George Li was born on Feb. 18, 1935, in Hong Kong. His father, Alexander Li, was a circus acrobat who taught him how to do handstands; his mother was his first dance teacher. When Japan occupied Hong Kong in 1941, the family fled to Shanghai, and then his father went to western China to find…
It is a good time to be a Bravo fan. This week, the reality television network best known for its “Real Housewives” franchise ordered a slate of new shows that seem to have something for everyone. There are new spinoffs featuring familiar stars, reboots of old series and even a crossover phenomenon. Here’s what is…
Since 2011, Miuccia Prada, the patron saint of smart, messy women everywhere, has been using her Miu Miu line as a platform to commission short films by female filmmakers from around the world, including Janicza Bravo, Mati Diop and Haifaa al-Mansour. For Mrs. Prada, the films, which sometimes air during her fashion shows, serve as…
EP, a 48-year-old academic in upstate New York, was drawn on the border of a family portrait by their son, then 6. “As someone whose kid calls them ‘Mapa’ and doesn’t easily identify as ‘mom’, we try to squeeze into that frame, obviously awkwardly,” said EP, who uses they/them pronouns and asked to use their…
Madiba Keneisha Dennie and Nicholas Andrew Bishop both wanted serious relationships when they met in May 2017 through the matchmaking service Dating Ring. Ms. Dennie had been a member since early 2016, and Mr. Bishop joined in 2015. The now-defunct business entailed matchmakers interviewing singles in person to suggest the best potential partners. “After a…
When Elizabeth Nan Rasmussen met David Maynard Amini at a party hosted by the magazine Edible DC, she knew instantly that she needed him in her life, just not necessarily as a boyfriend. Their mutual friend AJ Dronkers, the magazine’s associate publisher at the time, introduced them, but Ms. Rasmussen, who goes by Libby, wasn’t…
I counted 26. No, 27. Wait, did that one fly away? Several years ago, on a cold winter day, I sat on the stone steps of the American Museum of Natural History counting pigeons like it was the most important task in the world. Me. A grown woman with a master’s degree and a job…
When Kheri Orisha Carter decided to audition in 2021 for the fourth season of “Ready to Love,” a dating reality show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network, it was not her idea. “It was actually a dare,” Ms. Carter said. “I was looking for love, and I wanted to be in a committed relationship.” But she…
“There was nothing about her that I didn’t love,” he said. They have been together ever since. Ms. Finetti, now 26, went on to study at California State University, Chico, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. Mr. Lopez, now 25, attended the University of Silicon Valley in San Jose, where he earned…
How did you learn a new pope had been elected? Were you glued to a livestream? Maybe you got a push alert. Or, if you are a particularly online type of person, you might have learned from the X account @ClubConcrave, a fan account for the 2024 film about a dramatized papal election process. In…
