Hiroyo Ruiz brings her artistic vision—and top-notch baking and patisserie pedigree—to her meticulously designed creations.
Smile Counsel
Finding Your Happy Place
It may be a dark and stormy world, but last month, 800 thought leaders gathered in London to preach the gospel of sunniness for body, mind, and spirit.
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?
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?
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.
