Is it appropriate to tell a joke about body fluids while wearing Chanel? This was the question posed on Thursday evening by the comic Alison Leiby, who performed at the Comedy Cellar during the Susan Alexandra show. The candy-colored, beaded accessories brand by Susan Korn has a history of choosing unusual sites — previously she…
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“Is this technically Dumbo?” Billy McFarland asked, walking toward the East River shoreline. “It’s super cool. Are the rents here crazy too? “I never spent much time in Brooklyn, until the Brooklyn detention center,” he continued. “I was always like, ‘I’m never going to live in Brooklyn.’ Now, I think it’s kind of nice.” Mr.…
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New York Fashion Week began in earnest with a time-space collapse Friday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan. Orchestrated by Fendi and Kim Jones, its creative director, it was nominally a celebration of 25 years of its famous Baguette handbag, the loaf-shaped purse created by Silvia Venturini Fendi in 1997. Mostly, however, it…
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MONTAUK, N.Y. — Rock may be dead, but Jann Wenner is still rolling. The founder of Rolling Stone magazine always had a baby face, but he was never timid. His own mother told him he was the most difficult child she’d ever encountered. He edited stories with a red pen. He gave out roach clips…
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German Larkin had never photographed a wedding when he booked his first job, at the Palace of Versailles in May 2017. In the last year, he has taken pictures at the April wedding of the celebrity Gen Z couple Nicola Peltz and Brooklyn Beckham; the February nuptials of Edward Enninful, British Vogue’s editor in chief,…
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Creo que tengo un padecimiento que me hace creer que tengo padecimientos. Tengo que recurrir al hospital, al consultorio del médico o a Google más que la mayoría de personas. Es por eso que cuando llamé a mi esposo al trabajo una mañana para decirle que me había destrozado la rótula, me sugirió que descansara…
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As the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the country in March 2020, the family of Marc Lewitinn, their 74-year-old patriarch, urged him to stay indoors. He had survived lung cancer and a stroke that left him unable to speak, and doctors were already warning that older people with his sort of medical history were especially vulnerable…
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When Sheila Tobias finished her freshman year at Radcliffe College in 1954, her professor in a natural sciences course congratulated her on her performance. But for many years she was troubled that he had not encouraged her to take more science classes. When she finally asked him, he said that her limited science background had…
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The vibes are off in Paris, at least according to the city’s high priestess Isabel Marant. “The summer was quite joyful,” she says. “But soon, it will be not so joyful. There’s a feeling that people will struggle with the rising prices of electricity and gas and restrictions [on fuel use] happening. I’m not sure…
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