Jackie Yalincak is a charming Turkish immigrant whose family foundation pledged $21 million to NYU.
How foie gras became the new fur.
Dave Chapelle shows up for stand-up, Robert Caro roasts the wannabe A.G., jockeying for Hillary in the Hamptons, and more.
New Yorkers did their best to follow a stadium–cum–Olympic-bid drama that had more false endings than a Mahler symphony.
How a sexed-up, smoky gay bar survived Rudy and Mike for so long.
Adventures in baby preventing: the latest rhythm method.
A Tribeca school fights developers for its place in the sun; kids “perform better” in natural light.
Why was Morgan Stanley chief Phil Purcell fired? Probably because he alienated almost every single person he worked with.
A shoulder bag that’s practical and impressive, innovatively comfortable patio furniture, and more.
Store openings this week.
Vincenzo Sciacchitano of Giorgio Armani.
A Ford model caught after one of her four daily outfit changes.
Stylish women’s suits solve the what-to-wear-to-work-in-the-summer problem. Photographs by Burkhard Schittny.
Online dating can be arduous for lesbians.
Helsinki’s character emerges from Russia’s shadow.
Furnishing an entire apartment from street refuse in a single day.
Why Gramercy Park likes having a Schrager hotel in the neighborhood.
For the next two weeks, lunch at participating restaurants costs $20.12, in increasingly deluded support of New York’s Olympic bid.
Once a destination for cut-rate clothing, gritty Orchard Street is following Clinton Street’s lead, becoming a veritable restaurant row.
Can a famously savvy TV exec help figure out what it means for a network to be gay?
David LaChapelle’s new documentary is bizarre, heartwarming, and visually incredible.
A look at the new Film Forum series.
In “Jukebox,” listeners review new records from the White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Laura Cantrell, and more.
A great premise unfulfilled for Jon Robin Baitz.
Donaghy captures the play’s comedy, and, paradoxically, its despair.
Q&A with the actor.
Two new exhibits of 1840s-era photographs that are more than just historical curiosities.
What Museumgoers Really Thought About “Sol LeWitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls.”
An explanation for why South Pacific is seldom revived.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
