Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

The Man of Your Dreams

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Eren, from Ankara, Turkey, is about six-foot-three with sky-blue eyes and shoulder-length hair. He’s in his 20s, a Libra, and…

Your Next Swipe Might Be on an AI Chatbot

People are burned out on dating apps. In reporting Land of the Giants: Dating Games, we spoke to dozens of daters who are tired: of navigating several apps at a time, optimizing their profiles, and facilitating dozens of conversations that go…

I Never Asked to Be the Face of a Movement

TikTok turned me into a body-positive influencer. Then I ended up at an eating-disorder treatment center. I started posting on TikTok in September 2020. I’d lost my job in the music industry a few months earlier, and my dad, who works in women’s…

Can “Niche” Dating Apps Save Us?

These days, there are dating apps for just about everything you can imagine: from specific religions, ethnicities, and political beliefs to various lifestyles and hobbies. You can find a dating app for vegans, one for rock climbers, and even one for…

The Big Dissolve

Since roughly 2016, millions of people have gone to dermatologists to put things in their faces with one particular goal: to look like sexy babies. The way they achieved this was with filler — generally acid and fat injections. This era of filler…

What ‘Feminist Tinder’ Promised

An early slogan from Bumble encouraged users to “be the CEO your parents always wanted you to marry.” Since its founding in 2014, the company has billed its app as the more empowering dating service for women — one where women message matches first,…

Can You ‘Hack’ Your Dating App to Get Better Matches?

Asking a dating exec how their matchmaking algorithm works is like asking Coca-Cola for its top-secret formula: They’ll tell you it’s a mystery, that it’s too hard to explain, that they simply cannot talk about it, Fight Club style. Tinder says that…

The Company That Controls Dating

If you’re tired of seeing the same profiles in your dating app, you might be tempted to try a different one. After all, there are a lot of them out there: Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, the League — apps that are all marketed differently and are supposed to…

How Tinder Changed Everything

When Tinder launched in 2012, its creators didn’t think much of it. “We put together what would eventually become Tinder in about six to eight weeks and launched it,” says Jonathan Badeen, one of Tinder’s co-founders and inventor of the swipe. The…

Do You Feel Like Dating Apps Are Broken?

Like how your swipes feel great, but your dates feel bad? Or how you’ve been pushed to delete them all off your home screen, only to redownload them a few weeks later? Have you ever wondered if this cycle is by design? Last summer, New York Magazine…

Fine, I’ll Just Like the Instagram Post

Next year, I’m resolving to like more of my friends’ Instagram posts. This is obviously a very low-stakes goal, but I’m convinced it’s an easy, pain-free way to become a slightly nicer person. I’m in the habit of ignoring stuff on Instagram I’d…

The Year of the Dude Skirt

Men’s skirts, at least according to fashion magazines, are having a moment.Everyone from NBA player Russell Westbrook to Pete Davidson has tried one out; our most masculine men have flirted with them. Gendered dressing, says a New York Times analysis…

Caviar With a Side of Funny Girl

Last night, God’s Love We Deliver — the city’s leading provider of medically tailored meals for people living with severe illness — hosted its annual Golden Heart Awards Gala with Michael Kors.The charity launched in 1985 at the height of the AIDS…

Shein Is Even Worse Than You Thought

A new investigation by the U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has uncovered details about the business practices of the Chinese fast-fashion company Shein. The outlet sent an undercover worker to film inside two factories in Guangzhou that supply clothes to…

Where Art Thou, Adam Driver?

Last night, the 60th Annual New York Film Festival kicked off with a Campari-sponsored opening-night reception at Tavern on the Green. The party was in honor of festival opener White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of the 1985 novel, starring his…

How Über-Publicist Gia Kuan Gets It Done During Fashion Week

For this special Fashion Week edition of “How I Get It Done,” we’re asking successful women about managing their careers and lives during this hectic time of year. New York’s favorite fashion publicist, Gia Kuan, started her career over a decade ago…

Talking with the two dudes behind niche Internet brand Praying.

When Adidas, the world’s second-largest footwear company, called on niche streetwear brand Praying to revive an old sneaker, no one was more surprised than its founders. “They basically said, ‘Do whatever you want,’” recalls Alex Haddad, one half of…

Eric Adams, Shouldn’t You Be Working?

Extravagant galas, opulent dinners, flashy art shows … Ever wonder how the upper crust parties? Welcome to Society Pages, the Cut’s new column on New York’s most exclusive events. Where better to debut a column on high-society shenanigans than at a…

Is This the Abortion Clinic of the Future?

It was 2019, remembers Kiki Freedman, and “cactus dicks were all over the place.” That summer, pharma-delivery start-ups Hims and Roman had raised enough cash to plaster virile advertisements for erectile dysfunction meds across New York City’s…

How I Picked My Pic

Eight app users explain, psychoanalyze, and defend ten years of profile images. 27, New York | Executive headhunter 2012 — In high school, I was in a band that toured other schools in India. I was 18 in this picture, and I was trying to attract just,…