THE COCKTAIL Begin the night with a traditional Brazilian drink, or batida , recommends Esteban Ordoñez of NYC hot spot Burning Waters Cantina. This creamy avocado number is mildly sweet from the cachaça (Ordoñez used one by Leblon) and brightens up with a splash of lime. Batida de Avocado 2 oz Cachaça 3/4 oz fresh squeezed ... More

When the weather warms up, denizens of some of New York City’s more bohemian enclaves don’t flee for the Hamptons, they head to Queens and the beloved beach at Fort Tilden. It’s this very trip that’s charted in Fort Tilden, the SXSW Grand Jury Prize-winning feature from directors ... More

Artists and designers have long been drawn to each other: Consider Elsa Schiaparelli’s fruitful collaboration with Salvador Dalí. Andy Warhol and Halston had a similarly beneficial relationship—the pair spent years working together (and taking inspiration from each other). Halston was, of course, an avid collector of the artist’s work, and ... More

For Andrew Levitas, there isn’t much of a difference between metal and moviemaking. What matters to 36-year-old Levitas—a noted artist and one-time soap opera star whose first filmmaking endeavor, Lullaby, debuts this month—is that he’s telling a story. “My approach to art is that it’s not so much about the medium—it’s ... More

Throughout the year, we yearn for a time when we can take a step back and immerse ourselves into a simpler, albeit sometimes more exclusive, world. Nowhere is this urge more apparent than in The Big Book of the Hamptons, a 300-page tome dedicated to those much-ballyhooed hamlets to the east ... More

Throughout the year, we yearn for a time when we can take a step back and immerse ourselves into a simpler, albeit sometimes more exclusive, world. Nowhere is this urge more apparent than in The Big Book of the Hamptons, a 300-page tome dedicated to those much-ballyhooed hamlets to the east ... More

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What some actors might find terrifying, Vincent Piazza considers thrilling. Take, for example, an opportunity to star in a huge summer movie, as a real person known for singing, dancing and playing guitar—three things Piazza had no experience doing. It would be enough to make a lesser performer panic, but ... More

What some actors might find terrifying, Vincent Piazza considers thrilling. Take, for example, an opportunity to star in a huge summer movie, as a real person known for singing, dancing and playing guitar—three things Piazza had no experience doing. It would be enough to make a lesser performer panic, but ... More

Bob Dylan was the first portrait to be hung. His eyes were startlingly blue and, following the instructions of the artist Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, two columns in the space had been painted that same blue to match. Next up—and some protocols of celebrity precedence were perhaps being ... More