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Thomas Zuniga pitched a tent in his parents' backyard over Thanksgiving to maintain social distance while still sharing the holiday. To celebrate Thanksgiving with his family this year while still maintaining social distance, Thomas Zuniga pitched a tent on the front lawn of his parents' home in northeast Georgia. He c...
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Because of this complexity, there's always more to see. (What we hear, in Glen Fogel's sound design, is mainly an amplification of the dancer's arrhythmic footfalls and breath, edged with ominous noises.) The dance accrues. The pleasure of recognition rubs against the pleasure of discovery. Each angle reveals new detai...
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This spring, as countries around the world told people to stay home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, doctors in neonatal intensive care units were noticing something strange: Premature births were falling, in some cases drastically. It started with doctors in Ireland and Denmark. Each team, unaware of the other's...
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HARTFORD Since the invention of American musical theater, lyricists seeking a rhyme for "love" have been stuck with just a few wan possibilities, including "dove," "above," the odd "glove" and the truly desperate "shove." So, first, let me congratulate Robert L. Freedman for conscripting "mazel tov" to the cause, in a ...
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Sarah Isgur Flores, a Republican spokeswoman who worked most recently for the Justice Department, has been hired by CNN to help with the network's political coverage, propelling a Trump administration official directly into a news role for a top cable network. Her hiring as a "political editor," not a commentator, led ...
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The Covid Symptom Study, developed by Zoe Global, a health science company, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital and King's College in London, had 2.5 million users who reported their symptoms in four weeks. In the absence of widespread on demand testing, public health officials across the world have be...
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"I thought, his is someone I'm going to enjoy getting to know," said Ellen Floren of Chicago. Ellen Floren was not looking for love. The criminals who lured her into an online scam last summer approached her not on a dating site, where she might have been wary, but through the neighborhood hub called Nextdoor. A man wh...
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St. Louis defenseman Alex Pietrangelo after the Blues won last year's Stanley Cup finals over Boston. This year's playoff field is expanded, but that means teams could prepare for two months to play only three games. Now that the National Hockey League has announced this week its detailed road map for returning to acti...
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Sports
Odds are you have never heard a performance of Britten's Piano Concerto, even if you're a regular concertgoer. The same holds true for another rarity, Debussy's Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra. And while Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos are staples of the repertory, his Fourth Concerto tends to turn up...
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When Donald J. Trump swore the presidential oath on Friday, he assumed responsibility not only for the levers of government but also for one of the United States' most valuable assets, battered though it may be: its credibility. The country's sentimental reverence for truth and its jealously guarded press freedoms, whi...
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At their sagging, graffiti tagged worst, the blue plywood fences that surround construction sites can be symbols of everything that went wrong in the housing bust, as stalled projects languish behind them. But for some developers, these fences can be a sign of opportunity. Rather than a stalled development, they see a ...
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Real Estate
David Korins, a creative director and designer whose work includes the set design for "Hamilton," had a challenge: designing an exhibition for Sotheby's from the large, varied family collection held at the historic Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England. He said he wondered, "How can I bring the experience of a really...
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Here's a look at the most memorable moments for better or for worse at the Oscars on Sunday, starting with Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph stealing the show. The Presenters Who Should Be Promoted to Hosts Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph were by far the funniest presenters of the night, complaining about painful high ...
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When the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, Florida's self defense law known as Stand Your Ground became the subject of much public discussion, though it was ultimately not used in court to defend the shooter, George Zimmerman. The artist Adam Pendleton nevertheless believed that the law informed the a...
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LOS ANGELES By one measure of success, the 28 year old artist Awol Erizku has possibly already peaked. In February he was revealed to be the photographer behind Beyonce's pregnancy announcement, which quickly became the most popular Instagram post ever with over 10 million likes. The image shows her kneeling in front o...
