Remember how strange it was to be alone at home with your significant other 24/7 after the coronavirus first surfaced? Or how uncomfortable it was to get to know a new romantic partner with a mask on in what felt like a vacuum? More than a year into the pandemic, many couples have finally found…
The next time you go to the grocery store, consider the ordinary shopping cart as something more than a rattling basket blocking your parking space. In the 1930s, an American grocer named Sylvan Goldman invented the precursor to the modern day shopping cart, using a folding frame that was fixed on a set of wheels.…
If you want a manageable city … Topeka, Kansas For a city with a spirit of social justice and an array of cultural offerings, try Topeka. The city opened Evergy Plaza in 2020, a central hub with free Wi-Fi where people can work or enjoy a monthly concert series, complete with food trucks and pop-up…
Name: Clare Brown, a.k.a @clarabellecwb Age: 35 Location: Central Virginia Following: 176,400 followers on TikTok Content: Ms. Brown is a TikTok creator known for her short, comedic skits acting out microaggressions against white people — or, in her words, “European Americans.” Those include but are not limited to: people commenting incessantly on a young girl’s…
Joy Morrow-Nulton keeps a diary, but she doesn’t need it to remember the date of her first lunch with John Shults Jr. in upstate New York. “It was May 14, 2019, and the restaurant was A Slice of Italy,” Ms. Morrow-Nulton, 95, said. The specifics of their conversation mostly escape her because she was bored.…
As she dressed for her 26th birthday recently, Cleo Pac Monrose focused on making a statement. Ms. Monrose, a podcast marketer for Spotify, flicked the dust off her party clothes and the high-heeled lavender pumps she had been hoarding since just before lockdown. Slipping the shoes on, she felt unsteady at first. “It was like…
Picture this: It’s early March 2020. You’re in the 187th row (it’s all you could afford, but you’re just happy to be there) at the first stop of Billie Eilish’s world tour. You’re wearing a vintage *NSync tee celebrating the anniversary of their pop classic No Strings Attached. Your best friend is beside you, wearing…
“Hold on! Hold on tight!” It was a hot afternoon in Olinda, a coastal city in northeast Brazil, and Marlon da Silva Santos, the leader of a group called Loucos do Surf, or the Crazy Surfers, was shouting from the rooftop of a speeding bus. I grasped at an edge of the roof with one…
La mañana de mi graduación de la secundaria, un collar de perlas hizo un sonido como el de una maraca cuando lo saqué de la caja. Su nota decía: “Al parecer, en mi familia existía la tradición de regalarles un collar de perlas a las mujeres para celebrar su graduación de la secundaria. Pues, bien,…
Esta transparencia se extiende a otras estrellas de la telerrealidad, dijo Sarwer. Las mujeres de los programas The Real Housewives se han sometido a todo tipo de intervenciones, desde rellenos de labios hasta rejuvenecimiento vaginal. Parte del nuevo despliegue de mejoras estéticas tiene que ver con el estatus: cuando te haces rellenos faciales como las…