Stars of Striptease
By 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…
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Book ’em
Sit back and uncork a good read
By Geoff Kalish, MD With all the wine books and cookbooks out there – even with the marked decline in new titles over the…
Read MoreAgainst the tide
Story and photographs by Mary Shustack There’s something special about stepping into an independent bookshop. It might be the greeting you get, the handwritten…
Read More‘Reading’ pulp fiction
By 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…
Read MoreDog-gone tomes
What does a dog trainer and writer read when she’s not training or writing? When I told my husband I was writing a column…
Read MoreJudging a book by its cover
Forget the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy when it comes to enticing book covers. A necktie? Come on. Handcuffs? Cli-shaaaaay! Some Italianate mask last…
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Fashion forward
Did 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…
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Elie Tahari, a modern classic
Elie Tahari seems to have a sixth sense for what women want to wear. After four decades of dressing women, the designer continues…
Read MoreThe winter queen
Glorious St. Petersburg Photographs by Shirley Zhao By Cappy Devlin Recently, I went to see the movie “Anna Karenina.” Based on the novel by…
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A grooming guide for guys
Images courtesy of Lush Cosmetics A grooming guide for guys, courtesy of Lush By Zoë Zellers “They say you start developing wrinkles when you’re…
Read MoreTips for the stylish bookworm
When WAG asked me to write about what fashionable women wear when relaxing at home with a good book (or not), my first thought…
Read MoreReading – as essential as breathing
In 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…
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Lighting their (literary) fire
(M) Are you a paper or electronic reader? While I immensely enjoy the texture and smell of a “real” book, the extra baggage charges…
Read MoreReading about cosmetic surgery
By Michael Rosenberg, MD It’s amazing how obsessed our culture seems to be with all things plastic surgery. There has been a fascination with…
Read MoreWhere the sun also rises
A literary tradition lives on at Bedford House Story by Houlihan Lawrence Photographs by Tim Lee Perhaps the first drafts of Ernest Hemingway’s “The…
Read MoreJoe Queenan of Tarrytown (And why he hates this headline)
If a good book is a delicious conversation among the author, subject and reader, then Joe Queenan’s new “One for the Books” will have…
Read MoreShhh! We’re checking in
Booking a room The Library Hotel takes its theme seriously One block south and one block east of two of New York’s greatest Beaux…
Read MoreThe three Rs – reading, ’riting and Sandra Priest Rose
“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…
Read MoreLiterary lion
The New York Public Library is one for the books It is perhaps no small irony that one of the most august institutions in…
Read MoreA global legacy
Tucked away down a Scarsdale drive sits a dwelling with global treasures floor to ceiling. Buddhist statues from India and Mongolia, Tibetan prayer horns,…
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