Cathy Alter

They just kept going around and around on an endless loop, the same red knapsack, green duffel bag, and bungee-corded brown box circling the room like refugees stuck on a Ferris wheel. My husband Karl's suitcase appeared immediately, loaded with Etro striped shirts,
Ferragamo loafers and his prized Dries...

I was at a friend's birthday party when it happened again. Word had got out that I was pregnant, and it didn't take long for one of the guests, a woman I had only met twice in my life, to come barreling across the room, eyes shining with the unwavering...

When I lived in Manhattan, I saw celebrities all the time. I drank vodka gimlets next to Harvey Keitel at a bar on Columbus, stood next to Matt Dillon at party for "Dazed and Confused," grabbed for the same pair of shoes as Uma Thurman did at the Kenneth Cole...

In a recent interview with the German website TrailerSeite.de, Bruce Willis said that he would never sign up for a social networking site because he finds the concept of online technology like Facebook and Twitter "disturbing."

I fear that I'm partially responsible for Willis' aversion to the electronic format....

Liz Jones, former editor of Marie Claire, avid collector of Vogue magazines, and frequent target of Jezebel's arch lambasting, wrote a column in the Daily Mail the other day documenting her long love affair with women's magazines. A relationship, she laments, that has since come to an end, her former...