Every week my daughter divides the artwork she brings home from elementary school between what she will take to her father’s house and what will stay with me. After unloading her backpack into a big pile on the couch, she sorts through and makes her decisions. It is because of me that she lives in…
Had he not been oblivious to Ms. Adu’s crush, he might not have waited until she left Ridgeway High to tell her that he, too, wanted to be more than study buddies. “I thought she was really attractive,” he said. “I thought someone with her vivacious personality and friends all around her would never date…
Lucas Timothy McMahon had just finished seeing “The Cher Show” on Broadway in January 2019 when he was introduced to Elise Marie MacPherson at a friend’s birthday party. He was eager to talk about the performances. “I started doing some re-enactments,” he said. Ms. MacPherson, an actress who goes by Ellie, found them hilarious. Mr.…
On his first weekend living in Washington, Tyler Austin Cherry decided to go to Nellie’s Sports Bar, in the U Street Corridor, by himself. Mr. Cherry, who was a rising senior at the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2014, was spending the summer interning at the Center for American Progress in Washington, and…
The first words Gabrielle Elizabeth Garcia encountered from Joel Cullen Walkowski were: “Let’s not get to know each other better.” They weren’t directed at her, however. This was actually the headline for an essay Mr. Walkowski had written about the conundrum of love and dating that was published on June 8, 2008 in The New…
Mary Ziegler, a law professor and historian at the University of California, Davis, who has written five books on abortion in the United States, said reproductive rights groups had long had a fund-raising advantage over anti-abortion organizations, in part because the former tend to be more recognizable. “There hasn’t really been the equivalent of a…
In Carl Sagan’s classic sci-fi novel “Contact,” the first signals from alien life were famously heard at Hat Creek Radio Observatory at the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in Northern California. For an artist with a lifelong interest in science, there may not be a more ideal scenario than hobnobbing with NASA scientists at…
Crate & Barrel has introduced a housewares collection by a little-known designer and artist named Eames. Lucia Eames. Ms. Eames, who died in 2014 at 83, was the only child of the extremely well-known industrial designer Charles Eames by his first wife, Catherine Woermann. With this collection, Crate & Barrel has positioned her as a…
Reporting here from the Hot Tub Time Machine, dial set to 2010. Business analysts and those with even a passing interest in men’s wear will remember that as the year when Suit Supply became a worldwide phenomenon. It was also when, for the first time, novel technology enabled men to customize their own suits online…
Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music ‘Humility and dreams would float through the air while my sisters and I rolled our eyes. We couldn’t relate to music about Puerto Rico’s countryside.’ Growing up in Brooklyn, Sonia Pérez recalled how her father would drink beer, sit on the sofa…