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wild—during one of the band’s sold-out concerts in Madison
Square Garden during 1969’s Summer of Love.
As the purple haze dissipated from Woodstock and with the “Summer of
Love” in full swing, American music audiences were demanding more
from their rock idols. Gone were the 15-minute sets in front of screaming
teenyboppers that were the norm in 1966. The Rolling Stones “Let it Bleed”
tour marked the return of the group to the United States after a three-year
hiatus (due in part to Brian Jones’s drug abuse and subsequent convictions
in the United Kingdom).
“Let it Bleed” was a musical juggernaut, with opening acts like B.B.
King, Jimi Hendrix, and Ike and Tina Turner. When the Rolling Stones
took to the stage (Mick Taylor had joined the band) they played for 75 solid,
ear-splitting minutes. Songs like “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street
Fighting Man” showed musical depth and a darker, sexier edge. This was
not a love fest in a field in Upstate New York, but rather a wild ride on the
bad side of town. The tour was marked by chaos and drama, with stories of
fights breaking out both on stage and in the audience, sexual escapades,
and rowdy behavior by fans and musicians alike. Still, Stones fever was at
an all-time high. According to a Rolling Stone magazine review of the
tour, both scheduled nights in New York’s Madison Square Garden sold
out the day the box office opened. Originally planned as the last stop on
the tour, the band added two additional engagements. The tour ended
with the now-infamous Altamont, California, show in which audience
member Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by a Hells Angel hired to
provide security for the band, thus bringing the “Summer of Love” and
the ’60s to a violent close. G
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10 // front runner
24 // letter from the
editor-in-Chief
26 // letter from
the publisher
28 // ... Without Whom
this issue Would
not have been
possible
30 // the list
style
33 // tailor made
Menswear revolutionary Thom
Browne takes his women’s collection
in a new direction.
36 // Central park
after dark
Fall’s best evening accessories are
out of the woods.
38 // pushing the
right buttons
Tender Buttons, the ultimate resource
for designers and collectors, celebrates
50 years of helping New Yorkers fnd
the perfect adornment.
40 // previeW party
Lizzie Tisch and Kim Kassel get
personal with Suite 1521; Victoire de
Castellane’s latest haute jewelry col-
lection; Céline’s new store in Soho.
42 // neW york times
The world’s fnest watch brands cel-
ebrate the city’s singular aesthetic.
44 // artful living
Ana Maria Pimentel, the fashion
director of women’s accessories at
Bergdorf Goodman, goes shopping.
33Designer Thom Browne
rethinks womenswear.
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48 // Swift CurrentS
Hugh Jackman returns to Broadway in
The River, an eerie drama that probes
the mysteries of illusion.
50 // image maker
Annie Leibovitz looks beyond celebrity
for a powerful new exhibit at the
New-York Historical Society.
52 // miami heat
New York gallerists and collectors head
south for Art Basel Miami Beach, sure
to be a record breaker this year.
54 // Culture Spotlight
Immerse yourself in the best art, design,
music, and culture the city has to offer.
people
57 // muSeum maeStro
Art-world rock star and new curator
Xavier Salomon takes charge at a pivotal
moment in The Frick’s history.
60 // it takeS a Village
Ambra Medda, Roger Vivier’s new muse
and cofounder of L’Arcobaleno, revels in
the creative spirit of The Lower East Side.
62 // well CaSt
Jim Parrack, starring in Fury with Brad
Pitt, makes New York his new hometown.
64 // a new approaCh
Eleanor Ylvisaker takes the helm of the
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center’s Associates Committee in time
for this month’s big Fall Party fundraiser.
taste
75 // frenCh kiSSed
Dirty French melds southwestern
Gallic with Gotham chic.
78 // keeping the
night Young
The Lower East Side is digging on
lower-alcohol cocktails.
80 // CaShing in on Cool
Manhattan’s latest restaurant mecca, the
Lower East Side, offers spectacular new eats.
82 // taSte Spotlight
The latest news on restaurants, bars, and
nightspots.
84 // the plaY’S the thing
Gretchen Mol and Josh Radnor, starring
in Disgraced on Broadway, do brunch at
Gemma in The Bowery Hotel.
75At the Ludlow Hotel, the site of
restaurant Dirty French,
cocktails mix Gallic flair with
Lower East Side attitude.
84Actors Gretchen Mol and Josh Radnor chat about their new play, Disgraced, over brunch at Gemma.
38Buttoned up: Tender
Buttons on East 62nd
Street draws top
designers and collectors
from all over the world.
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88 // The FeminisT Queen Sigourney Weaver opens up to pal Kevin
Kline about her role in Exodus: Gods and
Kings playing the Egyptian queen mum
who wanted to kill Moses, working with
legendary director Ridley Scott, and
why it’s great to be a New York actor.
94 // DiamonDs are ForeverStylish sleuthing uncovers the season’s
biggest trends—dramatic statement
pieces—in the city’s most glittering gem-
flled vaults.
102 // Who oWns The nighT? The biggest players and coolest places
that make NYC nightlife tick.
110 // Cannabusiness Nearly half of the states have legalized
medical marijuana, and the US is amid
an end to a prohibition on par with that
of alcohol. But just how will the Green
Rush grow? And why is it attracting
some surprising advocates among
doctors, entrepreneurs, politicians, at-
torneys, and business people?
88Sigourney Weaver, who
became Hollywood’s first
female action hero in Ridley
Scott’s Alien, teams up
with the director again for
Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Silk blouse, Wayne ($345). Barneys, 660 Madison Ave.,
212-826-8900; barneys.com. 18k yellow-gold Medium Cava
ring with rock crystal, blue topaz, and diamond accents
($5,595) and 18k yellow-gold earrings ($3,800), Kara Ross.
655 Madison Ave., 212-755-8100; kararossny.com.
Gold ring, Weaver’s own
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Sigourney Weaver Photography by Jason BellStyling by Basia Zamorska at Kate Ryan Inc.
Beaded sheer yoke dress, Saint Laurent ($4,450), Barneys, 660 Madison Ave., 212-826-8900; barneys.com. Aria stud earrings with .15 solitaires with diamond pavé, De Beers ($4,200). 703 Fifth Ave., 212-906-0001; debeers.com
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117 // THE FasHiON CONdO
Style amenities lure foreign buyers to
a Central Park South property.
120 // THE sOuTH RisEs
Getting to know Central Park South.
122 // LuxE LEasEs
Why stars are renting their abodes.
124 // diViNg iN
Starchitect Soo Chan sees the in-home
pool as the latest condo must-have.
126 // a New NEw YORk
aEsTHETiC
Meet downtown celebrity designers
Ariel Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro.
the guide
129 // aFTER THE PaRadE
The Lambs Club rethinks Thanksgiving.
130 // HOLidaY FLaVORs
Classic and innovative menus for
Turkey Day.
131 // MaNHaTTaN’s
BEsT NEw BaRs
Make Happy Hour even happier.
and finally...
136 // THE LasT LaugH
Is the Big Apple the Big Gloom?
124A living room in the new Soori High Line.
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on my radar
Thanksgiving (November 27) is late this year,
giving New Yorkers a little more prep time before the
holiday season kicks into high gear. Here are a few of
the many items on my radar this month.
1. Celebrating the 175th anniversary of Patek
Philippe at the newly opened Rainbow Room. It’s
always good to see a venerable brand endure and thrive.
2. Toasting the 80th anniversary of the Bloody Mary
at the King Cole Bar at The St. Regis Hotel. The St.
Regis has long been my New Year’s Day go-to spot,
but I try to fnd any excuse to get here.
3. The Real Thing, produced by the Roundabout
Theatre Company, stars Ewan McGregor, former
Gotham cover star Maggie Gyllenhaal, and
Cynthia Nixon. Can’t wait to see this one!
With Romaine Pianet, senior brand director for Piper-Heidsieck, at a recent Gotham cover party.
Few will argue against the notion that these are celebrity-
obsessed times, but I was amused to hear Sigourney Weaver, when c hatting with
her longtime pal Kevin Kline for our cover feature, say, “We’re very lucky to live
in a city where people don’t pay attention to us.”
You wouldn’t expect such chronic nonchalance in a place where passions—for
money, politics, sports, zoning, the Apple Store—run astoundingly deep. How do
New Yorkers turn off the switch? Years ago I walked into a Madison Avenue shop to
find myself face to face with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at the time the most
famous woman in the world. It was momentarily jarring to see someone whose myth
was seared into the national consciousness quietly shopping for decorative objects
and going about her life like an ordinary New Yorker. No one in the store approached
her, out of respect without doubt, but was there something more at work?
I think New Yorkers’ approach to fame—manifested either by its zealous pursuit
or the quiet ambivalence that comes when faced with a living embodiment of it—is
one of the city’s most appealing paradoxes. No one can say our often high-strung
competitiveness isn’t without soul. We may worship celebrity, but New Yorkers seem
to have a sixth sense about its illusions and cost. With the exception of homegrown
paparazzi, we like to give the famous their space; let Woody Allen play his clarinet
in peace at the Carlyle; Princess Eugenie go about her work like any 20-something;
even huge sports stars find privacy in the crowds. I once watched Tom Brady stroll a
few blocks down Madison Avenue without interruption (quite an achievement, even
in this Giants town, considering his height and gorgeousness).
