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Just a few moments into my inaugural trip to an antiques show, I managed to commit a faux pas that would make the most seasoned garage-sale lover wince: I paid...

Here in New York City, in the seven years since the first two Richard Meier buildings began taking shape on the West Side Highway, the glass curtain wall has become...

You love your cat. Look at him, conked out, nose glistening, such an innocent. You know what you should do, and love takes you as far as the pet store....

Bush administration officials are considering granting Guantanamo detainees substantially greater rights as part of an effort to close the detention center and possibly move much of its population to the...

Most men consider shaving a chore worthy of Sisyphus, who was damned to push a boulder up a mountain only to have it roll back down. No matter whether your...

On her first date with Sid Berger, Michele Cloonan noticed a copy of Henry Morris' "Roller Printed Paste Papers" in his apartment. "I knew then," she recalls, "that my fate...

Barack Obama is the only presidential candidate selling ribbed baby-doll T-shirts. John Edwards and Mitt Romney are the sole contenders offering "support the troops" stickers. Edwards is the one candidate...

When Jacques Grange paid his first visit early this fall to Galerie Mark, a Manhattan real estate sales office masquerading as an art-and-design gallery, his perennial look of wry amusement...

Thomas Dawes, a rock musician and composer who wrote music for some of advertising's best-known commercial jingles, including "Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz" for Alka-Seltzer and "7Up, the Uncola," died on...

Citigroup's embattled chairman and chief executive has told senior officials at the bank that he expected to leave after an emergency board meeting this weekend, a banking industry official with...