RH puts its stamp on historic site
The new RH Greenwich: The Gallery at the Historic Post Office shows what you can do when you repurpose a building with intelligence and…
A 2020 YWCA White Plains & Central Westchester Visionary Award winner and a 2018 Folio Women in Media Award Winner, Georgette Gouveia is the author of “Burying the Dead,” “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great” and "Seamless Sky" (JMS Books), as well as “The Penalty for Holding,” a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist (JMS Books), and “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group). They’re part of her series of novels, “The Games Men Play,” also the name of the sports/culture blog she writes. Her short story “The Glass Door,” about love in the time of the coronavirus, was recently published by JMS. Read WAG’s serialization of “Seamless Sky” here. For more, visit thegamesmenplay.com.
The new RH Greenwich: The Gallery at the Historic Post Office shows what you can do when you repurpose a building with intelligence and…
In the 1956 film “The Girl Can’t Help It,” Jayne Mansfield plays the seemingly talentless trophy of a mobster, who wants to transform her…
Hastings Tea – the cozy shop in White Plains – is a good example of creating what you desire. Banker Joan Jia and trial…
Photographs by John Rizzo Julian Niccolini, the ebullient managing partner of The Four Seasons restaurant in midtown Manhattan, sets out three tastings of Armagnac,…
It may be one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets: Joan Rivers is a lovely person. I had the pleasure of interviewing her when I was…
In 1953, the fashion designer Charles James received the Neiman Marcus Award. For the occasion, he dressed in a white silk tuxedo, pumps –…
It’s no coincidence, jewelry designer Ippolita Rostagno says, that so many fine goods come from Italy. “Everything is so beautifully crafted,” she observes. But…
They’ve dallied with lemurs in Madagascar and consorted with hippos and giraffes in Botswana. They traveled to China in the wake of Nixonian détente,…
At first glance, New York City and Beijing might not seem like the most natural pairing. Talk to Far East experts and they’ll tell…
Not many ballet dancers have degrees from Harvard. But then, Damian Woetzel – artistic director of the Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado –…
Alexander the Great’s consolidation of an empire that stretched 22,000 miles from the Balkans to northern India some 300 years before Christ still resonates…
When I was a child, I bought myself a copy of Pierre Grimal’s “Stories of Alexander the Great.” It was the beginning of a…
They are the stuff of myth, legend and romance, beloved by artists and writers, irresistible even to historians, who should know better than to…
Welcome to our “Flower Power” issue, and all I can say is that after the winter we’ve had, we so deserve it. I mean,…
Perhaps it is the proud Latino in him or the fact that he was born on the Cancer-Leo cusp, the sign of those who…
Rolando Santana’s Spring/Summer 2014 Collection takes its cue from the designer’s Mexican compatriot, artist Frida Kahlo. Misty bouquets of floral prints suffuse creamy backdrops…
For artist Kathleen Griffin, the butterfly flies in the face of nature. “Nature tells us that the bloom falls off the rose,” she says….
When Peter Max was at The Art Students League of New York in the 1950s, he studied under Frank J. Reilly, who himself was…
They’re as apparent as fashion and as profound as death itself. They alight for a moment, flitting from flower to flower and yet are…
There is something ineluctable and ineffable about fragrance. You know it the minute you scent it. It tickles, teases, tantalizes and maybe even traps…