The artist painted the town—from Times Square billboards to the Whitney—and painted the town, as a new memoir reveals. But the town he painted is gone.

Suddenly more famous than ever for leaving CNN, the longtime anchor is free at last to crusade for his country (President Dobbs?!?!) and peddle his made-in-the-USA vanity merch.

At the kitchen table in the Dakota with the world’s most famous mother-son music collaborators.

The tequila-loving champ turned art collector comes to town, leaves, and comes back, all to raise money to battle cancer, and all with the utmost efficiency.

Monday in the park with the veteran actress, as she prepares for the one-woman show she wrote about her grandmother and fends off reports of her being ill.

Cabbing out to JFK to pick up the three Maasai warriors the actor and ecological activist invited to run the New York City Marathon with him.

Dog-walking with the novelist and vegetarian polemicist, as he wrestles with questions of cruelty, identity, and Anthony Bourdain’s unethical shtickiness.

At 45, he’s still gonna “Let Love Rule,” with five nights at Irving Plaza. But these days, he has to watch his carbs. By the way, anybody want to buy his $15 million Soho pad?

Twenty-one years after “Cult of Personality,” Living Colour has a new album, a few regrets, and no intention of ever wearing neon spandex again.

A run-in with Brooke Astor’s daughter-in-law, in the courthouse ladies’ room.