I love shopping online with the best of them—it’s my preferred method of hunting—yet there’s no denying you lose something when you can’t touch and feel. It’s kind of like real estate, where great photography and styling can go a long way to gussying up something that’s subpar. The shopping trick that I’m surprised more…
Marissa Meizz, 23, was out to dinner with a friend in the East Village in mid-May when her phone started buzzing. She tried to silence it, but the texts kept coming. They all wanted to know: Had she seen the TikTok video? She clicked the link and a young man appeared onscreen. “If your name’s…
Le supliqué que dejara de preocuparse y prestara atención. Cuando le expliqué la situación a mi terapeuta, me recomendó que viéramos a alguien especializado en el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, o TOC, del que Mike y yo sabíamos poco. Más bien, pensábamos que lo conocíamos, pero lo que imaginábamos era la versión cinematográfica: lavarse las manos con…
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — “My studio out here isn’t quite as set up for photography as my place in the city,” the artist Cindy Sherman said before the 90th-anniversary gala for Guild Hall. The multidisciplinary arts institution in East Hampton is where a newbie painter named Jackson Pollock once showed his radical drip paintings, and…
Mr. Maxey, 33, started posting online because, at the time, he didn’t see any Black people on the internet signing, especially doing interpretations of songs he liked by artists such as J. Cole, Mac Miller and Big Sean. “I was trying to expose the deaf community to my culture as a Black man from the…
For much of this summer, Dylan Fogarty, 28, the director of academic partnerships for an education start-up, has been having a blast in Fire Island Pines: hosting pool parties at his four-bedroom house, making new friends at the Low Tea bar, and dancing at the Pavilion club till dawn to pop songs by Lady Gaga…
Last fall, Randi Hipper decided to, as she put it recently, “go in-depth with the crypto space.” After hearing about NFTs on Twitter and other social media platforms, Ms. Hipper, then a 17-year-old senior at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, began releasing her own digital artworks — cartoonish and self-referential pieces showing her cruising in…
“This might be the start of Kit Harington’s romantic comedy career,” Daniel Jones, the editor of Modern Love, said to me recently, only half joking. Though Mr. Harington may be better known for playing Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones,” viewers can now see him play an affable Irishman who is smitten with a woman…
Daily Business Briefing Updated Aug. 12, 2021, 4:26 p.m. ET When to Clap Back I am a staff member at a predominantly white institution. The other week my colleague asked me to welcome a new employee to our university even though we’re working remotely and I do not work with this new person’s team. This…
Ashley Psirogianes, a 26-year-old who works in fashion marketing, is a big “Sex and the City” fan. “I’ve been watching it a lot during lockdown,” she said. “I rewatched all the old episodes.” So on a Tuesday morning in July, during an ordinary coffee run to Starbucks, she was surprised, thrilled even, to run into…