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☆ Kate Moss Turns Out for King Charles, and Pharrell Shuts Down a City Street
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Alyson Krueger | Melissa Guerrero | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It was still early on Thursday evening at Casa Cipriani in downtown Manhattan, but Lionel Richie thought he knew how his night would end: “Buckingham Palace is going to call us and ask, ‘How did it go?’”Mr. Richie, who had just walked a red carpet and was getting bombarded with selfie requests, was co-hosting the King’s Trust Global Gala, a fund-raiser for the organization started in 1976 by then Prince Charles that helps millions of underserved youth globally. The night drew more than 300 people including the actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Drew Barrymore, the musician John Legend, the stylist Law Roach and the model Kate Moss. It raised more than $1.4 million. The event, in its third year, was a collaboration between Mr. Richie, a longtime friend of King Charles, and Edward Enninful, the former editor in chief of British Vogue and co-chair of the event.

Persons: Casa, Lionel Richie, Mr, Richie, Prince Charles, Leonardo DiCaprio, Drew Barrymore, John Legend, Law Roach, Kate Moss, King Charles, Edward Enninful Organizations: British Vogue Locations: Casa Cipriani, Manhattan, “ Buckingham

☆ He Expresses Himself Through Art. She Through Math.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The last weekend of February, Sharif Hussein Farrag, a ceramic artist, raced colorful clay rats that he sculpted and placed on motorized vehicles around a sports field outside the Santa Monica Airport. The performative art piece was part of Frieze Los Angeles, a weekend-long contemporary art show, and Mr. Farrag, dressed in a white racing suit and waving a black and white checkered racing flag, explained to the steady stream of art critics, artists, collectors and spectators that it symbolized the “rat race” of capitalism. “It was a lot of attention,” said Mr. Farrag, 30, who is currently represented by François Ghebaly, a gallery in Los Angeles, but was doing this piece for the Art Production Fund, which supports public art projects across the country. “I was on display with my art.”But that was just the beginning of a whirlwind week. A week later, on March 9, he was at the Eden Garden Bar and Grill, a restaurant in Pasadena, Calif., marrying Alexandra Ann Plzak, 27, his girlfriend since college.

Persons: Sharif Hussein Farrag, Farrag, ”, François Ghebaly, Alexandra Ann Plzak Organizations: Santa Monica Airport, Art, Fund, Eden Garden Locations: Los Angeles, Eden, Pasadena , Calif

☆ Choosing to Skip Sex and Go Straight to I.V.F.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In February, in vitro fertilization, or I.V.F., was thrown into the spotlight when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos in the state should be considered children. The decision led to a pause on I.V.F. procedures in parts of the state, and even a pause on shipping embryos out of state, to avoid potential criminal liability. At least 12 million babies have been born globally using I.V.F. Dr. Alan Copperman, the chief executive of RMA of New York, a fertility center, is one of many doctors seeing more couples, who are well aware of the challenges of conceiving and carrying a healthy baby to full term, skip sex and go straight to I.V.F.

Persons: Couples, Alan Copperman Organizations: Alabama, National Committee, Technologies, American College of Obstetricians Locations: United States, New York

☆ In Los Angeles, Even an Art Fair Is Really About the Parties
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“I think Frieze is fantastic,” James Corden said. “I went to the one in London before anyone in L.A. even knew what it was.”It was Tuesday in Los Angeles, and Mr. Corden, the former late-night host who now lives in London, was standing inside the Holmby Hills home of Jimmy Iovine, the co-founder of Interscope Records and the former chief executive of Beats Electronics. About 225 people had gathered for an art auction hosted by Mr. Iovine and Dr. Dre and organized by Sotheby’s. The event was part of a week of art talks, exhibitions and dinners culminating in Frieze Los Angeles, a four-day contemporary art fair held at the Santa Monica airport.

Persons: ” James Corden, “, Corden, Jimmy Iovine, Iovine, Dre Organizations: Interscope Records, Beats Electronics, Sotheby’s, Santa Locations: London, L.A, Los Angeles, Santa Monica

☆ Sundance Kicks Off With Jodie Foster, Robert Downey Jr. and Kristen Stewart
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Thursday night, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which is celebrating its 40th edition this year, was bustling. The Sundance Institute brought together a crowd of people, which included film industry players like Christopher Nolan, who found early success through the festival. The dress code, listed as “upscale mountain chic,” led to ensembles ranging from boxy sweaters to velvet suits. Guests discussed the film lineups, ate dates wrapped with bacon and drank espresso martinis. Nearby, actors and actresses posed for photographers and dredged up old festival memories.

