The big news in car-connoisseur circles is the impending auction of a certain little silver Aston Martin coupe driven by a certain British special agent with a penchant for tuxedos and tall, leggy things. Behold chassis number DB5/1486/R, handmade in England in 1964 and equipped with a few, oh, necessary bits, such as retractable machine guns, nail sprayers and revolving license plates. I, howeve...

Strange to think that an ebook reader can seem old school, but that's pretty much what happened when Apple launched the iPad this spring. Nonetheless, the ebook manufacturers are fighting back, with Borders launching its own Kobo and Libre devices in July, on the heels of Barnes & Noble's partnership that lands its cozily named Nook reader at Best Buy.Personally, I'm an Amazon Kindle fan. I s...

It seems like the American way–everyone’s struggling to keep up with the proverbial Joneses. If you’ve ever found yourself tempted by the notion when you see the fun new flick, THE JONESES you won’t want so much as keep up with these wealthy, pretty, seemingly perfect neighbors, as you’ll want to BE them. Demi Moore and David Duchovny star as Kate and Steve Jone...

Secretly (until now) counting the days till the Lifetime movie Who Is Clark Rockefeller? about the German man who conned almost everyone — especially his wife — into believing he was a Rockefeller. Let's just say the story doesn't end well for the real "Clark" — but I'm loving Eric McCormack's clothes as the TV Clark. The real Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter may have slipped up on...

This week’s communiqué from my dear friend Billy Fong — DMA’s former annual program director, now Atlanta High Museum of Art’s membership manager, and composer of the most marvelous, style-drenched e-mails: Dearest B, So bored and need a task.  I have been working on a variety of projects — new clothing line with a friend, a screenplay — bu...

So I bundled up and set forth for Highland Park... Click on any thumbnail for a slide show. Photographs by Rob Brinkley.   

Normal 0 0 1 138 790 6 1 970 11.518 0 0 0 He tends to a pair of Kessler Park Shelties who spin when they see a bus drive by, walks a Lakewood Yorkie who prefers to balance on street curbs, and checks on a Highland Park cat who greets him by pawing his left shoe. There’s someone out there who pays as much attention to your pet’s idiosyncra...

Yes, Virginia there really is a Santa Claus. And I have  proof! Quell the junior skeptics in your house who aren’t so sure it was ole Saint Nick who shimmied his way down the chimney with photographic evidence of the man with the jelly in his belly caught in the act. Ditto for the tooth fairy, Easter bunny and cupid too. Simply snap a picture of your living room, children’s ...

Neiman Marcus Downtown’s design team, led by creative genius Ignaz Gorischek, asked tikes at the East Dallas St. Philip’s School & Community Center and Reconciliation Outreach to dream up stories about future energy sources for the famed NM holiday windows. Six tales were chosen for “Innovations and Energy,” but with a literal twist: For the first time ever, children 4...