One morning last September, the billionaires Ronald Perelman and Jerry Speyer strolled into Carnegie Hall, but not to hear Yo-Yo Ma play Bach or Deborah Voigt […]
Scene Stealers By BROOKS BARNES LOS ANGELES — Last month, when the 32-year-old co-owner of Hostess Brands plunked down $100 million for the Playboy Mansion, the […]
Five children, in brightly colored T-shirts and wrinkled jean shorts, chattered in an eighth-floor office in Manhattan on a recent June day, taking breaks to lick […]
Unbuttoned By VANESSA FRIEDMAN When Hillary Clinton takes the stage at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Thursday to formally accept the nomination as the […]
Vanessa Friedman ON THE RUNWAY The first night of the Democratic National Convention on Monday was, rightly, not about the clothes: It was about trying to […]
MAPINGGUAN VILLAGE, China — Liu Xing Ma was sitting in his timber-frame home here when two hikers with scraggly beards appeared in his courtyard. That was […]
MAPINGGUAN VILLAGE, China — Liu Xing Ma was sitting in his timber-frame home here when two hikers with scraggly beards appeared in his courtyard. That was […]