Brasserie 19 1962 West Gray Street brasserie19.com This airy French bistro offers daily specials from duck confit to handcut steaks. The wine list is expansive and best enjoyed on the outdoor patio. Caracol 2200 Post Oak Boulevard caracol.net For the best ... More

When it comes to wine, the future is sparkling. Well, at least as far as a trio of Italian entrepreneurs is concerned. "A year and a half ago, we decided prosecco—the wine we've been drinking since we were kids—was lacking attention," Gian Luca Passi, one of the founders of ... More

"For a long time, I resisted making any kind of album because I didn't know what my personal sound would be," Megan Hilty says. It's something the actress, a Broadway veteran and star of NBC's Smash, has obviously figured out. Hilty's debut album, It Happens ... More

Jessica Alba is temporarily depriving cinephiles of her films to take on a new role: author (her first book, The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You is now available for sale). The mother of two daughters, Honor and ... More

Whatever music you might hear over the next year, it most likely got discovered this week. That's because South by Southwest, the annual music (and tech and film) festival is raging in Austin, Texas and attracting some of the world's foremost creative—and critical—minds. It's a fact ... More

Spring’s new man is one cut from a juxtaposed cloth – one part dandy and one part super jock. The spring 2013 looks that came down the runways in Europe and New York had a wearable vibe to them, one that veered towards the complex and mixed fabrics in ... More

Here's something to wake you up faster than a 6 a.m. SoulCycle series: The General, EMM Group's new Lower East Side Asian hotspot, has opened its bakery—and it's serving cereal-inspired doughnuts for breakfast everyday starting at 6 a.m. ... More

With names like, "Quiver," "Smitten" and "Ravenous," Tom Ford's ten new lip colors are unsurprisingly sensual – but what else would you expect from the former Gucci designer who, along with Carine Roitfeld, invented the "Porno Chic" aesthetic. Despite his ... More

"I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty" – Imelda Marcos  And so begins Shoe Obsession, a new book filled with over 150 pairs of the world's most spectacular footwear from the 17th century through, well, the future. The former Philippine first ... More

When the American Impressionist John Singer Sargent used his famous watercolors to paint stylish Edwardian society, he couldn’t possibly have known that nearly 100 years later those same picturesque pastels would capture the imagination of the world’s leading designers. But just as a massive retrospective of Sargent’s watercolor works More