Persons: Leon Bridges, Christopher Nolan, ” Organizations: Sundance Film, Eccles Theatre, Sundance Institute Locations: Park City , Utah, Kamas , Utah

☆ What Is a Covenant Marriage?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But with a covenant marriage, there are stricter guidelines for ending a marriage. Revelations concerning Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, and his own covenant marriage have brought the unconventional commitment arrangement into the spotlight. Covenant marriages are legally binding contracts or agreements between two people who have the intent to live together for the rest of their lives. Unlike traditional marriages, covenant marriages come with additional requirements, and ending one through divorce is more challenging. Traditional marriage allows a couple to enter the union by filling out a marriage license (among other state requirements), but with a covenant marriage, which is often rooted in religious or moral convictions, the couple must complete premarital counseling with a clergyman or therapist ahead of time.

Persons: Mike Johnson, ”, Christopher Suba, can’t Locations: America, Arizona , Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas

☆ One Partner Runs the Marathon — and the Other Does Everything Else
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Shamyla Khan-Malik was working from home on the Upper West Side last week when her husband came back from an almost two-hour run. “I was doing something a bit more important,” she added. “He loves to talk about his routes,” said Ms. Khan-Malik, 34, who is a technology consultant. “We live near Central Park, so he has many options. After dinner he usually moans about whatever muscle hurts that day, she said.

Persons: Shamyla Khan, Malik, “, ”, Khan Locations: New York City, Central Park, Morningside, Riverside

☆ My Running Club, My Everything
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Now everything I’ve experienced in New York City has been with someone from the Whippets. We go to Broadway, we go to birthday parties, we go to bars.”She said running was particularly conducive to bonding. In May, Will Truettner, 32, a creative producer who lives in the West Village, started the Village Run Club because he wanted a sober activity. The club does a three-mile run up the West Side Highway and keeps a slow pace. The run club now has eight to 10 people show up each week, which, to Mr. Truettner, feels like an ideal size.

Persons: “, ”, Sibert, It’s, Will Truettner, ” “, Truettner Organizations: Broadway Locations: New York City, West

☆ The Fine Art of Naming a Group Chat
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“The main thing is finding something that makes everybody happy and everybody laugh,” he said. “It has to be something that expresses who we are.”Mr. McLaughlin, 20, is part of so many group chats that each one has to have a name. There is a family chat (“Wally World”), multiple friend chats (“‘The’ group chat™” and “The 4.5 horseman of the apocalypse”) and class chats (Clash, short for Clash of Clans, a game played during Critical Reading and Writing). “I would never have a group chat with no name and just numbers,” he said. He estimated that he has come up with two dozen or more group chat names.

Persons: RJ McLaughlin, ”, Mr, McLaughlin, Wally, “ Organizations: Ramapo College of New Locations: Ramapo College of New Jersey

☆ The Latest Summer Fad in the Hamptons: Clay Catering on Demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Chelsea Hirschhorn organized a summer gathering in July at her house in Amagansett, N.Y., she made sure to include one party trick: pottery wheels. In addition to a pool with a zip-line, an ice cream truck and a pizza truck, there was a ceramic station with pottery wheels. This summer in the Hamptons, D.J.s aren’t the only ones doing the spinning. A semi-recent fad has taken ahold of the moneyed elite who spend their summer in the coastal destination: clay camp, in which adults and children alike can try out pottery wheels at home and at parties. Ms. Bishop started her clay catering service in the summer of 2021, when people were looking for something creative to do outside — partly because of the Covid-19 pandemic — and the business blew up in popularity this year.

Persons: Chelsea Hirschhorn, Hirschhorn, Frida, Cameron Bishop, Beau, Bishop Organizations: Chelsea, Hamptons, D.J.s Locations: Amagansett, Montauk, N.Y, Seattle

☆ Katie Couric, Anna Wintour and Danny DeVito Party Before the U.S. Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They walked a blue carpet, the same color as the famous courts. Gabriela Hearst, the fashion designer, showed up with Maria Sharapova, the tennis player. Other guests included Mike Tyson, Alec Baldwin, Gayle King, Danny DeVito, Anna Wintour, Vera Wang and Daymond John. “The end of summer always makes me a little blue,” said Katie Couric, who was the M.C. “By the end of August I always feel depressed, but coming to the U.S. Open gives me something to look forward to.”

