Toronto, twice in one week. If you’d told me at the start of June that I’d be back at the same stadium for a World Cup knockout match, I’m not sure I would have believed it — but there I was. Croatia and Portugal had never met at a World Cup. Not once, not across […]
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Somewhere between the fourth quarter at Madison Square Garden and the anthem in a stranger’s language at a World Cup match in Toronto, it became clear that June wasn’t a month of events. It was a month of proof — that people still want to stand in a crowd and feel something at the same […]
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The moments, places, and conversations that defined New York this month. There are months when New York feels like a city. And then there are months when it feels like the center of everything. June was one of those months. Basketball history unfolded inside Madison Square Garden. World Cup fever quietly spread through neighborhoods as […]
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There are trips you plan for months, and there are trips you book because you simply have to be there. This was the second kind. Croatia was playing Panama in Toronto, and for a Croatian-American who has spent a lifetime watching this team from a couch an ocean away, I wasn’t going to miss it. […]
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For a long time, wellness looked like a destination. A retreat in the mountains, a digital detox weekend, a juice cleanse that reset everything before Monday arrived and undid it all again. Something you went to, completed, and returned from — and then got back to your real life. That model is quietly falling apart. […]
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Croatia is in the World Cup. The Vatreni are playing on North American soil for the first time. And if you’re in New York City — one of the most diverse, football-obsessed cities on earth — you have absolutely no excuse not to be somewhere watching it. As a Croatian-American who has been following this […]
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