On a recent evening in the West Village of Manhattan, Dorothy Wiggins, a petite 98-year-old woman wearing a dark coat and a pink scarf, left her townhouse to check out Little Ruby’s Cafe, a chic new restaurant in her neighborhood. Inside, she approached the hostess. “I remember this place when it was the other place, the Riviera,” Mrs. Wiggins said. […]

Like many spouses, Kindred Sparks has a list of marital grievances. But hers are not like everyone else’s. There was the time when her husband, Peter Pietrangeli, left an envelope with thousands of dollars in cash on the roof of his car and drove off. Or the time he left their son’s car seat on the side of the road. […]

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 much influence on style as any designer that ever sent a model down a runway in a jacket with three sleeves. […]

Tara Lee Murphy photographed a late-morning wedding ceremony at Pacific’o on the Beach, a popular restaurant in downtown Lahaina, on Maui, on August 8. Ms. Murphy, who owns Tara Lee Photography, described the wedding day as the windiest she has ever seen. Ms. Murphy grew up in Maui, playing under Lahaina’s banyan tree as her mother worked at the Lahaina […]

Maybe you’ve seen it on social media? That delightfully absurd scene: a dozen or so people, tightly packed and shrouded in a smoky haze, racing to finish their cigarettes. The competitors would go on to wrestle in a kiddie pool filled with lube and compete in other events by day’s end, all in pursuit of the grand prize: a voucher […]

Nineteen months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, sending shock waves around the world — and through the global diamond market. Russia is the world’s biggest diamond exporter by volume, with a state-owned company, Alrosa, mining almost one third of all diamonds produced in 2021. To prevent funds from flowing into the Kremlin war chest, the United States — the […]

Caden Redmond, a college student in West Palm Beach, Fla., was on TikTok in April flirting with a woman living in South America. While writing to her via direct message, he told her he had never been to her home country but was planning a trip soon. The conversation was going smoothly. He asked if she would show him around […]

Tina Liu is not afraid to admit that she chased Michael Ghory. The couple first met on the dating app Happn in 2014. A self-described “sneakerhead,” Mr. Ghory posted photos of his outfits — some taken by street-style photographers like Tommy Ton — on his dating profile. He hoped that the right woman would appreciate his sense of style. Enter […]

As soon as it was taken, it became the de facto picture of the year. A historic image that will be seared into the public record and referred to for perpetuity — the first mug shot of an American president, taken by the Fulton County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office after Donald J. Trump’s fourth indictment. Though because it is also the […]

I was born in 1969 and I have feelings about generations. They include: “What leads millions of people to see ‘The Notebook’ so many times and then to complain about having done so?” (punching younger); “Why are we having a conversation about whether it’s OK to pull out your phone during a movie in a theater, because there is only […]