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Data Dining

Is it a restaurant . . . or is it the CIA?

The show Cheers got it right: we all like to go where everybody knows our name. But how much more do we want our favorite restaurant to know about us?

Cute puppy and a menu at a pet cafe
Pets

Animal House

For the gourmand who also appreciates animals not on their plates, there is a new trend coming to these shores: pet cafés.

Green Thumbs

DP’s Gift Guide for Gardeners

These gifts will make a gardener’s heart blossom.

Dp Books

Adam Gopnik on Happiness, and Other Chimeras

Are you pursuing what you need to be happy? Or are you, in fact, pursuing the opposite?

Beauty

The New Botox?

LA “It girls” are clamoring for facial rejuvenation acupuncture. Can they really replace your derm appointments?

Bill and Babe Paley in 1958
Swans revisited

Bill vs. Babe

With the overwhelming popularity of Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, DP takes another look at the series’ most misunderstood character—Bill S. Paley

Off Broadway

Play, boy

A few words with Max Wolf Friedlich, whose new two-person play, Job, has New Yorkers reaching for the Xanax.

Swan song

The first Mrs. Guest

C. Z.’s mother-in-law was an aviation enthusiast who bankrolled Amelia Earhart’s transatlantic flight.

Movie land

From Stepford Wives To Mystic Pizza

A new, lush book by actor/writer Illeana Douglas takes us on a film journey through Connecticut.

What's on

Women Dressing Women

An exhibit at the Met’s Costume Institute proves that women design for who we are, not just who we want to be. And the results are often stunning.

Viral sensation

Who is MrBeast?

Here we explain the phenom who is the world’s most successful YouTuber (so you don’t have to ask your 10-year-old).

Worried woman in a warm white woolen sweater on a gray background looks at an approaching moth
Thread counts

The Cashmere Whisperer

Is your life unraveling? Wait, not your life—your sweater. Snags—and moths—happen. For those attached to an old favorite, Ron Moore is here to help.

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