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Photo CreditJason Henry for The New York Times Oof! Uhh! Mom? Meet the Peewee Powerlifters
Little tykes are hoisting barbells, sometimes heavier than their own body weight.
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Photo CreditWilliam Widmer for The New York Times Ashley Longshore Is Fashion’s Latest Art Darling
Her glittery, bawdy feminist work gets likes on Instagram and love at Bergdorf.
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Photo CreditChristoph Niemann Social Q’s
I’m Still Salty About My Sister’s Elopement
A reader wants to withhold an invitation to a family party from the sibling who did the same on her wedding day.
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Scene City
Photo CreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times Parkland Survivors Are the Stars at Time 100 Gala
Jennifer Lopez and Shawn Mendes perform at the magazine’s biggest party of the year, to celebrate its 100 Most Influential People issue.
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The Shindigger
Photo CreditDavid Hume Kennerly/CNN James Comey’s Book Party Was Larded With Journalists
Excluded from the Trumps’ first state dinner, where else were they to go?
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Photo CreditDeidre Schoo for The New York Times Report From Planet Beautycon: Diversity and Small Female-Owned Companies in the Spotlight
The festival also featured lots of pastels, Hillary Clinton and more.
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On the Runway
Photo CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times Melania Trump, at the State Dinner in Chanel, Gave Everyone Something to Chew On
The first lady’s couture selection was an exceptional, if not unexpected, choice by a woman adapting the role to fit herself.
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The Sweet Spot
Photo CreditHeidi Younger My Best Friend’s Worst Betrayal
A reader tries to process her sexual assault by the person who supposedly knew her — and all her vulnerabilities — better than anyone.
Love Is ...
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Photo Credit Reality TV’s Hopeless Romantic
After 38 years in television, including two decades spent making reality shows including “The Bachelor,” Scott Jeffress still believes in love.
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Love Is ...
Photo Credit Not the Same Old Song and Dance: Ironman, Opera and Obstetrics
They married 11 years ago this month, and neither has slowed down since.
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Photo Credit All Heated Up
The author recounts her long history with a consistent and undemanding source of warmth: the humble heating pad.
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Love Is ...
Photo Credit The Unorthodox Matchmaker
Yocheved Lerner-Miller pairs up misfits — the divorced, the middle-aged, the newly religious — in the Lubavitch Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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Photo Credit More of Your 13-Word Love Stories
Last fall, we shared readers’ very short stories of romance, obsession and heartbreak. Here are more of the thousands we received.
Modern Love
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Photo Credit Modern Love Podcast: Abbi Jacobson Reads ‘Boy, What a Fabulous Baker’
The “Broad City” star tells the story of woman who is wooed by a bread maker.
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Modern Love
Photo Credit Flying Close to Temptation
A newly married woman fears that her impulse to drink and keep it a secret will become a wall of deceit between her and her wife.
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Photo Credit Modern Love Podcast: Mel Rodriguez Reads ‘She Handed Me a Cup From the Fountain of Youth’
This week, the “Overboard” star tells the story of a 50th birthday celebration that is equal parts fantasy and reality.
Vows
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Photo Credit 36 Years Later, He’s Out of the Friend Zone
The high school crush that Joe Pantaleo had on Diana Ellis Jewell has lasted decades, but it wasn’t until recently that they reconnected and dated.
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Vows
Photo Credit Homeless in Seattle, and Marrying Under the Overpass
On the wedding day of Michelle Vestal and Bob J Kitcheon, Ms. Vestal had been clean from crack cocaine for 84 days. “I would never have done it if it wasn’t for him,” she said.
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Vows
Photo Credit After Scandal and Divorce, Jenny Sanford Learns She Can Love Again
South Carolina’s former first lady wasn’t looking to remarry after her high-profile divorce, until her sister played matchmaker.
