Good morning. Happy Mother’s Day to all who celebrate. My mom sure didn’t. She called it a Hallmark holiday and resisted all efforts to take her to brunch, a meal she loathed with passion and eloquence. Once I tried serving her a mimosa. She gave me a withering side-eye and didn’t touch it. For my…
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Thanks to a popular saying, most people in New York expect April showers. Almost just as predictable: the confusion over how to dress in the transitional weeks of spring, when the temperature can go from cold to warm to hot, sometimes in a single day. The style on the streets over the past few weeks…
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Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Mute Those Wedding Bells I work for a nonprofit and live check to check. My colleagues and I have a shared lunchroom and lunch break. One of my…
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Slava Zaitsev, an effervescent and enduring Soviet-era fashion designer, once called the “Red Dior” by the Western press, whose over-the-top theatrical creations and persona made him a go-to couturier at home, died on April 30 in Shchyolkovo, Russia. He was 85. His longtime friend Tatiana Sorokko, a Russian-born model and journalist, said his death, in…
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CHICAGO — Moments before 10 a.m., a security guard thanked the crowd for being cooperative. When the clock struck the hour, it became clear why: The doors of the Marriott Chicago O’Hare conference center opened, and hundreds of attendees, a majority of whom were over the age of 60, bee-lined as fast as they could…
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To many people on the internet, the actress Toni Collette is known simply as “mother.” Ms. Collette has played more than her share of mothers throughout her career: a matriarch with dissociative identity disorder on the TV show “United States of Tara”; a miniatures artist whose family is haunted after the death of her own…
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As hungry Italians at the Festival for the Fava Bean lined up in a field in the Roman countryside to order fava and pecorino cheese, fava and porchetta, cream of fava on top of pasta or simply brown bags loaded with fresh fava, the manager of an adjacent garden spoke of the witch-fingered legume with…
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Indian weddings can be elaborate occasions, often lasting several days. But a break from tradition because of the Covid-19 pandemic meant that intimate or at-home nuptials became the norm for many. Now, the grand Indian wedding is not just back, it’s bigger than ever for the couples with the means to host extravagant affairs. In…
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Who Cares About Being Cringe? The effect of all this information is felt everywhere from drop-off to play dates, with millennials taking parenting seriously in a way that might elicit eye rolls from older generations. Bridget Shirvell, 37, of Mystic, Conn., was at a birthday party with her daughter when another child was having a…
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