NADAguides.com, a leading online site for vehicle pricing and information, picked the Audi A8 L as the No.1 choice in its ranking of the Top 5 Luxury Cars for 2009. The editors of the Web site said the Audi A8 L topped its list “due to its ultra-luxurious cabin, complete with leather and wood inlays, […]

  Just in time to have completely missed the melee that was Art Basel–which lost a lot of class this year when Pamela Anderson showed up in her underwear (What happened to the sophisticated affairs? What happened to the intriguing conversations with international cognoscenti? What happened to the art? Oh, right, a recession)–the Forbes Collector’s […]

Moët Hennessy Champagne brand Dom Pérignon is releasing a bowl modeled after supermodel Claudia Schiffer’s breasts, according to press reports. Conjuring Marie Antoinette-whose breasts are said to have inspired the original rounded Champagne coupe-Karl Lagerfeld has made a modern version, taking his own muse’s chest to heart by creating a decorative cup that sits atop […]

Cityfile.com has put together a brief list of major events and notable moments in the history of the Plaza.

As the New York Observer’s Max Abelson reports today, “For Upper East Siders, the genuinely terrifying fact about the housing market isn’t that one in 10 American home mortgages are now in distress, but that the city’s daily massive co-op and condo and townhouse deals have seemingly been put entirely on hold. The townhouses at […]

Celestino Drago (Drago, Enoteca Drago, Il Pastaio) heads to Downtown LA with Drago Centro, a modern Italian in the repurposed City National Plaza, where the mid-priced menu (veal chop for $34, roasted squab for $32 and seafood ragout for $29, as examples) includes cicchetti-small dishes for nibbling with a vast selection of Italian wines; the […]

While dog-ophiles in Los Angeles are able to pamper their pooches at the D Pet Hotel,  on the other coast, Fido is also guaranteed 5-star treatment. Guests of Mandarin Oriental, Miami <http://www.mandarinoriental.com/miami>  can follow in the footsteps and paw prints of Marley & Me characters John (Owen Wilson), Jenny (Jennifer Aniston) and Marley with an […]

ARMREVOLUTION, the rapidly growing luxury accessories brand which focuses on reinventing cufflinks, is bringing its Luxury Cufflink innovation to Asia this week. First stop-the luxury department store Lane Crawford in Hong Kong. As home to one of the world’s leading financial capitals and a major business and cultural hub, the launch in Hong Kong is […]

Sam Zell: Malibu, California Zell is a U.S.-born billionaire and real estate entrepreneur. He is co-founder and Chairman of Equity Group Investments, a private investment firm. With an estimated net worth of $5 billion, he is ranked as the 68th richest American by Forbes. He is also the owner of the Chicago Cubs.