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☆ Sparks Flew All Over the World
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Lal, who had jolted him with a sense of instant attraction when they first met, was, at long last, single. Ms. Lal and Mr. Riglin are social media influencers. Mr. Riglin was there to take pictures. Both were on a fast track to accruing a million followers as travel content creators. At first, “it was just for fun, something people were starting to do,” Mr. Riglin said.

Persons: Jacob Samuel Mills Riglin, Agnieszka Ewa Lal, Lal, Riglin, Instagram, Mr Organizations: Aggie Locations: Koh Samui, Thailand, Los Angeles, New York, Abu Dhabi

☆ Worried About Youth Crime, Newark Revives an 11 P.M. Curfew
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When officials in Newark noted a recent increase in violent crime in their city, they were especially concerned about teenagers, both as perpetrators and as victims. They turned to an old-fashioned idea to keep young people out of trouble: an overnight curfew that had been on the books since 1992 but had gone largely unenforced. “Necessity is the mother of invention,” Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a recent interview. “The things we do in Newark are sometimes because we don’t have a choice. After school lets out for the summer, it will be enforced on weeknights, too.

Persons: Ras J, Baraka Locations: Newark

☆ After Living Much of Life at Sea, Captain Sandy Finds Love on Land
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sandra Dolores Yawn has been locked up, left for dead on a Florida highway and chased through the Red Sea by pirates. Not because she thought Ms. Yawn, who goes by Captain Sandy, needed her well wishes, but because she had started watching “Below Deck Mediterranean” on Bravo. Ms. Shafer had written to congratulate her on the show’s success. Yawn, 59, has been a yacht captain for more than 30 years.

Persons: Sandra Dolores Yawn, Leah Rae Shafer, Yawn, Captain Sandy, Shafer, Ms, “, ” Organizations: Facebook, Bravo, ” Locations: Florida, Dundee, Fla, Bradenton

☆ No Religion? At These Faith-Based Retirement Communities, No Problem.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before Helen Leddy moved to Shell Point Retirement Community in Fort Myers, Fla., last year, she got the lowdown on the place from her best friend, Judy Burget. Ms. Leddy, 86, wasn’t interested in leaving her condo if it meant adopting one part of the culture Shell Point emphasized on its website: “If you go online, you see they’re built around religion,” she said. As a Unitarian Universalist who grew up Jewish, Ms. Leddy was concerned that the denomination that founded Shell Point, the evangelical Christian and Missionary Alliance, might promote values that did not match hers, and that her new neighbors might proselytize. Ms. Burget, who has lived at Shell Point for six years, told her that wasn’t going to happen. Faith-based communities like Shell Point, which was established in 1968, generally don’t insist that residents subscribe to the religion that shaped the communities, according to Katie Smith Sloan, the president and chief executive of LeadingAge, an association of nonprofit providers of aging services.

Persons: Helen Leddy, Judy Burget, Leddy, wasn’t, ”, Burget, Katie Smith Sloan Organizations: Retirement, Unitarian, Shell, Christian, Missionary Alliance, Shell Point Locations: Fort Myers, Fla, Shell

☆ He Had Her at the Baby Moose
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In June 2021, Francis Charles Marley checked out Ashleé Michele Miller’s Match.com profile, but clicked away without so much as a like. She would have let it go if the app hadn’t pictured him cradling a baby moose in the middle of a raging Alaskan river. Ms. Miller, 35, was riding out the pandemic at her parents’ house in Reidsville, N.C., when Mr. Marley thumbed past her profile. In New York, where she had lived since 2006, sorting through men had started to feel like a part-time job. But in North Carolina, “my mom said, ‘You have to keep dating,’” she said.