Persons: Arthur, Gabriela Hearst, Maria Sharapova, Tommy Haas, Lindsey Vonn, Mike Tyson, Alec Baldwin, Gayle King, Danny DeVito, Anna Wintour, Vera Wang, Daymond John, David, Cheryl Scharf, ”, Katie Couric Organizations: U.S ., United States Tennis Association Foundation, U.S Locations: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, Cheryl Scharf , New York City

☆ At South Brooklyn’s Beaches, a Battle of the Buoys
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Eight years ago, Capri Djatiasmoro watched helplessly as four Jet Skis ran over her friend while he was swimming at Brighton Beach. Decades ago, a line of buoys ran parallel to the shore, marking the boundary between swimmers and boaters. “Some boat and Jet Ski drivers don’t even know there is this law,” said Ms. Djatiasmoro, 72, a retired advertising executive and avid open-water swimmer who lives in Brooklyn. “Some know, but in the open water it’s hard to tell exactly where that mark is.” Jet Skis regularly come very close to the borough’s beaches, she said, especially in the late afternoon, after lifeguards have left for the day. “I love the ocean, I love swimming, and I want to keep people safe while enjoying these things,” she said.

Persons: ”, “, Djatiasmoro, Sandy Hook Organizations: Jet, Brighton Beach, Coney Island Hospital, New York, Yorkers Locations: Coney, New York State, New York City, Brooklyn, N.J, Coney Island, Manhattan Beach

☆ Trying to Process Your Q3? Journal About It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I haven’t touched a journal since I was a kid because my mom always read them,” another participant added. It gets you where you need to go.”‘I am not a yoga teacher from Topanga’Ms. Rubin, 50, who lives in Sag Harbor, founded a company named Allswell Creative in 2015 that facilitates workshops around the world to teach people how to journal. She ran a marketing communications agency on both coasts that represented mega-fashion companies and large, bureaucratic foundations. “Because I come from a corporate background I understand the unique environment they are operating in,” she said. “I am not a yoga teacher from Topanga.”

Persons: Ms, Rubin, “ I’m, ”, “ Locations: Topanga, Sag Harbor, journaling, America

☆ Roger Federer Is Having Fun in Retirement
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Federer was involved in almost all the details, from fabric to zippers. Mr. Federer knew Mr. Anderson from mutual friends in the fashion world. “He is the hottest designer out there,” Mr. Federer said. When the idea came up for us to work together, I was very excited.”On the morning of the introduction, Mr. Federer seemed happy and relaxed as he showed off his new clothes. In the edited interview below, Mr. Federer talks about his life in retirement.

Persons: Federer, Jonathan, ‘, ”, Mr, Anderson, ” Mr, “, René Lacoste, Stan Smith

☆ How Do You Party — Barbie Style?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the ladies weren’t playing in the water, they played a game of Barbie trivia. A server dressed as Ken, served pink cocktails like dragon fruit margaritas and huckleberry Malibu rum sparklers, she said. Strawberry hummus was served, along with a Barbie cake with a doll hidden inside. “I have my vintage black-and-white Barbie swimsuit, a neon spandex swimsuit and a pink patent skirt with pink cowboy boots and a pink cowboy hat,” Ms. Lester said. “I decided I needed to do a few outfit changes, just like Barbie does.”

Persons: Shallon Lester, “ Barbie ”, ”, Ken, ” Ms, Lester, Strawberry, Ms, “ Locations: Bozeman, Mont, huckleberry

☆ No Sparklers for These Folks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some Americans, especially younger people, are rethinking whether they want to celebrate Independence Day. A survey by YouGov found that 56 percent of American adults planned to join in the festivities this year. Demi Lovato, Post Malone and Sheryl Crow are among many artists performing in CNN’s Fourth of July Special. Ja Rule is playing live at Coney Island as part of an Independence Day celebration. She was going to the Hamptons, she said, on the most packed Long Island Rail Road train she have ever been on.

Persons: ”, “, YouGov, Demi Lovato, Post Malone, Sheryl Crow, Marissa Vivori Organizations: Independence, Hamptons Locations: Navajo, Arizona, CNN’s, Coney, Manhattan

☆ Is That ‘Hava Nagila’ I’m Hearing at the Club?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It is played at least once a weekend at Calissa, a Greek restaurant in Water Mill, N.Y., that hosts big-name D.J.s and performers like Samantha Ronson and Wyclef Jean. She said she got the idea after hearing it at restaurants and beach clubs in Mykonos and Ibiza. “We did some research, and we traveled around the Mediterranean, and we heard these very chic clubs and restaurants play this song, and we loved it,” she said. “It’s a song that is about transformation and reinvention, so that is destined to keep happening,” he said. “It’s always had new lives.”The song was written in 1918 by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, a composer who believed the Jewish people needed new music at a time when Zionism and the push for a Jewish homeland were gaining strength.

