The Manny Diaries
Chapter 1: This job is hard. Chapter 2: Leaving it is harder.
Julian Assange Will Marry Stella Moris in London Prison
LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges, has been granted permission to marry in London in the prison where he has been held since 2019. The news that Mr. Assange would be allowed to wed his fiancée, Stella Moris, in Belmarsh Prison was announced…
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He Wanted the Relationship More Than the Job
When Andrew Katz decided to accept a job in Washington in the summer of 2015, Marysa Greenawalt, his girlfriend of eight months, was concerned about being in a long-distance relationship. But not for herself. “I think early on, because Andrew doesn’t have a relationship history, I wasn’t sure how he would end up feeling about…
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Her Persistence Paid Off
Four years ago, Barbara Delgado received a text message from Giovanni Rivera asking who she was. “I was partying like a crazy person and had so many numbers I didn’t know who she was,” said Mr. Rivera, 40, who at the time was separated from his first wife and enjoying the bachelor life. “I met…
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Billie Eilish, Steven Spielberg and Miley Cyrus at LACMA Gala
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art drew a who’s who of Hollywood stars and artists to its 10th annual Art+Film Gala on Nov. 6; the Gucci-sponsored event honored Amy Sherald, Kehinde Wiley and Steven Spielberg. The literary world gathered at the New York Public Library’s annual gala on Nov. 8.; this year’s Library Lions…
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The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More.
Contrast that with life on the feed, where each post is a performance informed by the user’s specific and invisible perspective of a platform they don’t totally understand. Chat’s blessing and curse has always been that it’s hard to monetize talking — it would feel, much more than an ad in a feed, like interruption.…
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‘The Kiss to End All Kisses’
Elisabeth Röhm and Peter Glatzer met in 2015 at the Los Angeles home of their mutual friend, the producer Robbie Brenner. If it wasn’t an immediate love connection, there was certainly a strong like. Ms. Röhm, 48, had been talking about Yaddo, the artist’s retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Mr. Glatzer, 57, a film producer…
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What Does It Take to Build a Disaster-Proof House?
Ryan Runge, the president of Advanced Earthen Construction Technologies, who sold the couple their block-making machine, said the blocks are mold-proof and, when reinforced with rebar, earthquake-resistant. The walls are so thick that they retain heat in winter and remain cool enough in summer that air-conditioning isn’t necessary, at least on the first floor. “It’s…
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For Arab Americans, It’s Not Thanksgiving Without Hashweh
Rasha AlMahroos thinks of her Thanksgiving table and chuckles: A big turkey sits in the center, and right next to it, as if hiding under its wing, a very small chicken. “My mother-in-law cannot get used to turkey, so she always stuffs a tiny chicken with hashweh,” said Ms. AlMahroos, a lawyer who was born…
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They (Kind of) Have His Father to Thank for a First Date
For his first date with Elizabeth Comer, Dr. Denrick Kimathi Cooper Jr. had to ask his dad for a favor. “Unfortunately, I was broke, and had to ask my father for $20 for my first date with Liz,” he said. Dr. Cooper, 34, who was born in New York City and goes by his African…
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