Persons: Francis Charles Marley, Ashleé Michele Miller’s Match.com, Miller, Marley, ‘, ’ ”, “ Organizations: Juilliard, Adelphi University, City University of New, Deco Locations: Reidsville, N.C, Manhattan, City University of New York, New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts

☆ A Wedding Do-Over After a Broken Heart (Not the Kind You’re Thinking)
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

From his gurney, as sirens wailed, Mr. Newell signed their marriage certificate. Major medical decisions awaited them, and he wanted Dr. Amundson to make them as his wife. Dr. Amundson, a resident in pediatrics, had already been the one to decide that Mr. Newell was in no shape to continue the wedding celebration. “She instantly recognized something else was wrong,” Mr. Newell said. Dr. Zia just happened to be on call at the hospital that night.

Persons: Erika Frances Amundson, Eli Brownlie Newell, gurney, Newell, Amundson, Mr, Stephanie Zia, Zia Organizations: Angeles General Medical, Angeles’s Arts District, Keck School of Medicine, U.S.C

☆ How Their Corporate Speak Turned Into a Language of Love
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The message he finally got back six weeks later wasn’t quite as playful. “I’m thinking he’s going to be like, ‘Hey, Big Papa,’” Mr. McCaskill said with a laugh. Though the corporate speak they settled into just after wasn’t exactly a love language, Mr. McCaskill, then an independent diversity, equity and inclusion consultant in Harlem, felt a tug to pay it forward. Especially one who was younger.”Mr. McCaskill, 46, told Mr. Johnson, 30, to send him his résumé. “I was at a crossroads,” Mr. Johnson said, about a potential move between corporate jobs in Atlanta, where he lived.

Persons: Andrew McCaskill, Marcus Dwayne Johnson’s, he’s, Big Papa, ’, McCaskill, “ Marcus, Hi Drew, ”, ” Mr, Johnson, “, Mr Locations: Harlem, Atlanta

☆ How the Subway’s Weekend Problem Fixer Spends His Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

New Yorkers who take the subway on Sundays may not know the name Jose LaSalle, but they might have seen him around in his orange safety vest. Mr. LaSalle, 55, is the deputy chief of weekend service diversions and coordination for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the city’s subways and buses. That makes him the person responsible for troubleshooting and handling customer complaints at stations when there are delays and service disruptions. Every Sunday that I’m not on vacation, I wake up at 5:30 a.m. As soon as I wake up, I have this habit of checking Slack. I’m checking for service diversions, things I can prep for.

Persons: Jose LaSalle, LaSalle, Janet Rosario, I’m Organizations: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit Locations: Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York City

☆ For Some Couples, Marrying on Super Bowl Weekend Is a Win
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In weddings, as in football, the will to win may be nothing without the will to prepare. That’s why Laura Arvizu and Robert Marquez, of Paso Robles, Calif., started planning their wedding in Mexico 14 months ago. “But we also wanted our guests not to miss out on an American holiday.” That is, Super Bowl LVIII, taking place in Las Vegas on Feb. 11. On Sunday, 65 wedding guests will join them for an outdoor viewing party at the same resort. “We did have a couple of people tell us, ‘I’m going to the Super Bowl and I’m so sorry,’” she said.

Persons: Laura Arvizu, Robert Marquez, “, ”, Arvizu, Marquez, ‘ I’m Organizations: Super Locations: Paso Robles, Calif, Mexico, Las Vegas

☆ Married, Finally, After Six Cancellations
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Blum and Dr. Flowers, then a resident in internal medicine at the University of Miami Hospital, had moved to Miami months earlier after receiving his M.D. Ms. Blum often traveled to Latin America for work. Dating apps were testing the fortitude of both: “I was kind of giving up hope,” Dr. Ms. Blum didn’t have much hope to begin with.

