Dating Jason was such a relief. At 43, I had been in love only once before with a man who sat in the passenger seat of my car (when I was much thinner than I am today) and poked his finger into my splayed thigh, as if to say, “You’re going to take care of…
When Julia Margaux Elbaba and Dr. Matthew George Nevulis matched on Bumble in early 2019, neither was in a position to make a long-distance relationship work. Dr. Nevulis lived in Charlottesville, Va., where he was completing his medical residency at the University of Virginia. Ms. Elbaba was traveling the world as a professional tennis player,…
“I started to slowly think about life with him,” she said, as she and Mr. Meyer took turns visiting each other, and she joined him on a family trip to Puerto Rico in December. In May, over dinner near her beach house on Long Beach Island, N.J., she told him she would say yes to…
Shortly after matching on the dating app Bumble, followed by a 90-minute “screening” phone call in June 2022, Christie Lynn Houlihan and Rahul Dev Chatterjee had their first date in Houston. Ms. Houlihan, 40 and never married, told Mr. Chatterjee, 48, who was divorced for about a year at the time, that she had recently…
The debut season of “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s dating show featuring contestants 60 and older, concluded on Thursday night with an episode in which its lead, Gerry Turner, a 72-year-old retiree and pickleball enthusiast from Indiana, proposed to Theresa Nist, 70, a financial services professional from Shrewsbury, N.J. “For the first time since 1968, I…
There is an extravaganza of cleanliness to be found just behind an unmarked door in a corner of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is the home of Kingbridge’s massive new cleaning facility, which opened in January 2020. It’s where a fastidious, highly labor-intensive process takes place, one Mr. Aviles believes is necessary for clothing to…
Welcome to Same Same But Different. As Gen Z and millennial fashion editors, respectively, we know a thing or two about shopping—for all ages, and especially our demographics. As we find the best products for you, we can’t help but do a little shopping for ourselves and build our personal (age-appropriate) wish lists. And now,…
The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But there is one name on the list that might surprise budding scholars. Taylor Swift. In the spring semester, Stephanie Burt, an English professor at Harvard University, will teach a…
The Kaunda suit has become a choice attire for African celebrities, elders and politicians in recent years, including one particularly high-profile convert — Kenya’s president, William Ruto. A single-breasted safari jacket with short or long sleeves and patch pockets — often worn with matching pants — it was initially made popular in the 1960s by…
Hammer, who is queer, said Burlington felt aligned with her identity. “I really think it’s coming down to having safe places to be recognized, to listen, to just exist peacefully,” she said. The sudden burst of cultural linkage to Burlington caught city officials by surprise. “It was not on my Wednesday surprise bingo card,” John…