Sip Bellinis at Bar Madonna, get artsy at Frieze and other NYC events this week

Sip Bellinis at Bar Madonna, get artsy at Frieze and other NYC events this week

Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city.  What’s making our luxury list this week? The NY Art Book Fair throws a block party in … Read more

Inside the high-stakes world of scaling Mt. Everest

Inside the high-stakes world of scaling Mt. Everest

In April, 2013, a group of Sherpas, the iconic Nepalese mountain guides, hung off the side of the mountain they call Sagarmatha, installing 3,000 feet of the 12 miles of fixed ropes added to Everest each year to aid inexperienced climbers.  Because it was dangerous work, the Sherpas carried hundreds of pounds of rope, ice … Read more

Inside the world of a ‘silent’ nun

Inside the world of a ‘silent’ nun

Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years as a nun in a traditional Carmelite monastery in Northumberland, England. The Akenside Priory, as she writes in her new memoir, “Cloistered,” was contemplative, which meant that conversation was discouraged except for half an hour each day. “Unlike the rest of the day when words were held back, or weighed extremely … Read more

‘Shopaholic’ author Sophie Kinsella reveals brain cancer battle: ‘A difficult time’

‘Shopaholic’ author Sophie Kinsella reveals brain cancer battle: ‘A difficult time’

Sophie Kinsella, who writes the best-selling “Shopaholic” series, revealed this week that she has been battling brain cancer for more than a year. “I’ve wanted for a long time to share with you a health update and I’ve been waiting for the strength to do so,” she penned Wednesday on Instagram. “At the end of 2022, I was diagnosed … Read more

Sniff a $5K perfume set, explore Muji’s new flagship and other NYC events this week

Sniff a K perfume set, explore Muji’s new flagship and other NYC events this week

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city.  … Read more

28 books that are absolute must-reads this spring

28 books that are absolute must-reads this spring

Forget the dreary days and heavy reads of January. The weather is warming, the flower are blooming— and captivating, juicy new books are hitting store shelves. Have a look. FICTION “James” is written by Percival Everett. JamesPercival Everett (Doubleday) Everett’s 2020 novel “Telephone” was a Pulitzer finalist. His latest is a reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” … Read more

Feast at Beefbar, learn watchmaking secrets and other NYC events this week

Feast at Beefbar, learn watchmaking secrets and other NYC events this week

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city.  … Read more

One of the oldest books in existence expected to fetch over $2.6 million at auction

One of the oldest books in existence expected to fetch over .6 million at auction

A book from Egypt that was written at the dawn of Christianity and is considered one of the oldest books in existence will go up for auction in June in London. The Crosby-Schoyen Codex – written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD, and produced in one of the first Christian monasteries – has an … Read more

How one family never gave up on finding a killer

How one family never gave up on finding a killer

For almost three decades, Kristine S. Ervin lived an inconceivable horror story – hoping and praying that the two monsters who abducted, brutally raped and murdered her mother in April 1986 would be caught. She wanted justice – and also revenge – to finally be served. Eight years old when the life of Kathy Sue … Read more

Inside the deadly government guns program that made the US less safe

Inside the deadly government guns program that made the US less safe

It was Jan. 18, 2011, in Phoenix, Ariz., and Peter Forcelli, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), picked up a 911 call about a robbery in progress. When he arrived at the scene, it was obvious something horrible had happened. “As we stepped through the doorway, the tang … Read more

Lauren Graham of ‘Gilmore Girls’ is going on tour. Get tickets here

Lauren Graham of ‘Gilmore Girls’ is going on tour. Get tickets here

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Welcome back to Stars Hollow. From April 3-13, Lauren Graham aka Lorelai Gilmore is going on a six-show ‘Have I Told You This Already Book Tour’ with actor … Read more

Jenna Bush Hager lets daughter Mila, 10, read young adult books: Helps to talk about sex

Jenna Bush Hager lets daughter Mila, 10, read young adult books: Helps to talk about sex

