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Photo credit (L-R): Bonhams; New York’s Plaza Hotel The original Plaza Hotel portrait of Eloise has one of the strangest histories in American illustration. Painted by Hilary Knight in 1956 as a birthday gift for Eloise co-creator Kay Thompson, the tempera-on-board artwork hung in the Plaza’s lobby before disappearing during a Junior League Ball in…

A Florida appeals court has overturned an order requiring a man to pay his former wife $2,675.87 per month in financial support after a marriage that lasted just 249 days. In its decision, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that the trial court made a mistake by ordering nine months of temporary alimony without…

Photo courtesy: franksinatraschoolofthearts.org In 2001, late singer and painter Tony Bennett and his wife, Susan Benedetto, helped open a public high school in New York for students who wanted to pursue the arts alongside their academic studies. It began in temporary quarters with space for 250 students. Twenty-five years later, the Frank Sinatra School of…

Women’s health research is shifting towards a whole-body approach, connecting heart, brain, mobility and ageing to improve long-term wellbeing. Aging is rarely a single-system story. The heart, brain, muscles and blood vessels change together, yet medical research has often studied them separately. A new five-year research project at Cedars-Sinai is taking a broader view, investigating…

Demi Moore’s Idaho home brings her close to the natural landscape of Sun Valley, where a river, mountains, and open surroundings shape life beyond Los Angeles. She lives in Hailey, one of three connected towns in the Sun Valley area, which she says feels cosy and familiar, with little main streets, mountains, and clean air.A…

When novelist Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha King, pledged $3 million to renovate the Bangor Public Library in Maine in 2013, the donation came with a condition: the institution had to raise another $6 million. The challenge helped set a wider fundraising effort in motion, with the library meeting its $9 million target in…

By Alex Wilcox Cheek – commons.wikimedia.org Martha’s Vineyard has rejected one of the largest housing proposals ever considered by its regional planning body. The Katama Meadows project in Edgartown proposed 52 homes across 54 acres, including 26 below-market lots intended for moderate-income residents and municipal workers, alongside 19 market-rate homes that could have sold for…

Ariana Grande’s relationship with Manchester did not end when the lights went down at the Manchester Arena in May 2017. Seven years after the attack that killed 22 people following her concert, the singer continued a quiet tradition of sending Christmas gifts to children spending the holiday season in hospitals across Greater Manchester. In December…

In August 2024, country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actor Kimberly Williams-Paisley, pledged the first $1 million towards a $5 million campaign to open a second location of their nonprofit grocery store in Nashville, Tennessee. The new site opened on January 14, 2026, at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, allowing eligible families to select…