We end this month with the holiday of Thanksgiving. The city has much to be
thankful for: the economy is on the up, the world’s most successful men and women
still clamor to be here, and One World Trade Center is finally open for business, a
vivid symbol, if there ever was one, of the city’s poignant resiliency.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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1. I love shopping in the food hall at The Plaza. On a
cold November day, there’s nothing better than a black
and white cookie from William Greenburg Desserts.
2. Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge—taking in
the breathtaking views of the harbor and soaking
up the city’s history—is an iconic New York
experience. The perfect way to cap it off? Lunch
at the beautiful River Café in DUMBO.
3. Working in the Financial District, something
new pops up every day. One thing that reminds me
why I adore New York is the mural commissioned
by Century 21, by the artist Mr. Brainwash. We
Love New York is a daily reminder of what our
city has been through and where we are going.
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Feeling very special while sporting a dazzling pavé diamond cuff by David Yurman, valued at $250,000, at a luncheon at Saks Fifth Avenue.
In november, new York Is the cItY of “Yes” and “now”
for me. Fall begins slowly, but by November our calendars burst with a patchwork
of invitations to new store and restaurant openings, film screenings, and meetings—
and, of course, it launches the season of giving. The demanding pace is something you
must embrace, as there is no rest for the weary come November.
Even the tradition of giving thanks for the good fortune to have family and suste-
nance can be a complicated affair during the holidays. Our autumnal ritual places an
oversize flightless bird center stage among a galaxy of complex sides and sauces. New
Yorkers rediscover hidden kitchen artifacts such as the baster and the covered tureen,
and at last the ladle finds its place in our lives. For this particular holiday, frenetic New
Yorkers admit they are happy to be invited guests. Anyone who agrees to host earns
our profound appreciation, and sympathy! And if you are lucky enough, perhaps you
will score a table at the storied Four Seasons Restaurant.
So why is New York the city of yes? I had the pleasure of organizing an evening
to honor Gotham’s distinguished October cover star, Henrik Lundqvist, with guests
including his fellow New York Rangers. In our tradition of celebrating with con-
sciousness, we asked our Gotham partners such as Wolfgang’s Steakhouse to lean in
along with us and donate special items to benefit The Henrik Lundqvist Foundation,
which strives to create positive change in the lives of children and adults through edu-
cation, music, sports, and health services by supporting organizations such as New
York-Presbyterian and Garden of Dreams. The immediate responses to commit to
supporting this effort were overwhelming. I am so proud to live in a city where the first
response is “yes,” and the next question is, “When do you need it?” Amazing. I love the
ease of generosity of this town. We are so fortunate to have one another!
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Kevin Kline is the star of such
films as A Fish Called
Wanda, Dave, The Ice
Storm, and the recent My Old
Lady, among many others. He
has won an Academy Award,
SAG Award, and two Tony
Awards. Here, Kline interviews
longtime friend and cover star
Sigourney Weaver on page 88.
Tell us about the inter-
view: I usually dislike
talking about my own work
in an interview, feeling that
asking an actor to describe
his work is like asking an
airplane to describe a bird.
So this was an opportunity
to experience the position of
the journalist for once.
Sigourney made the “job”
easy. Of course, our first
impulse was to do a parody
of a serious interview, but
our better angels prevailed,
not to mention the editors.
And it was a good excuse to
have lunch with my good
friend and have someone
else pay for it. What’s your
favorite NYC escape?
Kayaking on the East River.
What’s next for you? I start
a movie in three weeks with
Meryl Streep called Ricki
and the Flash about a woman
who leaves her husband and
three kids to seek fame
and fortune as a rock singer.
Kari Molvar writes about
fashion, beauty, and culture for
a variety of publications,
including T: The New York
Times Style Magazine,
Town & Country, and
InStyle. She wrote this issue’s
“Style Setter” (page 33) on
Thom Browne and “Spirit of
Generosity” (page 64) on
Eleanor Ylvisaker. What do
you think makes Thom
Browne so successful?
He understands how the
modern woman wants to
dress—she wants to be
sophisticated and elegant,
but have fun at the same
time. As a designer he has a
meticulous eye for tailoring
and construction, and he
doesn’t mince words in an
interview—he’s very
concise. Tell us about
your conversation with
Eleanor Ylvisaker. She’s
genuinely kind and
down-to-earth, and I really
loved how she’s instilling the
lessons of being compassion-
ate to others in her two
young children. Every week
they put their allowance in
Save, Spend, or Give jars at
home. I’m inspired to do the
same with my kids!
Kevin Kline actor
Kari Molvar writer
Quentin Letts is parliamentary
sketch writer and theater critic
for the Daily Mail and a
former New York bureau chief
for The Times of London. He
is the author of several books,
and penned this issue’s “And
Finally” on page 136. Even if
the Big Apple got roughed
up in recent surveys, what
do you like most about
the city? I like the dingier
downtown bars, the corned
beef hash [at Sarge’s Deli in
Murray Hill], and the badly
sprung seats in the back of
the taxis—boiiing! If you
wrote a book about New
Yorkers, what would it be?
City of Right Angles. When I
lived in New York,
I found myself almost
overwhelmed by the lack
of curves. All those oblong
skyscrapers, grid-laid streets,
sharp-edged suits, and
drainpipe waists. How do
you manage such a
fast-paced writing
schedule? Freelancers have
to write fast—time is dimes.
I also find that if you file
quickly, you are less likely
to have second thoughts.
Gut reaction is a good
guide and is more likely to
chime with readers than
something more intellectual-
ized and anguished.
Josephine Rozman is a New
York–based food photographer
and stylist for clients like Four
Seasons Hotels and Resorts,
Hong Kong Tatler, and
DestinAsian. For this issue,
Rozman photographed
Dirty French for “So Many
Dinners” on page 75. How
did the shoot go? The boys
from Dirty French were a
riot. Like their venue, they
were an eclectic mix of
personalities and styles. The
food feature came together
rather organically; there
were so many unexpected
aesthetic treasures within
the space that inspired the
moment and played hero to
the images. What are some
of your go-to spots for the
holidays? The Red Cat
(227 10th Ave., 212-242-
1122; theredcat.com) is an
unpretentious space with a
beautiful bar setup. I love
the simplicity of its plates
and the wonderful wine
offerings. And The Dutch
(131 Sullivan St., 212-677-
6200; thedutchnyc.com) is
where my husband decided
that New York would be our
new home, so it has senti-
mental significance
to me. I love the roast
chicken with farro, and
you can’t skimp on the
oysters from the raw bar.
Quentin lettswriter
Josephine rozMan photographer
Eric Anderson is a Brooklyn-
based photographer focusing on
portraiture and lifestyle. His
work appears regularly in
Billboard and The
Hollywood Reporter. In this
issue, Anderson photographed
“Talent Patrol” (page 62),
“Native” (page 60), and “Style
Setter” (page 33). What was
your favorite shoot for this
issue? Photographing Jim
Parrack [for “Talent Patrol”]
was great. We arrived on the
set of the film he is directing
in Brooklyn and photo-
graphed him between takes.
Not a tough task when
working in the beautiful
Irondale Theater in Fort
Greene. Tell us about
photographing Thom
Browne for “Style Setter.”
As a contrast to his highly
stylized runway collection,
we wanted to isolate him in a
simple black and white
portrait setting. What are
some of your holiday
traditions? The holidays in
New York make the rest of
the year worth the struggle!
We always love playing
tourist—catching a
Broadway show on a cold
December night and
stopping by the tree at
Rockefeller Center.
eric ryan anderson photographer
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Charles Rockefeller
Ansel Elgort
Dr. Margaret Cuomo
Dr. Steven Corwin
Jimmy Fallon
Stephen Sills
Suzy Welch
Olga Vidisheva
Becky Quick
Ken Langone
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Marjorie Gubelmann
Claude Wasserstein
Ewan McGregor
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Caroline Weber
Christine Schwarzman
Sade Baderinwa
Nancy Kissinger
Josie Natori
Boykin Curry
Coco Kopelman
Martha Glass
Kamie Lightburn
Lorry Newhouse
Carole King
Dr. Oliver Sacks
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Chris Martin
Barbara Tober
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Edwina Sandys
Zander Farkas
Rikki Klieman
Antonio Piacquadio
Kick Kennedy
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Tailor MadeMenswear revolutionary
Thom Browne takes his woMen’s
collection in a new direction.
by kari molvar photography by eric ryan anderson
Fashion designer Thom Browne has already revolu-
tionized the men’s suit—his name is synonymous with
a certain ankle-grazing style known the world
over—and now he’s out to transform the way women
dress as well, one creatively imagined garment at a
time. While Browne has used suiting fabrics for his
women’s ready-to-wear in the past, this season he
Thom Browne adds embellished fabrics to his women’s collection for Spring/Summer 2015.
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“Both the men’s and women’s collections come from the same place,
starting with tailoring.” —thom browne
dazzles with new materials
and construction tactics.
Trousers and jackets feature
stunning floral and moiré
intarsia motifs. For certain
suits he embellishes Prince
of Wales fabric with
embroidered patterns,
cutting out sections to create
an effect similar to broderie
anglaise. Botanical prints
appear almost lifelike,
crafted with an innovative
Indian satin stitch technique
using silk yarn, while other
florals seem to float in the air
with delicate embroidery.
