The Jet Class The next age of travel has arrived thanks to private planes. Ian Keown explains everything you need to know about charters, fractional ownership, and who to trust.
Country Life
Everything's Coming Up Roses... Finally. Mary Ann Tighe wanted the perfect all-American rose garden. Little did she know that it would take ten years, 125 bushes, and 77 varieties to get there.
Culture Watch
American Beauty At the Costume Institute of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cool Tone Deep In a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
Quite a Pair Matisse and Picasso at the Tate Modern
Singular Swan American Ballet Theatre's Gillian Murphy
Tiara Time At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Dispatch
Naples After decades of blight, crime, and neglect, Italy's third-largest metropolis radiates a new self-confidence. Dan Hofstadter interprets the modern charm of this ancient city of pizzas and dreams.
Out of the Box Hermès, which turned basic accessories into modern icons, takes the lid off what's luxe now. Reggie Nadelson reports from 24 Rue Faubourg St.-Honoré.
Noël Coward Returns The acclaimed London revival of Private Lives, starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, has now come to Broadway. Funny how potent chic drama is, writes Christopher Hampton.
Sport
God Save the Team or can soccer superstar Michael Owen do it on his own? In this 22-year-old lad from Liverpool, England has its best chance in 36 years of winning the World Cup.
Who's On First? And why isn't he stealing second on a 2-1 count already? A highly opinionated, shamelessly unapologetic guide to watching baseball like a pro.
Travel
Fiji Does It Nobody ever said paradise is just around the corner. Owen Edwards checks into the Wakaya Club.
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