Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez’s season was thrown into question yesterday after he was hit by an 88-mile-per-hour pitch and broke a bone in his hand during a game against the Seattle Mariners.

After several months on the market under Gumley Haft Kleier, Emeril Lagasse is now listing his five bedroom, six bath Upper East Side townhouse with Sotheby’s for $13.5 million.

Jim Clark, the founder of Netscape and brain behind a slew of other innovative computer platforms, helped make Silicon Valley synonymous with bleeding edge technology and economic might. His wife Kristy Hinze Clark took the Australian fashion world by storm when at 14 she became the youngest model to sign a contract with Australian Vogue.

The tapas trend took hold of New York back in the Y2k days. Some of the more precious instances of the trend have shuttered, but the survivors endured largely thanks to a dedication to the glorious cuisines of Spain’s many regions. Here are some of the biggest winners in the small plates race.

The estate of late billionaire Sidney Harmon announced that it will no longer invest in Newsweek Daily Beast Co a year after Harmon’s death, leaving mogul Barry Diller’s IAC/InteractiveCorp with a controlling stake in the beleaguered media company.

The humble hamburger went upscale years ago, and while few people today blink at a $50 ground beef patty, news of the burger’s cousin the hot dog entering the luxury world still raises some eyebrows.

Republican talking heads tore Anna Wintour, and the Obama administration, to shreds when the frosty Vogue editor co-hosted an expensive fundraising dinner for the President last month.

Hip-hop throne-sharer and New York Nets part-owner Jay-Z isn’t just dealing with the business side of the Brooklyn-bound NBA franchise.

The cocktail revival shows no signs of abating, even if the cutesy speakeasy theme that first accompanied it has (thankfully) started to fade. Here are some of the best places in town for a sophisticated pour that would make Don Draper proud.