Why We Keep Rewatching ‘Gilmore Girls’

Some things have inexplicable staying power. The Hermès Birkin bag. Cheetos. Crocs. And for nostalgic millennials, there is “Gilmore Girls.” The show ended its seven-year run on the WB and CW networks in 2007, yet viewers keep returning to the familiar comfort of the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Conn., where the series was set.…

The Rise of the Mended Haul

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Social media can sometimes feel like an endless Lucy-at-the-chocolate-factory procession of multicolored Stanley cups, mini Uggs, and assorted plastic doodads clogging our feeds. But when Mandy Lee posts a haul video, it doesn’t consist of her opening endless Shein packages. Instead,…