He also makes creative use
of tweed, deconstructing it
by hand, pulling out some of
the cross threads, and
replacing them with
grosgrain ribbon.
Such exquisite details are
a natural extension of
Browne’s wildly successful
menswear brand, which he
started in 2001 after trading
a Hollywood acting career
for one in fashion in New
York City. From those
earliest days, his finely
tailored pieces appealed to
the female set. “I have always
made women’s clothes
through my made-to-order
business,” he explains. And
while their sartorial needs
might differ, the designer
quickly discovered that both
his male and female clients
“are actually very similar
in character.”
The adjectives that might
describe a Thom Browne
woman or man? Strong,
confident, and with a flair
for detail. “Both the men’s
and women’s collections
essentially come from the
same place, starting with
tailoring, especially the
quality, craftsmanship, and
play on proportions being
the key aspects.”
The finishing touches are
important to Browne as well,
and for that reason each
outfit in the women’s
ready-to-wear show was
paired with punchy extras
and eye-catching hats—
everything from chic fedoras
to turban head wraps—
designed by the milliner
Stephen Jones. “The
collection is complete with
accessories, such as shoes
bags, belts, and so forth,”
Browne says. Still,
for all its inventiveness and
outré details, the line is
remarkably wearable, which
perhaps explains why it’s
caught on so well with style
and fashion influencers.
While his collections
are carried worldwide,
Browne thrives on his New
York City surroundings,
where he has an atelier on
Hudson Street in Tribeca.
“I’m influenced by the
energy the city has,” he says.
No doubt those who wear his
clothing can’t wait see what
this forward-thinking
designer will dream up next.
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Browne in his studio. He says his male and female clients “are actually very similar in character.”
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WINTER BLOOMSDark florals grace an elegant winter pump.
1. Minbra pump, Manolo Blahnik ($1,045). 31 W. 54th St., 212-582-3007; manoloblahnik.com. 2. Silver Snake citrine and red garnet ring, Le Vian ($1,365). Lord & Taylor, 424 Fifth Ave., 212-391-3344; lordandtaylor.com. Sterling silver diamond bark cuff bracelet, Michael Aram ($2,225). 136 W. 18th St., 212-242-4219; michaelaram.com. 3. Necklace, Alexander McQueen ($995). 747 Madison Ave., 212-645-1797; alexandermcqueen.com. 4. Purple velvet jeweled heels, Dolce & Gabbana ($2,995). 717 Fifth Ave., 212-897-9653; dolcegabbana.com
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has 18th-century buttons celebrating Washington’s inaugurals. (“At auction, a similar one sold for $17,000.”) Calvin Klein purchased a set of original blazer buttons created for the Lady Margaret Boat Club (to make the Cambridge crew jacket shine and “blaze,” hence the name “blazer”). The Lotos Club ordered custom-made buttons and cuff links for its members, while a garden society from Asia purchased buttons in the shapes of vegetables (squash)and fruits (a peeled banana).
Quirky? One customer came searching for “levita-tion” buttons for his meditation room. And winter winds always bring New York City dog owners, a breed unto themselves, searching for just the right button for their canine’s coat. Laughs Safro: “One actually brought the dog in and showed it the choices.” 143 E. 62nd St., 212-758-
7004; tenderbuttons-nyc.com G
In an age when companies routinely add brand exten-sions to their portfolios, Tender Buttons—tucked away in a townhouse on E. 62nd Street—delightfully remains a one-trick pony, offering only what its name suggests: buttons. As owner Millicent Safro proudly notes, it is the one shop in the country (“maybe the world”) devoted exclusively, one might say ecstatically, to buttons.
This year Tender Buttons marks its 50th anniversary. Over the years, the store has attracted a diverse and dedicated following, including
Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields, Gay Talese, and Tom Wolfe. Designers come for their collections or for their own needs. Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren were among the early converts; more recent devotees include Zac Posen and Robert Graham.
Entering the narrow space that houses the store, it’s immediately evident that Tender Buttons is as much a museum and lab as an emporium. Floor-to-ceiling shelves are lined with boxes, each holding up to 500 buttons, sorted by color, material, type, and theme.
Today, the townhouse’s four stories are filled with buttons. How many? “I used to say millions,” Safro says, “but billions might be closer.”
There are walrus-tusk buttons “perhaps made by the Inuits” and Satsuma porcelain buttons from Japan. French counts and countesses commissioned their portraits to be painted on ivory buttons set in silver; not much later, scenes of the French Revolution were reverse-painted on copper buttons. In Italy, artists carved cameos out of conch shells, with likenesses of poets and playwrights.
Buttons also trace 20th- century mores and trends: silver Art Nouveau from London’s Liberty & Co., Bakelite in bold shapes and colors, paper buttons from a war-torn Europe. Cartoon characters (Mickey, Donald, and Betty Boop garter buttons) abound, as do movie stars (Monroe and Brando), film classics (The Wizard of
Oz), politicians, rock stars (a very young Elvis’s hi-fi record), art (a Modigliani print on silk), even sports (a fish hook with fly in glass, made for Schiaparelli). Safro has classic Bill Blass and Todd Oldham buttons, but can’t sell the iconic ones from Chanel. “If you lose one, you have to go to Chanel,” she says. Some years back, one collector bought a rare set of Fabergé buttons with tiny diamonds for $20,000. “Now they’d be worth twice as much—Fabergé is in great demand.”
In her own collection, Safro
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Tender Buttons’ collection ranges from the historical to the kitschy; floor-to-ceiling shelves are lined with cardboard boxes, each holding up to 500 buttons; Millicent Safro, owner of Tender Buttons.
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shelves, and suspended light boxes through which
the building’s original structure can be seen. The
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Victoire de Castellane’s
latest haute-jewelry
collection takes
inspiration from the
exquisite Corolle line
presented by Christian
Dior at his first fashion
show in 1947.
“I wanted to create
each piece, like the
dresses Christian Dior
designed, with an
architect’s eye, as
if the jewels were
sculpted, flounced,
pleated, belted, or
draped fabrics,” says
the designer, who
named each item after
an iconic Dior collection
or gown. “Some pieces
imitate the [line made
from] the movement of
the hem of a dress,
which lifts as a woman
walks.” 21 E. 57th St.,
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THE CITY’S SINGULAR AESTHETIC.
By RoBeRta Naas photogRaphy By jeff cRawfoRd
It isn’t every day that a watchmaker builds a
timepiece dedicated to a particular city.
However, with collectors constantly clamoring
for something new, different, exclusive, and
rare, watch brands look for inspiration from the
world’s most beloved cities to build unique
timepieces. New York, with its singular style and
rich history, offers extraordinary architectural
and artistic inspiration. The watch designs for
which New York is a muse not only reflect the
city’s landmarks, but in some instances incorpo-
rate materials from the city itself into the
timepiece’s construction.
Louis Moinet’s New York Mecanograph watch
uses pieces of a meteorite found in the Arctic and
brought back to New York to be certified and
traded. In a small aperture on the dial sits a
fragment of the stone that traveled through the
solar system, above a hand-engraved depiction
of famed New York structures, including the
new One World Trade Center, the Chrysler
Building, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
For its Liberty-DNA watch, Romain Jerome
uses copper material from the Statue of Liberty:
a bronze alloy with oxidation for the watchcase
and a verdigris-colored, acid-treated copper
(DNA) for the dial. The watch was created in
collaboration with The Statue of Liberty-Ellis
Island Foundation and the Gold Leaf
Corporation. The design of this timepiece
references Lady Liberty too. Spokes inside the
bezel mimic Lady Liberty’s crown and cover a
portion of the 46mm watch like a protective
shield. Precisely placed above the dial as markers,
the 12 spokes eliminate the need for numerals.
DeWitt offers a stunning rendition of the New
York skyline in its patented Twenty-8-Eight
Regulator A.S.W. Horizons watch. The mechani-
cal self-winding movement with tourbillon
escapement features an automatic sequential
winding (A.S.W.) device—meaning the watch is
powered by a peripheral oscillating rotor running
along the outer rim of the watch instead of a
traditional rotor oscillating on the movement
itself. Each watch reflects an aspect of New York
that the world has come to love.
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go to gotham-magazine.com/watches. G
from left: This Romain Jerome
Liberty-DNA watch ($14,900) features a design that references the crown of the Statue of Liberty, its spokes acting as hour markers. In addition, the dial is made of copper from the statue itself. Kenjo, 40 W. 57th St., 212-333-7220; romainjerome.ch
From Louis Moinet, the Meconograph New York watch ($55,000) features a fragment of a meteorite discovered in the Artic. This limited edition has 60 pieces and is made from 18k rose gold. By appointment at Cellini at the Waldorf Astoria, 301 Park Ave., 212-751-9824; louismoinet.com
The patented Twenty-8-Eight Regulator A.S.W. Horizons watch by DeWitt ($252,100) is crafted in titanium and features a dial inspired by 1930s New York architecture. Just 150 pieces will be made. By appointment at Cellini, 509 Madison Ave., 212-888-0505; dewitt.ch
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High on her winter shopping
list is Burberry Prorsum’s
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poncho, Isabel Marant
Nowles boots, and shoes by
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Another spot she likes for
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books and hard-to-find
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This Japanese haven is
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Pimentel and her family
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Future Perfect (55 Great Jones
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When shopping for her kids,
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Swift CurrentSHugH Jac an returns to Broadway in The RiveR, an eerie drama that proBes
the mysteries of illusion. By Patrick Pacheco
catch a partner without any bait? Butterworth says
that Jackman’s natural accessibility will go a long
way in making the audience comfortable with the
more elliptical elements of the drama. “If they are
less guarded because of who and how Hugh is—
hopefully the play will hit harder.”
