Jewelry and art have long captivated both collectors and the general public, but recently, fine minerals — topaz, quartz, calcite and more — have also been figuring in. Case in point: The multidisciplinary art fair Masterpiece London, set for June 30 to July 6 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, will have a new exhibit by…
We decided to go to 7-11 to restock our caffeine supplies. He wanted his favorite brand of iced coffee; I wanted some of those Yerba Mate energy drinks. These caffeine treks had become a new sort of love language for us, my growing feelings manifesting through the memorization of his coffee order. He parked the…
Soon after Adam Michael Topper met Jordan Cole Manekin in the spring of 2019, he started to compare him to another man in his life: Senator Cory Booker, Democrat from New Jersey, who was then Mr. Topper’s boss. During Mr. Booker’s presidential campaign, Mr. Topper had served as his director of scheduling. Like the senator,…
Ve Bui loved high school so much, he thought it would go on forever. In a way it has. Mr. Bui, who is often referred to as the mayor of his 1992 class at Indianola High School in Indianola, Iowa, has organized reunions for his roughly 175 classmates every fifth year since graduating. Brenda Renée…
Though Ms. Belson said that “from the beginning, we just liked each other,” she knew Mr. Rojas was the one before he felt that way about her. “It was just a feeling like, ‘This is my guy,’” she said, describing Mr. Rojas as someone who “always lives in a state of hope.” “He enjoys every…
From the moment they accidentally bumped into each other on campus at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in August 2016, Kia Ashley Burks and Anthony Joseph Misiak have believed they were perfectly suited for each other. “He knows my mind,” said Ms. Burks, 24, who goes by Ashley. “He sees me.” Unfortunately, there were far…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just urged Brown University graduates to stay resilient and summon their “better angels” on Memorial Day weekend when she was forced to turn her attention to a less uplifting situation: her husband’s arrest in California. The details emerging from the incident were not especially flattering. The night before, May 28, Paul…
Harry Gesner, the dashing, surf-loving architect whose soaring designs celebrated California’s dramatic landscape in houses that straddled canyons, perched over beaches and cantilevered from cliffs, died on June 10 at his home in Malibu, Calif., a whorl of a place called the Sandcastle. He was 97. The cause was complications of cancer, said Casey Dolan,…
Julia Herzig, a 22-year-old from Larchmont, N.Y., has “an obsession.” It’s with taking a new kind of selfie — one that doesn’t exactly conform. In some of these selfies, Ms. Herzig’s forehead bulges across half of the frame. Her eyes are half disks, peering up at something beyond the camera. Her nose juts out. Her…
You need a strategy when the thermometer in Florence, Italy, creeps close to 100 and pedestrians hug the Renaissance buildings seeking a sliver of shade. These three gents attending the Pitti Uomo men’s wear fair — back in full force after two all-but-furloughed years — found ways not only to stay cool, but also to…