Alex Miller, a software engineer living in Brooklyn, needed a date for his brother’s wedding. Being a digitally savvy millennial, he came up with a plan to attract a potential plus-one for the ceremony: He printed about 20 personal ads with his contact information and posted them around his neighborhood. Mr. Miller, 32, was surprised…
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The dough is built from a base of poi — a sticky, starchy paste of boiled taro corm and water. Taro isn’t a traditional doughnut base, but it is a pillar of Hawaii’s native culture and diet — an ingredient that farmers are slowly working to bring back to Hawaiian farmland. The business buys taro…
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Hace más de una década llegó al mercado un dispositivo médico con una promesa tentadora: era capaz de congelar y eliminar sacos de grasa persistentes de forma rápida, indolora y sin cirugía. El dispositivo, llamado CoolSculpting, había aparecido en un sector de la belleza ya saturado que vendía vientres más planos y mandíbulas más marcadas,…
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Oscar de la Renta. Versace. Alberta Ferretti. Roberto Cavalli. Elie Saab. Christian Louboutin. Zuhair Murad. Ashish. The list of the designers who have made looks for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which began just over a month ago in Arizona and ends in California in August before heading overseas, is like a mini-tour of fashion weeks,…
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For the Taking the Lead series, we asked leaders in various fields to share insights on what they’ve learned and what lies ahead. The canon of soul food and Southern food is the product of a melding of American ingredients and memories of dishes from places once called home. When, over the course of decades,…
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I’m deep in an Alaskan forest halfway through an 8K race when I find myself alone. Above me, 100-foot spruces bend and bellow, set upon by wind so loud I mistake it for an airplane. Below me, a slushy, icy mess of a trail. Ahead of me — no one. It’s a drizzly November morning.…
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I absolutely detest any waistline above my navel. I am a mom, but not a mom jeans fan. What am I to do with the current trend for high-rise pants? My low-ish rise jeans and pants from the 1990s and beyond are getting threadbare, but is there a way I can adapt and look current…
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This article contains spoilers for Episode 5 of the final season of “Succession.” This week, the Roys took a field trip to Norway to seal the deal with Matsson. The playing field was deliriously uneven from the minute the Waystar Royco team stepped out of their black SUVs onto Matsson’s terrain. Out of their element,…
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“We’re going to have to figure out a way for me to help you,” my husband says once I am home on the couch, with my cast propped on a stack of pillows. It is not the short wrist cast I had envisioned. Rather, it begins at the shoulder, hinges at the elbow, tightens at…
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When a fire-breathing dragon caught fire at Disneyland on Saturday night, some spectators thought it was part of the show. But the prop being engulfed in flames was accidental, and officials were investigating the cause, Sgt. Jon McClintock, a spokesman for the Anaheim Police Department and Anaheim Fire and Rescue, said on Sunday. At least…
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