In his work, Butterworth has never shied away
from the ritualistic and transcendent nature of the-
ater—its ability to bring people together and, as the
playwright has said, “…do something that you could
all share in very intensely.”
That intensity will be heightened because
The River will wend its way through one of the most
intimate theaters on Broadway, the Circle in the
Square, which should make it easier for Jackman
to seduce both the women in the play and in the
audience. How could he not, given the scary
romantic arias that Butterworth has placed in the
mouth of The Man.
“I may bring other women here to this place, and I
may tell them I love them and make love to them,” his
character says at one point, “but they will be impos-
tors. And I will be a ghost. Because it means I will have
lost you. My body, my brain, my lungs, my stomach,
my guts, legs, arms will be here, but I won’t be. I will be
out there, looking for you.” Goose bumps, indeed.
The River opens November 16 for a 13-week engage-
ment at the Circle in the Square Theatre. 1633 Broadway,
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When Hugh Jackman first met with Jez Butterworth to
discuss his new play, The River, the actor asked the
playwright why he’d written the haunting drama. “To
give goose bumps,” came the answer.
Jackman feels Butterworth has more than suc-
ceeded in his goal, explaining how the story affected
him emotionally, “which doesn’t happen often,” a
reason he chose The River to mark his return to
Broadway this fall. The play’s mystery was another
lure. “You’re not 100 percent sure where the actor or
the writer is going.”
On the surface the drama is fairly straightfor-
ward. In a remote cliffside cabin overlooking a
river, a rugged fisherman introduces a new girl-
friend to his passion—capturing huge sea trout, an
enticing challenge that awaits them on a moonless
night. But there are dark and dangerous under-
currents swirling beneath both the river and its
devotees. So much so that when The River pre-
miered at London’s Royal Court Theatre—to rave
reviews—Michael Billington noted in The Guardian
that “...the fascination of [the] play is that it leaves
one unsure whether one is watching a ghost story,
gothic thriller, or parable.”
The thriller aspect is introduced early on, when
the girlfriend goes missing and another woman
then enters the cabin—a jarring shift that begins a
cat-and-mouse game of illusion and reality that
takes place not only within the confines of the rustic
cabin but with the audience as well.
Butterworth, who blazed to glory with such kinetic
and fiercely buoyant plays as Mojo and Jerusalem,
takes a cue here from his onetime mentor, Harold
Pinter, building an existential unease that provides
more questions than answers.
Is The Man, as he is known here, a burned-out
romantic? A manipulative and deceptive user of
women? A love-struck enthusiast or potential psy-
chopath? Are The Woman and The Other Woman
two halves of the same person?
Jackman has described the play as one with
many twists and turns, with a plot offering up a
number of imponderables. When we find someone
we want to be with, is the attraction real or are we
trying to re-create something we’ve lost? Can we
Is Jackman’s
character a
love-struck
enthusIast or
a potentIal
psychopath?
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the new-york historical society. By Stephanie Murg
It took a force of nature to jump-start a major personal project for Annie
Leibovitz. Several summers ago, following the death of her partner, Susan
Sontag, and in the midst of widely publicized financial difficulties, the
renowned photographer took a family trip to Niagara Falls. Between calls with
lawyers, she snapped a picture. “When I watched my children stand mesmer-
ized over Niagara Falls, this project [came to me as] an exercise in renewal,”
notes Leibovitz, who then assembled a wish list of landmarks and historic
places to visit and shoot. “Looking at history provided a way forward.”
Nature and history, portrait and landscape, past and present come together
in “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage,” an exhibition of evocative and double take–inducing images that opens November 21 at the New-York Historical Society.
Alongside extraordinary vistas of Yosemite are shots of man-made wonders
such as Robert Smithson’s 1970 earthwork Spiral Jetty, a curlicue of bulldozed
rocks and soil that juts into the Great Salt Lake. From these expansive scenes,
Leibovitz moves indoors and up close, revealing the homes, rooms, and pos-
sessions of historical figures, from Eleanor Roosevelt’s sleeping porch at
Val-Kill Cottage in Hyde Park, New York, to the Yonkers warehouse of the
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, a graveyard for the props
and sets of performances long past.
Best known for her slickly and meticulously produced celebrity portraits,
Leibovitz demonstrates with “Pilgrimage” the ability to create a compelling
portrait, even when the subject is long gone. “If you are on an assignment for a
magazine, there are always agendas. Things have to get done,” she points out
in the accompanying book, Pilgrimage, published by Random House. “I care
about my assignment work, but I wanted to try working without that pressure;
to be in a situation where I took a picture just because I saw it.”
Guest curator Andy Grundberg, who organized the touring exhibition,
originally envisioned it as a showcase for a dozen or so of the book’s most stun-
ning photographs, each printed at grand scale. Leibovitz had other ideas.
“Annie wanted the experience to be like that of a history museum or one of the
historic houses she photographed,” he says of the exhibition, in which the pho-
tographs are printed at smaller scale and hung densely on the walls. “It makes
it much more intimate,” he points out.
Curator Marilyn Satin Kushner, responsible for the New-York Historical
Society’s presentation of the show, says that the series is about how Annie
Leibovitz sees her American heritage. “As we look at her detailed views of our
national legacies, we learn about ourselves by how we interpret the images she
has brought to light.” “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” will be on display November 21
through February 22, 2015, at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park
West, 212-873-3400; nyhistory.org. G
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada by Annie Leibowitz, 2009.
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seT New records iN sales aNd aTTeNdaNce This Year. By MAtt stewArt
Since 2002 Art Basel in Miami Beach has grown and expanded at a dizzying rate. Each December thousands of artists, gallerists, and collectors gather in Miami Beach to see what’s trending in the ever-hot contemporary art world. Last year, the four-day show set new records with over $3 billion in sales and 75,000 in attendance. Art Basel’s direc-tor, Marc Spiegler, shares insights about this year’s fair (December 4–7) and discusses why ABMB con-tinues to take the art world by storm.
Gotham: What’s new and exciting at this
year’s show?
Marc Spiegler: With 100 percent of exhibitors in the Galleries sector—the main sector of the fair—reapplying, this year’s list is the strongest yet. We are delighted that a number of US galleries will be joining the show for the first time, includ-ing Honor Fraser, Freedman Fitzpatrick, [and New York’s] Michael Jon, Clifton Benevento, Simone Subal Gallery, Garth Greenan Gallery, and Menconi + Schoelkopf. Following the great success of Public last year, I am excited to see this year’s edition, which is again curated by Nicholas Baume of the Public Art Fund in New York. And David Gryn of Artprojx returns with a selection of over 70 film and video works that not only will be screened in SoundScape Park on the 7,000-square-foot projection wall of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, but also inside the Miami Beach Convention Center in a newly designed video viewing room. How was Survey, the newest sector
this year, conceived? What will be
featured there?
Survey is dedicated to precise art-historical projects. We decided to introduce the sector because we wanted to create a platform that brings more art-historical positions to the show. With all the museum groups and connoisseur collectors attending, we feel there is a real audience at our Miami Beach show for these remarkable works. How is Art Basel’s expansion into Asia with
Art Basel in Hong Kong influencing this
year’s ABMB?
We certainly see an increase in Asian collectors attending the show in Miami Beach since announcing Hong Kong, for example, as well as new galleries such as Beijing Commune from
clocwise from top: Yokos by Jack Early, 2012; ABMB Director Marc Spiegler; Artificial Rock A-63 by
Zhan Wang, 2007.
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China and Take Ninagawa and Y++ Wada Fine Arts from Japan.Last year’s ABMB broke purchase and attendance records. What is Art Basel doing to keep that momentum in 2014?2013 was a hugely successful edition—that’s why all the galleries want to come back. We do not take this success for granted, and work very hard to keep the quality at our shows high. Immediately after each show, we look at what we can do to make it better and improve the experience of our guests and exhibitors. What’s great about Miami Beach as an event is that there is always a lot of cultural energy, so we can collaborate with great partners from across the Americas and the rest of the world. With the growth of ABMB, what measures
have you taken to vet the galleries that participate to maintain your high standards?Across all our shows, we apply a rigorous selection process that ensures that only galleries with strong programming and a great roster of artists make it into the show. Art Basel Miami Beach actually has not become bigger over the years, but the competi-tion has certainly become tougher. What would you consider to be the fastest-growing segment of the art market today?What we have noticed over the past editions of our shows in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong is that there are very interesting impulses coming from the “digital native generation of artists.” Collectors and curators are highly interested in the work shaped by new media, new ways of dealing with aesthetics and audiences. G
clockwise from top left: Visitors to the Kukje Gallery exhibit at ABMB 2013; C2 by JPW3, 2014; Untitled (from the series Ping-Poem to
Boris) by Lenora DeBarros, 2014; Untitled (November) by Paul Feeley, 1965.
“What’s great about MiaMi beach
…is that there is a lot of cultural
energy.”— marc speigler
heading southWhat top New York galleries are showing at ABMB.
