Magazine
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Why Weeds Are Worth Reconsidering
We’re told we should get rid of them. But one person’s menace can be another person’s medicine.
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Wigs Fit for a Vogue Cover. Or a 7-Hour Flight.
In a lofty office in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Shani Lechan gives her clients the hair of their dreams.…
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The Cheerleader Trap
A new documentary about the young women who dance for The Dallas Cowboys illuminates the deep contradictions at the heart…
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How a Death Doula Throws a Dinner Party
At the Baroque guesthouse she runs in Portugal, Rebecca Illing hosted old friends for a meal suffused with nostalgia.
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Men Wear Short Shorts. And Long Shorts. And Everything in Between.
Nickelson Wooster, a fashion consultant and a frequent subject of street style photographers, is known, among other things, for his…
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Are You Ever Too Old for a Bikini?
Worried about coming off as an exhibitionist at her daughter’s beach wedding, a reader wonders whether there is an age…
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Hair Oil Gets a Slick Reboot
Some South Asian women remember being embarrassed of their families’ hair oiling traditions. Now, beauty brands, bloggers and celebrities are…
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When Your Identical Twin Wins a Grammy
Junia Lin Jonsdottir helped create the romantic visual world inhabited by her sister, the singer-songwriter Laufey. Please stop asking if…
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Three Simple But Surprising Cocktail Garnishes
CreditCredit...When it comes to cocktails, we’re living in a golden age of the garnish: At many bars, a martini is…
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The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape
On Nov. 12, 1974, my father’s childhood friend Jack Teich was kidnapped out of his driveway in the nicest part…