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Make TV and Movies Weird Again
My favorite house-hunting and travel show is not on television. It’s on TikTok, from a creator going by the handle @sinisterpondbabe who has a series called “Cheap House Babe,” finding inexpensive, usually dilapidated houses in small towns across the ...
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Newyork
Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Must Unite or Die. (They’ll Probably Still Die.)
I’m not sure that an assembly of presidential candidates have ever given off stronger loser vibes, if I may use a word favored by the 45th president of the United States, than the Republicans who debated at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library this ...
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How Anthony Vaccarello Made Saint Laurent His Own
IMAGINE, IF YOU will, that it’s 2016 and you’re Anthony Vaccarello, a reserved and relatively untested fashion designer from Belgium. At 34, you’ve been hired as the new creative director of Saint Laurent, a half-century-old, billion-dollar French ...
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News
A Quest Inspired by the Pandemic Seed Shortage and a ‘Primal Fear’
When one gardener realized there was no seed available to order, she panicked and then began asking questions. Her new book offers some answers.
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Newyork
Jimmy Buffett, Roguish Bard of Island Escapism, Is Dead at 76
With songs like “Margaritaville” and “Fins,” he became a folk hero to fans known as Parrot Heads. He also became a millionaire hundreds of times over.
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Newyork
A Viral Cigarette Brand? In 2023?
You can’t buy them at any bodega or tobacco shop in New York. But Hestia is getting its smokes into the hands of “cigfluencers.”
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World
The Quest for a Crocodile Dictionary
Crocodiles may be the most vocal reptiles out there, and scientists think learning what they say to one another could help us understand them better.
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Books
Flying High at the Beach: Birds, Dancers, Michelson and Merce
With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without actual wings. They tipped forward from their hips, leaning their torsos ever so slightly forward. They stood ...
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Newyork
Enrique Tarrio and the Curious Case of the Latino White Supremacist
On Thursday, Department of Justice prosecutors threw the book at the Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio, recommending a 33-year sentence for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. If applied, this would exceed even the 18-year prison term given ...
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Newyork
Pharrell Williams Shares His Inspirations, From Henry Taylor to ‘Jabberjaw’
Pharrell Williams — the clothing designer who succeeded Virgil Abloh in February 2023, just over a year after his death, as Louis Vuitton’s men’s creative director; the Grammy-winning record producer behind such pop masterpieces as Justin Timberlake ...