After being together for four and a half years, Eva Jamila McKend and Dennis Roane Bates Jr. knew that marriage was the next step. “Does anyone really know when it’s time to get married?” said Ms. McKend, 34, a national politics reporter at CNN. She added that for them, “it just felt right.” Mr. Bates…
Aria Aber and Noah Robert Warren, both poets and published authors, were familiar with each other’s work and had connected on social media long before they met in person. Their first substantive interaction was virtual. In late 2020, Mr. Warren had invited Ms. Aber, a writing fellow at Stanford, to share her work for a…
I once imagined how the conversation would go. Me: “Hey Mom, I’m gay. Like Ellen. You know on TV. Her kind of gay.” Her: “Ellen can be gay. You can’t.” My mother loved me so much, but as an undocumented Black woman already facing so many hurdles, she didn’t want her child to check off…
The first time Maria Anita Antonaccio and Harry Douglas Gural met — at lunch on Easter Sunday in 2018 — they weren’t focused on each other. They were visiting their mothers at a senior living community in Lewisburg, Pa. Mr. Gural, 63, had driven four hours from Washington, where he was working as a senior…
After 14 months of marriage, Britney Spears’s husband, Sam Asghari, filed for divorce on Wednesday, according to Los Angeles court records. The couple’s relationship began in 2016 and unfolded alongside Ms. Spears’s campaign to be released from a conservatorship that limited her personal and professional decision-making power. She married Mr. Asghari, an actor and personal…
TOKYO, JAPAN The Aman in the city’s Otemachi Tower might be the hotel group’s most serene location yet. Embrace a capsule wardrobe of zen neutrals, and let the forest bathing begin. Courtesy of Designers CAIRO, EGYPT Christian Louboutin shows us how to cruise the Nile in style. The Temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to Sobek,…
Britney Spears’s husband, Sam Asghari, whom she married after she was released from the conservatorship that controlled her life for years, filed for divorce on Wednesday after a little more than a year of marriage, according to Los Angeles court records. The couple’s marriage in California in June 2022 was one of Spears’ first major…
It’s still approximately one million degrees in New York City (as anyone who lives here can verify), but September is ominously lurking around the corner, which means we’re just t-minus several weeks until everything smells like pumpkin spice and we’ve officially entered cozy season. However, this is slightly inconvenient because it’ll still be hot as…
In the throes of responding to the Maui wildfires that razed the celebrated town of Lahaina and claimed over 110 lives, Hawaii remains mostly open for tourism, despite the misgivings of both residents and tourists. “Do not come to Maui,” Kate Ducheneau, a Lahaina resident, said in a TikTok video that has been viewed more…
It’s a humid summer morning in New York, and Mona Akhavi, CEO of Vrai, the lab-grown jewelry line backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and other high-profile investors, is recounting the company’s recent orders via Zoom. “It’s insane,” she says, matter-of-factly. “We’re getting orders for 10-carat diamonds once a week. We just had a 10-carat gradient diamond…