As co-owners of New York’s Artichoke Basille pizzerias, cousins and co-chefs Sal Basille and Francis Garcia know about slinging dough. The pair show off their pie intelligen...

New York interior designers/sisters Hollister and Porter Hovey are in their 30s. But they love to mix antique French chairs, taxidermied birds, oil paintings of ancestors a...

We are blitzed by media and entertainment from so many sources and angles that being truly wowed seems like a quaint idea, maybe nearly impossible. But a bit over a century ag...

Prada shoes at 70 percent off! Frette sheets for $150 a set, not $450! Four days at a Puerto Rican beach resort for the price of two! If you’re among the thousands of shoppe...

Neons. Warm-weather leather. Enough black and white to outfit a million Coco Chanel clones. So many trends are buzzing around this spring, a stylista could suffer whiplash. To...

Recipes for iguana — grilled, in tomato sauce, with peanuts —  star in a cookbook in the packed library at Mexican-born, Chevy Chase, Md.-based chef Pati Jinich’s house...

On a recent shopping trip with my curvy pal J., we spent a fruitless hour and a half in a Nordstrom dressing room hunting for a size 16 cocktail outfit. One lacy tunic flatter...

Anyone who has ever won a hotly contested eBay auction for an orange vintage Pyrex or hit Georgetown Flea Market early to ferret out Victorian earrings knows the thrill of the...

The rock-star popularity of such globe-trotting, plate-hopping TV personalities as Andrew Zimmern and Tony Bourdain shows how hungry audiences are for exotic eats. But bringin...

My late father, a merry widower the last 10 years of his life, loved everything about the holidays — the food (beef tenderloin), the wine (chardonnay), the presents (books)....

Cap City nesters have loved colorful interiors since George Washington decked out Mount Vernon in Yankee Doodle bright blues and otherworldly greens. Jonathan Adler, the midce...

In more than 10 years at the New York Times, writer and editor Sam Sifton has held jobs including restaurant critic and culture editor. But it’s his time manning the newspap...

In BBC’s “Sherlock,” actor Benedict Cumberbatch plays a hip, modern version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuth who notably spurns wearing one of those infamous flapped twe...

No, undergarments don’t have the power to smooth over political differences or rein in the federal deficit. But thanks to Spanx — the mega hosiery company founded by Sara ...

Next week, Americans will choose between two guys in the presidential election. Luckily, when it comes to autumn shoes, women don’t have to ponder such a stark choice. With ...