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THE RENTERS Maral Usefi and Neal Cimochowski have worked hard on their walled garden. It wasn't really a need for a larger apartment that drove Maral Usefi and Neal Cimochowski from their 350 square foot one bedroom in the West 90s. Their 2,050 monthly rent was "hard to give up," Ms. Usefi said. The cozy apartment had ...
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Real Estate
Documents released on Friday showed that the day before they dropped all charges against the actor Jussie Smollett, who had been accused of staging a hate crime, prosecutors deliberated over the precise wording of their explanation, cognizant of how the public might perceive their sudden withdrawal from the case. Accor...
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LONDON If there are any bright spots in the gloom surrounding the economy of Cyprus, one place to look would be about 170 kilometers south of the coastal city of Limassol. There, about 1,700 meters below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, is a potentially lucrative natural gas field called Aphrodite. Noble Energy, t...
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Global Business
Self driving vehicles could upend the transportation sector and eliminate a million or more jobs. Algorithms that decode M.R.I.s put a whole medical subfield at risk. And the list of professions and sectors soon to be obsolete grows steadily by the day. New technologies are rattling the economy on all fronts. While the...
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Maureen Dowd: The Washington Post does not deserve all the credit for the Pentagon Papers. Tom Hanks: True. Confirm. And when you see our movie, The New York Times gets all of its due. There is nothing better in this world than being Tom Hanks. I'm going to confirm that. And I'll tell you why: because you will not lose...
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In any given week, the art galleries of New York and there are hundreds are brimful of exhibitions showcasing works old and new, conventional and avant garde, by the established and by the just discovered. This seems especially true right now, with the international art crowd set to jet into town for Frieze New York ne...
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Rick Ludwin, the NBC executive in charge of late night programming, addressing the news media in 2009. That year Conan O'Brien became host of "The Tonight Show," replacing Jay Leno, who was given his own prime time show. A year later, Mr. Leno was back at "Tonight." Rick Ludwin, who oversaw late night programming at NB...
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They have not only played tennis in front of big crowds on the Adria Tour. They have hugged, high fived, and partied together: Some of the players even formed a line and did the limbo on a night out in Belgrade, Serbia. But the consequences have quickly become much more serious than the mood with two of the tour's main...
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When Ziad Ghandour was planning to build a dream house for his family in Los Angeles he decided to go big really big. At 35,500 square feet, the home would be one of the largest in a city filled with large homes. Now, nearly a decade and 20 million later, Mr. Ghandour said his dream house has turned out to be a nightma...
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Real Estate
MADRID Spain's banking crisis has moved into the courtroom. On Wednesday, a Spanish national court judge ordered Rodrigo Rato, a political ally of Spain's prime minister and former head of the International Monetary Fund, to appear in court to face criminal fraud accusations over his recent stewardship of the giant mor...
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Re "Sanders Is Winner in New Hampshire" (front page, Feb. 12): Bernie Sanders is the dream candidate for Donald Trump. He is not even a real Democrat and never got any significant legislation passed in the Senate. He talks about health care and a free education for all, but would have no legislative pull to bring that ...
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How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? None Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, our TV critic Margaret Lyons offers hyper specific viewing recommendations in our Watching newsletter. Read her latest picks below, and sign up for the Watching newsletter here. This weekend I have ... a few hours, and I want to e...
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None Tracy Nguyen for The New York Times Now Lives: In a five bedroom house in Hidden Hills, Calif. , with two roommates. Claim to Fame: Mx. Adams, who identifies as gender nonconforming, is an artist who works as the creative director for SZA, the Grammy nominated singer songwriter. "A lot of my work is trying to figu...
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Celebrating the close of its 50th anniversary season, Boston Ballet has come to Lincoln Center with two programs at the David H. Koch Theater. The second program, which opens on Friday, includes two masterpieces of different stages of radical modernism, Vaslav Nijinsky's 1912 "Afternoon of a Faun" and George Balanchine...
