In March 2020, the couple went to visit Ms. Wang’s mother, the actor Sonja Sohn, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They ended up staying for two months. It was a new experience for them, and the two came out of it knowing that they wanted to be together, even through uncertain times. While…
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My father and I were in Starbucks about a year after he learned he had Alzheimer’s when he looked me up and down with his judge’s eye and said to the barista, “This young — ahem — man will have a latte.” I laughed, not sure if he was joking. Until that moment, I had…
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In June 2020, when Andrew Roderick Gilmoor left his neighborhood in Amsterdam for the first time in weeks, he spotted a familiar face. He had been self-isolating at his apartment and was on his way to a Black Lives Matter protest. At Dam Square, through a crowd of thousands, “I saw this really tall, handsome…
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Dear Tripped Up, In 2021, my husband, my sister and I signed up for a five-day Tremendous Tawas Lake Huron tour run by Pardson, the Ohio company that publishes Bird Watcher’s Digest magazine. We paid almost $4,800 in all. The tour was canceled because of Covid that year, but we were so eager to see…
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At first it seemed impossible to imagine: No more red carpets! No more photos of movie stars and names to watch in fabulous gowns blanketing the internet. Could “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” be the last gasp of that marketing Valhalla of fashion and film that was the modern premiere — at least for the foreseeable future?…
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A tornado caused extensive damage to a Pfizer drug manufacturing site in Rocky Mount, N.C., on Wednesday, threatening critical supplies for hospitals across the country. The company estimated that one-fourth of the injectable medications it supplies to U.S. hospitals were made at the Rocky Mount property, including drugs used during surgeries and other procedures to…
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In just three years, Upstate Art Weekend has grown from an informal map for visiting city folk to an annual festival of more than 100 participants across 10 New York counties. At this weekend’s fourth edition, you’ll be able to wander through private artists’ studios at the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory, Beacon Open Studios or Newburgh’s…
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Ask any millennials born in July about their birthday and they’ll recount a childhood colored by anxieties about the day: no classroom cupcakes, no gift-wrapped locker and an ever-present fear that no one will come to your party because everyone is at sleep-away camp or the beach or their grandma’s house. As Cancer season comes…
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Pink is everything and everywhere at the moment. It’s borderline inescapable, thanks in large part to the wildly anticipated Barbie movie (out tomorrow!). But for Khloé Kardashian’s clothing brand, Good American, pink is more of a permanent lifestyle than a seasonal pop culture trend. As evidence, Kardashian just relaunched the All Dolled Up collection, a…
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When it came to dressing for her May 6 wedding, Ashley Oliver Thomas had trouble narrowing down the many options available, while at the same time navigating a new job. “Initially, the whole wedding-planning process, including the pressure of finding the perfect dress, intimidated me,” said Ms. Oliver Thomas, 35, a diversity director for a…
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