Today's Column

Taste of Summer at Lincoln Center turned one section of the performing arts plaza into a lover's lane, while the young set at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Passport to Summer demonstrated how to picnic in style, then took over the Palm House to boogie down. Read more here. Photographed at Lincoln Center: Jennie and Richard DeScherer, Janice Williams, Cora Cahan and Bernard Gersten, and Goran Bregovic and his bandmates. Photographed at Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Dan Motherway, Colleen Walsh, Stephen Prostor, Liza Arguelles, Tara Baquero, Julie Kay, Peter Sistrom, Leanne Burney, and Tom Fergus