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Having migraine headaches increases the risk for cardiovascular diseases, a new study has found. Using the Danish National Patient Registry, researchers matched 51,032 people with migraines, 71 percent of them women, with 510,320 people in the general population without migraines. The subjects were, on average, age 35 ...
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The movie tackles multitudinous themes in its roughly 100 minutes, from the significance of Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, to the legacy of racism in predatory bank lending practices. But what's most impressive is the amount of space Peoples's black female characters inhabit in ...
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Anyone who has experienced the unbearable closeness of voting in the House of Representatives knows it's a health hazard, even under normal conditions. As soon as bells buzz across the Capitol, 435 House members, on a good day, (plus delegates) race to the floor. The fastest option the "members only" elevators each com...
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The Online Gene Test Finds a Dangerous Mutation. It May Well Be Wrong. Dr. Joshua Clayton, a 29 year old radiology resident at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, wanted to learn about his ancestry. So he sent a sample of his saliva to 23andMe, the genetic testing company. His report was pretty mundane no new r...
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Health
Maybe it's never too late to tweak a movie or to try. In December, after "Cats" had opened, the beleaguered musical encountered fresh derision when word spread that Universal was shipping theaters a new version with improved effects. "Sonic the Hedgehog" didn't undergo tinkering beyond the 11th hour, but until now, thi...
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The shift in American fashion continues. Diane von Furstenberg, creator of the wrap dress, empowerer of women and founder of the company that bears her name, has named a presumptive heir and he is a man. On Monday, Ms. von Furstenberg announced that she had appointed the Scottish designer Jonathan Saunders as chief cre...
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Fashion & Style
European lawmakers barraged Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday with a litany of questions about his company's global power, its role in elections and its misuse of user data. One even raised the prospect of breaking up the social media giant. But the meeting in Brussels ended with members of the Eu...
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PARIS On March 3, 1927, on a cold, windswept beach in Wales, John G. Parry Thomas, a working class engineer, steeled himself to set a land speed record. The year before, he'd pushed the mark to 169 miles per hour, then to 171. But his aristocratic archrival, Sir Malcolm Campbell, reached 174, and just a month later Par...
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Have you ever wondered how a play gets turned into a movie? Or do you just want to hear your favorite stars talk about filmmaking? The latest episode of Offstage, The New York Times streaming event series on theater, explored the journey from stage to screen through several of the most anticipated films nearing release...
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Exposure to air pollution in the womb is associated with an increased risk for high blood pressure in childhood, researchers report. The study, in the journal Hypertension, measured air pollution exposure in 1,293 pregnant women by matching each mother's address with readings from the nearest air quality monitor. Resea...
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The dirt bikes and their exuberant operators are the saving grace and joy of the sincere if overstuffed drama "Charm City Kings." These aren't just any rides and riders. They're more like horses and cowboys, with wild moves and flamboyant tricks that can bring to mind a rodeo show. At other times, though, when a partic...
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A new Starz series follows a group of Los Angeles millennials. And Janelle Monae, SZA and Yolanda Adams are among the performers at an Aretha Franklin tribute show on CBS. NOW APOCALYPSE 9 p.m. on Starz. If you have premium cable, you might as well enjoy the freedom it offers filmmakers who want to explore adult matter...
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WASHINGTON Over the last year, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a Milwaukee group that has financed decades of research into curbing the power of public sector unions, hired three new staff members: a fund raiser, an administrative aide and a program officer. It enlisted a recruiting outfit called Talent Market,...
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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. 'One of the Healthiest Dictat...
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MENLO PARK, CALIF. Ann Lam delicately places a laboratory slide holding a slice of brain from a living human onto a small platform in a room the size of a walk in refrigerator. She closes a heavy door and turns to a row of computers to monitor her experiments. She is using one of the world's most sophisticated and powe...
