It’s August. Let’s Go to St. Barth!
St. Barth, the perennial place in the sun for plutocrats, is the subject of my latest travel story, “Clouds on the Horizon in St. Barth,” in the summer issue of Palmer: The Palm Beach Reader, illustrated with vintage photos by the illustrious Jean Pigozzi (like the one above of David Geffen in 1990). It’s now […]
Joan Hamburg Interview on the Traffic Tax
I appeared on this week’s WABC radio podcast of the Joan Hamburg Show discussing congestion pricing. Listen here.
You Don’t Know Jack
I didn’t predict JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg‘s emergence as a social media star when I put him on the cover of Avenue beside his mother Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg in 2017, but it was already clear he’d be a force to be reckoned with if he chose to be. His well-deserved criticism today of his demagogic relative, […]
Over the Top on St. Barth
The summer “On the Road” issue of Palmer is now on newsstands, and includes my latest piece for the magazine, “Clouds on the Horizon,” about how the elite island of St. Barthelemy is pushing back against over-development, greedy investors, $480 restaurant steaks and my favorite new hashtag, rampant #assholery. Also included, a portfolio of vintage […]
Cinema in the Sand
My third story for Palmer, the luxe new Palm Beach magazine, is called Cinema Paradiso, and looks back at two classic landmark theaters on the resort island–one for films, one for live theatricals–both now being revived by local aficionados.
Preparing for Take-off
In New York Social Diary today, David Patrick Columbia reveals the jacket and previews my five-years-in-the-making new book, Flight of the WASP. “He explores the elite culture in microcosm,” Columbia writes. “And if you’ve read Michael Gross, you are already assured that you will find it fascinating.” Click here to preorder.
RIP Patty Raynes
The late Patty Raynes, who died this week, plays a small part in my book Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles. But her father, Marvin Davis, is and was as oversized a character—physically and in American social and business life—as the L.A. estate he owned. Click the link to […]
Tina Chow, Redux
She’s still got “it.” The late Tina Chow–jewelry designer, restaurant hostess, best-dressed fashion icon, muse–has her second New York magazine cover this week, featured as the epitome of the New York City It Girl. Her first cover, just over than 31 years ago, which tells the whole story of her life and death as one […]
Greta Garbo Died 33 Years Ago This Weekend
When Greta Garbo died on April 15, 1990, I stepped out of my comfort zone of fashionable society to write about her final days in her beloved East Midtown Manhattan, the one place where she could truly find the peace and solitude she had long craved. And discovered she had very fashionable friends and lived […]
Who Sez Print is Dead?
Print may be imperiled but Palmer and Park (where I’m, respectively, the Editor-at-Large and the Special Correspondent), are thriving, over-sized, advertising-stuffed, old-school magazines. In the current issue of Palmer, I write about controversial new ordinances that either threaten to alter or promise to update the world-famous style of Palm Beach gardens. And the new Park […]