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1 week ago | 
sacbee.com | Jessica Roy |NYT Lifestyle
If people on your social media feed are suddenly referring to themselves in the third person -- and as lions, no less -- you’re not alone. The Sigma Lion meme, in which people refer to “the lion,” often as a veiled reference to themselves, has become somewhat ubiquitous online. If that makes no sense to you, here’s some helpful background. OK, where did this come from?
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1 week ago | 
sacbee.com | Addie Morfoot |NYT Lifestyle
(At Home With) NEW YORK -- In his late 20s, Antoni Porowski dreamed about having a family and a dog and owning a Brooklyn brownstone with a backyard, but then “life really changed.” That change came in the form of fame and a bigger bank account via the 2018 debut of the Netflix hit series “Queer Eye,” a reprise of Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” Porowski, 41, is a member of the show’s “Fab Five,” a group of subject experts who, over the course of an episode, help make over the life...
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1 month ago | 
sacbee.com | Calum Marsh |NYT Lifestyle
RENO, Nev. -- A slurry of snow and sleet was battering the Nevada Firearms Academy and Range, a rugged expanse of dry soil and sagebrush about 25 miles outside downtown Reno. It’s rarely so cold in this part of the high desert basin -- hovering in the high 30s just past dawn on a Saturday morning -- and it almost never snows in April. But for the roughly 200 men and women arriving for the weekend’s Tactical Games, the inhospitable weather only added to the experience.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
mahoningmatters.com | Matt Yan |NYT Lifestyle
A ceramic dragon fruit sliced down the middle with speckled seeds inside a fruit bowl. A clear crystal ball on a bookshelf. A decorative purple glass staircase on a coffee table. They may sound like random homeware knickknacks, but they all have something in common: They’ll help get you high. With recreational cannabis now legal in many states, its accessories -- pipes, bongs, lighters, et al -- are joining the world of home decor, to be displayed and admired like a vase, lamp or coffee-table book.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Margaret Roach |NYT Lifestyle
(In the Garden)The naturalistic landscapes that Donald Pell creates meet with approval from such discerning constituents as pollinators and birds, and seeing and hearing their feedback delights him in return.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thestate.com | Margaret Roach |NYT Lifestyle
Some woody plants like this young red maple (Acer rubrum) express their reaction to environmental stress by showing fall color in summertime. There are some important things to know about dealing with stressed plants. For starters, don’t prune them — and don’t fertilize, either. (Jay Potter via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY GARDEN-WEATHER BY MARGARET ROACH FOR JULY 30, 2024. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thestate.com | Alyson Krueger |NYT Lifestyle
Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer of Tinder, in New York onJuly 10, 2024. Hobley believes in the power of dating apps, but she’s been moonlighting as an old-fashioned matchmaker for over a decade. (Graham Dickie/The New York Times) GRAHAM DICKIE NYT It might seem odd that Melissa Hobley is a real-life matchmaker who is working with 50 to 100 singles around the globe at any given time.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Alyson Krueger |NYT Lifestyle
It might seem odd that Melissa Hobley is a real-life matchmaker who is working with 50 to 100 singles around the globe at any given time. She has, after all, spent much of the last decade working for dating apps whose goal, presumably, is for singles to connect through their phones. She is the chief marketing officer of Tinder, a position she’s held since August 2022. Before that she worked for OKCupid for more than five years.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Margaret Roach |NYT Lifestyle
(In the Garden)“Explore what’s in bloom now,” exclaims a banner on the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s website. And, indeed, there is much to see. The dramatic property in Boylston, Massachusetts, includes two conservatories and 18 distinct gardens, both formal and naturalistic. The grounds offer sweeping views across the vast Wachusett Reservoir, as well as hiking trails that tuck into wilder portions of the garden’s nearly 200 acres.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
sacbee.com | Margaret Roach |NYT Lifestyle
(In the Garden)Many weeks before tomato seedlings can be safely transplanted outside -- or almost any freshly seed-sown vegetables dare break the surface of the slowly warming soil -- harvest is underway in John Forti’s Maine garden. When you grow a range of perennial edibles, you have what Forti calls “the shoulder seasons” covered, and then some, with no replanting year to year required. “They tell great stories of resilience,” he said of the perennial crops.
