Author: Sharon King Hoge

The new year has kicked off with a plethora of new places, exhibits, products, events.

11 Valentine's Day Gift Ideas

An account of a two-day stay in a luxury Indian Ocean island retreat.

New York City parks and libraries, Irish mansions, a ballet company, all will benefit from funds raised at recent parties. We stopped by some gala events —mark your calendars to join in on all of the fun next year!

Book celebrations are being held all over town including receptions, signings and panel discussions. We stopped by a few book-based events to meet the authors and to look inside the tempting pages.

Booth browsing, shop stopping, we've been checking out merchandise all over town.

Ole to Casita Maria, Hurrah for Lladro, and Congratulations to Supporters of the Arts.

The Prince of Chintz fills the calendar with celebrations of his fifty years of design excellence.

Stylish guests help raise more than $165,000 for New York City's showcase park.

The Folk Art Museum's annual gala and the American Made Awards focus attention on creativity.

Travel through time within a few blocks along Central Park West to visit the show that created a sensation in New York a century ago, and a new exhibit showcasing the very latest in mind-boggling technological creations.

Only a short drive away, we took a trip back to the good old days in the all American small town that is known as Cooperstown, NY.

All around the New York City new exhibits are giving viewers wonderful images to gaze at. Here are some recent shows we've visited.

The transformation of a paved wasteland of asphalt and stone blocks into one of the most innovative parks in the world was described at the 10th annual luncheon of the Battery Conservancy.

What won't they think of next. Innovating like crazy to keep abreast and ahead of technological advances, dozens of firms brought their latest brainstorms to a holiday spectacular Pepcom exposition.

Residents of Litchfield's Washington community gathered to view portraits of themselves and their neighbors in a new exhibit at Waterbury's Mattatuck Museum of Art.

Upstairs and downstairs a huge group of notables crowded into the Upper East Side townhouse of Estee Lauder Group President John Dempsey and his charming young daughter Marie Helene to launch the upcoming 2013 Fiesta Gala of Casita Maria.