So you're taking the love of your life out for a big night, splurging on a big-ticket meal and reveling in the romance until the wee hours of the morning. Maybe you're meeting up with your partner for a few quiet drinks at the local watering hole because it's been that kind of week. Perhaps it's a cocktail with someone you met on the apps. Whatever the particulars, it's date night. Which means you need to get dressed. We're here to help. From what to wear for a chilled-out evening at the bar to pulling out all the stops for a gala—yeah, a gala—we're breaking down the spectrum of date-night attire so you can stop worrying about your outfit and start worrying about whether your partner still finds you funny. (Just kidding. You're a hoot.) Let's get into it. |
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My manager was my husband from 1989 to 2015. Everybody took care of everything. All I had to do was get up and sing. When that dissolved, all that team went with him, and I was scared to death. I was deserted, abandoned, and left. I threw a fit. And then there they were, my angels, right there beside me. "Hey, you're learning. You didn't know how much a gallon of milk was, now you do. Now get out there. You can do it. You're tough. We taught you better." I'm very competitive. I get a number-one record, I want another number-one record. I won an award, I want another one. I'll never forget Miranda Lambert coming up to me when she was nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year after she'd already won it, and I said, "Good luck, Miranda." She said, "Oh, I already won, it's time for somebody else." What person lets that come out of their mouth? I was shocked. I thought everybody was just like me. |
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Glen Powell had a secret. The actor teamed up with screenwriter-producer Michael Waldron to adapt Eli Manning's football-world-famous "Chad Powers" prank—in which the retired quarterback put on a disguise for a Penn State football tryout—into a TV show. The Waldron–Powell duo was hardly the first team to attempt to morph a sketch into a hit TV series, but things were actually ... going ... pretty well? The two landed on a brilliant premise. The hilarious Hulu series, which debuts its first two episodes today, follows Russ Holliday (Powell), a blue-chip college quarterback who crashes out during a game on live TV. Inspired by the great Mrs. Doubtfire, he stages a comeback—disguising himself as the country-bumpkin goofball Chad Powers. Waldron and Powell figured out everything about Chad—the nose, the hair, those chipmunk cheeks—but they had yet to land on his voice. Powell hid Chad's drawl from the crew. |
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I still think of this reading room. It was on the bottom floor of the campus library at my New England liberal-arts college, a lovingly faithful replica of the school's original reading room. Everything was dark wood and dim lighting, hushed hues of red, green, and blue pooling over velvet furniture and books lining every inch of the walls. It was my Hogwarts. I would spend hours there reading Ford Madox Ford and George Eliot, AirPods slipping in a little Bach or Debussy while I crammed for music-history exams. I vividly remember the warm glow of those classic green bankers lamps making me feel as though I'd dropped into Donna Tartt's The Secret History. When I moved into my first apartment, I wanted my room to carry that same quiet intensity. (Impossible in Manhattan and on a recent graduate's budget.) I poked around resale sites for an old bankers lamp, but most came with the promise of rewiring work. Instead I found a Newrays bankers desk lamp and built my room around it. The lamp isn't just a classic revived for nostalgia's sake. It pairs that iconic silhouette with modern features that make it as practical as it is handsome, a piece that brings the romance of the library and the ease of the modern day to your desk in one switch. |
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A big month for the big guns. Cardi B is back in business. Zach Bryan played the biggest ticketed show in U.S. history, playing to more than 112,000 people in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The KPop Demon Hunters juggernaut continued, placing four songs in the Top Ten simultaneously. And somehow, Twenty One Pilots had the biggest week for a rock album in six years. Does it mean anything that two of the month's best songs (Kali Uchis and Ravyn Lenae's "Cry About It!" and Raye's "Where Is My Husband!") have exclamation points in their titles? As we get later into the year, does it feel as though you need to scream to be heard? With The Life of a Showgirl, the Springsteen biopic, and Grammy nominations presumably dominating the coming weeks, we'll see who else can break through and get anyone to pay attention. |
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TAG Heuer is a brand comfortable in its own skin—and in an occasionally snooty industry, that's a welcome thing. Long a manufacturer of relatively straightforward chronographs and dashboard timers, the Swiss firm has since expanded into dressier pieces as well as ultra-complicated, high-end collectible watches. However, the brand's bread and butter is still mid-tier tool watches—chronographs, divers, and dressier time-and-date timepieces—that often serve as collectors' first "nice" watches or as graduation gifts from high school or university. First Wall Street bonus watches these ain't, but that doesn't mean they aren't excellent: With a long and storied history behind it and a fiercely loyal collector community surrounding it, TAG Heuer is one of the most beloved Swiss watchmakers by all manner of watch wearers, from young teenagers to seasoned vets. |
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