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The auction will also feature a handful of early motorcycles, including a pair of 1911 Indian 4 horsepower Singles, a 1909 Indian 5 horsepower Light Twin and a 1914 Indian "Hendee Special" 7 horsepower Twin, all in unrestored condition. There will also be a rather strange two wheeled entry a 1978 Transitron Mk II Elect...
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ATHENS, Ohio For hundreds of grown men and women here, work can mean sticking fingers into models of the human mouth, or trying to talk while peering at their tongues in mirrors or while hopping up and down stairs. They are foreign graduate students at Ohio University who are spending up to two hours a day learning how...
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A German historian said in new research that The Associated Press, the international news organization based in New York, formally cooperated with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, including the employment of a photographer who worked for a Nazi propaganda division. The research by Harriet Scharnberg, of Martin Luther Univers...
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But also: Why is she telling us this? That's one of those critical questions that unfailingly sound grumpy and pedagogical, yet I never did figure out the answer. I don't think Ms. Baron ("A Very Common Procedure") did either. "I'm sorry. I really am," Ginnifer says to the audience in her Texan lilt, sounding confused....
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The British artist Damien Hirst will exhibit new works from his series of spot paintings at a stately home in Britain. The exhibition, titled "Colour Space," will open in March at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, in the southeast of England; the mansion was built in the 1720s for Britain's first prime minister, Robert Walpole...
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Art & Design
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow in the 1980s with, from left, Fletcher, Dylan (in Farrow's arms), Moses, and Soon Yi. A look at major events in the complicated history of the director, his children and the Farrow family as a new documentary revisits the case. For years, the account given by Woody Allen's then 7 year old ado...
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When Donna Adelsberg ran into her best friend's ex husband at the supermarket a few years ago, she intended to leave him standing by the deli with his pastrami and her cold shoulder. "I hadn't seen him in years, and I had pictured all these things I would say to him if I ever saw him," said Ms. Adelsberg of Lutherville...
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Fashion & Style
A new study offers important information to men who are facing difficult decisions about how to treat prostate cancer in its early stages, or whether to treat it at all. Researchers followed patients for 10 years and found no difference in death rates between men who were picked at random to have surgery or radiation, ...
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Health
Dan Flavin's outsize light sculpture looked like a luminous frame. Not one to miss an opportunity, Tara Subkoff posed strategically in front of it, its rectangular shape and pastel fluorescence complementing the candied pink of her Simone Rocha dress. "There's an optimism to this piece," Ms. Subkoff said. That suited h...
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Style
The actor Santino Fontana had his legs waxed for the first time last year. His chest, too. He mastered, mostly, how to walk in heels and riddled out which lipsticks flatter him. (He's an autumn. Clearly.) Last spring, during a turn in "Hello, Dolly!" he brought Bernadette Peters pictures of himself in a variety of wome...
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Theater
MOSCOW After years of delay, the largest oil field outside the Middle East started producing crude on Monday, offering a valuable new deposit to meet the world's rising energy needs. The first oil to flow from the Kashagan field, in Kazakhstan, was just a trickle. But a consortium of oil companies, including Exxon Mobi...
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Global Business
Victoria Smith, who has the design blog SF Girl , used Benjamin Moore's Onyx on her home in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. New on the Block: The Little Black House A year ago, partly in response to the election, I began compiling pictures of black houses on Pinterest and persuaded my husband that we should ...
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These new Earth size planets orbit a dwarf star named Trappist 1 about 40 light years from Earth. Some of them could have water on their surfaces. Not just one, but seven Earth size planets that could potentially harbor life have been identified orbiting a tiny star not too far away, offering the first realistic opport...
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Among all the world's uncertainties, at least one matter seems settled: Batteries and electric motors will have a major role in powering the cars and trucks of our future. What is far less certain is how large that role will be, or how quickly the shift to electrification will happen. The trend of electric powered cars...
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For years, the 11th and 12 arrondissements, two formerly quiet, working class neighborhoods in eastern Paris, have been the preferred location for the French capital's best young chefs. Why? Affordable apartments assure a hungry young clientele for the new restaurateurs who choose the area for its low rent commercial s...
