When Bobby Johnston and Ruth Mandl found the townhouse they wanted to buy in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it had just one glaringly obvious problem: It was too nice. “We were originally looking for something that was pretty dilapidated,” Ms. Mandl said. “And this one looked a lot more pristine than we thought we wanted.” Mr. Johnston,…
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I am the daughter of a “holiday man,” a term my grandmother used to describe three generations of our family’s absentee fathers who, like clockwork, would return around Christmas before disappearing again to whereabouts unknown. Back when I was coming-of-age and grappling with the absence of my own father, my grandfather, a former holiday man,…
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Costume company Yandy is notorious for turning objectively un-hot people, ideas and things into sexy Halloween outfits. They’ve also been known to ruffle a few feathers in the process—last year, social media backlash led to the recall of their horned up take on Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale. Past Yandy costumes have included a Sexy Freddy Kreuger…
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Provincetown, Mass., the artsy beach town on the frothy final wisp of Cape Cod, swells with sandy-toed visitors in the peak summer months. With autumn upon us, the crowds have all but disappeared. But John Derian, the New York City-based designer and home goods retailer, says he loves this time of year in P-town. Since…
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Penny Yim-Barbieri, 47, a freelance translator based in Las Vegas, didn’t have the Cook Islands on her travel radar when she got an email alert from Scott’s Cheap Flights about round-trip tickets to Rarotonga from Los Angeles at $495. She and her husband jumped on the deal and soon found themselves scuba diving in the…
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TRALEE, Ireland — Ask about the Rose of Tralee International Festival, held each year in this west coast town in County Kerry, and participants will immediately tell you what it’s not. It’s not a beauty pageant. Also, it’s not a competition. Then things get complicated. Because to the uninitiated, the event, held this year in…
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My brother Roland’s Facebook post set off a flurry of concern throughout his social network. He’d been assaulted, he wrote, by “old-world mentality Agent Smiths who are threatening our ability to bring natural plant-based Medicine and intelligent health care to the world.” In caps, he told his followers to ALERT THE PRESS AND BRING SIGNS…
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ImagePeachgate?CreditShutterstock What’s going on: But, in more recent developments, others haven’t ventured a name. “There’s a new thing, and it might be the thing,” Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, he aired almost 11 minutes of very detailed explanation of the events that preceded Nancy Pelosi’s announcement. What he did not include was…
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On Mother’s Day, I lay sprawled across a bed on the top floor of a riad in the middle of a medina in Morocco, trying desperately to remember where I’d woken up that morning. I couldn’t recall the room or the building where I’d been less than 12 hours earlier, but more distressingly, I couldn’t…
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