Persons: Daniela Llorente Blum, Robert Costigan Flowers, Blum, Flowers, . Flowers, “, Ms, ” Organizations: Biscayne, University of Miami Hospital, Tulane University Locations: Manhattan, hustled, Murray Hill, South Florida, Bogotá, Colombia, Latin America, Miami, America

☆ How Married Indie Pop Musicians Spend Their Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ian Devaney and Aidan Noell, the married couple behind the indie pop trio Nation of Language, have been on a roll since they asked friends and family to fund their debut record in 2018 in lieu of wedding gifts. Whether they’re home or on the road, though, “Ian and I lead a very conjoined life,” Ms. Noell said. DIVISION OF LABORDevaney: Usually our cat wakes us up at 5 a.m., looking for breakfast. Aidan doesn’t typically get out of bed for that. If I do fall back to sleep, Aidan wakes up first.

Persons: Ian Devaney, Aidan Noell, Stephen Colbert, ”, “, Alex MacKay, doesn’t, Devaney, Noell, “ Ian, Ms, Aidan doesn’t, Aidan Organizations: Brooklyn Steel, Rockefeller Center, East Coast Locations: East, East Coast ., Prospect Lefferts

☆ How Tamron Hall Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I start looking at the layout of the show and thinking about if I’m going to ad-lib an intro for a guest. On Sundays I’ll usually roast two drumsticks, and he either eats it whole or I’ll put it in spaghetti or lasagna or sometimes it’s chicken mac and cheese. BED PREP, DINNER PREP One of us sits at the dinner table and eats with my son. I do a lot of the prep work on Saturday night. SPLIT SCREENS After dinner, I’m a binge-watcher of TV.

Persons: it’s Locations: It’s

☆ Making Sweet, and Bittersweet, Music Together
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By the time he had reached his early 20s, another of his select few passions was consuming him: his relationship with his girlfriend, Vanessa Rodrigues Moody. Six months later, when she was a senior and he had graduated and moved to Baltimore to start a doctoral degree in music, neither was sure what would become of their budding romance. “I was terrified,” Dr. Repper said. “But I was also all in.”Dr. Repper grew up in Laguna Niguel, Calif., with a younger sister, Danielle. His mother, Dr. Claudia Repper, is an emergency room doctor.

Persons: Michael Eric Repper’s, Vanessa Rodrigues Moody, Repper, Moody, Paul, Weiss, Garrison, “, ”, Dr, Danielle, Claudia Repper, David Repper, Marilyn Smith Organizations: Stanford, Pacific Symphony Locations: American, Rifkind, Wharton, Baltimore, Laguna Niguel, Calif, Costa Mesa

☆ A Hairless Cat and Nickelback. What Could Be More Romantic?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On Sept. 26, 2021, Colin Ernest Barkell spotted Kayla Dianne Pecchioni stroking her hairless kitten at a screening of the Tony Awards. Especially to the cat. By the time “Moulin Rouge!” had racked up its final award that night, he was halfway in love with the blanket-swaddled kitten in Ms. Pecchioni’s arms. Three nights later, he fell fully in love with Ms. Pecchioni. Mr. Barkell and Ms. Pecchioni, who reside in Harlem, are performing artists.

Persons: Colin Ernest Barkell, Kayla Dianne Pecchioni, ”, Pecchioni, Barkell, Sugar Kane Organizations: Vaudeville Locations: Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Harlem, Broadway’s, Irish

☆ Vowing Till Death Do Us Part at the Hotel That Inspired ‘The Shining’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Only a handful of couples who plan well in advance are greenlit for their October celebrations, said John Cullen, the Stanley’s owner. The spookiness of the place is the allure for many couples, said Shayna Papke, a popular local planner for Halloween season weddings at the Stanley. “They’re the outliers who like dark music and dark stories. “Nothing says I love you like murdering your wife and kids, like in ‘The Shining,’ right?” Ms. Pingel, said jokingly. She worked with Ms. Papke to orchestrate their Friday the 13th wedding at the Pavilion, one of three indoor wedding spaces on the sprawling grounds.

