In September 2018, participants in a Yom Kippur meditation began to arrive in front of the Turtle Pond in Central Park. Daniel Bloch Jeydel introduced himself to Danielle Casey Bloch. “She had curls in her hair and big blue eyes, she was incredibly beautiful,” said Mr. Jeydel, 32, a graduate of N.Y.U. and the founder…
Chris Baker was with a group of friends at a nightclub in Hollywood, Calif., over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2013, when he spotted John Federspiel smiling at him from across a crowded dance floor. But because of the venue — which was not a gay bar — he was unsure how to interpret the overture.…
For their first date five years ago, Ben Lee took Kerrie Knox for a ride in his 1947 Beechcraft B35 Bonanza, flying in and out of a tiny airstrip near where she was living in Cleveland, Tenn. “One of the first things I noticed about Kerrie was just the excitement.” he said. “There was no…
“It feels good,” the actor Penn Badgley said on a recent Friday morning, in an echoing studio at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn. “I’m clumsy as hell. But it feels good.” Mr. Badgley, 34, who played lonely boy Dan on the original “Gossip Girl” and now stars on the Netflix thriller “You,” hadn’t…
A postgraduate summer fling with Jurema Gobena, in New Haven, Conn., in 2016, just wasn’t enough for Enyi Okebugwu. “The final conversation we had before leaving was, ‘This is a natural end, this is great,’” said Mr. Okebugwu, 30. But, he said, “It did not feel good at all. On my end, I thought, let…
When Meghan Louttit first contacted Joseph Iervolino on the dating app OkCupid in November 2015, he was sitting in a plane on a tarmac at Newark airport, bound for Thailand. Ms. Louttit was impressed. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, here’s someone with a nice smile who likes to travel and seems very adventurous,’” she said.…
Jamie Antoinette Cooke and Dr. Joshua Ryan Zeiger figured they had been to at least 20 of the same social events while at Georgetown, starting with a welcome party in their freshman year. “We knew each other from afar,” said Dr. Zeiger, 31, who was reintroduced to her in June 2014, two years after they…
I am the third-generation owner of a family business. The company is struggling now, and I can no longer afford to pay my parents who stopped working 11 years ago but still draw paychecks. Though the company has no legal obligation to pay them, my dad is threatening litigation. I made them an offer that…
Provenance: Houston, Texas Current base: Philadelphia and Brooklyn @caycee_black What first made you fall in love with fashion? As a kid I would sit for hours and watch old musicals and films—I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. I loved the way everyone had a full head-to-toe look and it transformed them in each…
The strength of any great fall wardrobe finds its roots in strong silhouettes, clean lines, and a distinctive point of view with the changing seasons. Zara is ringing in the cooler months with its Studio Collection for fall/winter 2021. Twice yearly, the retailer releases the elevated range created in collaboration with stylist Karl Templer to…