Author name: Krista Berger

Perle Mesta, the renowned social queen of Washington – CBS News The widow of a steel magnate, socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., in the 1940s and ’50s, becoming known as “The Hostess with the Mostes’ on the Ball” (after Irving Berlin celebrated her in the musical,

Inside “Beyond the Gates,” TV’s newest soap opera – CBS News In the world of daytime network TV, only a handful of long-running soap operas have survived. But in February, CBS is launching a new one: “Beyond the Gates,” which traces a prominent African American family living in a gated community outside of Washington, D.C.

When you see a painting by Tamara de Lempicka, it’s hard to resist leaning in for a closer look. “It’s just exquisite,” said Furio Rinaldi, one of the curators of the first-ever Lempicka retrospective in the United States. “You don’t see the brush strokes. They are just polished and incredibly deliberate. It’s such a clean