I often find trend stories in the Post days or weeks after something similar has appeared in the Times. Occasionally, it's the other way around. Sometimes it even happens with more substantive topics, but both papers are usually on top of those, so I see it more with lighter pieces (the food bloggers of both papers discovered ramps within days of one another, but the Post trailed the Times for weeks with instructions on making one's own yogurt).
What's interesting about the two papers' commentaries on the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual spring exhibition on fashion (I can't say reviews, since the exhibition opens this week) isn't the timing but the entirely different perspectives. The one in the Times is interesting, but it takes fashion at face value, while Robin Givhan, who is known for infusing fashion writing with social commentary, doesn't disappoint.
By the way, in case you're of the mind to make your own yogurt, or are asking yourself 'what the f* are ramps,' I won't leave you wondering.
The Post's yogurt instructions
The Times' yogurt instructions
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