FERGUS MCCAFFREY exhibits new sculpture and installation pieces by New York’s Jack Early, known for his high-low takes on American life and pop culture. 514 W. 26th St., 212-988-2200; fergusmccaffrey.comBUREAU, NEW YORK shows the work of photographer Erica Baum and painter Jaya Howey, two artists who, in different ways, borrow from ready-made imagery to create their art, which is grounded in formal abstraction and narrative representation. 178 Norfolk St., 212-227-2783; bureau-inc.comJAMES FUENTES, NEW YORK will present American artist Alison Knowles’ Big Book, a walk-in construction composed of eight moveable pages (4 feet wide by 8 feet tall) that has been on exhibit for over 50 years. 55 Delancey St., 212-577-1201; jamesfuentes.com
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A DELICATE BALANCE, the Pulitzer Prize–winning dramedy that takes on dysfunctional marriages, adultery, and the decline of the
WASP hegemony (the playwright is Edward Albee, after all) comes to Broadway this month in all its dysfunctional glory. The fun kicks
off when a much-divorced woman, plagued with undefi nable new fears, decides to move in with her affl uent suburban parents, Agnes
and Tobias, disrupting their placid and predictable lives. John Lithgow, Glenn Close, and Martha Plimpton star in this revival, which
opens on November 20. Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St., 212- 239-6200; shubertorganization.com/theatres/golden.asp
FAMILY AFFAIRS
don’t miss
American Dance Machine for the 21st
Century’s dancers Stephen Hanna and
Naomi Kakuk.
Missed the original production of In the Heights?
Weren’t born in time for Oh! Calcutta!? Run, don’t
walk, to the Joyce Theater, where American Dance
Machine for the 21st Century will perform some of
the musical stage’s greatest dances for its New York
debut, November 11–16.
The idea, according to Nikki Feirt Atkins, founder
and executive artistic director, is to revive great dance
works, piecing them together through the memories
of artists who made or danced them, and supporting
those memories with archival material: notes, photos,
“and very grainy black and white fi lms.” Then, teach the
dances and techniques to a new generation of dancers.
“Basically, we’re creating a living archive of dances.”
The list of dancer/archivists is star-studded. For
the Joyce run, Margo Shappington has resurrected
the all-nude pas-de-deux “One on One” from Oh!
Calcutta! Robert LaFosse, one of Jerome Robbins’s
muses, reconstructed “Mr. Monotony” from Jerome
Robbins’ Broadway, and Donna McKechnie is coaching
dancers in “The Music and the Mirror,” from Michael
Bennett’s A Chorus Line. Susan Stroman came back to
resuscitate Contact’s “Simply Irresistible.” Dances from 42nd Street to Black and Blue—all come alive, thanks
to members of the troupe and guest stars. A live band
completes the scene. American Dance Machine for the
21st Century will peform November 11–16 at The Joyce
Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., 212-691-9740; joyce.org.
dance revival
notes
John Adams, states The
New Yorker, “may be the
most vital and eloquent
composer in America.”
On November 17,
Adams acts as curator/
host of five works by
composers he admires.
The result, says Edward
Yim, the vice president
of artistic planning for
the Philharmonic, where
the pieces will be
played, “is fantastic,”
with compositions by
Icelander Daníel
Bjarnason “who is
creating a lot of buzz,”
and Ingram Marshall
(Muddy Waters), whom
Adams has worked with
since the 1970s in San
Francisco. The concert is
part of the Phil’s new
music series, Contact!,
which takes place at
SubCulture, a Greenwich
Village venue. (Adams’
next NYC gig is in March,
when the Philharmonic
will perform the
world premiere of his
Scheherazade.) nyphil.org
MODERN
MUSIC
New York’s
El Greco MomentTHE MET CELEBRATES THE ICONOCLASTIC
17TH-CENTURY ARTIST. BY SUZANNE CHARLÉ
This is a banner year for El Greco, as museums in Spain and
throughout the world commemorate the 400th anniversary of
the artist’s death. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curator
Walter Liedtke has assembled a gem of an exhibition, drawn
from the Met’s collection and the Hispanic Society of America
(November 4–February 1, 2015).
“The paintings by El Greco in New York public collections
are second in importance only to those in Madrid,” notes
Liedtke. The 16 works “form a nearly complete survey of El
Greco’s career, to show his development from Venice to Rome
and then to [Toledo, Spain, for the last 37 years of his life.]”
Complementing the exhibition, The Frick Collection—12
blocks away—will display its paintings.
“The three greatest,” says Liedtke, “are View of Toledo, the
Vision of Saint John, which strongly influenced Picasso’s Les
Desmoiselles d’Avignon, and the portrait Cardinal Fernando
Niño de Guevara.” metmuseum.org G
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Xavier F. Salomon in the West Gallery of The Frick, where he is now the new Peter Jay Sharp chief curator.
MuseuM Maestroart-world rock star and new curator Xavier
Salomon takes charge at a pivotal moment in the
Frick’s history. by mark ellwood
Given his first experience in New York, it’s astonishing that Xavier F. Salomon ended
up as the new Peter Jay Sharp chief curator of The Frick Collection. “I once hated New
York,” he says with a laugh, remembering a summer spent here for an internship at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I arrived and felt I was in some sort of a movie. I thought
it was the most awful place.” While school (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and jobs (at
the National Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery) returned him to London, “New
York kept calling me back every time I went away,” he says, referring to career-boosting
opportunities that included a two-year scholarship at The Frick and a senior position
at the Met. “Now? I consider this city my home.”
The arterati viewed it as a coup when The Frick lured Salomon, a charming and erudite
Anglo-Dane, away from that vaunted Met perch overseeing Southern Baroque paintings.
Regarded as something of a museum-world wünderkind, thanks to his scholarly writings
and the shows he’s organized both in London and in New York, Salomon was only 34 at
the time of his appointment. He shrugs off the plaudits. “People used to get great jobs in
their 50s, but now they [realize] their potential much earlier. Fashion designers, actors,
sports people are all very young, so why should a chief curator not be young, too?”
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Xavier Salomon walks us through The Frick.
Most
captivating
artwork: “The
picture I can’t believe I’m
in charge of is the Bellini
St. Francis in the Desert,
arguably the best Italian
picture in America. It’s a
visual representation of
something invisible; stand
in front of it and you can
feel the wind whistling
through the trees.”
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geM: “The Frick has
unbelievable objects,
tapestries, furniture.
There’s a French 18th-
century table made out
of solid blue-gray marble
that sits under the Ingrès
portrait Comtesse
d’Haussonville.
Everyone looks at the
portrait, but the table
is unbelievable. I tell
people to try and come
one day and don’t look
at the pictures—look at
everything else.”
Favorite tiMe
at the MuseuM:
“There’s something
magical frst thing in
the morning, walking
through the collection,
as the guards are setting
things up. You still get
the feeling it’s a house
being prepared for
guests to arrive. That’s
wonderful.”
Salomon is also curating for the institution at a time
of great change: A controversial museum expansion
by Davis Brody Bond that requires demolishing a
1970s extension and paving over some gardens was
recently announced and then quickly denounced in
The New York Times. “There’s a very famous sentence
in [the Italian novel] The Leopard,” he responds,
“‘Everything has to change so everything stays the
same.’” But Frick stalwarts overlook the fact that
the museum, often perceived as preserved in amber
since its namesake tycoon’s death in 1919, has changed
immensely over the years, in terms of exhibition
space, acquisitions, and how the pictures are hung.
The proposed extension, he explains, will allow the
museum to host more lectures and concerts, as well as
open up the second floor of the onetime private resi-
dence. It will give visitors another reminder of The
Frick’s unique origins. “I work every day in [Henry
Frick’s] old office, and hold meetings in what was his
bedroom,” says Salomon. “I feel this presence, a char-
acter that was larger than life. It’s a reminder that this
is not only a museum—it’s The Frick collection, [the
work] of an individual man.” G
Salomon grew up in Rome, the son of a Danish
father, who was a businessman, and an English
mother; his dolce vita-inflected accent is a legacy of
that early life. Though his parents weren’t marked art
lovers, he easily absorbed the culture in the Eternal
City. “There were field trips to the Sistine Chapel.
And we would climb inside the Colosseum at night to
drink beer.” Perhaps the most formative experience of
Salomon’s childhood, though, was the day he was
playing soccer in the park around the sumptuous Villa
Borghese museum, which was then closed to the pub-
lic for a years-long restoration. “One of the builders
opened it up and let me in to walk around, and all the
Bernini sculptures were covered in transparent plas-
tic, like a Christo and Jeanne-Claude installation,” he
recalls. “It’s still my favorite museum in Rome.”
He moved to London for college, as Italian univer-
sities didn’t offer pure art history courses, and
quickly found his passion: Old Masters, often dis-
missed as fusty and staid. “I didn’t have a specific
aim at the start, but I’ve always found the Old
Masters world way more glamorous than the
contemporary one—these objects have withstood
hundreds of years of history. It’s much more interest-
ing than what’s happening in this second.”
Salomon made his name as the director of the
jewel box-like London museum, the Dulwich Picture
Gallery; he is now running a museum with a similar
ethos to the Dulwich. But he finds it freeing to work in
Manhattan. “In London, museums and exhibitions
tend to be more apologetic, always trying to do some-
thing they feel the public will like. In New York, that’s
not the case; museums do shows they believe to be the
right shows to do, and it’s much more interesting.”
