Viva Mexico!
Today seems as good a day as any to repost my celebration of the culture and cosmopolitanism of Mexico City from Departures Magazine. Click this link to read it.
You read it here first: Dish served cold
A posthumous profile of Aileen Mehle, aka Suzy, by Bob Colacello in the January Vanity Fair quotes my first-ever cover story for New York Magazine in 1988, “Inside Gossip,” on a catfight among what was then a passel of New York gossip columnists. Colacello confirms something I printed in the very same piece from which […]
15CPW: Still the Champ
Real Estate Weekly reports that the highest price per square foot achieved in New York last year was nearly $10,000 paid for a sky high apartment at Fifteen Central Park West. That’s more money (by a significant measure) than any of the wannabes on the Billionaire’s Belt attracted. Toldja so.
Avenue’s January issue has dropped…
…and the New York Post and PageSix.com have taken notice. “The old guard won’t like the Avenue magazine’s new Palm Beach A-list,” which is featured in the issue, Richard Johnson writes, due to its inclusion of pop-culture Palm Beachers like Donald and Melania Trump, Howard and Beth Stern and Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster. And […]
Pink Sand Paradise: Bermuda Reborn
My report on the rebirth of Bermuda, spurred by the upcoming America’s Cup races, is in the new issue of Departures, but for now you can only read it if you have an American Express Platinum card (I don’t). I’ll post it again here once it’s been unlocked online.
Carrie Fisher, RIP
Half a lifetime ago, I profiled a thirty-year-old Carrie Fisher. The story is as good a celebration of her life force as I can share. Click the link to read my profile, the photo to see how it appeared in the paper.
RIP China Machado
China Machado, the pioneering multiracial model, fashion editor and muse to photographer Richard Avedon, has died at age 87. Ivan Bart, her agent at IMG Models confirmed the news. Machado plays roles in both Model and Focus, though to my great regret, I never interviewed her at length. But I was happy to call her […]
740 Park: The Comeback Begins
After an annus horribilus full of troubles, is 740 Park, subject of my 2005 book, once again New York’s Tower of Power? Consider this: Though his primary residence is California, Secretary of the Treasure-designate Steven Mnuchin remains the owner of a duplex there. And ten floors above him in a triplex penthouse lives the cooperative’s […]
On the Avenue, off the blog shift
Posts to Gripepad have slowed to a crawl since I started a new job last month as Editor-in-Chief of Avenue Magazine. Things will pick up here again eventually but for the moment, please visit avenuemagazine.com.
Gracias, jueces
My Departures story, “Mexico City is One of the World’s Greatest Cultural Destinations. So What Are You Waiting For?” has just won a Bronze Lowell Thomas Award in the Cultural Tourism category from The Society of American Travel Writers. Don’t tell Donald Trump.