Modern Love
How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon
“Where is your husband?” people kept asking. “Why isn’t he here?”
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Amar’e Stoudemire Is on a Religious Quest
Accompanying the former N.B.A. star as he explores Jewish landmarks in New York.
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Photo Credit Hats Are Big This Summer. Really Big.
La Bomba, the Palapa and the Spinner battle for beach space.
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Jeff Bezos, Style Icon
The Amazon chief executive has quietly been grooming a new image to go with his new status as rocket scientist, richest man in the world and potential Washington big shot.
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The Cycle
Photo CreditIllustration by Claire Milbrath Worshiping the False Idols of Wellness
Charcoal, “toxins” and other forms of nonsense are the backbone of the wellness-industrial complex.
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Photo CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Who Wore It Better: Art or Commerce?
It’s a museum show. It’s a fashion show. It’s a critique. No, a boutique. Whatever you call the Whitney installation by the label Eckhaus Latta, you’re likely to leave with more questions (and clothes) than answers.
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Photo CreditDaniyel Lowden for The New York Times Rina Sawayama Is Not the Asian Britney Spears
The 27-year-old pop star and model is vocal about the lack of Asian representation in fashion and music.
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Social Q’s
Photo CreditChristoph Niemann What Should I Do About My Very Rude Son-in-Law?
A reader is offended by her daughter’s husband and worries his behavior will be passed down.
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Photo CreditMaxime La for The New York Times Vincent Cassel Has Just 20 Minutes to Spare
The French movie star speed-talks his way through a conversation about sex, Gallic masculinity and the artist Gauguin. And sex.
Vows
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Photo Credit Olympian Erin Hamlin Marries a Childhood Playmate
Jonathan Hodge cheered for the world-class luger from afar. Then a chance meeting at a family gathering led to some competitive flirting. They both won.
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Vows
Photo Credit His Dating Profile Listed Reasons Not to Date Him. She Was Intrigued.
“Love is finding the person who understands you more intimately than you ever thought possible.”
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Vows
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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Photo Credit Listen: Diane Guerrero Reads ‘GPS for My Lost Identity’
On this week’s podcast, the “Orange Is the New Black” actress tells a story of debit card fraud and self-knowledge.
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Modern Love
Photo Credit Taking Marriage Class at Guantánamo
While imprisoned for 14 years, a young Yemeni man learns about love from a fellow detainee — and an iguana.
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Modern Love
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.
Surfacing
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SURFACING
Photo Credit Meet New Orleans’s All-Female Biker Club
With stilettos and magenta-hued burnouts, the Caramel Curves are hard to miss on the riding scene.
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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.
Skin Deep
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Photo Credit Nail Art Is Now Hand Art
When is nail art not nail art? When it creeps up your fingers.
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Skin Deep
Photo Credit 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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Skin Deep
Photo Credit We’ve Reached Peak Tick Anxiety
How the tiny arachnid became the hottest topic of the summer.
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 Meet the Mediums of Lily Dale
A hamlet in Western New York is home to a community of Spiritualists.
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The Look
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.
Binge Read Featured Couples
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Photo Credit This Week’s Wedding Announcements
All of the weddings right here on one handy page for you.
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Photo Credit Katelin Williamson, Mark Spector
The couple met through the dating site OkCupid in 2014, and had their first glass of wine together a few weeks later in Manhattan.
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Photo Credit Teri Agins, Paul Hands
The couple met in New York in 2016, through OurTime.com, a dating website.
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Photo Credit Katherine Stillman, Jonathan Scherr
The couple met in 2007 at Dartmouth, from which they graduated.
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Photo Credit Katarina Mayers, Robert Lin
The couple met in middle school, and shared their first kiss during freshman year of high school, in 2004.
Scene City
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Photo Credit Watermill Center, All Star Code and Diane Rigg Held Parties
The summer charity circuit goes arty and techy in the Hamptons.
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Scene City
Photo Credit Parties by the Bay, the Pool and a Garden
Charity events were hosted by Dancers Responding to AIDS, Hampton Designer Showhouse and the LongHouse Reserve.
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Scene City
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.
