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“I’m obsessed,” Chloe Park said when she realized the woman entering the Goop Bond Street boutique in New York City where she was shopping was the jeweler Jennie Yoon.Ms. Yoon, 38, the founder of Kinn Studio in Los Angeles, was in town for a pop-up shop at Goop, where selections of her jewelry had been laid out on a tabl: delicate earrings, necklaces, rings and bracelets, mostly in yellow gold.Kinn Studio’s Heritage Bar Necklace. The necklace was introduced this month, in the Heritage line, timed to Korean American Day (Jan. 13).The design that particularly caught Ms. Park’s attention were the…

On Tuesday morning, Scott Thompson, the comedian known as Carrot Top, was sipping tea in his dressing room at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, where he has been a headliner for 18 years. Ahead of an afternoon full of appearances on Radio Row, which is the mecca for sports talk radio stations during Super Bowl week, Mr. Thompson was reflecting on the game’s effect on Las Vegas.“I think this is the biggest event we’ve ever had,” Mr. Thompson said.How big? He was wearing a baseball cap with a handmade sticker that read “Need Tickets” across the front. Yes, even Carrot…

The planet’s biggest pop star met America’s biggest sport, and heads collectively exploded. Here are the moments people got happy, sad, angry or annoyed.By Emmanuel Morgan and Matt StevensEmmanuel Morgan reported from Las Vegas, where he asked Roger Goodell, the N.F.L. commissioner, to weigh in on someone else’s relationship. Matt Stevens reported from New York.Way back in July, Travis Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs’ star tight end, publicly offered himself as a potential suitor for Taylor Swift, whose Eras Tour had catapulted her beyond her already stratospheric fame.Few could have imagined that on the eve of the Super Bowl, we’d…

European soccer leaders on Thursday fell squarely in line behind their powerful president, Aleksander Ceferin, by approving a change to term-limit rules that would have allowed him to retain his post through 2031, years beyond the organization’s strict 12-year term limit.The vote, though, was quickly rendered meaningless: About an hour after winning the right to pursue a new four-year term as president of European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, Mr. Ceferin said that he would not seek one.“I’ve decided I am not planning to run in 2027,” a stony-faced Mr. Ceferin said, reading from prepared notes in comments that he used…

El Supertazón siempre atrae a multitudes a los lugares de apuestas físicos y en línea, pero no se podrá apostar en Las Vegas sobre uno de los temas que más interés ha generado este año.Dado que las casas de apuestas presenciales están limitadas a lo que ocurra en el campo de juego, Adam Burns, el gerente de apuestas del sitio de apuestas en línea BetOnline.ag, decidió aprovechar el momento preparando los momios para un diluvio de apuestas inusuales: ¿qué tipo de atuendo usará Taylor Swift para el juego del domingo? ¿La transmisión de CBS la mostrará sosteniendo una bebida o…

When Ava Friedmann and Michael Henein were married, they used a tablecloth from Ms. Friedmann’s grandmother as a huppah, or ritual canopy held above the couple in a Jewish wedding. Mr. Henein’s father, who is a Coptic Christian from Egypt, anointed them with holy oil.That same braiding of their cultural traditions has steered them over the last three months, as they have talked about the Israel-Hamas war. Both were horrified by the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, but Mr. Henein worried instinctively about the Palestinian lives in Gaza that would be lost because of Israel’s military response. They decided to…

As she accepted the Grammy for best pop vocal album for “Midnights,” Taylor Swift announced that she would be releasing her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” on April 19.“I know that the way that the Recording Academy voted is a direct reflection of the passion of the fans, so I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I’ve been keeping from you for the last two years,” Swift said. “Which is that my brand-new album comes out April 19. It’s called ‘The Tortured Poets Department.’”Swift said she would post the album’s cover…

U.S. officials say Ukraine should continue to develop innovative ways to strike at Russian forces as the war approaches its third year. But Ukraine’s use of a Patriot missile to take down a plane last month is an example of how novel battlefield tactics can be fraught with peril as well as promise.Unbeknown to Ukraine’s military, the Russian aircraft it targeted may have been carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to U.S. officials.The Patriot is a defensive system, usually used to protect a location and not to shoot down planes. A European partner provided the Patriot interceptor that hit the…

A look at what it took to put on the latest Marc Jacobs fashion show.Share full articleShare free accessBy Simbarashe ChaSimbarashe Cha wrote the text and made these photographs and videos for Style Outside, a visual column that explores street style around the world.Feb. 8, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ETcard:1 of 12A look at what it took to put the Marc Jacobs fashion show together.New York Fashion Week officially starts on Friday, but Marc Jacobs unofficially kicked it off last Friday with his spring 2024 show at the Park Avenue Armory.Near the runway was an installation of gargantuan furniture by the…

What will Peltz do now? Shares in Disney are up more than 7 percent in premarket trading on Thursday, after the entertainment giant released blockbuster quarterly earnings and made a string of headline-grabbing announcements. (Taylor Swift! Fortnite! A “Moana” sequel!)In short, the House of Mouse bolstered its case against the activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is seeking two board seats. The question is whether that will be enough to definitively fend off the financier.Disney had a great quarter. Not only did it surpass analysts’ profit expectations — earnings per share last quarter beat estimates by 23 percent — but the…