Persons: John Cullen, Grady, Shayna Papke, “, ”, They’re, Stanley, ” Mr, Cullen, Pingel, Papke Organizations: Stanley Locations: Estes

☆ How an Urban Forager Spends Her Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The urban forager Aly Stoffo leads excursions on Staten Island through her business, Glam Gardener NYC, and is a regular at farmers’ markets across New York and New Jersey, where she sells teas and tinctures made with the plants she harvests. Her Sundays can be chaotic. Ms. Stoffo, 28, is among five Staten Islanders whose portrait was painted by the artist Sarah Yuster for “Vulnerable Landscapes,” an exhibition that runs through December at the Staten Island Museum. The portraits highlight the work of locals working to promote a deeper understanding of the island’s flora, fauna and ecology. She lives in her childhood home with her father and older brother.

Persons: Aly Stoffo, ”, Stoffo, Sarah Yuster Organizations: Glam Gardener, Staten Islanders, Staten Island Museum Locations: Staten, New York, New Jersey

☆ For Disabled Couples, a Plea for Marriage Equality
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | Kyna Uwaeme | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On Wednesday afternoon, 20 couples gathered in front of a stage at the National Mall in Washington to recite their commitment vows. Some brides had on white gowns while grooms wore top hats. Others donned orange T-shirts printed with the words “Disability Rights Are Human Rights.”“We would like to get married and be able to go to the doctor,” they chanted in unison. “We would like to get married and not end up living in a cardboard box.”Their combined voices might not have been loud enough for lawmakers at the Capitol, visible in the distance, to hear. But that, too, is something the couples and about 80 supporters who watched the Disabled Marriage Equality Now rally from lawn chairs would have liked.

Persons: ” Locations: Washington

☆ When ‘the Academic Girl’ Meets ‘the Popular Guy’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kimberly Ann Alexander’s friends had urged her to do some fine-tuning of her Hinge profile when she joined in May 2020. “I kept getting pushback, like, ‘That’s not going to help you get to know anyone,’” she said. “You can’t actually multitask,” she wrote. For him, the fact’s randomness, combined with her lighthearted answers to other prompts, spelled jackpot. I was like, ‘That’s the girl for me.’”Dr. Alexander wasn’t sure, however, that he was the guy for her when they met for a first date on June 28, 2020, at Bryant Park in Manhattan.

Persons: Kimberly Ann Alexander’s, “, That’s, ’ ”, Alexander, ”, ’, Dr, Alexander wasn’t Locations: Bryant, Manhattan

☆ A Fifth Grade Crush Revisited
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Christopher William Anderson knows firsthand that being a marriage therapist is no guarantee your marriage won’t break up. His own first marriage ended in divorce more than a decade after he started counseling couples in 1979 in his home state of Texas. Mr. Anderson and Ms. Winter, both 70, met as fifth graders in 1963, at Will Rogers Elementary School in Houston. A few days into the school year, Ms. Winter was transferred to Mr. Anderson’s class because her own homeroom was overfilled. “He was the sweetest boy, the most beautiful boy, with beeswax in his combed-back hair.”

Persons: Christopher William Anderson, Joan Elizabeth Winter, Anderson, Winter, ”, Collins Organizations: Will Rogers Elementary School, Mr Locations: Texas, Top , Texas, Houston, Austin , Texas

☆ A Happiness That Took 90 Years to Achieve
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“He was in the choir, and I was in the pews,” Mr. Felts said. Mr. Jones was able to square his sexuality with church doctrine; Mr. Felts was not. He never said goodbye to Mr. Jones, though Mr. Felts was sure by then he was the love of his life. Over the years, Mr. Felts would intermittently search for Mr. Jones in every California phone book he could get his hands on. “I called every Phillip Jones and every P. Jones I could find,” he said.

