Time Out New York

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timeout.com — A lot can happen to a couple in nine years: You can get married your soulmate, have kids, change apartments (or move to other countries) and grow together-or grow apart.

now-here-this.timeout.com — This GIF is freak-diddly-eaky for two important reasons: ONE: When will it stop? It will never stop. Ever. TWO: Look at it for long enough, and the tube train will suddenly start moving in the opposite direction. This is a GIF that just got real. Need more moving pictures?

timeout.com — It isn't pretty, this murky brown salad. Take a look at those splinters of green papaya, gnarly rings of fried shallots and clots of air-dried beef. It could be a box of matches spilled in dishwater-certainly too homely for the pages of any respectable food magazine.

timeout.com — Baking Soda Shop Kerry Sims and Christen Sturkie-front-desk hosts at Eleven Madison Park who bonded over their love of baking- joined forces for this Hester Street Fair stall. Sims, an Institute of Culinary Education grad, reworks classic butter crunch ($8), imbuing the candy with a deeper cocoa flavor via two coats of dark Peruvian chocolate, while Sturkie turns out irresistibly chewy ginger snaps ($10), lightly sweetened with Plantation blackstrap molasses.

timeout.com — Everything's coming up roses in the beauty world, as evidenced by these new products that smell like the bloom. By Cristina Velocci If you're a fan of floral scents, you'll love these new rose-scented beauty products. The flower's delicate aroma is captured in perfumes from Balenciaga and Jurlique, and creams from L'Occitane and the Body Shop.

timeout.com — The alfresco screenings begin June 17 and happen every Monday at dusk.

timeout.com — It's Not Love, It's Just Paris by Patricia Engel (Grove Press, $25) What makes it a beach candidate: A novel of budding love and tough choices in one of the world's most romantic settings can make for sweet, breezy reading.

timeout.com — My tolerance for Nicolas Winding Refn's brand of self-serious macho camp is very much on the low side. Couple that with a general aversion to all things Ryan Gosling and Kristin Scott Thomas and it's safe to say that the cult director of the ponderous, portentously empty Drive (which I insist should be pronounced "Dree-VAY") didn't have me in mind when making his Thailand-set revenger Only God Forgives.

timeout.com — The sun is out, the beach is a bus ride away, and you live in New York City. All you need is our best summer songs playlist and you're good to go. By Amy Plitt, Steve Smith, Sophie Harris, Hank Shteamer, Rachel Sonis, Andrew Frisicano, Tim Lowery, Adam Feldman and Bruce Tantum.

timeout.com — Twisted bars, punched bricks, smashed bats: It was a bad day to be an inanimate object. By Andrew Frisicano Photograph: Filip Wolak Olde Time Coney Island Strongman Spectacular 2013 A little rain didn't stop the participants of the Olde Time Coney Island Strongman Spectacular from bending, biting and breaking a variety of objects at the seashore last weekend.