Peloton was popular before the pandemic with a wealthy subset of home exercisers, but with the quarantine, it has become something of a phenomenon in…
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Tag: Quarantine (Life and Culture)
What Art Does for Us
Sign up to receive the At Home newsletter. Welcome. When I was 22, I was a factotum at a nonprofit theater in New York City.…
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Home Projects to Give You a Fresh Start
Being home all the time has been hard on your house, too. Instead, consider investing your time in small projects that have big-gratification appeal. None…
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San Francisco’s Tech Workers Are Leaving the Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers. Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you.…
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Feeling Nostalgic for Your Grandmother’s China?
We all have some relic taking up space in our homes. Maybe it’s a great-aunt’s armoire, or a box of old letters and photographs. Often…
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Behind Closed Doors, Paris Theaters Carry On
PARIS — Call it the French spirit of resistance — or contrariness. Officially, theaters here are shut, because of a new wave of coronavirus infections.…
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Two Friends, Two Continents, Very Different Pandemics
At the opening night party, I was immediately rehired for an obscure opera by Offenbach that hadn’t been performed since its premiere in Austria. It…
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I Recommend Eating Chips
Oh, hello, nice to see you, have a seat — let’s stress-eat some chips together. Let’s turn ourselves, briefly, into dusty-fingered junk-food receptacles. This will…
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A Scramble to Boost Vaccinations in New York
And finally: 177 portraits of ‘Ms. Arline’ Siddhartha Mitter writes: Growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the 1980s, the artist Kambui Olujimi had a fulfilled childhood…
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A Long, Lonesome Look at America
I was only a few days into a meandering trip across America, and already I was easing into something of a nighttime routine. Earlier in…
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