Here’s a New Year’s resolution you don’t hear too often: Eat more. Yet that’s exactly what we’re suggesting you do in 2013. Food can lead you to new experiences and ...

The first time Steven Van Zandt worked with “Sopranos” creator David Chase, it was on the HBO drama, where he played Silvio Dante, consigliere — top adviser and counsel ...

At a holiday party, a colleague asked if I watch “Downton Abbey,” the British series about an early 20th-century earl, his American wife, their three daughters and their g...

Judging from the movies, New Jersey is just New York City’s backyard, where the alluring skyline of the Big Apple is visible from every window. That longing to leave the Gar...

As the calender flips to 2013, I look ahead to the coming year in comedy. “Best Week Ever” (Jan. 18, VH1): Some of my favorite stand-ups — Paul F. Tompkins, Doug Benson ...

Heather Carter is not, repeat NOT, a hoarder. She just really hates throwing things away. “We manufacture or import a great deal of stuff, and a great deal of it hits the la...

Click here to download a PDF of our New Year’s Eve planning flowchart. The numbers on the chart correspond with the details below. 1. Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree for Washi...

Over the past 12 months, a big fear of mine came true: I put on a few pounds. I blame this job and its frequent temptations (sometimes requirements) to go out to eat. However,...

TV taught me so much in 2012. Here are a few of the things I learned: “America’s Test Kitchen” showed me that the easiest way to remove the core of an apple I wish to ba...

If you think the art in Xavier Veilhan’s Phillips Collection exhibition “IN(Balance)” — the sculptures, the mobiles, the paintings and the photo-based works, both abst...

In October, we passed an unsettling milestone: the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a terrifying 13 days in which President John F. Kennedy steered the nation off...

Is that a skull? Knitting and crocheting flaunt some serious attitude in “High Fiber: Women to Watch 2012,” a survey of work by seven textile artists from the U.S., Britai...

It took eight years, 200 commercial flights and 58 boat trips before ornithologist Edwin Scholes and photographer Tim Laman could say they’d made history. The pair are the f...

Geeta is something of a dinner-party expert. The founder of Hush Supper Club regularly cooks up and serves five-course Indian meals (complete with drinks and storytelling) to ...

  I bet you weren’t expecting the best moment of your life. Bet your worst caught you off guard, too. Life’s surprises are what the extraordinary “Rust and Bone” ...