We profiled six soon-to-be married New York couples, and sent their details to cocktail caterers Chad Solomon and Christy Pope, of Cuff & Buttons. Below, the signature drinks they custom-tailored for each.

"One of my first jobs was working at the witch dungeon, basically a basement filled with torture devices used on witches. So my book doesn’t feel that morbid to me."

This summer, David Carr proved the troubled-times memoir was alive and kicking. Now here come three more books tackling addiction or mental illness.

On the heels of Ali G and Ricky Gervais, two Commonwealth comedies try importing funny.

The best concerts, films, and culture events of summer 2008.

How to keep them from wilting prematurely.

Redbelt star Chiwetel Ejiofor goes from Shakespeare to jujitsu.

When Clifford Odets wrote The Country Girl in 1950, he was still fighting to win back New York.

A history of English in the opera house.

Seasonal concoctions, created by Brian Miller and Philip Ward of Death & Co., sipped, swilled, and scored by a co-ed panel of four open-bar enthusiasts.