Rachel Hunter could not wait to play her new vinyl recording of Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now.” After waiting weeks for its arrival, Ms. Hunter placed the orchid-colored vinyl with Ms. Swift’s face on its center on her record player, lifted the needle and let it play. But instead of Ms. Swift’s catchy choruses, acoustic guitar…
DetailsMany New Yorkers weren’t impressed with Bill de Blasio as mayor. But the way he’s handling his separation from his wife, Chirlane McCray? “Inspiring.”
It is impossible to separate vegetables from seasonality — especially at the height of summer — but you can be liberated from the anxiety of cooking certain vegetables at specific times of the year. Eat seasonally if you can, but don’t stress if you can’t. There are enough causes of angst in the world; finding…
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Last weekend, Sarah Brady, a semiprofessional surfer, posted a number of screenshots of text messages she claims she exchanged with her then-boyfriend, the actor Jonah Hill. In one of the texts, Hill appears to dictate a highly specific list of “boundaries for romantic partnership,” which included not surfing with men, not maintaining friendships with “women…
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Good morning. Make any recipe more than three or four times and you’re going to change it, either for reasons of taste or expediency, occasionally both. Make that recipe six or seven times and it’s altered forever. It’s no longer the recipe you originally found. It’s yours. That’s where I am with Eric Kim’s recipe…
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When Isaac Leon Archuleta and Joseph Daniel Jones reconnected after four years apart, they learned that a breakup can actually be a gift. From 2010 to 2014, they were in an on-and-off relationship, wrestling with issues that could only be reconciled with time and space. Then, they broke up for good. In the four years…
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One day in March 2021, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo was on her way to a coffee shop to tackle a creative exercise in “The Artist’s Way” workbook before meeting a friend for lunch. “Do you like vinyl?” asked Nasir Cedell Qadree as he walked up to her in the Union Market district of Northeast Washington, trying…
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The clone of the tree that grew from a seed that went to the moon doesn’t look like much. It’s still a callow sapling, a flurry of bright green leaves on a spindly six-foot trunk. But in 20 years or so, this American sycamore will be a formidable presence at the Folly Tree Arboretum, an…
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When Stephan Weishaupt began looking for a weekend home outside Toronto, buying a 19th-century log cabin was the furthest thing from his mind. Mr. Weishaupt, the founder of Weishaupt Design Group and the president of a furniture company called Avenue Road, had long been focused on all things modern. When a friend told him about…
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The worldwide culinary fame of Italy’s third-largest city boils down to one word: pizza. You can hardly hurl a tomato in the food’s purported birthplace — a scruffy, graffiti-stained port city of monumental Baroque buildings and narrow cobbled passageways — without hitting a gaggle of culinary pilgrims jockeying to enter one of the hundreds (or…
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