When a mutual friend told Krishna Kant that Anne Kim needed help understanding cloud infrastructure, she was actually being sly. “Our mutual friend knew that if she tried to set me up with anyone, I would have simply not gone along with it,” said Mr. Kant, 45, a senior network engineer in Los Angeles for…
Andrew Todd Eddins walked into an L.G.B.T.Q. tennis party in November 2003 in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, with some trepidation, or as he put it: “I was like a deer in headlights in tennis gear.” A week earlier a friend had called him out of the blue saying he had signed them up for…
Timah Kabba had to brace herself on her first date with Gaby Núñez Santiago at Lord Hobo, a restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., in May 2018. “I don’t really catch feelings,” she said. “Definitely not in the beginning. But the light in there was really good, and when we sat down across from each other I…
On a July day in 2011, Lacey Marie Cunningham was sitting in Harbor Perk Coffee Shop in Ashtabula, Ohio, when she noticed a new barista. Ms. Cunningham was a regular at Harbor Perk, where she would often read and study. She had recently graduated from Warren Wilson College outside of Asheville, N.C., and was back…
It can take a while to determine the victor in a presidential election. But one winner was abundantly clear on Election Day. Drugs, once thought to be the scourge of a healthy society, are getting public recognition as a part of American life. Where drugs were on the ballot on Tuesday, they won handily. New…
As with so many things, the pandemic has altered the way we see color, and specifically, what colors we do — and do not — want to surround ourselves with while bunkered down at home. Some color trends have accelerated during the pandemic. Other long-popular shades are suddenly all wrong. “There is a huge wave…
It can take a while to determine the victor in a presidential election. But one winner was abundantly clear on Election Day. Drugs, once thought to be the scourge of a healthy society, are getting public recognition as a part of American life. Where drugs were on the ballot on Tuesday, they won handily. New…
Courtesy of the subjects.Getty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. I voted as I did so many things this year—in sweatpants. The convenience of the absentee ballot may take a little of the glamour out of the voting process, but it hasn’t divorced the process from…
When Marylin Bender was the Sunday business editor of The New York Times in the 1970s, she was one of only a handful of women with any editing clout in the newsroom. Hers was “hardly an elevated post,” she said later in an oral history, but as the boss of her section, she was outraged…
My new boss started working at the company in August amid the pandemic. He has an office with a door that shuts; I work at an open cubicle in a high-traffic area. Our employer has told us repeatedly to work remotely whenever possible. But my boss has been in the office every day since he…