The politician is having a busy week. She has events at the Capitol and an important bill to sign into law. Like her namesake, who calls the shade her “power color,” she wears a hot pink pantsuit. The politician is a Barbie doll — one that senior aides to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan decided…
In New Zealand, one of summer’s great pleasures is known as real fruit ice cream: a scoop of vanilla blended with fruit in a machine that produces an airy, barely sweet twirl with a buttery texture. The dessert, which likely originated in the country’s berry orchards, has become a national favorite over the last few…
Susan Marston, 58, a program manager from Boise, Idaho, said that unlike some longtime Dead fans who were skeptical when Mr. Mayer joined Dead & Company, she knew from the very beginning that he would bring something unique to the spinoff band. “There’s a lot of crusty people who said, ‘Oh, I can’t see John…
This article contains spoilers for Episode 6 of the second season of “And Just Like That …” Few who have trudged through the mucky streets of New York during a blizzard would see pelting snow as an invitation for high fashion, but “And Just Like That …” is set in Carrie Bradshaw-land. In the new…
Listen and follow “Modern Love”Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music ‘Our engagement was not only a promise to him; it was a promise to myself that I would never hide again.’ The last time David visited his ailing grandmother, he hid his wedding ring in his pocket. He’d never told her about his identity…
On a rainy Sunday in July, the Trailblazers began to arrive at Camp Squanto, a 100-acre sleep-away retreat in southern New Hampshire. Parents drove them. Made up of children about to enter grades four through six, the Trailblazers were looking forward to summer days spent playing sports, doing arts and crafts projects and jumping from…
My husband and I have been married for 12 years and have a 7-year-old daughter. We no longer share a bedroom or have sex, but we continue living together peacefully to raise our child. My mother-in-law discovered our separate bedrooms while I was out of town: She was helping to care for our daughter and…
Like many high schoolers in the early to mid-2000s, Telsha Anderson-Boone spent a lot of time scrolling through Tumblr. A fashion obsessive—now 30, she owns and operates her own store, called T.A., in New York—she saved any image that piqued her interest to a folder on her computer called “Style.”She didn’t realize it at the…
There was once an Instagram account called Sporty & Rich. For a time, it served no commercial purpose. It was more of a brain tickle of pleasing images: a mood board of supermodels, interiors and advertisements, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. It posted vintage Range Rovers and Rolexes and Ralph Lauren — an affluent…
More Than Likes is a series about social media personalities who are trying to do positive things for their communities. The video begins with an instructor and a barbell, like so many others on Instagram. But then, as Casey Johnston, the instructor, dead-lifts the barbell — 45 pounds, plus 160 more pounds’ worth of weights…