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Topher Yandell

“I love color. [I use it to] reflect the mood I want to project, or to tell a story—a pile of leaves, an autumn brook.”  … More>

Andy Cohen… Can’t Shut the Hell Up.

It’s April 4 at Rockefeller Center and Andy Cohen’s small Watch What Happens: Live studio is more cramped than usual. He’s used to the insanity, rubbing elbows with guests like Tina Fey or Jerry Seinfeld five nights a week, but tonight is the big Bravo upfront—industry speak for when a network announces its new programming in a bid for advertising dollars—and the first-ever Watch What Happens: Live All-Stars Party. … More>

Whale of a Tale

Amid the dockside decor of Shep and Ian Murray’s Stamford, Conn., office hangs a bookshelf of telling titles. Propped up, like pillars of wisdom, are Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs and Susanna Salk’s A Privileged Life: Celebrating WASP Style. … More>

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On Bernadette Peters

On May 9, Broadway, film and TV superstar Bernadette Peters, 64, will perform at Opening Night at Pops (with further appearances scheduled this summer at Tanglewood). Born and raised in New York, Peters has starred in such plays as Gypsy, The Goodbye Girl, Into the Woods and Sunday in the Park With George. … More>

The Great Improper Bartending Competition

Magazine editors love to classify things. It’s in our blood, like making puns so dire they cause brain contusions. (“What’s a good headline for the wine column?” “How about ‘Grape Expectations’?” “Genius!”). So when asked, “What’s the best appetizer in town?” or “How do you solve the Middle East situation?” we can’t answer, “Everything is subjective.” We must rise to the bait. (The grilled octopus at UpStairs on the Square. And, um, Palestinian statehood?… More>