Salomon wants to continue that tradition at The
Frick, whether that means overseeing long-planned
exhibitions such as its current El Greco show, a celebra-
tion of the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death, or by
focusing on what he believes are undervalued parts of
the museum’s extraordinary holdings. He’s particularly
keen to explore shows around what he calls “the sub-
stantial, amazing group of Gainsboroughs,” as well as its
Holbein portraits of Thomases Cromwell and More.
clockwise from far
left: The Rehearsal
by Edgar Degas, 1878–1879; The Frick and its garden fronting Fifth Avenue; Xavier Salomon in the Fragonard Room at The Frick.
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On a sunny fall Thursday, Bond Street bustles
under a bright, cloudless sky, but a chat with Ambra
Medda is enough to make anyone pray for rain.
“There’s no feeling in the world like looking up into
the sky and seeing a rainbow,” says the cofounder
and creative director of L’Arcobaleno (“the rain-
bow” in Italian), an online marketplace dedicated to
collectible design, from midcentury Italian furnish-
ings to contemporary jewelry. The site’s advisory
board includes such consummate collectors as
Pharrell Williams, designer Tom Dixon, and fashion
designer Reed Krakoff.
Born in Greece and raised in Milan and London,
33-year-old Medda, a self-described “international
It takes a VIllageAmbrA meddA, RogeR ViVieR’s new muse and cofoundeR of L’aRcobaLeno, ReVeLs in the cReatiVe spiRit
of the LoweR east side. By Stephanie Murg photography By eric ryan anderSon
Italian,” arrived in New York more than a decade ago
and has lived here on and off ever since. She says she
is particularly invigorated by downtown Manhattan.
“From the moment I first stepped foot in the Lower
East Side, I fell in love with its energy,” she says of the
area that she has called home for several years.
“There’s a really authentic neighborhood vibe. It
feels like people live here—not a bunch of tourists.
That’s the whole reason we live in and put up with the
city—to feel enriched and inspired and stimulated
and in the mix of it all. I really enjoy navigating that
mix and being part of a place’s larger story.”
When it comes to the offline world, the globe-trot-
ting Medda takes time to savor the daily rhythms of
her downtown neighborhood. “I especially love the
late afternoon, when all the kids come out of school
and hang out in the little gardens throughout the
area,” explains Medda. “At this time of day, it’s full of
people doing their errands—food shopping at Essex
Market or picking up their dry cleaning. I like that
everything is in arm’s reach, and there are tons of
restaurants.”
Among her favorite stops are The Smile, where
she frequently takes meetings, and Estela. “You feel
like you’re being well taken care of there,” she notes.
“Usually restaurants have the same old thing, like
branzino, but Estela actually celebrates fish, and I’m
a big fish lover.” Medda also frequents Narcissa at
clockwise from left: Ambra Medda exits The Smile, a favorite spot on Bond Street; Medda says the mix of people found on the Lower East Side is the reason she finds it so interesting; The Future Perfect is a must-stop for its design-savvy yet affordable inventory.
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neighborhoods musts
Ambra Medda reveals her favorite spots.
design Finds
THE FUTURE PERFECT: “For the variety, the price
range, and the constantly changing inventory.” 55
Great Jones St., 212-473-2500; thefutureperfect.com
LINDSEY ADELMAN STUDIO: “Her work is
poetic and striking.” By appointment only,
212-473-2501; lindseyadelman.com
MAST BOOKS: “I know that I can always fnd
something interesting here to bring to a dinner party or
for a friend’s birthday. It has saved me many times.”
66 Avenue A, 646-370-1114; mastbooks.com
MATTER: “There’s a sense of ethics and attention
to detail and a love for craftsmanship that I share.”
Medda recommends lighting by Bec Brittain. 405
Broome St., 212-343-2600; mattermatters.com
MODERN LINK: “Full of unexpected fnds. That’s
what I spend most days looking for.” 35 Bond St.,
212-254-1300; modernlink.com
Favorite bites
ESTELA: “Although it’s on super-busy Houston,
the restaurant also feels slightly tucked away. You
can’t go wrong with the fsh.” 47 E. Houston St.,
212-219-7693; estelanyc.com
NARCISSA AT THE STANDARD EAST
VILLAGE: “I recommend the heirloom tomato
salad.” 21 Cooper Square (E. 5th St. and Bowery),
212-228-3344; narcissarestaurant.com
THE SMILE: “It’s cool but not too cool. And the staff
are nice.” 26 Bond St., 646-329-5836; thesmilenyc.com
refreshing about being open about your process and
how you work.” Relationships with designers such as
Adelman inform Medda’s view of the New York
design scene and its role in the global marketplace.
“Right now we’re witnessing a kind of Arts-and-
Crafts revolution of the 21st century,” she says. “You
see it here and especially in Brooklyn—hand-assem-
bled work utilizing industrial components, produced
in small batches. It’s an ‘industrial craft’ look.”
With the continued growth of L’Arcobaleno,
Medda is exploring new ways to connect a global
audience with collectible objects and their mak-
ers: Video features for the site are in the works, as
is a possible TV series focused on craft. A favorite
place to seek inspiration for new projects is Mast
Books. “Every time I look in its window there’s a
new book, a new title, a new subject,” says Medda.
She recently picked up multiple copies of the
Garry Winogrand exhibition catalog. “The pho-
tographs show you the city in a new way,” she says.
“And yet it’s so New York.” G
“I rEAllY EnJoY BEInG pArT oF A plACE’S lArGEr STorY.”—ambra medda
clockwise from far
left: For unexpected finds Medda likes Modern Link; Medda’s daily routine includes strolls through the Lower East Side; she catches up on e-mail at Narcissa.
The Standard East Village. “It’s so well designed,
with this cool Scandinavian look,” she says. “And the
food is phenomenal.”
As for the best places to discover and purchase
design objects, Medda, who cofounded Design
Miami and served as its director for five years, rec-
ommends starting at The Future Perfect on Great
Jones Street, “one of my favorite streets in New
York. Things here are accessible but also aspira-
tional, so you can find a great sofa by an interesting
European designer, and you can walk away with a
really cool cutting board that’s super well-designed.”
On Bond, another favorite street, is Modern Link,
which offers a mix of vintage and original pieces,
and a short walk away is Matter, known for its
curated exhibitions of young designers, many of
them American. Notes Medda, “There aren’t many
galleries focused on American design and design-
ers, especially contemporary, so that feels exciting
and interesting and valid.”
One American designer that Medda particularly
admires is Lindsey Adelman, who designs, proto-
types, and builds otherworldly light fixtures and
more in her Lafayette Street studio, although Medda
first spotted her work at a gallery in Milan. “Lindsey
is a real talent,” she says. “There’s something quite
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Well CastJim Parrac , starring in the OctOber release Fury with brad Pitt, makes new YOrk his new hOmetOwn. by jennifer Ashley Wright
Jim Parrack is having a
bloody good ride. The actor,
who shot to fame as the “kind
and broad-minded” Hoyt
Fortenberry on HBO’s
vampire drama True Blood
and earned rave reviews for
his performance in Of Mice
and Men on Broadway, ups
his game this month with the
release of Fury, a movie about
the final days of WWII,
which stars veteran actors
Brad Bitt and Jason Isaacs.
For Parrack, working with
Pitt on Fury meant more than
sharing screen time with the
ultimate Hollywood A-lister.
Growing up in Allen,
Texas, Parrack harbored
notions of an acting career,
but kept his goals to himself.
“One day I was throwing a
city time:
Jim Parrack shares his recent discoveries.
Broadway Boy: The
Longacre Theatre: “This was my
home away from home for four
months this year. I’ll adore it for
the rest of my life.” 220 W. 48th
St., 212-239-6200
Green Space: “I remember
the frst warm spring day in April
this year. The whole city showed
up in Central Park to celebrate the
end of winter.”
BeSt BiStro: “Rue 57
restaurant. It’s a place my fancée
and I go to for great food and to
talk for hours at a time. I love it
there.” 60 W. 57th St., 212-307-
5656; rue57.com
School dayS: The S. Oxford
Space in Fort Greene: “It’s where
we hold class for the PHW
(Playhouse West) Brooklyn Lab.
It’s a beautiful, intimate place to
teach and rehearse. And it’s quiet
and elegant.” 138 S. Oxford St.,
718-398-3078
Game time: Yankee Stadium,
of course. 1 E.161st St., 718-293-
4300; newyork.yankees.mlb.com
Jim Parrack photographed at The Irondale Center for Theater,
Education, and Outreach.
Suit jacket, Burberry ($1,995). 9 E. 57th St., 212-407-7100;
burberry.com. Shirt, John Varvatos ($228). 765 Madison
Ave., 212-760-2414; john varvatos.com. Jeans, Citizens
of Humanity ($208). Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave.,
212-826-8900; citizensof humanity.com. Shoes,
Christian Louboutin ($895). 808 Washington St., 212-255-2056; christianlouboutin.com
football with my buddy Clif
Goddard and said, ‘I wanna
be an actor.’ I’ll never forget
what Cliffy answered: ‘I
mean, you’re no Brad Pitt
but you put on a show
everywhere you go.’ That
was just enough of an
encouragement to say out
loud that I wanted to act.”
