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On a sultry November afternoon in Mérida, Mexico, I sat with my friend David Serrano on the terrace of Apoala, a Mexican-fusion restaurant on the Plaza de Santa Lucia, tucking [...]

PASADENA, Calif. -- On the patio of the Langham Huntington hotel here, on a sunny afternoon tinged with smoke from the recent wildfires in the area, Deborah Harkness swirled a [...]

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- The Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts is a cradle of social progress -- a place where L.G.B.T.Q. is often followed by I.A. (for intersex and asexual), there's [...]

Miles, our pug puppy, was 5 months old and mounting everything he could wrap his front paws around. ''We're having him fixed soon,'' my partner and I repeated like a [...]

Though steeped in glory and glamour, the Hollywood memoir is also typically sprinkled with enough excess, depravity and human wreckage to afford the gorged reader a righteous aftertaste. Call it [...]

LOS ANGELES -- On a warm September evening in the Hollywood Hills, guests at a book party for the writer Susan Faludi sipped prosecco and munched on lotus root chips [...]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- On a recent Friday evening I pulled into the driveway of the weekend home in Santa Barbara that my partner and I have shared for the [...]

The silver-haired man dressed like a waiter (dark vest, dark slacks) paced the aisle between rows of desks in a Toronto conference room. ''If you're going to be a leader, [...]

OJAI, Calif. -- On a recent Sunday morning the sidewalk in front of Porch Gallery Ojai buzzed with shoppers toting organic grocery bags to and from the nearby farmers' market. [...]

LOS ANGELES -- At the end of a narrow, twisting side street not far from the Hotel Bel-Air rises a knoll that until recently was largely covered with scrub brush [...]

It was Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs -- or the Dinah, as it's known -- five days of Sapphic revelry that every April draws some 15,000 women from around [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLOS ANGELES -- The Gala in the Garden, a benefit given every October by the Hammer Museum here, draws a reliably motley cross section of this city's art, fashion [...]

Once favored by the leading lights of Old Hollywood, the Trousdale section of Los Angeles fell out of fashion in the '70s -- its trove of midcentury architecture tarted up [...]

Once favored by the leading lights of Old Hollywood, the Trousdale section of Los Angeles fell out of fashion in the '70s -- its trove of midcentury architecture tarted up [...]

MALIBU, CALIF. -- Cliffside, Summit, Milestones, Seasons. The names suggest New Age spas or, perhaps, recent-vintage vineyards. They sprawl across the scrubby foothills of this storied coastal town and survey [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOn Dec. 15, 2012, a mild early-winter day, some 250 guests filed into St. Luke's Episcopal, a Gothic-style stone church in East Hampton, N.Y., for the memorial service of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOn Dec. 15, 2012, a mild early-winter day, some 250 guests filed into St. Luke's Episcopal, a Gothic-style stone church in East Hampton, N.Y., for the memorial service of [...]

LOS ANGELES ''JENNIFER and Justin! Straight ahead!'' shouted the paparazzi huddled outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Saturday night. ''Drew! Drew! Over here!'' It was the museum's [...]