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Travel
The flu vaccine is more effective than expected, federal health officials said on Thursday at a special news conference held to discuss the dangerous flu season, which is expected to kill more than 50,000 Americans. This year's vaccine is about 25 percent effective against the H3N2 strain of flu that is causing most il...
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Health
Who Needs a Ring to Propose When There Are Puppies and Paintings? Forget the diamond engagement ring. These days, anything from a leaf to a puppy will do the job, as couples seek out ways to create their own love narrative from the very beginning. "Customization is at an unprecedented level among couples who are engage...
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Fashion & Style
The Wall Street Journal is conducting a review of hundreds of articles by Jay Solomon, who was the paper's chief foreign affairs correspondent. He was fired on Wednesday after evidence emerged that he had possibly become entangled in the commercial dealings of an Iranian born aviation titan who was a key source for som...
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After an extended hiatus, HBO announced late Thursday that it is bringing back its anthology series "True Detective" for a third season. Only a few details are known but the Oscar winner Mahershala Ali will star in the series, playing a state detective in Northwest Arkansas as a crime plays out in the Ozarks. "True Det...
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Three of the nation's major drug manufacturers sued the Trump administration on Friday to block a rule that would force them to put the price of their drugs in television advertisements beginning this summer. The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Washington, D.C., by Merck, Eli Lilly and Amgen, as well as a tra...
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Health
SAN DIEGO At lunchtime on a Thursday, people seated at picnic tables dotting the Quartyard sip coffee from Meshuggah Shack. Music wafts from speakers, and the scent of sausages from S M Sausage and Meat fills the air. As the day wears on, the scene will fill out, and coffee will give way to craft beer served from a bar...
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Real Estate
Your personality in high school may help predict your risk of dementia decades later. Researchers reached this conclusion using a 150 item personality inventory given to a national sample of teenagers in 1960. The survey assessed character traits sociability, calmness, empathy, maturity, conscientiousness, self confide...
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Jon Gibson, a saxophonist and composer who played a foundational role in Minimalist music, died on Oct. 11 in Springfield, Mass. He was 80. The cause was complications of a brain tumor, said his son, Jeremy Gibson, a musician with whom he frequently collaborated. Jon Gibson, who also played flute and keyboards, was bes...
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A Chelsea brownstone at , which was built in 1840 but reinvented for the 21st century as a svelte townhouse, sold for 16 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records. The property taxes for the 5,000 square foot residence, which provides an additional 1,000 square feet of outdoor livin...
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Now Lives: In a 1950s two bedroom apartment in West Hollywood, Calif. Claim to Fame: Mr. Yang is an online personality and film director who is best known for his role on BuzzFeed's "The Try Guys." The show blends whimsical humor with earnest social commentary through outlandish scenarios, like simulating labor pains a...
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One Traveler May Have Brought Zika to the Americas in 2013 The Zika virus now spreading widely throughout the hemisphere probably arrived in the Americas in a single traveler in the second half of 2013 almost a year earlier than previous estimates according to a new study of the virus's genome led by Brazilian and Brit...
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Exposure to Zika while pregnant does not mean a child definitely will be born with microcephaly, an unusually small brain and head, or have Zika related health problems. But the risk is real, and pediatricians are trying to figure out how to follow these children, and how to take care of the ones who do have problems. ...
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Typically, David Lee Roth spends his days, or at least his nights, "in tactical spandex, moving at 134 beats per minute," he said. But now the 65 year old Van Halen singer is just like the rest of us: stuck at home and obsessing about pandemics. However, the past few months in quarantine have led Roth to an old pursuit...
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SAN FRANCISCO When Facebook employees woke up on Wednesday morning, many found they could not perform even the most basic work tasks. Their calendars were not working. Nor were campus maps that help people find their co workers. They were unable to check Facebook's latest shuttle bus schedule. And they could not see wh...
