He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
Ken Fritz spent 40 years turning his living room into what some audiophiles called the world’s greatest hi-fi system. What would it all mean in the end?
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Trying to Live a Day Without Plastic
It’s all around us, despite its adverse effects on the planet. In a 24-hour experiment, one journalist tried to go plastic free.
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The Etiquette Guru Who Broke Up With a Boyfriend Over Text
Sara Jane Ho offers practical manners for a new, global world.
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The Wife Left, but They’re Still Together
After a pandemic dip, the number of married couples “living apart together” has started to rise again. And women, in search of their own space, are driving the increase.
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Shein continues its rise with American shoppers, who don’t mind the controversies.
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Trumpist masculinity reaches its high water mark
A man in tactical gear allegedly brought his mom to the Capitol raid.
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The Full Story Behind Patagonia's 'Vote the Assholes Out' Tags
Even some of the higher-ups didn't know about it at first. Here's why the brand wanted to "let the world find it on its own."
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The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings
Before cabin porn and van life were hashtags, before tiny houses were a movement, Lloyd Kahn was the living embodiment of them.
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How San Francisco broke America’s heart
Filthy rich and dominated by a tech monoculture, it’s gone from America’s great romantic city to “a train wreck.”
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Where does fake movie money come from?
The best prop money is hard to distinguish from the real thing at first glance -- but once you know where to look, the difference is obvious. By law.
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Events Are the New Magazines
And Nicole Vecchiarelli and Andrea Oliveri, the founders of an agency called Special Projects, are here to celebrify them.
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You Matched With Someone Really Great Online. This Is Her Ghostwriter.
Meredith Golden charges a small clientele $2,000 a month to help them win at dating apps.
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The Annals of Flannel
Told that the cozy shirting fabric could no longer be made in America, one man began a yearlong quest.
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How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank
Fed up with their high-pressure jobs, some millennials are quitting and embracing the FIRE movement. (It stands for financial independence, retire early).
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Kaia Gerber’s Dad Was a Model, Too
Rande Gerber is married to Cindy Crawford, father to the teenage supermodels Kaia and Presley Gerber, and is a tequila baron (with his pal George Clooney).
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His Eye Makeup Is Way Better Than Yours
How teenage boys and young men wearing makeup are affecting beauty norms.
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The Doyenne of DNA Says: Just Chillax With Your Ex
“If we’re going to live to 150 years, the reality that you’re going to be with one person for 100 years is low,” Anne Wojcicki says.
