Parties (Social)
At an Ann Arbor Rock Show, Almost Everyone There Is Over 65
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Every Friday night from September to May, at an off-campus nightclub in this thriving college town, a group of die-hard music fans gathers to dance to some of the most devoted live bands in southeast Michigan. There are women in skintight red dresses, long-haired men sucking down bottles of beer and […]
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Kyiv Nightlife Comes Back Amid Urge for Contact. ‘This Is the Cure.’
KYIV — The rave had been planned for weeks, with the space secured and the D.J.s, the drinks, the invites and the security all lined up. But after a recent missile strike far from the front lines killed more than 25 people, including children, in central Ukraine, an attack that deeply unsettled all Ukraine, the […]
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DUI Arrest of Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Illuminates the Speaker’s California Life
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just urged Brown University graduates to stay resilient and summon their “better angels” on Memorial Day weekend when she was forced to turn her attention to a less uplifting situation: her husband’s arrest in California. The details emerging from the incident were not especially flattering. The night before, May 28, Paul […]
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Johnson Says He’s Humbled by ‘Partygate’ Report but Will Go On
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson presided over a disorderly workplace in which there were rampant violations of coronavirus restrictions, according to a long-awaited government investigation, released on Wednesday, that became a moment of reckoning for the scandal-scarred British leader. The report by a senior civil servant, Sue Gray, was studded with accounts of late-night, […]
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Festival Devotees Migrate East
A young man sporting elf ears and a pink beard danced shirtless to trance music. A crowd of people sipped Liquid Death, a new water brand marketed at festivals, as they shimmied and swayed, striking up conversations with strangers. Bystanders sat on grassy hills for a bird’s-eye view, taking in the colorful scene with intrigue. […]
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Much Gilt, Little Guilt
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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Met Gala 2022 Guide: Gilded Glamour Dress Code, Theme and More
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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Covid-19 At-Home Testing and PCR, Rapid Testing Questions: What to Know
“If you can’t get tests, you have to decide how much risk you’re willing to take,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “Would I still get together if I couldn’t find a test? In a relatively low risk situation, with everyone boosted […]
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