Even in the context of the current pantsless trend prevalent on the runway and in some celebrity circles, as well as the vogue for thematic dressing at movie openings, Kristen Stewart’s looks during her press tour for “Love Lies Bleeding” have stood out. Rarely has an actress been so unapologetically, gloriously undressed. Ms. Stewart and…
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Even in the context of the current pantsless trend prevalent on the runway and in some celebrity circles, as well as the vogue for thematic dressing at movie openings, Kristen Stewart’s looks during her press tour for “Love Lies Bleeding” have stood out. Rarely has an actress been so unapologetically, gloriously undressed. Ms. Stewart and…
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The poet Emily Dickinson was an avid baker, and, on the back of a recipe card for coconut cake, she wrote these opening lines: The Things that never can come back, are several —Childhood — some forms of Hope — the Dead — But while her gifts as a poet are clear here, she expresses…
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Brussels, long the realm of stuffy French restaurants packed with gray-flannel-suited diplomats, has suddenly gone bold and bright. Thanks to a crop of young chefs with iconoclastic ideas about flavor and sustainability, the city, in thrall to the rich sauces of Gaul for nearly two centuries, has emerged as one of the most exciting, and…
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“Buy, buy, buy,” a bargoer shouted just after 6:30 on a recent Wednesday evening. He grabbed two shot glasses, vodka sluicing over his hands. The 411, a pub in London, usually sells about £3,000 worth of drinks (about $3,800) on a weeknight. But on another recent Wednesday, it brought in £18,300 — more than $23,000…
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Detrás de la puerta cerrada de mi armario se esconde un mundo de posibilidades. Denme unas horas para limpiarlo, y quizá finalmente me convierta en una persona que tiene un guardarropa con prendas elegantes y coordinadas en tonos neutros, en vez de alguien con cuatro distintos cuellos de tortuga negros que odio por cuatro razones…
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Margaret Grade, a California neuropsychologist who made a sharp career turn to open a cozy, eclectic inn near the Point Reyes National Seashore that was known for tending to farmers and fishers with the same attentiveness it gave to the film stars and writers who sought sanctuary there, died on Feb. 28 in San Francisco.…
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Good morning. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all those who celebrate. I like corned beef and cabbage myself for the holiday — Irish American food to ship up to Boston with, soda bread on the side. But I get it if that’s not in the cards, either for reasons of memory (the dank, humid scent…
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Two days after the finale of HBO’s “True Detective: Night Country,” Kali Reis was rolling hand wraps, alone, inside a training center on a farm in northern New Jersey. Before she was ever cast in the anthology series as Evangeline Navarro, a steely Alaska state trooper; before she walked red carpets in London, Paris and…
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The last time Phoebe Philo, who has been called “the Chanel of her generation,” gave a formal interview was a decade ago. The designer, whose work offered women respite from the limits of the male gaze, has never been all that interested in explaining herself. “I say most of what I feel, and most of…
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