The Year in Limbo

If you managed to stay up late, you probably already knew: The very first moments of 2021 arrived with weird vibes. New York’s traditional New Year’s Eve celebration was uncharacteristically muted. No sloppy kissing crowds jammed into Times Square, no messy bar crawls through the streets. As the year ticked on, we had no boners…

The Biggest Celebrities of 2021

For centuries, the stars have been used as a guide, their shimmering specks in the sky leading the way through darkness. They have been imbued with subjective meaning and held up as a mirror for the human condition. Celebrities, the stars of the earthly realm, have played a not-so-different role: We look to them as…

Unconventional Wedding Venues Are in Demand

Drive-In Movie Theaters In 2016, Four Brothers Drive-In, and its adjacent restaurant in Amenia, N.Y., in Dutchess County, added weddings to their offerings. John Stefanopoulos, an owner of Four Brothers, along with the nearby Millerton Inn, in Millerton, N.Y., said bookings have only increased since the start of the pandemic. “Once Covid happened, people went…

Love Letter: An Unspoken Gesture of Love

Ross Showalter, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, who is deaf, spent the last nine years disappointed by suitors who promised to learn sign language but never followed through. That all changed when he met Will, a man that not only made learning sign language a priority, but also helped Mr. Showalter discover…

Did You See What Big Bird Tweeted?

Ted Cruz fighting with Big Bird on Twitter was not on our 2021 Bingo card. Yet the Texas senator’s tweet, calling the “Sesame Street” character’s November announcement about getting the Covid-19 vaccine “Government propaganda…for your 5 year old” provided a clear example of a contemporary phenomenon: It’s getting harder for people to distinguish real-life characters…