Stars of Striptease
byBy Andrea Kennedy In the world of va-va-voom, there’s never been anything quite like the twirling tassels and titillating tease of burlesque. The entertainment…
January 2013
Book ’em
Sit back and uncork a good read
byBy Geoff Kalish, MD With all the wine books and cookbooks out there – even with the marked decline in new titles over the…
Against the tide
byStory and photographs by Mary Shustack There’s something special about stepping into an independent bookshop. It might be the greeting you get, the handwritten…
‘Reading’ pulp fiction
byBy Sam Barron The rat-a-tat dialogue. The sleazy cases. The murders for hire. The fedora hats. The characters, so cool you would think they…
Dog-gone tomes
byWhat does a dog trainer and writer read when she’s not training or writing? When I told my husband I was writing a column…
Judging a book by its cover
byForget the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy when it comes to enticing book covers. A necktie? Come on. Handcuffs? Cli-shaaaaay! Some Italianate mask last…
Fashion forward
byDid that dress just move? You bet. And it wasn’t because the model put one high-heeled hoof in front of the other. In his…
Elie Tahari, a modern classic
byElie Tahari seems to have a sixth sense for what women want to wear. After four decades of dressing women, the designer continues…
The winter queen
byGlorious St. Petersburg Photographs by Shirley Zhao By Cappy Devlin Recently, I went to see the movie “Anna Karenina.” Based on the novel by…
A grooming guide for guys
byImages courtesy of Lush Cosmetics A grooming guide for guys, courtesy of Lush By Zoë Zellers “They say you start developing wrinkles when you’re…
Tips for the stylish bookworm
byWhen WAG asked me to write about what fashionable women wear when relaxing at home with a good book (or not), my first thought…
Reading – as essential as breathing
byIn our age of Google and sound bites, reality TV and vanishing old-fashioned storytelling, you have to wonder if there’s still any place left…
Lighting their (literary) fire
by(M) Are you a paper or electronic reader? While I immensely enjoy the texture and smell of a “real” book, the extra baggage charges…
Reading about cosmetic surgery
byBy Michael Rosenberg, MD It’s amazing how obsessed our culture seems to be with all things plastic surgery. There has been a fascination with…
Where the sun also rises
byA literary tradition lives on at Bedford House Story by Houlihan Lawrence Photographs by Tim Lee Perhaps the first drafts of Ernest Hemingway’s “The…
Joe Queenan of Tarrytown (And why he hates this headline)
byIf a good book is a delicious conversation among the author, subject and reader, then Joe Queenan’s new “One for the Books” will have…
Shhh! We’re checking in
byBooking a room The Library Hotel takes its theme seriously One block south and one block east of two of New York’s greatest Beaux…
The three Rs – reading, ’riting and Sandra Priest Rose
by“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” Shakespeare has his passionate Juliet observe…
Literary lion
byThe New York Public Library is one for the books It is perhaps no small irony that one of the most august institutions in…
A global legacy
byTucked away down a Scarsdale drive sits a dwelling with global treasures floor to ceiling. Buddhist statues from India and Mongolia, Tibetan prayer horns,…