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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 [...]

Architects Richard Giegengack and D.C. Broadstone II added two wings to a Georgian-style house in Dallas in order to accommodate large family rooms as well as a first-class library. The 6,000-square-foot, double-height library is grand in scale, fitting for the owners' museum-quality collection of documents, arts and antiques and architects and designer John Phifer Marrs conceived it with a coffered ceiling and inlaid-wood floors.

Charles Pollock has spent the last 38 years, since 1967, renovating his 1920s Los Angeles residence and has earned renown as a local decorator, antiques dealer and furniture designer. In order to get the proportions right as well as an overall picture that is pleasing, Pollock has managed to make major renovations including moving the entrance, enclosing the balcony, redoing the kitchen, shrinking the dining room and opening up the house with French doors and windows.

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, [...]

Byline: PETER HALDEMAN 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 [...]

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. [...]

Byline: PETER HALDEMAN 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The article focuses on a renovation of a home located in the Marrakesh community in Palm Desert, California, that is owned by Annie Selke.