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Technology
Dorothy Malone with Rock Hudson in the 1956 movie "Written on the Wind." Ms. Malone won an Academy Award for her performance. Dorothy Malone, the sultry blond actress who won an Academy Award for playing an unapologetically bad girl in "Written on the Wind" and found television stardom as a repentant one on "Peyton Pla...
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Simon Marsov, a 25 year old management consultant from Moscow, flew to the resort town of Sousse, Tunisia, by the Mediterranean last summer because he wanted to experience a foreign place on the cheap. Lalioui Faouzi, a 26 year old dentist from Algiers, said he made the 11 hour drive in late summer to Hammamet, another...
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HOW TO MURDER YOUR LIFE A Memoir By Cat Marnell 374 pp. Simon Schuster. 26.99. ALL THE LIVES I WANT Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers By 242 pp. Grand Central Publishing. 26. There was a moment, sometime between 2008 and 2010, when a woman's insides her exploits, her eating habits, her feel...
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For Mona Chalabi, 33, a Brooklyn based artist and illustrator, data has been a special kind of solace during the pandemic. "Let's say I'm really freaking out about Covid I'll remind myself of what the case rate is per 100,000 residents rather than looking at these overall numbers," she said in a recent interview over Z...
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Art & Design
From left: Barbara Garrick and Laurence Lau (with Liam Craig at right) as old acquaintances who reconnect in middle age in "Later Life." So much that was written by A. R. Gurney, the very American playwright who died last year at 86, could have been subtitled "Death of a Dinosaur." Not that anything as apocalyptic as a...
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The most unsettling clown I saw this year was not the Joker or Pennywise, but a well meaning jerk named Nate. Played by Natalie Palamides in drag, with hair drawn on her exposed chest, Nate rode a small motorcycle onto the Bell House stage in Brooklyn in June, stopping to chug beers, swing an ax, and wrestle and grope ...
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Credit...Andrew Mangum for The New York Times Where Has Your Tween Been During the Pandemic? On This Gaming Site When her middle school closed in March, Garvey Mortley stopped going to lacrosse practice and playing drums in the school band. With so much time at home, she leaned into another interest: Roblox, an online ...
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It's often useful to prepare for a concert by checking out past recordings by a composer or ensemble. But it can also be fun to attend a show blind, with no informational baggage. On Tuesday, I took the unprepared route to a concert by the Bozzini Quartet, the first installment of this year's Time Spans festival, which...
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The city of Bakersfield, Calif. emerged in the 1950s to rival Nashville as the place defining country music. The Bakersfield sound clung tenaciously to country's most twangy, sinewy elements bluegrass, Western swing, honky tonk, rockabilly to accompany lean, down to earth, working class storytelling. Buck Owens and Mer...
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In 1988, the Japanese director Isao Takahata broke new ground in animation with "Grave of the Fireflies," an almost unbearably grim story of children in a devastated post World War II Kobe. That picture used the medium of animation not just to depict the deprivation and suffering of its young characters, but also to sh...
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As Amanda Seales strode into Ginny's Supper Club, the nightspot under the Red Rooster in Harlem on a recent Thursday, a young woman pulled her aside, saying, "You are fabulous, honey." At the fan's request, the two took a pout perfect selfie. "Tag me," said Ms. Seales, an actress, comedian, writer, producer, hip hop ar...
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Fashion & Style
Behind black doors, what used to be a trendy restaurant in New York had been stripped to its concrete bones. Wires and cables snaked along the floor. Ceiling lights twinkled in the gloom. There was no sign of the brand behind the renovation: Pepsi. Known for its beverages, Pepsi is now moving into the restaurant busine...
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These may be the last days in office for Josep Maria Bartomeu, Barcelona's embattled, unpopular president. An insurgent group, frustrated by the decline of the team and furious at how close the club came to losing the star forward Lionel Messi, has succeeded in collecting the signatures of more than 16,000 members requ...
