“I still don’t know anything about F1” said Diplo, the D.J. and producer, who was in Miami last weekend for the city’s first Formula 1 Grand Prix, drawing celebrities, athletes and car enthusiasts for what became a dayslong, citywide party. It was Sunday, just after midnight, and Diplo was in the back seat of an […]
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When “Gilded Glamour,” the dress code of the 2022 Met Gala, was announced, it seemed to be either a recipe for extravagant disaster or irony. After all, the current era has often been compared to the late 19th-century Gilded Age, that period between 1870 and 1900 when extreme wealth was concentrated in the hands of […]
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First things first: What is the Met Gala? Officially, it’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a black-tie extravaganza held the first Monday in May to raise money for the Costume Institute. Unofficially, it’s “the party of the year,” “the Oscars of the East Coast” and “an A.T.M. for the Met” (the last […]
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“Everybody was vaccinated, everybody was masked except when speaking,” he said. “But we also went to restaurants and did other things, and I didn’t get infected, so I feel very good about that.” Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist who is leading a new program on pandemic preparedness at Brown University’s School of Public Health, said she […]
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On a recent Saturday afternoon, Benny Blanco’s kitchen was a whirl of activity: Pink-orange fillets of salmon were being doused with salt, verdant green snap peas were being cut gently on their bias, a humming food processor was being fed handfuls of safety-cone-orange carrots to shred. And there he was, in the middle it all, […]
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“The longer the party, the happier I am,” says the Indian trapshooter Shagun Chowdhary by phone from Narangah, her family’s organic fruit and vegetable farm on the outskirts of Jaipur, India, where she had recently hosted her first big event. Although guests had come to toast the newly married couple Neha Luthra and Samarth Kasliwal […]
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WASHINGTON — “What are you hearing about the Gridiron?” A version of that text message blazed across Washington phones this week as the Gridiron Club dinner, an annual black-tie roast between journalists and presidential administrations held over the weekend, has quickly devolved from a swampy cross-pollination party into an event where a lot of boldface […]
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “In 20 years of coming, this is the most fun I’ve ever had,” Adrien Brody, the Oscar-winning actor, said at Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars party on Sunday. “I had real conversations, about politics, life and art.’’ For a change at this annual convening of industry luminaries real conversation was all but […]
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “In 20 years of coming, this is the most fun I’ve ever had,” Adrien Brody, the Oscar-winning actor, said at Vanity Fair’s annual Oscars party on Sunday. “I had real conversations, about politics, life and art.’’ For a change at this annual convening of industry luminaries real conversation was all but […]
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On the brink of 40, Gev Danielian could have gotten a Porsche; he could have gambled or had too much to drink. Instead, in June 2021, he planned a prudent celebration at his home in Los Angeles and allowed himself one mild regression. He blanketed his lawn in several hundred balloons. Dozens and dozens of […]
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Ms. Klemperer then made a fire pit for her boyfriend, Michael Ballou, 69, a multimedia artist who lives in Williamsburg. Even though their neighborhoods aren’t zoned for fire pits, both of their backyards are so spacious, they said, that they meet all the requirements detailed in the new regulations. “My yard is a 2,500-square lot, […]
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Recent research may indicate that humans are more sensitive to body odor than our evolutionary ancestors were. Is this good news? It could be for Phillip Miner, a nightlife promoter who holds a party called “Pheromone” for armpit fetishists (the next will be held Feb. 10). Pent-up demand for nightlife — after so many months […]
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“Aha!” you might say. “But I am a fun boss, a cool boss, the C.E.O. of having a good time.” And to you I say: That is so much worse. Bosses should not force employees to laugh at their jokes or make them watch, captive, as they flail their limbs to a beat. I’ve been […]
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If the world of fabulous notables is divided between those who are famous mostly for what they do and those who are famous for who they are, André Leon Talley was difficult to define precisely because he was so much of both. He wrote well without fitting the conventional definition of a writer and styled […]
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[For more on family relationships, sign up for the Well Family newsletter.] Going forward, you have two goals. You want your son to think twice before pulling a stunt like this again, and you want to rebuild a trusting, positive relationship with him. You’ve probably covered the first one by taking away his privileges and […]
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