The irony that he’s now
performing with Pitt hasn’t
escaped him. He has nothing
but praise for the star. “Brad
is a guy damn near everyone
in my generation looks up to.
He’s always been risky and
exciting, and he always
seems to enjoy his work.
Working with him was a
pleasure. He’s a natural,
quiet leader; he never got
frazzled or arrogant or
grumpy. He always showed
up excited for the day’s work.”
Parrack says there weren’t a
lot of opportunities for acting
in Allen, but that his mother,
an English teacher, and his
father (retired from the Army
to become a businessman)
were always supportive of
his ambitions. At age 20 he
moved to Los Angeles. “I met
the most important people
of my life there [including
mentor Robert Carnegie at
Playhouse West], but I never
liked it as a city or as a
culture. I don’t really fit in,”
he admits. With the opportu-
nity to perform in Of Mice
and Men, he moved to New
York in early 2014. He says
he felt immediately at home.
“The city rewards
authenticity,” he says. “It asks
me to step up, man up, and
go after something.”
Despite a full plate of film
projects, Parrack, along with
friend James Franco, with
whom he performed in Of
Mice and Men and in whose
The Sound and the Fury (which
debuted at both the Venice
and Toronto film festivals last
month) he has a supporting
role, are working to form an
acting school. Located in
Brooklyn’s Fort Greene, it will
be a repertory theater that
also hosts writing labs, and
directing and acting classes.
Although a newbie in town,
Parrack says that he plans on
making New York his base.
“I fell deeply in love with
[this] city. I wake up grateful
to live here.” G
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“I grew up in New York and started volunteering at
Memorial Sloan Kettering a couple of years ago.
Cancer runs in my family: An aunt sadly passed
away from melanoma before I was born. My god-
mother, who is my aunt on my father’s side, was
treated for lung cancer at MSK. And my mother had
ovarian cancer, but is now fully recovered. For two
years, I volunteered on the Associates Committee,
which was formed in the ’80s as a way to get younger
members involved in the hospital, then served
under Shoshanna [Gruss] as her vice chair for the
past two years. I think she chose me [to succeed her]
as chairwoman because she knew I was passionate
about the hospital and I would work hard to follow
in her footsteps.
We have about 50 members on the Associates
Committee, and most are in their late 20s to 40s. We
often draw a mix of people working in fashion and
beauty—Nina Garcia, fashion director of Marie
Claire, has been on the committee in the past, and
today we have women such as designer Veronica
Beard, Mollie Ruprecht from 1stdibs, and Hayley
Bloomingdale from Moda Operandi. [Ylvisaker is
founder of the personal styling website feyt.com.]
What first appealed to me about the Associates is
that it’s a real working committee. Our goal is to
raise money for patient-related initiatives at the hos-
pital, with a focus on pediatrics.
My first steps were to assign every member of the
Associates to one of the eight programs and commit-
tees. So, for example, there is a Patient Environment
Program that raises money for items for patients in
need; The A-Team brings in inspirational speakers,
such as [cancer survivor] Sheryl Crow. Patient
Recreational works on events for the kids at the hos-
pital. Our big Fall Party [on Nov. 12] raises money for
the pediatric endowment, which helps pay for fami-
lies to come and stay in New York at the Ronald
McDonald House while their child is being treated
at the hospital.
The children’s resilience and determination to get
better is so inspiring. While the Associates do amaz-
ing work to provide funds for innovation in cancer
research, I find the personal experiences are what
make a difference in patients’ daily lives. To me,
that’s the most important part of the work we do. I
a new
approachElEanor Ylvisa Er takes the helm of one of the most sought-after benefits groups in the city, the memorial sloan kettering cancer center’s associates committee, in time for this month’s big fall party fundraiser. as told to Kari Molvar
clockwise from top: Society of MSKCC’s 2013 Annual Fall Party at the Four Seasons; Allison Aston and Ylvisaker at Gucci
Celebrates The Society of MSKCC’s Associates Committee Fall Party in 2010; Ylvisaker and Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
at the Society of MSKCC’s Fall Party in 2012.
“I fInd the
personal
experIences are
what make a
dIfference.” —eleanor ylvisaker
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This mom e-mailed us to tell us her daughter said,
“Today is my best day at the hospital ever!”
The hospital also does gift bags around Christmas
and fulfills a wish for one family every year. These
stories are very hard to hear. Last year, they chose a
woman who had 7-year-old twins and another child,
who was about 5. She wanted to see a Broadway show
with her kids, go to Build-a-Bear and American Girl
Place, and have this real Christmas in New York,
because it was most likely going to be her last….
Volunteering and charity work was a huge part of
my upbringing because of my mother. She is one of
the most extraordinary people I know. Her life is
dedicated to service. She was a nun for 13 years and
the head of Sacred Heart on 91st Street, but left the
convent in the mid-’60s, when Vatican II went into
effect. Two years later, she met my dad and they mar-
ried. From there, she had a career in education and
was head of the Episcopal School and head of admis-
sions at Spence. My mother once gave her fur coat to
a homeless person on the street because she felt the
woman needed it more than she. She spent nights in
homeless shelters and always made such an effort to
get us involved in community service.
I try to do the same with my children. I have a
daughter, Ella, who is 3, ½and a son, Alastair, who is 5.
In the spring, the hospital sponsors a Bunny Hop fun-
draiser. This year I want to make sure the kids who
attend are cognizant of the kids in the hospital we’re
raising money for, so the children understand the
idea of helping others.
I do this at home too. My kids have three jars: one
each for Spend, Save, and Give. So when they do
their chores, they get a quarter and they can choose
where to put it. Now they’re starting to understand
how it feels to give to somebody in need, and how
that’s better than getting something for yourself.” G
heard from one mom recently who has a young
daughter who goes to Sacred Heart. Her daughter
hasn’t been in school for over a year and a half, but
she went to the Pediatric Prom, which is an event with
music and a DJ, that takes place in the hospital for
kids of all ages. The kids really look forward to it.
Many are missing normal childhood experiences,
whether it’s going to their first dance or trick-or-treat-
ing, so creating those moments is really meaningful.
above: Clown Care brings laughter to acutely and chronically ill children at bedsides in the Department of Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering. below: Members of the Associates Committee lead groups of carolers through the pediatrics department during the holidays.
Charity registerthis month’s best opportunities to give back.
PartnershiP with Children
Now in its 12th year, the annual Food and Wine Tasting
to beneft Partnership with Children, which provides
emotional and social support to young men and women in
the city’s highest-need communities, will feature fne wines
from around the world, courtesy of Daniel Posner of
Grapes the Wine Company as well as tastings from
some of New York’s best-known chefs. Enjoy offerings from
Rachel Goulet of Amali, Ivy Stark of Dos Caminos,
Craig Wallen of ’Cesca, Elisa Marshal of Maman,
and The Sea Grill’s Yuhi Fujinaga, among others. When: Wednesday, November 5
Where: Broad Street Ballroom, 41 Broad St.
Contact: partnershipwithchildrennyc.org
Voss Foundation
The nonprofit will host its fifth annual Woman Helping
Women New York Luncheon in an effort to improve the
lives of African women and their communities by
providing access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
as well as to celebrate female empowerment.When: Wednesday, November 12
Where: Dream Downtown, 355 W. 16th St.
Contact: vossfoundation.org
uniting against lung CanCer
Brian Williams will serve as honorary chair at the
nonproft’s annual gala, Strolling Supper with Blues
& News, to raise funds for lung cancer research. This
star-studded event will also feature a performance
by Grammy Award-winning blues artist Delbert
McClinton as well as a silent auction for luxe items. When: Wednesday, November 12
Where: Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway
Contact: unitingagainstlungcancer.org
James Beard Foundation
Such renowned chefs as Emeril Lagasse, Carrie
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Larry Stone will join host—and James Beard Foundation
award winner—Norman Van Aken, for the foundation’s
annual gala, which will pay tribute to Charlie Trotter
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Where: Four Seasons Restaurant,
99 E. 52nd St.
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Contact: stjude.org
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For New York style mavens, Fashion Week marks
the start of the city’s busy fall social season.
Elisabeth Moss joined Gotham to fête her stylish
September cover; Nicole Kidman, Ewan
McGregor, and Tod’s Diego Della Valle
celebrated the reopening of Tod’s Madison
Avenue flagship; Sarah Jessica Parker dazzled
as cochair of the New York City Ballet’s Fall
Gala; and Nars Cosmetics threw an anniversary
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September cover star, Elisabeth Moss, at Sanctuary
Hotel’s Tender restaurant. The Golden Globe
Award-winning actress, most widely known for her
role in Mad Men, joined friends to fête her cover as well
as her latest film, The One I Love. Guests mingled while
perusing Bulova’s new luxury watch collection and
sipped specialty cocktails by Tequila Baron along with
wines from the Chloe Wine Collection.
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COVER PARTY
John Huggard, Mary Beth Trypus,
Elisabeth Moss, Angelica Almeida,
Dina Crisco, Mallory Moore, and Fae Druiz
Marisa Hebert, Jason Apfelbaum, and Marie Assante Mike Warren
Jonathan Frank and Olga Parks
Brandon and Hank Fried
Dr. Francesco Gargano and Sarah Gargano
Bulova displayed its latest timepieces.
Catherine and Sean Lowe
Michelle Wrubel and Dr. Dendy Engelman
Janie Bryant
Karen Keoningsberg
Romain Pianet
Chloe wine and flowers by Winston Flowers.
