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A study suggests that sperm counts have been dropping for decades. Is this how the big dystopia begins? Silicon Valley is at hand to help men get their mojo back.
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Photo CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times Critical Shopper
My 8-Month Search for $900 Sneakers
Phone calls, sneaker bots and making friends with salesclerks: Critical Shopper chases down the Balenciaga Triple S.
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Photo CreditTom Brenner/The New York Times On the Runway
Do You Really Think the Ivanka Trump Brand Is Dead? Dream On
It’s just the fashion line, silly. But there’s a lesson here for would-be celebrity style-setters nonetheless.
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The Calming Art of Terrarium Building
At Twig, a plant studio in Brooklyn, one can learn about moss and its expansive possibilities.
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Browsing
Photo Credit 3 Labels That Prove Style Has No Size
These companies are changing the way we think about size.
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Skin Deep
Photo CreditElizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times Laverne Cox Is Chill About Her Beauty Regimen
The “Orange Is the New Black” star loves drugstore stuff and would recommend a wig for anyone.
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Photo CreditLandon Nordeman for The New York Times Entrepreneurs to Wed
Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner announced their engagement over Instagram.
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Photo CreditAdam Amengual for The New York Times Suspicious Minds
Mingling with wariness and wonder at a conference devoted to “Ancient Aliens.”
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The Sweet Spot
Photo CreditHeidi Younger I’m Drowning in $100,000 of Debt. But Someone Wants to Help.
A reader and her brother are slowly paying off their student loans. Should they accept a generous offer from their father’s girlfriend?
Vows
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Photo Credit Conservative and a Vegan in New York. Wait! You Are, Too?
The couple met at a Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, but soon realized they had more in common than a conviction that eating meat is immoral.
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Vows
Photo Credit From a Hawaiian Island to a New York Island, and Back
They grew up on Oahu and went to rival schools but didn’t meet until after they moved to New York.
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Vows
Photo Credit Side by Side and No Finish Line in Sight for Alexi Pappas
Alexi Pappas, the Olympic runner, and Jeremy Teicher, a filmmaker, became a team of two in college. And there’s a tree that says so.
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Vows
Photo Credit Worthy of a Romance Novel, With a Touch of Mystery
Lauren Pomerantz, an Emmy-winning writer and producer, met Elizabeth Higgins Clark, a writer and a granddaughter of Mary Higgins Clark, on Tinder.
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Vows
Photo Credit A Near-Death Experience Led Them to the Altar
“The brevity of life had never been more apparent to us, so we decided to tie the knot.”
Modern Love
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Photo Credit Listen: Mike Colter Reads ‘Superheroes, Just for Each Other’
The “Luke Cage” star recalls the heroic acts that partners routinely perform for each other on this week’s Modern Love podcast.
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Modern Love
Photo Credit Please Take My Son’s Wallet
A life cut short is revealed through reward cards, drink coupons and arcade passes.
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Modern Love
Photo Credit Listen: Cameron Esposito Reads ‘A Hiker’s Guide to Healing’
On this week’s podcast, the actress and comedian tells the story of a woman’s 2,650-mile road to recovery after her sexual assault.
Surfacing
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SURFACING
Photo Credit Nascar’s Future Depends on These 5-Year-Olds
For families whose children harbor racing aspirations, quarter-midget tracks offer one of the earliest possible introductions to motor sports — leading some children to race before they can read.
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Photo Credit These Women Were Told Not to Play Soccer. Instead They Formed a Team.
Away from the lights of the World Cup, on the African archipelago of Zanzibar, a group of Muslim women are challenging a culture that says only men can play soccer.
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SURFACING
Photo Credit Conjuring Spirits in Florida
In Sarasota, there is a community surrounding a litany of roadside psychics and more than 100 mediums and spiritual guides. Why?
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SURFACING
Photo Credit Receiving the Summer Solstice, the Swedish Way
Midsummer Day is a celebration of the summer solstice in Sweden, where I grew up. I went to Battery Park City in New York to see how it was celebrated in America.
