Le Bernardin Keeps Top Spot on La Liste

For the second year in a row, La Liste, a global restaurant-ranking system from France, has named Le Bernardin the best restaurant in the world. And like last year, it shares the honor with Restaurant Guy Savoy. French restaurants capturing this prize should come as no surprise, but that a seafood specialist based in New…

Heroes for Children

The Child Mind Institute held a benefit dinner on Nov. 19 at Cipriani 42nd Street. The Lincoln Center Corporate Fund honored Leonard Lauder at its fashion gala on Nov. 18 at Alice Tully Hall. And the Central Park Conservancy held a winter party at Rumsey Playfield on Nov. 20.

A Change in Medicare Has Therapists Alarmed

In late September, a woman in her 70s arrived at a skilled nursing facility in suburban Houston after several weeks in the hospital. Her leg had been amputated after a long-ago knee replacement became infected; she also suffered from diabetes, depression, anxiety and general muscular weakness. An occupational therapist named Susan Nielson began working with…

Money-Saving Secrets From Ski Bums

Downhill skiing is rarely cheap. The booking site Hipmunk found the median price for two people over two nights in a popular ski town like Vail, Colo., or Park City, Utah, with round-trip economy flights, runs about $1,700 to $2,200. Going to smaller resorts is one reliable strategy for saving money. As is buying lift…

She Sang. So Did His Heart.

The first time Virginia McEnerney met John Schreiber she was unaware of what she calls his “big man on campus” reputation in arts circles. In fact, she admitted to him something she now finds embarrassing: She thought NJPAC — short for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, where Mr. Schreiber is president and…

Plating Memory

I grew up an immigrant child, spending my formative years in three countries, England, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. In a time before keeping in touch was an internet call away, I’d have to say goodbye forever to bedrooms, to classrooms, to friends. I learned to rely for continuity on two constant companions: books and food.…