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These Are Perhaps the World’s Most Extravagant Tacos

Paying $100 for three tacos and one cocktail may sound steep, until you read the dish’s description. Not your average street food, the gourmet tacos are crafted by Café on the Green at the Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas and will be offered throughout October. Stuffed with some of the most flavorful and expensive ingredients imaginable, the trio of tacos will put the desire for traditional pico de gallo and guacamole far from your mind.

Each trio comes with a Wagyu Beef Taco, with Japanese wagyu folded …

WINE of the WEEK: Verruzzo di Monteverro 2013 Toscana

When Georg Weber took a sip of a Bordeaux premier grand cru classé one evening in the late 1990s, he had a change of heart—or rather, a change of career paths. As a student studying business management, Weber decided he wanted his business to be making wines, and not just any wines—ones that would live up to the standards of the Bordeaux, Burgundys, Syrahs, and Grenaches that had so deeply impacted him. When Weber finally stumbled across a plot of land near the sea in the small Tuscan region of Maremma in 2003…

Las Vegas’s Extravagant Primm Ranch Is Up for Auction

A famed estate with a spirit that matches the essence of Las Vegas has found its way to the market. Once referred to as “Wonderland” by the late Michael Jackson (who took interest in purchasing the property in 2009), the 10-acre Primm Ranch estate is located five minutes from the Las Vegas Strip and features a laundry list of amenities that rival the finest entertainment in Sin City.

The 15,000-square-foot, Mediterranean-style main residence—comprising five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, and three half bathr…

Madeline Weinrib Opens Textile and Home Product Pop-Up Store at Barneys New York

The globe-trotting artist and textile designer Madeline Weinrib has launched World of Influence, a pop-up store in the 9th-floor Chelsea Passage home department at Barneys New York. Running through Thanksgiving, the unique shop offers an exclusive collection curated by Weinrib that draws inspiration from the varied aesthetics and cultures she has encountered throughout her career and travels.

Priced from about $30 to $14,000, the collection features new rugs, hand-embroidered pillows, cashmere throws, and s…

Sensoria Fitness Smart Socks Are Like Running with a Coach

For runners looking to step up their game, Sensoria Fitness Smart Socks has them covered. Integrated within each sock are Sensoria’s proprietary textile sensors that run across the top and bottom. Supple and flush to the sock’s high-performance fabric, the sensors are undetectable while worn. Along with the standard measurements of pace, distance covered, and calories burned, data is also gathered on foot strike—how and where one’s foot lands and how much contact time it has with the ground. Further analytics …

JEWELRY ARTISAN PROFILE: Arman Sarkisyan

The Artist: Extraordinary artistry, passionate attention to detail, and a healthy dose of chaotic energy are essential ingredients in the Arman Sarkisyan collection. Throughout his childhood in Armenia, Arman shadowed his father—a talented bench jeweler—and apprenticed with other accomplished local artisans, quickly learning that making fine designs takes time and focus. “There are so many tools to know; even today, there is always something new to discover.” When he arrived in the United States, he studied fi…

Tennis Legends Will Lift Rackets Again at the Greenbrier Champions Tennis Classic

Four tennis titans and a few of their fans will rally together for a worthy cause at the fourth annual Greenbrier Champions Tennis Classic on September 26 and 27 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Held at the Greenbrier hotel (whose underground bunker was the planned emergency shelter for the U.S. Congress during the Cold War), the three-match tournament will host the sport’s elder statesmen Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, and James Blake as they hold court at the resort’s newly constructed tenn…

VistaJet Launches Private Jet Charter Service in China

Chartering a private jet to China is easy, but flying privately between airports within the country can be challenging. To address this problem, the Swiss business-aviation provider VistaJet has partnered with China’s Apex Air to provide point-to-point private air service throughout the country in a Chinese-registered Bombardier Challenger 850 managed and operated by Apex. VistaJet is the first international aviation charter company to offer this service.

VistaJet officials say they plan to add at least one…

Custom Hand-Carved Fireplace Mantels for Fall

Just in time for the cooler weather, the San Francisco–based designer Suzanne Tucker has teamed up with Chesney’s, the leading British fireplace manufacturer, to create four timeless fireplace mantels that can be incorporated into both traditional and modern settings: the Suzanne Tucker Collection for Chesney’s. Each of the hand-carved, ornamental mantels takes approximately 3 months to complete and is inspired by classic European architectural elements.

The Bellagio draws on Lake Como in northern Italy and…

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum Opens in Los Angeles

On a blazing-hot September day, hundreds of media outlets from around the globe gathered in downtown Los Angeles to be the first to experience Edye and Eli Broad’s extensive contemporary art collection at its new home—the Broad museum, which opens to the public tomorrow with free admission. With the 120,000-square-foot museum at his back—its matte-white exterior, porous and sponge-like, establishing a brilliant contrast to Frank Gehry’s shiny and smooth Walt Disney Concert Hall directly to the north—Eli addres…