Bonnie McIlvaine has lived in three homes in San Diego County, all on the very same spot. The first was an unheated concrete-block house she bought in 1973 for $32,000. A newly divorced schoolteacher, Ms. McIlvaine wanted a break from urban living. She found herself in a small, hilly town with stretches of undeveloped brushland…
This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. What’s new in wallpaper, tile and upholstery? Nothing and everything. Tribute continues to be paid to the past — from Victorian nests of excess to disciplined Scandinavian lines and palettes. Our eyes continue to be dazzled by optical…
A finales de enero, una amiga me envió un correo electrónico para avisarme que su experta en cejas favorita iba a hacer una residencia en el norte de la ciudad, no muy lejos de donde yo vivía. Me reí. “No tengo cejas”, respondí. “¡Pertenezco a la gran generación de las cejas desaparecidas de Carolyn Bessette!”.…
¿Cuál es el siguiente paso en la carrera de Monica Lewinsky, la exbecaria de la Casa Blanca convertida en activista contra el acoso escolar, escritora y productora? Modelar. Lewinsky es la estrella de una nueva campaña que la marca de moda Reformation presentó la semana pasada. La campaña, intitulada “You’ve Got the Power” (El poder…
A month after Andrew proposed to me, he and I went to couples counseling, where, in our first session, he said, “If I have to choose between you and the Army, I choose the Army.” His words knocked the air out of my chest. Five years earlier, on our first date, he had said (after…
Christopher Joseph Marazzo did the unthinkable one Friday evening in October 2019. He left his bowl of pasta unfinished, and walked over to Rose Angelina Teresa Minutaglio’s booth in the back room at Forlini’s Italian restaurant in Lower Manhattan. “She has this old world beauty, like a black-and-white photo,” said Mr. Marazzo, who turns 33…
On May 6, 2023, about 10 minutes after they were pronounced husband and wife in front of 120 guests, Dr. Erika Frances Amundson and Eli Brownlie Newell were in the back of an ambulance speeding toward Los Angeles General Medical Center. From his gurney, as sirens wailed, Mr. Newell signed their marriage certificate. Major medical…
The cardboard cup of mashed potatoes Gustavo Chagas Lopes handed Luke John Robinson III on Oct. 11, 2021, was not meant to be an aphrodisiac. But for Mr. Robinson, something in the way Mr. Lopes, then the manager of the Brooklyn restaurant Sally Roots, had passed them off was spellbinding. “Gustavo is just so striking,”…
This year’s fashion weeks have been going on for almost two months now. (You would be forgiven for not noticing, given the current news cycle.) They started in January with the men’s wear shows, which were followed by the couture shows, which were followed by fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Paris…
Imagine someone messages you at a quarter to 1 on a Saturday night after not answering your last message two days ago. How are you responding? And if someone triple texts you in the middle of a busy workday and calls you out for your slow reply: What then? When it comes to the early…