Norma Talmadge

In a city once filled with enormous and elaborate movie houses, none has lasted longer or been more revered than the Chicago Theatre, a structure that in concept and design defines the golden age of movie palaces in the United States. The first...

IN the design empire of Los Angeles, where Modern is king and where clean lines and empty spaces have come to define so many castles, it's something of a surprise to see a resurgence of frescoes, murals and other painterly effects. But sure enough, Cher...

This is a neighborhood people hurtle past at 60 miles an hour (though the posted speed is 45), where houses are built just a few yards from a major six-lane highway, yet residents can step out their back gates and walk barefoot to the local restaurant...

For a thousand years, Matinecocks gathered shells from the western shore of Little Neck Bay to make an excellent grade of wampum. In the 1950s, it was another kind of wampum -- construction money -- that transformed Bayside from a small, idyllic community...

Beginnings: For two centuries after John Mowbray was given a royal patent in 1708 for the tract that included Brightwaters, nothing much disturbed the bucolic section of saltwater swamps, freshwater lakes and woods adjacent to Bay Shore. Real estate...

The notion of Long Island as home to chic colonies of film actors hardly started with the recent influx to the Hamptons. Way back in 1915, the Vitagraph Co. opened a studio in Bay Shore. And for a while, Norma Talmadge, Fatty Arbuckle and Marie Dressler...

THE SUN, the sea, a summer afternoon. What better way to while away a summer day than boating, bathing, clamming or just hanging out on a beach of the Great South Bay? As New York City in the early 1900s became increasingly crowded and stifling with...

On this sunny Thursday afternoon, Ramona residents do what they do best — they chat, they chill, they gather around the fountain and commune. Janelle Paradee helps her 3-year-old son, Tristan, blow bubbles, and Rich Johnson watches his dog Mr....