As a stand-up comic, Aparna Nancherla is a master deadpan artist. Onstage she plays the role of the shrugging neurotic, dryly poking fun at her own shortcomings, surreal ideas and life’s grim absurdity. In the past three years, she’s also parlayed her comedic talent into a lively acting and writing career, appearing in comedies on…
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Image Matt Mullenweg just loves blogs.CreditPascal Lauener/Reuters Tumblr was sold this month, reportedly for a bargain-basement price, to Automattic, the parent company of WordPress. This was exciting news to Tumblr users, whose platform could be called the last bastion of a friendly social internet. As the big networks have become dangerously bigger, nostalgia for the…
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Ann Gish Phillips, a bedding and textiles designer whose luxury home goods company sold more than 1,500 products in stores around the globe, died on Aug. 2 at her home in North Salem, N.Y. She was 70. Her daughter, Jane Gish, said the cause was lung cancer. Mrs. Gish Phillips started her brand with a…
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WASHINGTON — Sixteen states have now reported 153 cases of serious, vaping-related respiratory illnesses in the past two months, and many of the patients are teenagers or young adults. In a statement on Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that all of the cases occurred in people who acknowledged vaping either nicotine…
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Image CreditMolly Matalon for The New York Times Chloë Sevigny, the art house queen and fashion muse, has been justly acclaimed for her nuanced and wide-ranging performances — most memorably, perhaps, the contemporary polygamist in “Big Love,” the party girl in “The Last Days of Disco” and the perky secretary in “American Psycho.” Probably it’s…
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If you’re on Instagram, then you’ve probably heard the news about Instagram. “Don’t forget tomorrow starts the new Instagram rule where they can use your photos,” the blurry image-text reads. “Don’t forget Deadline today!!! It can be used in court cases in litigation against you.” Luckily, “it” can be stopped, in accordance with specific laws,…
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher Leah Keith’s relationship with Dude was not an obvious one. Luckily, neither she nor Dude liked the obvious. On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the actress Marsha Stephanie Blake reads Ms. Keith’s surprising essay, “Despite the…
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For two years, Robin McCrear wondered what happened to the last video footage her son recorded before he died. Her son, Richard Lee Ragland III, 22, drowned in June 2017 near a waterfall in Foster Falls State Park in Tennessee, she said. It was a devastating loss for Ms. McCrear, 51, who described her son…
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