Jenna Bush Hager has books to thank for teaching her 10-year-old daughter, Mila, about the birds and the bees. The 42-year-old “Today with Hoda & Jenna” co-host revealed Thursday that Mila reading Jenny Han’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty” has eased her into discussing the sex talk with her child. “It’s so interesting, I feel like … Read more

Rebel Wilson reveals A-list ‘a–hole’ who allegedly tried to ‘threaten’ her over memoir: ‘I will not be bullied’

Rebel Wilson reveals A-list ‘a–hole’ who allegedly tried to ‘threaten’ her over memoir: ‘I will not be bullied’

Rebel has risen. Rebel Wilson officially named Sacha Baron Cohen as the Hollywood star who is allegedly trying to “threaten” her over her upcoming memoir, “Rebel Rising.” In an Instagram Story on Monday, the “Pitch Perfect” actress posted a picture of a binder and a purple pen while declaring, “I will not be bullied or … Read more

Rebel Wilson claims ‘massive a–hole’ celeb is threatening to sabotage release of new book

Rebel Wilson claims ‘massive a–hole’ celeb is threatening to sabotage release of new book

The dark side of Hollywood can’t hide from Rebel Wilson The Aussie actress, 44, revealed that an unnamed Hollywood star sent her threats after learning that she planned to include him in her upcoming memoir. Actress Rebel Wilson revealed that an unnamed Hollywood star allegedly threatened her after she told them that she planned to … Read more

The glamorous life and tragic death of Warhol-muse Candy Darling

The glamorous life and tragic death of Warhol-muse Candy Darling

Fifty years after her death at 29, Candy Darling – born Jimmy Slattery, of Massapequa, Long Island – is finally getting the star billing the Andy Warhol underground film star and transgender icon has long deserved.  As Cynthia Carr writes in her 418-page biography, Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar [Farrar, Straus and Giroux], Candy “was … Read more

The drug-fueled life and times of John Belushi and ‘The Blues Brothers’

The drug-fueled life and times of John Belushi and ‘The Blues Brothers’

While filming “The Blues Brothers” in 1979, John Belushi was partying so hard that he was often unable to function. One night, after yet another Belushi delay, director John Landis knocked on the door of his trailer, fed up. “Inside, John sat disheveled, eyes vacant. Atop a desk sat a mound of cocaine,” writes Daniel … Read more

How ‘pyramid schemes’ are bankrupting America

How ‘pyramid schemes’ are bankrupting America

When 23-year-old college graduate Julie was invited to a “girls night party” where the guests were told by a woman named Shawna from a company called Pure Romance that they could make big bucks selling middle-class suburban housewives “bullet vibrators and dildos,” Julie was down to get started. Selling the Dream by Jane Marie All … Read more

Fox News’ Jesse Watters has surprising explanation for progressive extremism

Fox News’ Jesse Watters has surprising explanation for progressive extremism

When he interviewed people for his man-on-the-street segments, Fox News personality Jesse Watters typically only got to talk to them for 10 minutes at most. Now that he’s a primetime host, he has even less time to get into it with interview subjects. That fact inspired his new book “Get It Together: Troubling Tales from … Read more

Silence your iPhone, order takeout and dive into the most thrilling new books of the season

Silence your iPhone, order takeout and dive into the most thrilling new books of the season

When it’s frigid outside, it’s the best time of year to plop down on the couch and pick up a book that will scare the bejesus out of you. (For reasons we’ve never been able to quite work out, winter is the time of year that many thrillers are published.) Put your iPhone on Do … Read more

How cars changed the lives of American women

How cars changed the lives of American women

During the golden age of TV sitcoms, the woman-driver joke became a script staple: “My wife is a careful driver. She always slows down when going through a red light.” Cue the laugh track. But journalist Nancy Nichols, daughter of an “alcoholic” used car salesman, has a far different and more serious take; in her … Read more