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La Promenade des Anglais:
A Taste of Southern France in Chelsea

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
by on Dining Around

The Environment La Promenade des Anglais is a chic, but unpretentious restaurant marrying tribute to Nice’s main thoroughfare, its flaneurs* and a kind of low

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Woman Around Town: Nancy Lee—
Celebrating the Year of the Dragon

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
by on Woman Around Town

According to the Chinese calendar, Nancy Lee was born in the Year of the Monkey, specifically the Fire Monkey whose traits include strength and determination.

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Mark Nadler: Contemporary Vaudevillian and Happy Guy

Monday, September 26th, 2011
by on Playing Around

Mark Nadler and I are the only diners in the otherwise closed second floor at Sardi’s this quiet, weekday afternoon. Greeting manager and waiters by

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Charting A New Course at Isabel O’Neil Studio

Thursday, April 14th, 2011
by on Living Around

Novelist F. Scott FitzGerald is known to have said, “There are no second acts in American life.” For FitzGerald this turned out to be a

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Woman Around Town: Lauren Glassberg—
Reporting from All Over Her City

Monday, April 4th, 2011
by on Woman Around Town

With all due respect to Thomas Wolfe, Lauren Glassberg found that she could go home again, especially when that home is New York City. Growing

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Ovando: The Art of Floral Design

Friday, March 25th, 2011
by on Shopping Around

On the first day of spring at a New York florist, amidst the wet snow and chill you might expect to see clouds of bright

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Phoebe Cates Brings Her Blue Tree Touch to Sfoglia

Friday, March 11th, 2011
by on Dining Around

What could be better than dining in a top restaurant’s private dining room? How about dining in a private space designed by Phoebe Cates, actress,

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