The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • The booming home-security market now offers “super-luxe security” [above]. For example: It costs $5,000 to “monitor 20 video cameras in your Manhattan home–via PDA–from a beach in Cote d’Azur.” It’s a wonderful world. [Forbes]
  • Gotham Bar and Grill has everything anyone could want from a Village eatery: Maine lobster, artichokes, and Jay McInerney’s Read More

  • Working on Côte d’Azur Was Very Best Revenge

    What the French call the Côte d’Azur and everyone else calls

    the French Riviera-on the southeast coast of the Mediterranean Sea-is now

    almost as famous for its modern art as it is for its glamorous attractions as a

    luxurious tourist colony. If only for the beautiful and abundant work created

    there by Matisse and Bonnard, Read More