“I threw a Zyn in as he was saying that,” Mr. Robertson said. “I was like, ‘Cool, don’t care.’”He was not persuaded to quit until later that night when he came across...
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Read moreWhen Elizabeth Nan Rasmussen met David Maynard Amini at a party hosted by the magazine Edible DC, she knew instantly that she needed him in her life, just not necessarily as a...
Read moreSince 2011, Miuccia Prada, the patron saint of smart, messy women everywhere, has been using her Miu Miu line as a platform to commission short films by female filmmakers from around the...
Read moreSo, she said: “I took sort of a back seat, willingly, because I could. But I didn’t realize what I was really doing.”Conners kept working on her own, turning to trusted collaborators...
Read moreEP, a 48-year-old academic in upstate New York, was drawn on the border of a family portrait by their son, then 6. “As someone whose kid calls them ‘Mapa’ and doesn’t easily...
Read more“There was nothing about her that I didn’t love,” he said. They have been together ever since.Ms. Finetti, now 26, went on to study at California State University, Chico, where she earned...
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