This Week in Refinery29

This week at Refinery29, while everyone is busy returning to their hometowns for Thanksgiving, Refinery has traveled to Paris to bring you the first installment in a new series titled 'Postcard from Paris'. Taking on the City of Light one neighborhood at a time, this first episode explores the great shopping of Le Marais. Back home in NYC, Shelly Steffee gives a tour of her …

Classic Cookbooks

For some, Thanksgiving is the one day of the year when cookbooks come off shelves and get put to use. With last month's English-language release of the Italian classic The Silver Spoon, lauded as the bible of Italian cuisine, and the upcoming 75th anniversary of the Joy of Cooking in 2006, we decided to take a look at other books that have made it into …

Cindy Wright

Cindy Wright is a Belgian artist who is showing her work for the first time in the United States at Pulse, a fair concurrent with Art Basel in Miami. [We'll be on site giving you reports all next week]. Cindy's work is nothing short of awe inspiring. Her Lips, 2004, above right, is reminiscent of a similar painting (of a woman's lips with smeared lipstick) …