This Harlem-based actress will likely turn out to be one of the MVPs of this year’s theater season. She more than held her own opposite more seasoned performers Uzo Aduba and Ron Cephas Jones in Second Stage Theater’s recently-closed production of Clyde’s by Lynn Nottage. Young ... More

Academy Award–winning filmmaker James Ivory has led a remarkable life as a writer and director of some of the most iconic films of our time (including A Room with a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day). As the co-founder of legendary Merchant Ivory Productions alongside his longtime ... More

In a posthumous book, The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011, edited by Mary Venturini, the late artist and art critic Edith Schloss writes about a community of American abstract expressionist painters, musicians, photographers, dancers and artists who took up ... More

A creative businesswoman and influential visionary, Estée Lauder’s story goes far beyond an empire of beauty brands. From growing up in Queens as the daughter of Hungarian immigrants to hosting dinner parties for the likes of Frank Sinatra and Princess Grace of Monaco, Lauder started at the bottom and ... More

Italian luxury brand Brunello Cucinelli has expanded its Madison Avenue flagship to more than double the original store footprint. The Brunello Cucinelli store, which carries men’s, women’s, children’s and lifestyle collections, features new VIP fitting rooms comfortably outfitted with lounge chairs and racks which can ... More

Crown Club at Barclays Center is a new lounge and restaurant for Brooklyn Nets premium ticket holders. The latest opening is a collaboration between BSE Global and Major Food Group and boasts interior design by renowned designer Ken Fulk. “With New York City roaring ... More

Three decades after Awaken the Giant Within hit the top of the bestseller lists and brought his advice to millions, Tony Robbins is back with Life Force (Simon & Schuster). Inside, Robbins enlists Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Robert Hariri, M.D./PhD and some of the world’s top ... More

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The Defense Lawyer: The Barry Slotnick Story (Little Brown) is the newest book from bestselling, prolific author James Patterson and his co-writer Benjamin Wallace. The ripped-from-the-headlines biography chronicles the life of famed New York defense attorney, Barry Slotnick. The now 83-year-old criminal lawyer has represented ... More

For the better part of a decade starting in the late 1990s, Daniel Daou was a man on a mission. "As an engineer you often like to reverse engineer," the winemaker and co-proprietor of Daou Vineyards explains while showing the lay of the land of Daou ... More