Nearly a year after getting the lordly honor of listing Brooke Astor's iconic duplex at 778 Park Avenue, Corcoran's Leighton Candler has lost the listing, according to her Web site. Last March, agents from both Brown Harris Stevens and Sotheby's came to audition for the listing with their brokerages...

by J. Randal Matheny, editor Richard Mansel has been named managing editor of Forthright Magazine, effective immediately. In his previous post as assistant editor, Richard went far and beyond the call of duty. The new position reflects much of what he's already been doing -- working hard as an edito...

If you're visiting San Francisco soon, or live there now, heed the dining advice of my homeboy Bradley. The guy's a native (well, Sunnyvale—close enough when you're from Ohio) and he's got a talent for sniffing out delightful experiences that are off the beaten trails. Regard, Bradley's recommenda...

Hot damn! I am very excited today. A book, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy that I was very involved in helping to hatch made it to Michiko Kakutani's top 10 list for books from 2008. And to top off a great day, my colleague and friend Steve Coll's The Bi...

Tila Tequila's marketing bra was on overdrive during the MTV Movie Awards this weekend. One of the main criticisms of her show A Shot at Love was that, hey, guess what, Tila's not really a bisexual. With her second season in progress, she's working her face off to trick people into believing she's b...

As author of The Elements of Cooking, Michael Ruhlman has inspired others to really think about what they keep in their kitchens. Now he lists his own must-have gadgets, after venting about some real crap that he's got no use for: I’m not the first to suggest that a tool that has only a single use...

Michael Ruhlman, on the potentially best foie gras ever: "Eduardo Sousa, a farmer in the Extremadura region of Spain is, according to chef Dan Barber, raising geese that bear the best foie gras the chef's tasted. The critical part of the story, though, is that Sousa does not force feed the geese. He...

Hillary Clinton is making a wrong-headed play in her call to President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games. After the collision of an American EP-3 spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter in April 2001, neoconservative high priest Richard Perle advocated preempting Chinaâ...

Those of you interested in the book biz may have read about a new venture that aims to rejigger how authors are paid, creating a system that may ultimately benefit both authors and publishers. Authors typically get advances, or money up front from the publisher. Often times, that's all the money an ...

Christina Ricci, like most of the civilized world, wants Jessica Biel's butt and she's shouting it from the rooftops. Or People Magazine, if you want to argue over semantics: "I asked my trainer, 'Can you give me Jessica Biel's butt?'" the actress – who starred with Biel's beau Timberlake in last ...