Lanna Semel and Eugene Hertzberg were married Sept. 14 at the Harmonie Club, a private social club in New York. Rabbi Nicole Auerbach officiated. Mrs. Hertzberg, 35, is a senior associate at Gensler, a global design and architecture firm in New York. From 2005 to 2007 she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the…
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Hannah Chang Kim and James Stephen McGarry were married Sept. 14 at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, Calif. Sanford Marshall, a minister ordained by First Nations Church and Ministry, officiated. The bride, who is 31 and works in San Francisco, is a lawyer specializing in eviction defense with Legal Assistance to the…
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Louise Catesby Denny and Kevin Thomas Considine were married Sept. 14 at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York. The Rt. Rev. J. Clark Grew II, the retired Episcopal bishop of Ohio, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Matthew F. Heyd, an Episcopal priest, and the Rev. Brian G. Konzman, a Roman Catholic…
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Katherine Inez Guzik and Matthew John Lovett were married Sept. 14 at Gran Electrica, a restaurant in Brooklyn. Nicole Cushman, a friend of the couple who was ordained as a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Ms. Guzik, 32, is the strategic consultant leading organizational development for Haven Life, the start-up arm of MassMutual.…
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Page Shaw Goolrick and Mark Roland Ernst were married Sept. 14 at the Quinipet Camp and Retreat Center on Shelter Island, N.Y. Dr. Peter E. Gergely, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The couple met at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, from which each received a…
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El Espace is a column dedicated to news and culture relevant to Latinx communities. Expect politics, arts, analysis, personal essays and more. ¿Lo mejor? It’ll be in Spanish and English, so you can forward it to your tía, your primo Lalo or anyone else (read: everyone). It’s almost Sept. 15, which means any day now…
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Not long ago Erin Wexstten, the 35-year-old founder of Oxalis Apothecary, a plant-based skin care brand, ticked off all the ways she uses lavender in her life. “I personally have lavender everywhere,” she said. “Hand soap, dish soap. I have sachets you stick in the drawer. It makes the underwear smell nice. Dried bunches. They…
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Scarcely five weeks before a landmark federal civil trial in the opioid epidemic, the giant retail pharmacy chains and drug distributors that are defendants in the bellwether Ohio case are seeking to disqualify the judge from overseeing it and nearly 2,300 other opioid-related lawsuits before him. In a brief filed in federal court at 1:24…
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At a time when conservative states are sharply limiting abortion access, California signaled a new frontier in abortion-rights on Friday with the passage of legislation that would require all public universities in the state to provide medication abortion on campus. The bill, which would use money raised from private donors to equip and train campus…
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A wildly popular Facebook joke about “storming” Area 51 inspired plans for an enormous alien-themed party in the Nevada desert. Now there are three events in the works, including one in Las Vegas sponsored by Bud Light. The aliens, if they’re watching, probably have some questions for humanity. You might, too, so here’s a closer…
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