Holiday Gift Guide: Home For The Holidays
Black Friday, Cyber Monday: it sounds like preparation for war rather than retail therapy and holiday giving. But let’s face it, the whole gift-giving ritual can be a stressful period as you obsess about what to give to whom. Which friends merit a spa…
Getting Gorgeous at Guerlain Spa
ONE of my favorite scenes from “The Wizard of Oz” is when Dorothy and her friends finally make it into the Emerald City – and promptly receive a full-body makeover. The Scarecrow gets plumped with new straw and the Tin Man gets buffed…
Casual Luxury Living with Designer Joshua Ingraham
Every year in New York, more than fifty of the world’s top interior designers create dazzling rooms with donated designer merchandise for Housing Works’ “Design on a Dime” benefit. Designers include high-profile talents such as Nate Berkus…
Shop for Love: Fashion for Action, Housing Works’ Annual Benefit
While most New Yorkers know about Barney’s Warehouse Sale, true-blooded fashionistas wait each year for Fashion for Action, Housing Works’ four-day sale with more than 150 brands of designer merchandise at charitable prices. The annual benefit raises…
November Grooming Guide: Fortify Your Skin
Ready, set, go: we’re in the holiday season now – and you know what that means. A race to the finish line marked by the new year, with stops along the way for excessive drinking, binge eating, frantic shopping, and a roundelay of parties that…
Haunting Halloween Cocktails
Shove the kids aside: Halloween is for adults. And especially with these haunting Halloween cocktails made from some of the finest witches’ brews and devilish elixirs on the market today. From Sweden, land of the Vikings, there’s Kanon Organic Vodka,…
Artichoke’s Heart: West Hollywood, California
First of all, most importantly: grilled artichokes. They are grilled over mesquite wood and they arrive at table smelling as succulent and delicious as they prove to be. With three halves to a plate and a dipping sauce, the artichokes are nearly a meal…
A Tall, Cool Drink of…Skinny, Sexy Cocktails
Yes, we know: “skinny cocktails” has to be one of the world’s most hopeful oxymorons. As if we all don’t know that the only real skinny cocktail is water. But since denial is everything when dealing with drinks, why not pretend that a…