RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Wearing a ruffled bonnet that framed her face, a sweater with poufy bobble-stitched sleeves and an ankle-length skirt with tiers of lace and openwork, Sabrina Brokenborough could have been mistaken for a model at an avant-garde photo shoot taking place at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds on Oct. 15. Ms. Brokenborough, 23, a…
He turned in a wonderful comic performance in Mr. Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and he enjoyed playing Lord Voldemort, once Martha explained who the “Harry Potter” villain was and told him it was a “stonkingly vast, mega, mega part.” Her middle son, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, plays a young Tom Riddle, who becomes Voldemort, in…
No había forma de conjurar, con antelación, todas las primeras veces que me perdería, el dolor de no haber sido elegida, las maneras en que mi vida se sentiría demasiado vacía cuando ella no estuviera y demasiado llena cuando estuviera aquí, un ir y venir en el que todavía me cuesta navegar. La otra mañana,…
With this year’s wedding boom, 2022 is seeing many more weddings — and, with it, many more wedding looks. “At minimum, many brides are asking for three: a chic dress or pantsuit for the rehearsal dinner; her statement gown for the wedding day; and something totally unique for the after-party,” said Sarah Swann, the chief…
They didn’t plan this. Sofia Wylie, 18, who plays the good-at-heart, if witchily named, Agatha in the new Netflix fantasy film “The School for Good and Evil,” pops onto the Zoom call swaddled in a tan-and-white blanket, a cheery, sunlit room with white walls and a gray couch in her Salt Lake City home behind…
In this week’s Modern Love essay, “Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows,” Kevin Hershey describes the six weeks he spent tending to his Irish grandmother in her Catholic senior living apartment. Mr. Hershey’s grandmother had decided to die by starvation. A recent college graduate without a job or much of a purpose,…
Charlie Dulik and Michael Nicholas, tennis enthusiasts in Brooklyn, have lately been consumed by another racquet sport: pickleball. They have no interest in joining those who have taken up the game in recent years. Rather, they have been following pickleball’s increasing popularity with a mixture of disbelief and outrage. Mr. Dulik, a tenant organizer, and…
If you were to place an order this week at a restaurant that exclusively served viral foods, here’s what you’d be eating: a salad tossed in a special dressing made by Olivia Wilde; an omelet made with only egg yolks; and a Negroni Sbagliato to wash it all down. Let’s begin with the salad. If…
Writing by hand seems to be increasingly obsolete, thanks to the urgency of everyday tasks and our reliance on cellphones, tablets and computers. At The Times, the trusty reporter’s notebook — the narrow spiral-bounds whipped out for quick interviews — is more often these days an electronic device. One result of this shift? Worsening handwriting…
When I graduated from college in Portland, Ore., eight years ago, I dreamed of taking my Spanish major and spirit of adventure and moving abroad, where I would quickly acquire a gay lover who would introduce me to new languages, foods and sex. Instead, I moved back home to St. Paul, Minn., and into my…