MIDWEST MODERN Clean lines and earthy hues lend a warm, retro air to design classics. Courtesy MIAMI ART DECO Sherbet-hued resortwear, translucent extras, and glass cocktail accoutrements are all you need for warm-weather getaway vibes. Courtesy FRENCH BAROQUE From dinnerware to, yes, even a stroller, a little gilding (and champagne) can go a long way…
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Dinner parties, real or imagined, have long been a highly reliable source of drama: Whether joyful, combative, filled with laughter or dread, they offer filmmakers, playwrights and novelists a chance to explore what happens when characters who’ve known one another their whole lives — or who only just met — face off across a table.…
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Brandon Kyle Goodman never knew his father, but he did know his Uncle Ronnie. Uncle Ronnie was Brandon’s godfather, originally his mom’s college bestie — and essentially, her sibling. Uncle Ronnie owned a hair salon, used words like “fabulous” and “honey” and was “the only person who never questioned my effeminate nature,” Brandon said. But…
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. She has a seemingly endless, trousseau-like wardrobe; an affinity for matching sets that is unrivaled even by 1989-era Taylor Swift, an aperitivo permanently welded to her hand, and a travel adapter on her Dyson AirWrap. Daphne Sullivan, the object of everyone’s…
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For most kugel lovers, the very best version is whatever you grew up eating. Whether you were raised on savory, schmaltz-laden potato kugel or sour cream-slathered noodle kugel dotted with raisins, there’s very little crossover where kugel is concerned. This recipe is for all the sweet noodle kugel enthusiasts out there. A mix of wide…
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What book reveals a Kingston that Kingstonians don’t know? Kerry Young’s “Pao.” Don’t be surprised if you didn’t know that Kingston once had a Chinatown: Chances are your Jamaican friends have never heard of it either. In the mid-1800s, hundreds of Chinese immigrants were shipped to Jamaica to make up for the post-emancipation labor shortage,…
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Former President Barack Obama and the Disney chief executive Robert A. Iger were the marquee speakers at an event on Tuesday commemorating the 10th anniversary of the shooting that took the lives of 20 first graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Organized by Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit…
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The People’s Choice Awards is the only major awards show in which the prizes are decided by online votes from the public — and the categories cover everything from TV shows to talk show hosts and podcasts to social celebrities. Something of a curtain raiser for the Hollywood awards season, its red (or in this…
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Whatever you call it, the centerpiece of this winter menu — a slow-cooked dish of lamb and beans — is not fast food. In one pot, you’ll simmer lamb shanks to obtain succulent meat and a savory broth. In another, you’ll cook beans. Then, you’ll combine them and bake them twice. If you take your…
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This past weekend, I spent a fantastic afternoon with 60 high-spirited grade-schoolers — most under the age of 7 — at a holiday kickoff party to benefit the charity God’s Love We Deliver. There was guacamole making, cookie decorating and fruit tart assembling. Kids ricocheted from one activity to the next in crayon-colored aprons, like…
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