Life & Love

“I just wanted to look as much like myself as I could,” Nora Hayd said of the team headshot that made her an online sensation. Source link

The rapper, whose name was Kaseem Ryan, was known for self-producing 11 albums while also a maintaining a career with the New York Fire Department. Source link

A reader is miffed to learn that $13,000 was earmarked in her grandmother’s will for a younger sister’s fertility treatments. Should the sister reimburse her siblings? Source link

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Source link

North Carolina’s second lady helped make her husband’s political foray possible. But her ventures — a day care and a nonprofit — also caused problems. Source link

In a “60 Minutes” interview this week, the vice president shared the kind of gun she owns. Its associations with law enforcement and pop culture make it a potent symbol. Source link

James Morgan, who has been with the small New York theater company for 50 years, blamed the effects of a stroke for his behavior. Source link

Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.” Source link

First baseman Pete Alonso picked up a cute and carvable souvenir on a recent trip to Milwaukee. Fans are pinning their postseason hopes on the lucky gourd. Source link

Known for its pop-up stores — and its army of seasonal workers — Spirit Halloween will try its hand at a longer run and a bigger holiday. Source link