Since the minute my colleague Yewande Komolafe told me she was working on a cookbook about Nigerian cuisine, I’ve been longing for the day I could read and cook from it, cover to cover. The wait is finally over! “My Everyday Lagos,” an exploration of the richness and diversity of Nigerian food, is out in…
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She’s a beloved blonde pop star with the initials T.S. He’s a handsome N.F.L. player with a popular podcast and the initials T.K. Together, they have fused America’s obsession with pop stars and athletes into a celebrity pairing so incandescent it’s almost celestial. That’s the story of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, the reigning prince…
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My new husband and his brother get together most weekends to play music with friends. They meet up in my brother-in-law’s large basement. These get-togethers turn into daylong events, culminating in dinners at local bars or drinks at my brother-in-law’s house. The problem: I’m often not invited! Since I don’t play music, I feel that…
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Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. For years, Moonlighting has existed as a secret handshake. Fans have either had to trade DVD box sets of the classic ’80s show or bid for them on eBay. Until this month, that is, when Hulu announced the series would be…
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The institute founded by President George W. Bush issued an urgent call on Wednesday for Congress to renew the global AIDS program known as PEPFAR, a centerpiece of Mr. Bush’s foreign policy legacy that has become a victim of abortion politics on Capitol Hill. PEPFAR — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — has…
DetailsHeather Sellers thought she made peace with her estranged father years ago. But as she’s gotten older, she’s realized that complete forgiveness was never really on the table.
When the Nigerian writer Yemisi Aribisala craves jollof rice, a West African staple, she doesn’t cook it. She asks her sister to send her a bowl. They live about an hour apart, so it is not a casual delivery. Nevertheless, this is how things must be. “Mine is simply not good enough,” Aribisala says. On…
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By day, Emily McLaughlin pours pumpkin spice lattes as a Starbucks barista. By night, she roams the internet as a self-described “fictional gay-people enthusiast,” tirelessly posting about and promoting her favorite queer movies and television shows. So it was inevitable that “Bottoms,” a bawdy comedy about lesbian high school outcasts who start a fight club,…
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We are inside a glass box of a gondola, part of the longest passenger cable car in the world, flying silently along on a nearly five-mile ride, and some 50 stories above a sapphire sea just off the coast of Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam. On this bright March afternoon, hundreds of colorful wooden…
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