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In Praise of Unfinished Basements
They afford us the privileges of escape and reinvention — a place where life is more than what it seemed on the surface.
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Newyork
Is the Inflation Storm Letting Up?
The average national price of regular gasoline this Christmas was almost 20 cents a gallon lower than it was a year earlier. Prices at the pump are still higher than they were during the pandemic slump, when economic shutdowns depressed world oil ...
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Newyork
How Henri Matisse (and I) Got a ‘Beautiful Body’
I had an unforgettable feeling of embodiment once, when my teeth smashed through my lower left cheek. I was a professional skater training to qualify for the X Games. Skating fast down a long incline, I slipped on some water and ended up Supermanning ...
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US
It’s Noche Buena
What Christmas Eve means for these Latino and Filipino households.
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Newyork
Girl, 5, and Brother, 6, Are Killed in a Staten Island House Fire
The two were among six siblings in the home when flames engulfed the second story, officials said.
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Newyork
The Ambivalence of Advent
Advent is a season of half-light. The days are short, the night encroaches, twilight seems to start just after noon. It’s a season when many of us reach the seeming end of our capacities — too much to do and buy, too many memories and obligations ...
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Newyork
Arctic air hits New York State, along with some flooding.
As the first flakes of a predicted bomb cyclone snowstorm began to fall in New York State on Friday, officials sent out warnings for the region to brace for flooding, flash-freezing and Arctic air, cautioning that conditions would only get tougher as ...
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How Californians Are Celebrating the Holidays
Christmas In-N-Out burgers, tree-cutting traditions and, of course, chilly walks on the beach.
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Books
Cathedral of St. John Finally Solves a 100-Year-Old Problem
The cathedral’s dome, a tour de force of tile, was supposed to be temporary. Instead, it’s lasted more than a century. Now, after a $17 million rehab, it could last a couple hundred more.
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Senate Moves to Pass Spending Package After Immigration Dispute Initially Delayed Votes
An effort to force a vote to maintain Title 42, a pandemic-era border policy, had stalled the scramble to pass the spending package before a midnight Friday deadline.