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Your Horoscope This Week: January 19 To 25

The last quarter moon in Scorpio on January 21 is hitting your sector of intimacy and shared resources, urging you to let go of any lingering fears or grudges in your close relationships. If you’ve been avoiding addressing a financial or emotional entanglement, this lunar phase is your green light to face it head-on. It […]

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A Week In New York On A $103,000 Salary

Occupation: Advertising creativeIndustry: MediaAge: 41Location: New YorkSalary: $103,000Assets: Roth IRA: $5,150.38; high yield savings: $12,000; savings: $3,200; checking: $2,000; 401(k): $63,622.70; HSA: $4,271Debt: $500 credit card balance.Paycheck amount (2x month): $2,577.40Pronouns: She/her Monthly ExpensesHousing costs: $2,250Wi-fi: $60Phone: $75Verizon: $60LinkedIn Premium: $30CHANI app: $11Netflix: $7.61Amazon Prime: $15Adobe: $32.65Duotrope: $5Literary Hub: $5NYT: $18.34Okocat: $23.74 (pellet litter). Was […]

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Your Guide to the “Other” Fashion Week

This season, there’s more going down at the other fashion week than ever before. (Or so I think: since there’s no schedule, it’s hard to definitively tell.) But anecdotal evidence abounds in my inbox crowded with invites. Several big names are also going off-calendar this season: in Paris, The Row and a post-Hedi Celine are […]

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Street Style Trend of the Week: Layered Hats

Nathalie Joseph, left, and Christel Jean-Pierre were scouting locations for a photo shoot in Washington Square Park on a Saturday in December when they caught my eye with their layered head gear. Ms. Joseph, a 19-year-old model, had a black scarf draped over her camouflage baseball hat. Ms. Jean-Pierre, a 21-year-old model and aspiring director, […]

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A Week In Los Angeles On A $137,000 Joint Income

Occupation: Wildlife biologistIndustry: EnvironmentalAge: 27Location: Los AngelesSalary: $67,000Joint income: My boyfriend makes about $70,000 a year. We live together, and we split finances 50/50. We don’t have any shared accounts or a super defined way of splitting bills — we split rent/utilities etc. in half, and then total up groceries, cleaning supplies, dinners out at […]

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Burning at Both Ends: Surviving a Week in Wildfire-Torn Los Angeles

Businesses along Lake Avenue destroyed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on January 9, 2025.by ZOE MEYERS/AFP/Getty Images. It’s a lesson you gradually learn, a reality you adjust to—or perhaps, to quote Jim Morrison, “learn to forget.” Occasional tremors remind you that the ground is not trustworthy: you compare earthquake notes on social media […]