, a tall, skinny, supernice guy in her class, and told him, “You’re going to be my boyfriend.” Mr. Edwards was down with that. But Ms. Herndon wasn’t…
Is Los Angeles ready for the inaugural Frieze art fair this weekend? Some 70 galleries, including local favorites like the Night Gallery and global powerhouses like Gagosian, will have booths at Paramount Pictures Studios from Feb. 15 to Feb. 17. (There is also a V.I.P. day, Feb. 14.) While the Los Angeles contemporary art scene…
In “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo,” the new Netflix show, the organizational wizard and best-selling author spends much of her time imploring clients (victims?) to streamline their lives and keep only those possessions that “spark joy.” The ethos has surely struck a chord, and one might even suggest that KonMari minimalism has had an impact…
I’ve been to Token maybe a half dozen times in the last few months. It’s a modest store, jammed in between a tattoo shop and a smoke shop, in a neighborhood that you just … find yourself in. Dimes, Scarr’s, Metrograph, Kiki’s. Not quite a neighborhood in the Jane Jacobs sense, but the sort of…
In a week when Gucci apologized for a balaclava sweater that evoked blackface, and Virginia’s governor and attorney general admitted to wearing blackface, Alexander Wang threw a fashion week party at the Rainbow Room. The theme was “Big Trouble in Little China(town),” and the dress code was chinoiserie. What could possibly go wrong? Guests arrived…
The challenge of choosing between two really cute bags has finally been solved: Wear both. At least, that’s what happened on the fall-winter ’19 runways. Ulla Johnson and Rebecca Minkoff doubled, tripled, even quadrupled the number of handbags to carry at once, and we’re going to give it a try. Beyond doubling up, more unexpected…
According to Jimmy Kimmel, Barbra Streisand has never appeared on his talk show because he refused to swap around his set so the cameras would get her best side and not mention the change. “The condition was we couldn’t talk about the fact that we’d switched around, and I was like, ‘I just don’t see…
Having a good or bad side was once left to A-list celebrities on the covers of magazines, but these days every Instagram influencer and peripheral reality star has a strategy for the moment a camera appears. Images of ourselves are no longer relegated to dusty family albums; now, we can gaze back at our unnatural…