After spending a madcap day in Florence 75 years ago, American photographer Ruth Orkin jotted in her diary, "Shot Jinx in morn in color--at Arno & Piazza Signoria, then got idea for pic story. Satire on Am. girl alone in Europe." The picture she ended up making--showing a young woman being leered at by a crowd of Italian men--became widely popular, not as an amusing satire but as an enduring emblem of post-World War II femininity and male chauvinism. Now, the Ruth Orkin Archive is releasing a box set of photos that includes a never-seen image showing the reality of what happened in Florence's Piazza de Repubblica on Aug. 22, 1951.

  I always thought that Paris has the best bookstores until I started the this regular feature in DART, more than 10 years ago. Year after year the evidence that Our Fair City loves books—and the people who put them on our shelves—becomes even more evident. So if it’s August, it’s time for the latest good news! Yu & Me Books is NYC's first Asian American female-owned bookstore, operating as a cozy literary haven and community hub in Manhattan's historic Ch...