For some, spending a week sequestered in a cabin in the woods with a dozen family members might suggest a horror movie and not a summer...

As the Covid rate goes down and vaccinations go up, I have started venturing out to much-missed places in New York City. On Saturday, I...

If you’re a freakish Star Wars fan like me this post if for you! For me, Star Wars goes deep. I first saw it in 1977, the summer it came...

This May Day I spent the afternoon with Whitney Matheson, a writer whom I know just slightly but have admired from afar. The sunny spring...

Meema Spadola and I met nearly 25 years ago at a dinner party for a mutual friend. She was holding court, regaling the table with story...

Like Proust’s famous madeleine, food evokes memories, quite literally the taste of a past experience. For me, the most redolent food is...

When coronavirus became a reality for New Yorkers and all Americans in March of last year, Emmy-winning comic book artist Dean Haspiel...

Usually photographer Kate Milford is behind the camera, not in front, but for her birthday, this March 30, she got All Dressed and...

This week’s All Dressed outing was particularly joyous. I met with longtime friends Roberta Berken, Barry Feldman, Naomi Gat, and...

Warning! Reader discretion is advised. This post contains some truly awful fruit puns. On the Spring Equinox, I visited my friends...

If you hang out with me enough, you will discover that I am crazy about medieval literature and art, and fascinated by reliquaries: those...

It was during the early days of the Coronavirus that I first noted the designs of textile designer and anthropologist Claire Gohorel on...

100 poems over 100 days. In March 2020, just at the start of New York’s Shelter-in-Place order, Rebecca Faulkner began sharing her poetry...

Birthdays can be tough during the pandemic, especially one heralding a big milestone, but Sherene Gittens managed to have a very happy...

Getting all dressed up on a freezing winter day isn’t easy, but my one-time Lower East Side neighbors Andi Burnett and Jane Yeomans...

My mother was a reluctant All Dressed, Nowhere to Go participant. While she has the most fabulous sense of style (and always has), she...

I knew that my first All Dressed Up foray had to be to my friend Kathleen. She sets the gold standard for thrifting. Kathleen and I met...

Every day throughout Covid, I have gotten dressed before I sit down to write. And I don’t mean sweats. I really do it up: sequin shirts,...