Is Shredding Over? Not So Fast
By RUTH LA FERLA
A Parsons class is challenged to identify signposts of fashion’s future.
One Family and Its Legacy of Pain
By LISA BELKIN
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Millicent Monks, a descendant of Thomas Carnegie (Andrew’s brother), on a Maine island her family owns.
Generation after generation, descendants of Thomas Carnegie struggled with mental illness. One of them has now written a book about it.
Skin Deep
This Teenage Girl Uses Botox. No, She’s Not Alone.
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Doctors inject teenagers with Botox for a variety of perceived flaws, from a too-gummy smile to a too-square jaw.
Celebrating Scandal
By LIESL SCHILLINGER
Parties celebrate the “Bolter” spirit of Idina Sackville, a legendary hedonist who shocked Britain in 1919.
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On the Street | Field Day
The chic colony of the Hamptons was out in full force for the 13th Super Saturday sale of discounted clothing from more than 200 fashion designers, held in a field in Water Mill, N.Y.
New Paths in the Mideast
Increasingly, students are spending a junior year abroad in Arabic-speaking countries.
Pulse
By KARIN NELSON
What the artist Olympia Scarry is wearing now, an exhibition of the photographer Christopher Makos’s Polaroids from the late ’70s and early ’80s, and more items.
Birdhouses Designed for Repeat Visitors
By KATE MURPHY
T.C. Worley for The New York Times
Purple martins in Tony Lau’s Otsego, Minn., backyard.
Homeowners who build comfy dwellings for purple martins are rewarded with guests that kill bugs and provide addictive entertainment.
House Proud
Producers Put a Theater in Their Own Backyard
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers of the Broadway musical “Chicago,” commissioned the sculptor Beverly Pepper to build an amphitheater on their Westchester estate.
Portable Housing, Made in Montana
By JIM ROBBINS
When the economy slowed, builders in Bozeman went from constructing mega homes to one-room houses priced at about $2 a square foot.
On Location
A Home on a Slope, With Floors to Match
By DINAH SPRITZER
In a house on a hill outside Prague, floors are pitched at an angle, as in a movie theater.
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An Ultramodern House Outside Prague
This pink-polyurethane-clad house in the Czech Republic stands out among its more traditional neighbors.
Quilts With Attitude
Boo Davis, a Seattle-based quilter, uses traditional techniques to create designs that feature skulls or a devil-horns hand sign.
A Purple Martin Birdhouse Tour
The swallows depend on humans for their housing, which is designed to attract.
Guy Fieri, Chef-Dude, Is in the House
By JULIA MOSKIN
Marc Steiner for The New York Times
Guy Fieri faces the crowd before his cooking demonstration at Circus Maximus at Caesars Atlantic City.
The platinum-haired, heavily tattooed Food Network star has brought a new element of mass-market culture to American food television.
In Saratoga Springs, Catering to the Horse Set
By GLENN COLLINS
For six weeks each summer, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., cares almost as much about food as about thoroughbred racing.
The Pour
Txakolina, a Tongue-Twisting Name for Simple Pleasure
By ERIC ASIMOV
Demand has grown for this bracing, refreshing, often fizzy white wine from Basque country.
Bars
Beer Gardens Bloom Around the City
By ROBERT SIMONSON
A growing number of open-air taverns take on the challenge of thriving amid concrete and noisy streets.
New York’s New Beer Gardens
Loreley and the Biergarten at the Standard Hotel are among the crop of new beer gardens opening around the city.
Eating Up Racing Season in Saratoga Springs
The movable feast in this city in upstate New York intensifies during the six-week track season at Saratoga Race Course.
Anne Stephens and Preston Lloyd
By LOIS SMITH BRADY
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The couple took a sword to the cake.
From undergraduate French class through separate law schools, their goal has been to be happy together.
Lyndsea Cochrane and Ethan Cherkasky
By PAULA SCHWARTZ
She used to be a flight attendant; he has a fear of flying.
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Accessories and swimwear that will take you from the poolside cabana to the cocktail lounge.
Maitres du Temps| Time Keepers
By BRUCE PASK
Swiss watches, designed and made entirely by horological hall-of-famers.
Lollapalunch | The Music Fest’s Culinary Director
By CHARLOTTE DRUCKMAN
To get everyone in the mood for Lolla, the Chicago chef Graham Elliot Bowles has paired a participating musical act with a like-minded culinary enterprise.
In Pictures | Stefan Ruiz's Istanbul
By JEFFRIES BLACKERBY
Rare views of Turkey's city, from atop Topkapi Palace.
Flower Power | Artist E.V. Day’s Giverny Diary
By E.V. DAY
What it's like to to be an artist in residence at Monet's estate.
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Now Booking | Diane Von Furstenberg for Claridge's
By JACKIE COOPERMAN
The fashion designer brings her unapologetically exuberant style to an Art Deco landmark.
Buy Local in Portugal
By MAURA EGAN
A former soap factory is now home to an amazing archive of authentic Portuguese products.
Poparazzi | The Manly Business of Gossip
By BEN WIDDICOMBE
After the Tiger Woods sex scandals, it seems that gossip is becoming increasingly acceptable for men.
We Three Things | Water Colors
By LEANNE SHAPTON
Lately, I find myself spending as much time as possible in the deep end of the pool, and when I'm not there, I seek out that submersible summer feeling.
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