Persons: Samantha Ronson, Wyclef Jean, “, ”, Kylie Monagan, Alabina, ” James Loeffler, wasn’t, “ It’s, Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, Loeffler Organizations: University of Virginia Locations: Calissa, Water Mill, N.Y, Mykonos, Ibiza

☆ At This Staten Island Garden, the Plants Are All Queer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Alice Austen House on Staten Island celebrates the life of the trailblazing photographer Alice Austen, who lived there in the mid-19th and early-20th centuries. Amid its rolling, verdant grounds and vine-covered porch, there’s also a new initiative in the works: the Queer Ecologies Garden Project. for this story, and who consulted on creating the garden. Prefer and Victoria Munro, the executive director of the Alice Austen House, aim to celebrate this widespread gender fluidity of the natural world while focusing on plants that are particularly loud and proud in their functions, or are culturally associated with the L.G.B.T.Q. “It sort of challenges the notion that being queer is a choice,” said Ms. Munro of the project.

Persons: Alice Austen House, Alice Austen, Austen, there’s, Marisa, Victoria Munro, ”, Munro Organizations: Historic Landmark, New Locations: Staten, Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, New York City

☆ Is That a Summer House I See? I’ve Missed You, We Should Catch Up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The thinly veiled casual hellos might feel suspicious to the lucky owners of a summer house (or people with primary homes in summer-positive locales). “When I post pictures of my Hamptons house, now I get 10 to 12 different people messaging me to be like, ‘Oh my God, let’s catch up,’ or ‘I need to see you this summer. When can we get together?’” said a fashion entrepreneur who has a seven-bedroom house in Sag Harbor. The entrepreneur, 39, who requested that her name not be published for fear of offending the people of whom she spoke, has had her Hamptons house for three years, and said the messages were becoming an annual occurrence. Some people with summer homes are finding ways to avoid playing host altogether.

☆ Catching Up With Celebrities in Cannes
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The amfAR Gala in Cannes, France, may be the only social event to rival the Met Gala. Held at the sprawling Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc during the Cannes Film Festival, the event raises money for AIDS research. So many models and actors showed up that the red carpet (this one was actually blue) lasted for more than three hours. Orlando Bloom was spotted in the bathroom line (yes, even celebrities have to wait in line). Lucien Laviscount (Alfie in “Emily in Paris”) showed up at his table after starters, accompanied by the actor Aidan Walsh, a close friend .

☆ The Prince With No Throne
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

VIENNA — Ferdinand Habsburg-Lothringen sometimes goes for runs around the 1,441-room Schönbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Habsburg rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He loves taking in the manicured gardens, the mazes, one of the world’s oldest zoos still in existence, and one of the largest Baroque orangeries in the world. But once in a while things can feel a little weird in a way that is unique to Mr. Habsburg. “There is a bedroom inside the palace that would have been mine if I was crown prince,” he said, noting that he knows which one it is. Before him, other ancestors ruled for more than 600 years, presiding over a vast global empire.

☆ Esa junta fue muy larga (y tal vez pudo ser un correo electrónico)
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ 6 consejos para mejorar tus reuniones de trabajo
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Camille Pissarro’s Great-Great Granddaughter Will Teach You Nude Figure Drawing Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I would look at my paintings and be like, I don’t know if I could do that.”For Ms. Pissarro, teaching art classes keeps her grounded. It returns her, she said, to the essence of making art: to use her imagination and have fun. “I love what is possible when crazy adults make things,” she said, noting that’s why she loves going to Burning Man. “Pissarro was a teacher,” she said of her great-great grandfather. “All the impressionists even had classes with each other.”Ms. Pissarro grew up in London with two siblings.

☆ Roll the Dice, Save Gotham From Climate Catastrophe!
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Alyson Krueger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A race against time — or, rather, global warming wrought by fossil fuels — the game invites four players to work together to decarbonize New York City by 2035. The challenge is rooted in reality, said Stephen Wemple, general manager of the Utility of the Future team at Con Ed, the city’s largest utility company. Kathy Hochul has mandated that 70 percent of New York State’s energy must be renewable by 2030, and 100 percent by 2040. Currently, renewable energy percentages are in the “high 20s,” he said. Energetic is the brainchild of Richard Reiss, a fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College and the founder of City Atlas, an online resource about New York City’s transition to green energy.

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