“What’s the craziest thing you ever did for love?” This is Jahad Chris Carter’s favorite question to ask strangers he meets, usually in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, or as he likes to call it,
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Early afternoon, late summer. Humid, 83 degrees. The cicadas were whirring outside. I closed my laptop, got up from the desk in my home office and went to the bedroom. I lay down and began
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Ryan Otto Cassata had no intention of falling in love when he met Dr. Stephen Vincent Lee Meeneghan on Aug. 10, 2021 on the gay dating app Scruff. Neither did Dr. Meeneghan, a naturopathic doctor.
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In preparation for her head-turning appearance at the 2019 Met Gala, Kim Kardashian met with the fashion designer Thierry Mugler to conceptualize her look. “Who are you, actually?” the designer asked her, according to Mr.
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On Monday evening, the first day of the U.S. Open, actors, designers and former professional athletes walked into a side entrance, lined with tennis fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in
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When Navied Mahdavian, a cartoonist, and his wife, Emelie, a filmmaker, moved from San Francisco to Mackay, Idaho (population 473), they fixated on their new hometown’s theater. Or, rather, the ghost of a theater. A
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Ask Eve Rodsky why resentment is seeping into your relationship, and she might ask you: “How did the mustard get into your fridge?” Not who purchased it at the grocery store, but who noticed the
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Within hours of a fight breaking out on an Alabama riverfront this month, images and video clips from the brawl began to ricochet online. Then came the memes. After that, it wasn’t long until the
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This article contains spoilers for Episode 11 of the second season of “And Just Like That …” After 11 episodes of ball gowns and bucket hats, questionable Met Gala looks and so much plaid, Season
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Late one night in October 2018, Max Ujdak and Katie Wall — now Katie Ujdak — were sitting in front of a computer, staring at the website for the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, a
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