The adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir Eat Pray Love opens this weekend—with the New York Times calling it "a sumptuous and leisurely adaptation...of post-divorce globe-trotting." To wit, there are more than twice as many "Eat Pray Love" offerings on eBay this week as there were at this time last year, and Elizabeth Gilbert listings have also jumped, up 47 percent. read more

We continue our three part series exploring classic cinematic summer style with “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” the film adaptation of Tennessee William’s Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name; one that has inspired decades of revivals on screen and live in theaters across the nation. The story focuses on the stormy relationship between Brick, played by Paul Newman, and Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Maggie (“The Cat”). Burl Ives is the cancer-stricken patriarch Big Daddy, a self-made business tycoon who has lavished his family with a life of comfort and privilege, but according to son Brick, little else. The layers of lies and repression that psychologically imprison the family are symbolically—in some cases, literally—buried in the cluttered basement which houses a cobweb blanketed collection of museum quality cast-offs accumulated during European holidays: paintings, sculpture busts, furniture and more. read more

Whether you're a Samantha or a Charlotte—or a mix of Carrie and Miranda—everyone has got a style personality to match Sex and the City. But as the years go by, it seems that the four main characters' wardrobes have become increasingly outrageous. And by that, we mean, outrageously expensive. (Cut to the montage from the first movie of Carrie trying on about 50 designer wedding dresses, many of which cost more than entire real-world wedding budgets.) Who can even begin to draw inspiration from such impracticality? The good news: In the latest installment of this quintessentially New York story, the girls—and stylist Pat Field—are getting back to their vintage roots. There plenty of second-hand pieces here, mixed in with lots of Halston (the American fashion house where star Sarah Jessica Parker now serves as creative director of the Heritage line) as well as Zac Posen, Vivienne Westwood and Valentino, to name a few. read more

Before Canadian singer Feist’s chart-topping hit, “1234” appeared on an iPod Nano commercial it was used in an Australian eBay campaign. Fittingly, the song was co-written by Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann, who once performed under the name New Buffalo. Seltmann, who has previously toured with Feist, Broken Social Scene and Architecture in Helsinki, returns to North America this summer to promote her latest album, Heart That’s Pounding. read more