Philip Johnson

For sale: 1960s mid-century-style house in Jordans, Buckinghamshire

Designed back in the 1960s by Gresham Dodd, this mid-century-style house in the sought-after location of Jordans, Buckinghamshire is what you might call a 'project'. It's a single story house, with a design influenced by Mies...

Mother Knows Bess

Down in the subterranean cool of Bergdorf Goodman’s cosmetics department, you’ll find a modest patch of paradise presided over by makeup artist Edward Bess. At 20, he became the youngest person ever to have a line carried by...

Book showcases Downtown architecture

By Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Rotunda of Penn Station, Downtown. In this do-it-yourself age, you can discover and appreciate the beauty of Pittsburgh's Downtown...

Northern Disclosure

The Hirshhorn Museum is one of the treasures of Washington, both for its daring building and for the bold works of art inside. Thanks to one of those works, we now learn that the museum almost passed this city by. Our...

Madonna, Britney JT in LA

Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour stop at L.A.'s Dodger Stadium on Thursday night was filled with celebrities in the audience -- and a couple on stage, too. According to former Free Press staffer Kelley L. Carter, now with USA...

Two More Issued with Warrants for Elderly Abuse

Deputies for the Marion County Sheriff's office have named two more suspects in the elderly abuse case against 92- year-old Philip Johnson. Warrants for exploitation of the elderly and disabled, organized fraud, and grand theft...

Local brews take off

You may have noticed the increasing number of new friends sitting next to traditional beers on the bottlo and pub shelves. For some, the thought of abandoning Tooheys, XXXX, VB or Carlton Draught for some new-kid-on-the-block...

Town follows path of lemmings

To the Editor: In a veiled and simpler past, ar-chitect Philip Johnson, in a moment of inspired pique, was quoted as saying "Architecture is much too important to entrust to people." Today, . . . Sorry, you must be an online or...

Rosie O'Donnell's Incredible Search for 'America'

Emmy winner Rosie O'Donnell plays a therapist in the poignant new Lifetime Original Movie "America," about a teenager caught up in the foster care system, and she tells ET's Kevin Frazier the extraordinary story behind finding...

Dallas/Fort Worth and Me: The JFK Memorial

A while back I wrote a brief entry about the Sixth Floor Museum – the facility in Dallas’ historic West End that celebrates the life (and tragic death) of President John F. Kennedy, who was murdered by an assassin stationed in...

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