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SURFACING
Photo Credit The Albino Community in Ghana: ‘I’m Motivated to Believe That I Can Survive’
In recent years, a community of people living with albinism have forged connections on platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, turning a societal stigma into social bonds and offline friendship.
Skin Deep
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Photo Credit We’ve Reached Peak Tick Anxiety
How the tiny arachnid became the hottest topic of the summer.
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Skin Deep
Photo Credit This Summer, Smell Like Fruit Salad
A new bonanza of fruit scents are far more sophisticated than the adolescent splashes of summers past.
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Skin Deep
Photo Credit Exfoliation Tips for the Best Skin Ever
There are acid cleansers and toners, washes and scrubs. There’s dermaplaning. There are retinoids. In-office peels. A guide to solve the mystery of exfoliating, once and for all.
Street Style
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Photo Credit Street Style: The Musicians of Pitchfork Music Festival
Some of our favorite portraits of the musicians who played Pitchfork last weekend.
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Photo Credit Street Style: Firefly Festival
Sparkle magic style at the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del.
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Photo Credit Street Style: Governors Ball Music Festival
Bold patterns and colors dominated the style landscape of Randalls Island.
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Photo Credit Now Trending: Check It Out
The checkerboard trend at the Governors Ball was as clear as black and white.
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Photo Credit Street Style: Copenhagen
In Denmark’s capital, bicycles are the most common accessory.
Up Next
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Photo Credit A Curator of the Montauk Summer Scene
Sasha Benz is an entrepreneur, creative director of Surf Lodge and an aspiring reality TV star.
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Up Next
Photo Credit Larsen Thompson, the Dancer From Sia’s ‘The Greatest’ Video, Wants to Be a Pop Star
The teenage dancer, model and singer from Thousand Oaks, Calif., is also acting in her first movie.
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Photo Credit Mellany Sanchez Started on Instagram and Is Now Drake’s Image Director
Ms. Sanchez, a 26-year old Brooklyn native, was the creative director of Kith before she became the rapper’s image director.
The Look
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Photo Credit The Changing Sound of Baltimore
Young independent artists are writing the city’s present, and future, into their music.
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The Look
Photo Credit The Impolite Pleasure of People-Watching
Observation is, at once, a glorified lack of activity and an invasion of privacy. But there’s so much to see in New York.
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The Look
Photo Credit Bomba: The Enduring Anthem of Puerto Rico
The resurgence of a traditional Afro-Puerto Rican musical genre owes something to formal experimentation. But some traditionalists fear that its roots are at risk.
Binge Read Featured Couples
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Photo Credit The Attendants Made the Toast. (The Couple Brewed the Beer.)
Home-brew beer has been finding a place at weddings, where it’s being served to guests during cocktail hours or given out as favors.
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Photo Credit Cedric Moreau, Orlando Reece
The couple were set up on a blind date in New York in 2014.
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Photo Credit Brooke Hargrove, Jensen Bouzi
The couple were married at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan.
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Photo Credit Nicholas Clark-Spear, Mark Badum
The couple met at a party in one of Columbia’s dorms in 2005, and began dating several years later.
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Photo Credit Annabel Moorman, Adam Stoler
He gave her a T-shirt from the Bell in Hand Tavern, which said “I Was There and the Rest is History,’’ a year after their first date there.
Scene City
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Photo Credit Midsummer Parties, With Puppies and Patti Smith
The Parrish Art Museum, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Bard SummerScape Festival held fund-raisers last week.
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Scene City
Photo Credit Alicia Keys Opens Gallery Exhibition by the Artist JR
Parties were held last week for the artist JR, the New York Asian Film Festival and the Southhampton Fresh Air Home.
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Scene City
Photo Credit Planting a New Community Garden
Celebrations were held for the Essex Street Community Garden, Storm King, Monmouth County Historical Association and Federal Hall.
