The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty. Salvation Mountain, a sculpture by Leonard Knight in California. Kitra Cahana for The New York Times In the summer, the desert surrounding the Salton Sea in California seems …
Ladi Fatade felt an instant attraction to Kimberly Alexander after seeing her dating app profile three years ago. “It gave me a window into her personality,” he said. Kimberly Ann Alexander’s friends had urged her to do some fine-tuning of her Hinge profile when she joined in May 2020. “I …
A reader wonders how to wear retro pieces without looking dated. I have always enjoyed wearing vintage clothing and used to love going to flea markets, picking up items and saying: “My grandmother wore that,” or “My mother had those.” Then it happened: I picked up a dress and said, …
Morgan Riddle was being watched. Outside the grandstand, while she idled beneath the summer sun, a passer-by stopped, turned and pointed a phone at her, then wordlessly walked away. Ms. Riddle just adjusted her black oval Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy-style sunglasses. Once inside the tennis match, while she and more than 1,000 …
The annual festival started as an impromptu bonfire, but now attracts tens of thousands of revelers a year. How did it get here? “Imagine a hallucinogenic state fair,” the reporter Rick Marin wrote about Burning Man in The New York Times in 2000. The article described an environment of countercultural …
Jennifer Lee and Dr. Sachin Jain bonded over commonalities in their upbringings. They also discovered, after separate car accidents, that they could count on each other. While driving home from a work dinner in downtown Los Angeles in August 2021, Jennifer Lee’s Toyota Prius was suddenly struck in the side …
When a woman said her date stole a pair of Tabi shoes from her, the internet went all in. At first, it seemed like the average New York City meet-cute: girl passes boy in SoHo; girl goes on first date with boy, which leads to second date; girl eventually invites …
In a strange city, a new mother’s routine errand becomes absolutely everything. I had a baby, a crumbling relationship and not one friend in the city we had moved to three weeks earlier, other than the partner I was losing. So naturally I fixated on an errand. My objective: to …
In a sea of trends, a reader wonders how to identify a timeless clothing item. When does a style become a classic? I have read all the discussions about whether skinny jeans are still in, but if a particular style is a classic, isn’t it always in? Especially if it …
Últimamente, Francia ha dado una cálida acogida a hombres del mundo artístico que han sido acusados de abusos sexuales, conducta sexual inapropiada o violencia doméstica. Woody Allen ha descrito su nueva película, Coup de chance, como un “venenoso filme de suspenso romántico”. Debutó el lunes en el Festival Internacional de …
The singer made a lot of money peddling laid-back boatyard chic. Odds are the world of capital-F fashion never gave a moment’s thought to Jimmy Buffett, the bard of Margaritaville, who died on Friday at 76. Yet the truth is the undisputed king of easy-listening yacht rock probably exerted as …
Once, back in the early 2000s, I owned a black Helmut Lang pantsuit. That was a time when even the word “pantsuit” kind of made me cringe, but there was something about how this one was cut — three-button, single-breasted jacket and flat-front (but louche) pants — that skewed all …