Remember the Skunk Sometimes, when I hate my husband, I think about our place in Boston and the night a skunk fell into the basement window well outside of our bedroom. “That’s not a kitten,” John said when I woke him. He went to the rescue anyway, out into the rain and the darkness with…
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STREET STYLE Keeping calm and carrying on. Photographs and Text by Simbarashe Cha Produced by Sophie Butcher A sense of uncertainty hung over London Fashion Week in the days leading up to the shows. Queen Elizabeth II had died just one week earlier, and with a national period of mourning in place, it was unclear…
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There were actually two queues the day before the Queen’s funeral in London. The first was the main one, the queue with a capital Q, where Brits (including David Beckham) stood for 12 hours to walk by a coffin that—according to every seasoned cab driver I had—was actually empty. (“Her Majesty’s corpse is already resting…
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Inside one of the elegant pavilions known in Istanbul as a kasir, the clamor and chaos of big city life recedes. The noise of car horns and shouting vendors is replaced by near silence. Listen carefully for the imagined whisper of silk rustling in the breeze or the echo of a once vital conversation abruptly…
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ANCHORAGE — After a middle-aged woman tested positive for Covid-19 in January at her workplace in Fairbanks, public health workers sought answers to questions vital to understanding how the virus was spreading in Alaska’s rugged interior. The woman, they learned, had underlying conditions and had not been vaccinated. She had been hospitalized but had recovered.…
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I WAS EATING French fries at the Odeon when I noticed that a server had begun to repeatedly check in. “Oh,” I realized, “she needs the table back.” It was 6:22 p.m. The restaurant was full. Once, 11:40 p.m. had been “a little too early for Odeon,” according to “Bright Lights, Big City,” Jay McInerney’s…
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LONDON — On Sunday night — the eve of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II — the queue of people waiting to pay their last respects to the late monarch stretched so far through the heart of the British capital that it could be seen from space. Across town, at 8 p.m. and as a…
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When Amanda Brezing began looking for a summer house in the Hamptons in 2017, she encountered a common problem. “Things seemed kind of expensive, and nothing was really what I wanted,” said Ms. Brezing, 36, who works in finance in Manhattan. “So I decided to look at land.” Hiring an architect to design a house…
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You don’t need a ton of ingredients for a meal that sings. The recipes featured here are marvels of resourcefulness, offering enormous flavor in little time and with seven ingredients or fewer (minus those kitchen stalwarts salt, pepper and oil). We draw the line at seven rather than five or even three (like those buzzy…
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It’s Never Too Late is a series about people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own terms. There are people who dream of directing a play or a movie. The director Tom Moore has done both. But he has always dreamed of “flying.” “It was a childhood fantasy,” said Mr. Moore, 79, a…
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