When Mariama Rose Diallo and Benjamin Gerrish Dickinson, both screenwriters and directors, met in July 2018 at a Brooklyn bar, they became locked in a deep conversation. Ms. Diallo said she became so intrigued that she thought about “how close I had come to upending my life by running off with a handsome stranger.” That…
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StreetstyleshootersGetty Images Amazon has spent the last five years building their fashion platform exponentially. They’ve brought established and emerging brands on-board to Luxury Stores at Amazon and created in-house labels like Wild Meadow, Mae, Core 10, and more. But just like trying to search the massive platform for the best of what feels like three…
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PROVO, Utah — Five days a week, in a small beige room in a plain office building here, couples all over the world are granted a golden ticket: the ability to reunite after being separated by Covid-19 travel restrictions, in some cases for more than a year and a half. And to get it, they…
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LaVonne Borsheim’s family could not understand why she was suffering such intense pain. Ms. Borsheim, 86, had long contended with rheumatoid arthritis and other health problems, including hip and knee replacements and heart failure. Her husband, Roger, cared for her in their small house in suburban Minneapolis, meticulously administering the prescribed daily OxyContin and oxycodone…
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It all started with a headshot. Benjamin Bratcher saw Victoria Lee’s photo when he was a junior and she was an incoming freshman at Abilene Christian University, in Texas. Both theater majors, they met at a department party in August of 2013. “He struck up a conversation with me,” Ms. Lee said. “I was instantly…
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“The people who liked piecing trips together and exploring the unknown are approaching travel a little less adventurously,” said Melissa Wu, the owner of Woodlyn Travel, a travel agency in Pasadena, Calif. “Covid numbers are unpredictable; countries keep changing their entry requirements. And people are just tired: They’re worried about their health, their kids, their…
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Nineteen minutes into the film “Zola,” the actress TS Madison delivers a devotion that becomes a kind of mantra for the rest of the film. “Dear heavenly father, we come to you thanking you today for all the bounties that you’ve bestowed upon us, Jesus,” her character, a stripper named Hollywood, recites with her head…
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‘Move Fast and Vape Things’ Producer/Director John PappasReporter/Producer Sheila KaplanReporter Julie Creswell Watch on Friday, Sept. 17, at 10 p.m. on FX, and stream it on Hulu. Adam Bowen and James Monsees, by their own telling, set out to improve the lives of a billion people by getting them off cigarettes. But somewhere on the…
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Don Allison has been restoring an 1835 house in northwest Ohio for 15 years. Mr. Allison, who was a daily newspaper editor, has spent time digging into the house’s history. He looked through area library files, read local history books and poured through county tax and property records. Along the way, he learned that his…
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The first time a real estate agent took Ian Stewart to see the old saltbox farmhouse on a rocky hillside in Ghent, N.Y., he knew he wanted to buy it. “It got its hooks into me. I loved it. It had a warmth to it,” Mr. Stewart said. One question continued to nag at him…
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