'Tis the giving season. On December 13, La Perla celebrated the holidays—and Amanda Hearst on the December cover of Avenue magazine—with some of their luxe lingerie at a special event at its Madison Avenue flagship. Accompanied by friends like Rachel Roy and Petra Nemcova, Hearst and La Perla’s ... More

Ed Koch—who passed away this morning from congestive heart failure at the age of 88—was the outspoken, divisive but ultimatedly adored mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. He was the man in charge when the subway workers went on strike for 10 days, when a beloved Harlem ... More

For his fifth store in NYC, Stuart Weitzman has planted a flag in Soho, at 118 Spring Street, for its first-ever downtown retail location. The 1,500-square-foot jewel box, designed by Italian architect Fabio Novembre, features such design elements as  distressed wood floors, exposed brick walls and a mosaic tile wall ... More

For her 24th salon opening—and 5th NYC location—DryBar founder Ali Webb chose to plant a flag on the Upper East Side. The tony zip code is the perfect location for the Los Angeles-based blow-out salon; surprisingly, no equivalent service existed in the area.  The ... More

Something’s brewing at the Carlyle Hotel. Every Saturday through Dec. 22, the Upper East Side classic is hosting its winter Madeline Tea Series, which features storyteller and musician Tina de Varon reading and performing the beloved Madeline stories for kids and their grown-up companions. More

Eugene Remm (left) Eugene Remm and his partners always planned to inch their way to the top of the hospitality scene not only in Manhattan but also across the entire country, and the past couple of years have seen EMM projects pop up in South Beach and the Hamptons. ... More

Dr. Lara Oboler, a New York City cardiologist, was in her mid-30s when she and her husband decided they were ready for their first child. But after six months of struggling to conceive, she was frustrated and confused. Eventually she read a book that recommended women take a mucolytic (a drug ... More

Last year, art lovers got more than an eyeful of Glenn Ligon’s work when he was the subject of Glenn Ligon: America, a sprawling mid-career retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The exhibit displayed the work that the New Yorker is best known for—works on ... More

Back in 1984, the Maison Française at NYU and the annual performing-arts series Works & Process collaborated on a once-in-a-lifetime experience: A reading of Desire Caught By The Tail, the only play ever written by Pablo Picasso, at New York City's Guggenheim, featuring esteemed artists ... More

After a quarter century spent curating some of the most closely-watched festivals in the world, Richard Peña, the trail-blazing head of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is stepping down from the job. But don’t worry, it’s a happy ending. Peña, who oversees the annual ... More