There is a new cook in the Alaïa kitchen. More than three years after the death of Azzedine Alaïa, one of the last great innovative and independent couturiers of the 20th century, a successor has been named to his brand. Pieter Mulier, the Belgian designer who spent almost two decades as the right hand of…
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The Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford protected people against a new, more contagious coronavirus variant at similar levels to the protection it offered against other lineages of the virus, Oxford researchers said in a paper released on Friday. The paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, said that the vaccine…
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“TikTok is so carefree, why not have a little fun with it?” Watters said. “Highlighting these comments also exerts a little pressure: Talking to dancers this way is not OK, and perhaps you could be exposed for that kind of behavior, too.” One of the reasons Watters feels comfortable letting it all hang out on…
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick bid a final adieu to their longtime West Village home. The celebrity couple and real estate aficionados, who are in the process of creating a double-wide mansion in the same neighborhood, began the year with the recorded closing on their 57 Charles Street townhouse. They sold it without listing…
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Last year, the restaurant chain sold more than 11 million wings on Super Bowl Sunday. This year, Mr. Tick said, he expects to meet or exceed that number even with his 1,200 restaurants around the country facing varying dine-in restrictions. “We expect to see similar total demand, but an increase in off-premise ordering and, if…
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In fact, the moment we’re in may offer the perfect amount of runway to cultivate anticipation. “The pandemic is forcing us to prioritize our future selves,” Dr. Dunn said. “January Liz feels pretty excited about what Summer Liz is going to be doing.” Of course, there is a possibility that Summer Liz or even you…
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Lollie May Martin and Taylor Brittany Maanao got married after five years together. But they say they actually fell so hard and so fast for one another that they wanted to get married after only six months. Ms. Maanao’s mother had strongly suggested they wait. “She told us that we still had so much to…
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When Mary Martin Young was growing up, in the 1960s and ’70s, she spent Sunday mornings volunteering at a hospital in Alexandria, La., alongside her father, who was a doctor. There’s a piece of advice that she remembers him repeating. “Nobody in that morgue woke up and thought they were going to die today,” he…
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In Yonkers, Mr. Spilkowitz was feeling something similar. “I had had this unfulfilling bachelor’s summer,” he said. “Something was missing.” That something was Ms. Knight. When she climbed aboard the Get Free in October, showing off a set of sea legs neither anticipated, love set sail. Ms. Knight, a novice, was a natural. “I’ve had…
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“No ring, no bring.” That was the family vacation rule that Nicole Iris Schloss knew all too well. Gregory Scott Chatzinoff got wind of it after they reconnected in May 2018 via the JSwipe dating app, and started dating. “Unless you’re engaged, your boyfriend can’t come on vacation with us,” Ms. Schloss recalled her parents…
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