On Christmas Eve in 2013, Elisa Stead, an American living abroad in Iceland, was ready to celebrate the holiday with her fiancé and his family. But when she tore open the wrapping on his gift for her, she was disheartened to discover what lay inside: a car-window scraper. Sure, she lived in a frosty place,…
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There is a strange thing happening on gift lists this year. Among all the digital items, bound datebooks, diaries and notebooks are making a comeback. As a bit of proof: Liberty, the luxury department store in London that has a roomful of datebooks and notebooks on an upper floor as well as online sales, has…
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Michael Eric Repper’s history of unflagging devotion to a narrow set of passions dates back to the early 1990s when, as a 3-year-old, he snapped to attention the moment the orchestra kicked in at a classical music concert. By the time he had reached his early 20s, another of his select few passions was consuming…
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Before Travis Kenneth London fell in love with Bruce Douglas Patrick, he had blocked his number. After matching on the dating app Tinder, they had their first date in December 2021 at Via Emilia 9, an Italian restaurant in Miami Beach. “It was an instant spark for me,” said Mr. London, 35, recalling Mr. Patrick’s…
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Trevor Jovan Bates knew Shahnaz Singh-Kandah would be his wife even before he asked her out. “I heard the Holy Spirit say Shahnaz is your wife, and I heard it very clearly,” he said. Mr. Bates and Ms. Singh-Kandah, who became friends after meeting at the church they both attend, were at a worship event…
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Jamie Leigh Kalman was looking for someone who could eat and breathe fire for an upcoming event she was producing in Pensacola, Fla. So she reached out to Aubrey Nicole DePew, who had precisely those skills, on Instagram. On Feb. 22, 2020, Ms. Kalman, a drag king, D.J. and fire performer herself, who was living…
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On Monday night, about 500 people gathered in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of Manhattan for the fourth-annual gala for the Shed, the $475 million arts center that opened in 2019. It has since hosted a concert series by the director Steve McQueen and Quincy Jones and is currently staging Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, “Here We…
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For seemingly the first time in recent memory, a celebrity’s old social media posts have been resurfaced — and not because they were racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic or otherwise offensive. This week, Taylor Swift fans dug up the old social media posts of Travis Kelce. But his musings on X, the social media site formerly…
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Regulators in Britain on Thursday approved the first treatment derived from CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing method. Called Casgevy, the treatment is intended to cure sickle-cell disease and a related condition, beta thalassemia. The manufacturers, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, based in Boston, and CRISPR Therapeutics, based in Switzerland, say about 2,000 patients in Britain with sickle-cell disease or…
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We’re one week out from Thanksgiving, and you need showstopping sides (read to the very end for rapid-fire recipes) and meatless mains and dairy-free desserts, and you need them stat. So let’s not waste a moment of time. This … is Recipe Matchmaker. Replacing the Turkey “I am looking for a stand-in main dish to…
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