Persons: don’t, ”, Phillip Jones, Felts, Mr, Jones, “ Organizations: Navy, University of Kansas, of, Dodge Locations: Long Beach, Calif, California, Dodge City

☆ A Retirement Puzzle: Turning Over Control of Your Money
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Elliott Appel, a financial planner in Madison, Wis., and the founder of Kindness Financial Planning, helps families, often caregivers, navigate shifting roles and responsibilities. An introduction lets him know whom to reach out to in case of trouble. “Then it becomes: First let’s acknowledge that this is going to be a challenging conversation, because most people don’t want to give up control of their money,” Mr. Appel said. Once that hurdle is cleared, a talk about designating a trusted contact, or someone who will eventually take over, can take shape. In some cases, the trusted contact can start with a few tasks, then take on more responsibilities as time goes on, he said.

Persons: Elliott Appel, ”, ” Mr, Appel Organizations: American Medical Locations: Madison, Wis

☆ She Dreamed of Love at Whole Foods, but Twitter Proved a Better Option
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For Mr. McCalpin, relationships in his 20s and 30s had been “interesting,” he said. On her first day there, they walked through the Atlanta Botanical Garden and got foot massages at Treat Your Feet Buckhead, which Mr. McCalpin had prearranged. Ms. Carter’s best friend of 30 years, the writer and producer Jemele Hill, felt a sense of relief when she met Mr. McCalpin on a trip to New York for the ESPY Awards. “Kelley is the type of person who’s exuberant about love,” Ms. Hill said. “There were plenty of times I told her to slow down, take it easy, be a little more cautious.

Persons: ”, Carter, McCalpin, Carter’s, Jemele Hill, “ Kelley, Hill, Moreno, Kelley Organizations: Atlanta Botanical Locations: Atlanta, “, New York

☆ ‘Happy Together,’ Yet Still Indifferent About Marriage
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dianne Cox and Michael Cammer don’t particularly like being married, which is not to say they dislike it. “We’re happy together,” Mr. Cammer said. A happy couple gets married and it doesn’t screw up their relationship.” Neither ever bought into the idea that love and marriage were a package deal, or that one should automatically lead to the other. Dr. Cox and Mr. Cammer are scientists, which might explain their ultrarational approach toward their relationship. Dr. Cox is a professor of developmental and molecular biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.

Persons: Dianne Cox, Michael Cammer don’t, Cox, Cammer, “ We’re, ” Mr, “, ”, Einstein Organizations: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NYU Langone Health Locations: New Rochelle, N.Y, Bronx

☆ How a Mentor to At-Risk Young Men Spends His Sundays
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Before Toddrick Brockington got his job at the Henry Street Settlement, a nonprofit that supports Lower East Side residents, he served 26 years in prison for homicide. Sometimes I lay there; sometimes I stand in the window and look out and try to orient myself for the day. That’s a peaceful time for me, because it’s like I’m the only one up and I have the world to myself. I’m in the process of reading “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell for the third time. When I went to prison, I didn’t have a G.E.D., so I obtained my G.E.D.

Persons: Toddrick Brockington, ”, Brockington, Malcolm Gladwell, Henry, James Allen Organizations: Henry, Henry Street, La Guardia, Reading Locations: Lower, Side, West, Bronx, La

☆ A Bond Built Over Coffee Leads to Success in Love and Business
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Tammy Lagorce | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Erics Kun was fighting yawns the first few times he and Sahra Nguyen got together in the fall of 2016. After staying up all night in his bartending job, he couldn’t pass up the chance to see her for early morning coffee. Ms. Nguyen, whose family is from Vietnam, is the founder and chief executive of Nguyen Coffee Supply, which combines her appreciation for a bold cup of joe with her culture. Cafes in cities including New York and San Francisco use the company’s beans for their Vietnamese iced coffee. Inspiration for the brand, which started taking shape in 2016 before becoming official in 2018, arrived courtesy of the Brooklyn coffee shops Ms. Nguyen once hung out in as an independent documentary producer, writer and director.

Persons: Erics Kun, Sahra Nguyen, ” Mr, Kun, ‘, I’d, Ms, Nguyen Organizations: Nguyen Coffee, Foods Locations: Bushwick , Brooklyn, Vietnam, New York, San Francisco, Brooklyn

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