In the relentlessly on-demand world of livestream gaming, few are as in demand as the YouTube creator Valkyrae. Last month, over 650,000 fans viewed her playing the space-cartoon multiplayer game Among Us. A few days earlier, she starred as the blood-spitting heroine in Machine Gun Kelly’s new horror-tinged music video, “Day Walker.” Valkyrae, who goes…
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Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Welcome. What constitutes a return to “normal” life? Is it when schools and offices are open consistently? When we’ve reached herd immunity? When we no longer wear masks in the supermarket? On planes? (Will we ever not wear masks in stores and…
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Over the course of the pandemic, some of the most dangerous activities were those many Americans dearly missed: scarfing up nachos, canoodling with a date or yelling sports scores at a group of friends at a crowded, sticky bar inside a restaurant. Now, as more states loosen restrictions on indoor dining and expand access to…
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April is National Poetry Month, and we want to celebrate with your verse. The Morning newsletter will be hosting a live event for Times subscribers on April 15 with the best-selling poet Rupi Kaur. Ms. Kaur will be talking about poetry and reading some poems submitted by Times readers. (We may also feature them on…
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Fendi’s new direction under Kim Jones is one of classic British elegance infused with traditional Italian craftsmanship. Launching today, the famed atelier is releasing an exclusive capsule based on Jones’ spring-summer 2021 couture collection, his very first show for the house. Neither couture nor ready-to-wear, this limited-edition capsule presents ideas from his debut runway in…
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The joint international and Chinese mission organized by the World Health Organization on the origins of Covid released its report last week suggesting that for almost every topic it covered, more study was needed. What kind of study and who will do it is the question. The report suggested pursuing multiple lines of inquiry, focused…
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March is a strange time of year. It heralds the arrival of spring, but some of us are not out of winter’s icy grip just yet. The New York Times Food team cooked accordingly. While we still turned to hearty meals — seafood stews, a big pot of beans and birthday baked ziti — we…
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Four Bedrooms in a Converted Water Tower in Sweden $2.2 MILLION (19.7 MILLION SWEDISH KRONA) This four-bedroom home is a converted, 108-foot water tower on Vaxon, an island in the Stockholm Archipelago, about 35 minutes east of central Stockholm, Sweden’s capital. The brick tower was built in 1923 on one of the highest points in…
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The irony has always troubled Raafi Rivero. “People love Black athletes,” he said. “But they don’t love Black people.” In July 2013, it resonated anew for Rivero, a lifelong sports fan, when George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin, the same weekend Rivero saw the film “Fruitvale Station,” about the…
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They appear spontaneously, or so it seems, popping up out of the mulch, rising in a single spot on the lawn or bursting from between the pathway pavers like little marshmallows. But there is an intricate master plan at work, just not one to which most gardeners are privy. What are the mushrooms in our…
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