Flags and other displays of national pride were common in Paris as the Summer Games got off to a fashionable start.
Read moreIn a lofty office in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Shani Lechan gives her clients the hair of their dreams. It usually takes only a couple of weeks.In one room she offers...
Read moreTo hear animal rights activists tell it, those at SeaQuest are not. The for-profit company is not accredited by any zoo organization. It has at times run afoul of the U.S.D.A., which...
Read more“I don’t know who came up with that,” says Caroline Sunvold, a former D.C.C., in the series. “That’s what kind of rips up people’s hips.” She should know. Ms. Sunvold, still in...
Read moreNickelson Wooster, a fashion consultant and a frequent subject of street style photographers, is known, among other things, for his taste in shorts. He wears them long and short, loose and tight,...
Read moreWorried about coming off as an exhibitionist at her daughter’s beach wedding, a reader wonders whether there is an age cutoff for wearing a two-piece.
Read moreHair oiling days for the comedian and actress Lilly Singh were always a family affair.The entire Singh clan — including her cousins, aunties and uncles down the street — would gather in...
Read moreWhen the meaty palm of Vasil Kamotskii, a 360-pound, 34-year-old pig farmer from Siberia known as Dumpling, struck the tender cheek of the man who faced him, it sounded like a thunderclap....
Read moreOn an afternoon this spring, Rony Elka Vardi and Leigh Batnick Plessner stood outside the Bedford Avenue storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that for years was a location of their jewelry boutique, Catbird....
Read morePor aquel entonces, yo tenía treinta y tantos años, y un hijo tal vez fuera todo lo que pudiera tener. Como la religión forma parte de mi identidad, criaría a mi hijo...
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