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Vows
Photo Credit On Craigslist, 3BR Unfinished, Future Husband Upstairs
Nicole Basile wasn’t looking for a husband when she moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 2010, but that’s exactly what she found.
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Vows
Photo Credit A Match That’s Perfectly Imperfect
Rahysa Vargas and Christopher Cheng managed to work through their different personalities and cultural backgrounds.
Surfacing
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Photo Credit ‘We Don’t Perform for People, We Perform for the Gods’
A community has formed around Chinese opera in Thailand, preserving one of the oldest dramatic art forms in the world.
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SURFACING
Photo Credit Transportation Turned Performance Art: Nairobi’s Matatu Crews
A growing community of people in Nairobi are reclaiming the city’s bus culture using new practices, art and social media to combat negative stereotypes.
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Photo Credit Watch These Dancers Find Spontaneity in the Circle
A creative community gathers around the stage at LayeRhythm, an occasional party where random ideas turn into music and movement.
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SURFACING
Photo Credit For the Compton Cowboys, Horseback Riding Is a Legacy, and Protection
A group of childhood friends wants to create a safer community and challenge the notion that African-Americans can’t be cowboys.
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Photo Credit ‘Silent, Yes, but Never Withdrawn’: Readers Respond to a Dwindling Catholic Monastery
New York Times readers responded to an article about a small Catholic monastery in South Carolina with their own brushes with monastic life.
Skin Deep
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Photo Credit Danai Gurira Doesn’t Do Contouring
The actress, who plays the ferocious General Okoye in “Black Panther,” says that she “would never even attempt” to Kardashianize her face.
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Skin Deep
Photo Credit Why So Many Asian-American Women Are Bleaching Their Hair Blond
In some salons, as many as half of the Asian-American clients are going lighter.
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Skin Deep
Photo Credit What Black Women Need to Know About Hair Loss
For many women who are now letting go of their wigs and weaves, hair loss is no small problem. There are ways to conceal it.
Street Style
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Photo Credit Milan Fashion Week: Street View
The fashion stars come to Milan ready to show off their style.
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Photo Credit London Fashion Week: Street View
The fashion pack roamed to London and showed off their style despite the cool and rainy February weather.
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Photo Credit Street Style: New York Fashion Week
The stylish crowd between shows during New York Fashion Week.
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Photo Credit Street Style: New York Fashion Week: Men’s
The fashion shows return to New York City for the men’s collections, and the street style follows.
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Photo Credit Street Style: Haute Couture
The style stars step it up for the haute couture fashion shows in Paris.
Up Next
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Photo Credit BuzzFeed’s Eugene Lee Yang Mixes Humor With Social Commentary
The filmmaker and online personality is a breakout star from the popular video series “The Try Guys.”
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Up Next
Photo Credit A YouTuber Brings Tarot to the People
Amber Khan read tarot for decades but really found an audience when she started a YouTube channel, the Quietest Revolution.
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Photo Credit She Makes Fancy Ice Cubes for a Living
Leslie Kirchhoff is the founder of Disco Cubes, which elevates the lowly ice cube to an art form.
The Look
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Photo Credit Cape Town’s New Masculinity
In the queer capital of South Africa, young men are defining themselves through dress.
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The Look
Photo Credit ‘I Love to Fight. I Live to Fight.’
For many women in the five boroughs of New York, training is a gateway into the world of competitive fighting.
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The Look
Photo Credit Taking New York by the Hand
From way up in the Bronx to Lower Manhattan, nail artists are helping clients distinguish themselves.
Scene City
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Photo Credit Jennifer Lopez, John Krasinski and Parkland Survivors at Time 100 Party
An amphitheater filled with famous faces at the magazine’s annual 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala.
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Photo Credit Learning to Be Leaders
Benefits were held for N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the DVF Awards and Edible Schoolyard NYC.
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Photo Credit Dancing for Spring
Galas were held for the Joyce Theater, the New Museum and the Dance Theater of Harlem.
