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To this day, one of my crowning achievements is getting my S.O. to fall in love with Downton Abbey. When the trailer for the movie came on at the theater (prior to him completely catching up on the series), he covered his ears and ran to the lobby, in fear the trailer would somehow spoil the show for him. He was right; it would have been quite the shock seeing (spoiler alert) Mary and Henry Talbot together in the trailer when he was still blissfully unaware of Matthew’s fate. Downton Abbey is a delightful show with upstairs-downstairs drama and incredibly...

In our Ask a Shopkeeper series, we tap the coolest store owners we know for a tour of their space and ask them what items are trending right now—and beyond. For this installment, Monica Navarro, the owner of Los Angeles’s Atwater Village concept shop Dreams, shares the inspiration for the store’s experiential-focused interiors, including the piece of not-for-sale decor that customers are constantly asking to buy. How did Dreams come to be?The new landlords at my first store, Individual Medley, served us a 30-day eviction notice, essentially saying: “We want to take over the space and we want you out...

  By Jesse Kornbluth “GO OUT! GO OUT, AND BRING SOMETHING BACK, EVEN IF IT’S ONLY A COLD” In the glory years of Vanity Fair, that was Tina Brown’s directive to her writers and editors. This week I had enough of the cold and went out to get one — I bought a ticket to a well-reviewed play that is, like many plays in New York, closing. I agonized about the decision, but practicality won — for the first time ever, I wore sweatpants “in public.” Fila Men’s Track Pants, to be precise. (My daughter, in wonder verging on horror:...

  By Jesse Kornbluth “GO OUT! GO OUT, AND BRING SOMETHING BACK, EVEN IF IT’S ONLY A COLD” In the glory years of Vanity Fair, that was Tina Brown’s directive to her writers and editors. This week I had enough of the cold and went out to get one — I bought a ticket to a well-reviewed play that is, like many plays in New York, closing. I agonized about the decision, but practicality won — for the first time ever, I wore sweatpants “in public.” Fila Men’s Track Pants, to be precise. (My daughter, in wonder verging on horror:...

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