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When the Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer Carla Korbes announced in 2014 that she would retire at the end of the next season, at 33, it came as a bit of a shock. Ms. Korbes, whose performances were a marvel of musicality and clarity, surely had many more years of dancing ahead of her. New Yorkers were especial...
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Where she goes, they follow. All 76 of them. A female duck in Minnesota has about six dozen ducklings in her care, a remarkable image that an amateur wildlife photographer captured on a recent trip to Lake Bemidji, about 150 miles northwest of Duluth, Minn. "It was mind blowing," the photographer, Brent Cizek, said in ...
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HarperCollins released the cover for Harper Lee's highly anticipated new novel, "Go Set a Watchman," on Wednesday, and hinted at new details about the book. The cover a classic and melancholy image of a dark tree with sparse yellow leaves against a dusky blue sky, with a train approaching from the distance is emblemati...
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Balletomanes care about dancers more than choreography and American Ballet Theater's annual season at the Metropolitan Opera House is geared for balletomania. Most productions are given a weeklong block of performances, with different casts at each one. Aisles in the theater are often animated, with keen debates about ...
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When Pearl River Mart opened its doors as a tiny downtown store peddling Chinese knickknacks in 1971, few if any businesses in New York and in the country sold goods imported from the Chinese mainland. Now, China is one of the United States' largest trading partners, and the goods Pearl River sells are no longer rariti...
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Real Estate
But she wasn't. Eunice Carter did spearhead the strategy that brought down Luciano in 1936, reasoning correctly that prostitution rackets in Harlem, and how they were organized, might be the means of achieving his downfall. Carter was only the second woman in the history of Smith College to receive a bachelor's and a m...
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Protesters are gathering at a time when the Covid 19 death toll rises hourly. Some protesters are armed, some have their children in tow. Their battle cry seems to be that we must open up because the American economy is more important than American lives. And President Trump cheers them on. "LIBERATE!" he tweets, as if...
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Godfrey Smith, who is also the author of "Other Minds," tries to answer some thoroughly fascinating questions about what connects us to animals. He does this in vivid and scenic prose that, as he puts it, "approaches the puzzles of mind and body by exploring the nature of life, the history of animals, and the different...
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It was 2 a.m. when Danielle Piergallini composed an email to classmates at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management announcing she was transgender. She had spent her first semester in the M.B.A. program presenting as male and worried what kind of response she would get after she clicked "send." Studen...
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"The Irishman," the director Martin Scorsese's latest crime epic (truly, at three and a half hours), premieres Friday in movie theaters around the country before reaching Netflix on Nov. 27. The film, about a hitman (Robert De Niro), a Mafia boss (Joe Pesci) and the never solved death of the Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoff...
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For a few hours this week, softball had a shot at something it has pursued for decades: the spotlight. The USSSA Pride and Scrap Yard Fast Pitch, two independent professional softball teams that feature some of the top players in the world, began what was supposed to be a seven game series in Melbourne, Fla., facing li...
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Most of our workouts are at home now. Which is why it's an ideal time to get lost in the wild world of the vintage exercise video. Beyond just titans of the genre like Jane Fonda (now leg lifting on TikTok) and Richard Simmons, there were so many celebrity or just sort of celebrity ish workout videos in the 1980s and 1...
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Style
The crowds at New York City Center's Fall for Dance festival don't applaud politely; they roar. So what happens in the absence of a live audience? In this case, at least, it creates a space to shine a brighter light on the poetics of dance. Monday night's virtual program, the second of two this year, provided many brig...
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RUNNING WITH BETO (2019) 8 p.m. on HBO; stream on HBO platforms. As the United States looks ahead toward the 2020 presidential election, this new documentary looks back at 2018, when the Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke burst onto the political scene to challenge the Republican incumbent Ted Cruz for his seat in the Senate...
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