Christian VierigGetty Images When it comes time to refresh your wardrobe for the season, it can be tough to tell which pieces are worth the investment. There’s nothing worse than splurging on an item that ends up spending most of its time in your closet. Sure, turning to the tried and true fashion classics is…
Dana Bowen and her husband, Lindsay Bowen, both 49, initially had been looking to buy a roomy outpost away from New York City that could double as a vacation rental. The couple have a Brooklyn apartment, and a small house in the quaint village of Athens, in Greene County, and habitually scouted Catskill and Hudson…
Valerie Persinger and Michael Webster were targets of an unlikely matchmaking pair: her sister and his former boss, who happened to be married to one another. Ms. Persinger, 33, and Mr. Webster, 34, first met in August 2017. Mr. Webster, a captain in the Air Force at the time, was attached to a Navy Squadron…
Ms. Newman, a two-time Tony Award-winning actress, singer and women’s health advocate, had lived in the apartment with her husband, Adolph Green, a playwright and lyricist who shared in seven Tonys. He died in 2002. The couple raised their two children there and played host to a long list of showbiz friends. The unit, which…
Ms. Prendergast now lives in Shelton, Conn., and is the chief executive of White Rose Home Care Agency in Bridgeport. She founded the company, which provides care for the elderly and disabled throughout Connecticut, in 2014, after working as a financial administrator in the oncology department at Norwalk Hospital. She started with a handful of…
Tiana Ehinome Idoni-Matthews, who lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, connected with Nathaniel Wagner Koppel, who lived in Woodside, Queens, on the dating app JSwipe in January 2017 after she extended her Manhattan-centric dating radius from five to 25 miles. A few weeks earlier, a dating coach had advised that “expanding filters can be refreshing”…
Ms. Siegle graduated from Wesleyan University and received a master’s degree in sociology and education from Columbia, where Mr. Cephus is about to begin his junior year, double majoring in computer science and sustainable development. He had attended St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens, for two years after high school, but couldn’t afford to continue…
Natalie Rose Dicker ran out to greet Max Elliot Fruchter with a friendly hug in July 2019 as he walked up the path to her parents’ front door in Great Neck, N.Y., for their first date. One of her sisters and her sister’s friend, a longtime friend of Mr. Fruchter, agreed they went well together,…
In a scene from “Saturday Night Live,” the English actor Daniel Craig stares into the camera and flops his arms halfheartedly, as if he meant to raise them above his head but got tired halfway. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Weeknd,” he says, announcing the episode’s musical guest: the Canadian pop star Abel Tesfaye. The studio…
There was a moment, starting on Jan. 20, 2021, as the 23-year-old poet Amanda Gorman stood on the steps of the Capitol in her sunny yellow coat, reading her work “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration, when the viewing country seemed to go into a collective swoon. The wooing and offers rained down…