One crisp autumn morning after a long night of Wildbrau beer and Spaetzle noodles, I awoke atop an Ikea bunk bed to find David Hasselhoff hovering over me, wearing nothing but his "Baywatch" bikini. I was disoriented. He was tan and hairy, with a smile the size of Stuttgart. When...

When creative director Grace Coddington shoots a $50,000 photo spread for Vogue and it ends up on the cutting room floor, she wonders if it ever existed at all. Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, if her art isn't out there for the world to see, it may...

On a late May afternoon in a sun-drenched penthouse atop Atlanta's W Hotel and Residences, designer Jason Wu mingles with the usual suspects, at least in these here parts: deep-fried fashionistas wearing hand-picked selections by couture curator Jeffrey Kalinsky, owner of the Jeffrey boutiques. Of course, there's Sacha Taylor...

Filmmaker John Hughes was no Thornton Wilder. The characters he envisaged weren't of the universal Our Town variety, and the halls of the so-called all-American high schools in which many of his innocuous comedy-dramas played-out were sorely homogeneous. It's true, he was responsible for other touchstones in movie culture (Mr....

Over the past month, I've been thinking a lot about Claude Monet. Partly because I live in Atlanta and the High Museum of Art is featuring an exhibition of his Water Lilies right now, but also because I keep trying to figure out why Impressionism, the style in which Monet...

In reading and participating in the exchange about aid to Africa (in particular, the one that began with the ONE campaign's critique of Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, soon after its release back in March), I'm glad to see so many folks up in arms over the subject. Congratulations...

The rooftop of the private Soho House in New York's Meatpacking District is the perfect setting for a late-spring soirée: it showcases lower Manhattan's twilight glow the way few other locales can. It's no surprise, then, that singer John Legend would host a $1,000-per-ticket benefit dinner and performance for his...