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The Sound of Music Companion

A new book commemorates this month’s 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music. A lot of things you see in The Sound of Music might surprise the real Von Trapp family. Like the...

Hedda Lettuce Picks the 2015 Oscars Winners

Every publication will have a Hollywood expert making Oscars picks this week, and ours is Hedda Lettuce....

Bubbly Valentine

Looking for something bubbly to tickle your valentine? Try the Forest Rossini, shared with us by the people who craft Freixenet. Its delightful fruit flavors and festive color...

Where Are We?

Anyone with eyes can tell you it’s a good time for LGBT representation on TV. The 2014–2015 season has welcomed exciting new additions such as How To Get Away with Murder’s...

Inside the Dream Palace

By Sherill Tippins Mariner Books; $16 You can tell what kind of New Yorkers you know by the names they drop when they explain the Hotel Chelsea. Literay fans, for example, might...

Last Laugh

“No Vegas, no giant club dates, Kathy Griffin’s taken all those,” Joan Rivers kvetched in her documentary, A Piece of Work. Every joke, they say, is born from truth, and...