Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Know Something She Doesn’t’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Cupid Launches a Cannonball While the other Ph.D. students chatted — dryly — around the pool, Noel sprang headfirst into messy dives, off-center flips and drenching belly flops. He then dragged an 8-foot long inflatable whale under …

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In London, an Elevated but Edgy Jewelry Style

HMp, the latest line by the designer and goldsmith Hannah Martin, includes a professional piercing service if you want it. With a mohawk hairstyle as jet black as her uniform of skintight Alexander McQueen and Ann Demeulemeester, Hannah Martin boasts no fewer than 12 piercings in her right ear and …

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*NSYNC reunites at MTV Video Music Awards

CNN  —  *NSYNC, one of the leading boy bands of the 90s, reunited in full – yes, that means Justin Timberlake was there – during Tuesday’s MTV Video Music Awards. Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez and Timberlake appeared on the VMA stage to present the award for …

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Shakira Twins With All Grown Up Sons Milan & Sasha at 2023 MTV VMAs

The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer’s adorable red carpet moment with her kids is just one of the many highlights for tonight’s awards show. In fact, later this evening, Shakira will be honored with the Video Vanguard Award, which makes her the first-ever South American artist to receive the prestigious award. “I couldn’t believe it,” the superstar said on the red carpet about her reaction to …

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Even Taylor Swift Can’t Help But Fangirl Over *NSYNC at the MTV VMAs

Taylor Swift knew she was in trouble when *NSYNC walked into the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. After all, the pop star couldn’t help but to fangirl over Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick—who reunited for first time as a group onstage at the Sept. 12 award ceremony—when they presented her with a trophy for Best Pop …

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Give Diddy’ Daughters an Award For Praising Dad at the MTV VMAs

In addition to hitting the stage for the first time in years, he’ll also take home the Global Icon Award, an honor that’s only been given to the Foo Fighters (in 2021) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (in 2022). “It’s surreal,” the 53-year-old shared in a Sept. 11 Instagram post about the award. “I’m like, …

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Salvation Mountain in California Searches for How to Save Itself

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 …

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Are You Ever Too Old to Wear Vintage?

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, …

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When ‘the Academic Girl’ Meets ‘the Popular Guy’

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 …

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The Most Famous Woman in Men’s Tennis

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 …

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