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THE CINEMA SOCIETY hosted
a screening of Universal Pictures’
A Walk Among the Tombstones on
September 17. Following the
screening, celebs like Maggie
Grace, Bruce Weber, Calvin
Klein, Donna Karan, and Luke
Wilson crowded into the glamorous
Top of the Standard for an after-
party, joining the film’s star, Liam
Neeson, for Qui Tequila cocktails
named “Scudder’s Nightcap” to
celebrate the film, along with flutes
of Champagne Tattinger.
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YANKEES OUTFIELDER CARLOS
Beltran hosted his annual Night in Old San
Juan Gala to raise funds and awareness for his
namesake charity and Cardinals Care, which
helps local children in need. In celebration of
his Puerto Rican roots, the event featured
rum tastings, luxury cigars, and native
cuisine, while a silent auction included
exclusive prizes like sports memorabilia and
vacation packages. Sports stars Jacob
Ellsbury, Tino Martinez, and Derek Jeter
suited up to show support.
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acclaimed designer for the Champagne
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hosted a cocktail party to celebrate the reopening
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including Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor,
Baz Luhrmann, Adrian Grenier, Karolina
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French KissedDirty French melds southwestern Gallic with
Gotham chic. By Amy ZAvAtto photogrAphy By Josephine roZmAn
To declare Dirty French one of the most anticipated restaurant to open in
Manhattan for 2014 is no gilded overstatement—and neither is the restaurant.
Actually, it exhibits exactly what one might hope it would: classic Gallic
greatness as interpreted through the downtown-cool lens of three men who
grew up here and know exactly what that means.
Only a real New Yorker can know New York—its wrinkles and moods,
fashions and phases, history and high-low culture. Partners Mario Carbone
and Jeff Zalaznick are each of that rare ilk known as the “Born and Raised
New Yorker” (although Rich Torrisi is from that sixth borough, Westchester).
And that’s why Dirty French, located in the lobby of the chic Ludlow Hotel
and juxtaposed with the shadow of Katz’s Deli on this iconic Lower East Side
street, works and works well.
With its mosaic-tile floor and grand, faux-rusty chandeliers, the place feels more
classic Paris than 21st-century Lower East Side. The grandly large leather-bound
menu, which recounts in elegant script chefs Torrisi and Carbone’s experiences
On a silver platter: Oysters at the restaurant are farmed
from Eastern Seaboard beds.
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taste this Issue: Lower east side
The PasT Is PresenTThomas Waugh’s cocktails nod to the neighborhood’s hipster roots.
Thomas Waugh crafts a
cocktail list with Gallic
favors for Dirty French
and the Ludlow Hotel’s
back lounge. This is no
longer Paul’s Boutique-
era Ludlow Street, but
somehow it’s not hard to
imagine Lou Reed in the
hotel’s back lounge bar,
sitting on the cool leather
sofas while ’70s and
’80s-era classics bump
from the hanging Marshall
stack speakers. Waugh’s
cocktail list (also available
in the restaurant) inspires
this kind of thought and
it matches the mood of
the groovy lounge, adding
a similar exotic kick that
works well with the Dirty
French ethos. Standout
cocktails include a decep-
tively potent Montecristo
(Irish whiskey, crème
de banana, amontillado
sherry) or, perhaps, a
Lilikois (Cognac, Jamaican
rum, passion fruit) to
prime you for chef Torissi’s
kitchen shenanigans.
For the true Francophile,
pastis is also at the ready,
as is a wine list with Gallic
depth, boasting bountiful
bouteilles from all over
France. The Ludlow, 180
Ludlow St., 212-432-1818;
ludlowhotel.com
clockwise from far
left: The team behind Dirty French: Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, and Jeff Zalaznick; Tatin Pour Deux, an apple tart topped with ice cream; wine being poured from a whimsical antique parrot wine decanter. below
right: A Ludlow gimlet, made with Plymouth and Navy Strength gins, cinnamon, crème de abricot, and fresh lime.
hanging out and training in
Lyon and New York with
Daniel Boulud, shows that they
can do French as well as
fettuccine—but in their own way.
From appearances, the menu
takes a less-is-more approach:
Hors d’oeuvres, salade, poisson,
rotisserie, and sides are all
prepared in a seemingly classic
way, but this isn’t a chef’s final
exam; Torrisi manages to turn
the culinary pillars of French
cuisine into forward-looking
periscopes, bringing food into
view that is as familiar as it is
unique in interpretation. “We
decided to build off classic
French bistro dishes and
introduce new flavors from
different parts of the world, to
make it something that is more
in line with our New York
background,” says Zalaznick.
Translation: style and
substance. Order oysters, and
all eight or so options are
initially presented to you
perched atop a pile of
just-shaved ice on a sterling
silver platter by your waiter,
who will explain the prov-
enance and flavor profile of
each Eastern-Seaboard
selection. Lamb carpaccio
comes served in onion-skin-
thin slices arranged in a
concentric circle with slivers
of juicy, fresh fig carefully
scattered about, resembling
the most delicious, exotic, and
edible flower you’ve ever laid
eyes on. Gnocchi Parisienne
(one of the scant but stellar
vegetarian options) alone is
worth the cab ride, with its
toothsome pasta browned in
butter and tossed gleefully with
smoked cherry tomatoes,
onion soubise, and a soft,
sweetly tangy, velvety version
of labneh, a Middle Eastern
strained yogurt.
But it is touches like the
latter—also found in the spicy,
exotic baker’s-dozen cocktail list
created by Thomas Waugh—
that set Dirty French apart.
“Dirty French, like a dirty
martini—we are taking
something very clean and pure
and adding big, bold flavors to
it,” says Zalaznick. Nowhere is
that translation better found
than in dishes like the duck
a l’orange, the old French
chestnut that shakes a whole
new tail feather when Torrisi
rubs the superbly tender meat
with house-made ras el hanout,
the intensely flavored North
African spice mix.
But perhaps the most iconic
melting-pot example that tells
you what Dirty French is about
is Torrisi’s heady bouillabaisse,
a dish inspired by an investiga-
tive trek to Southwestern
France. “Rich, Mario, and I
found this small town outside
of Marseille where they served
bouillabaisse and finished it
with squid ink,” offers
Zalaznick. “We were all
inspired by this.” When set in
front of you in a grand bowl,
the classic fish stew will be
familiar, sure, with its thick
slices of peasant bread
slathered in rich, orange-hued
rouille—but, like Ludlow
Street’s own modern transfor-
mation from working-class
enclave to downtown-
loving denizen destination—it
goes beyond simple to
sublime; familiar to entirely
new. Mussels, red mullet,
monkfish, and wrist-thick
chunks of grilled octopus bob
and weave in an opaque,
sepia-soaked broth, fragrant
with saffron. It is dense, robust,
and downright moody in
flavor, a bit of smoky char here,
a bit of briny sea salt influence
there. All the dunking and
spooning is well worth the
effort—you are not likely to
find anything like this dish
anywhere else in Gotham. “I
think that one of the most
appealing things for us about
this project was the neighbor-
hood,” says Zalaznick, “to
celebrate it and its exciting
history.” But perhaps the thing
most deserving of a huzzah is
that Torrisi, Carbone, and
Zalaznick are making a kind of
history all their own.
Dirty French, The Ludlow, 180
Ludlow St., 212-254-3000;
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Keeping the Night YoungThe Lower easT side is digging on Lower-aLcohoL cocKTaiLs.
By Amy ZAvAtto
nyc.com), where vermouth
flows from the tap, and The
Bourgeois Pig (111 E.
Seventh St., 212-475-2246;
bourgeoispigny.com), where
aromatized and fortified
wines make up an entire
section of the cocktail menu.
At Donostia (155 Avenue
B, 646-256-9773; donostia
nyc.com), head barman Will
Peet pours out a whopping 35
sherries and eight vermouths
by the glass, and crafts a bevy
of bevs that make good use of
sherry’s versatility, from the
dryer Fino and Amontillado
styles to the richer Olorosos
and Pedro Ximénez. Peet is
currently working on a
Sazerac iteration, replacing
the traditional rye with
sherry. “I love the Gran
Mantilla in cocktails because
it’s 100 percent Pedro
Jimenez, so it’s a fuller style;
it’s got legs, and it’s a great sub
for certain whiskies,” he says.
“[Fortified wines] are an easy
fit—they add a little bit of that
alcohol content, but they’re
not a hammer drop. You can
beef up a cocktail’s depth but
still keep it afloat.” G
More than the new frontier
in underexplored cocktail
ingredients, fortified wines
are becoming the darlings of
downtown barkeeps for a
good, practical reason: They
keep the night young.
Fortified wines—sherry,
port, Madeira, Marsala,
vermouth—begin as table
wine, but get a kick of spirit
infusion, often brandy, to
boost their alcohol content
and, thus, their shelf life. But
even with that fortification,
they’re still in the low-fi range
(between 17 and 20 percent
alcohol, give or take). For The
Musket Room’s (265
Elizabeth St., 212-219-0764;
themusket room.com) head
sommelier and cocktail
tinkerer Dane Campbell—
schooled in fortified-wine
cocktail versatility at Saxon +
Parole—this allows him to offer
alluring aperitifs like the
Henry O. Peabody martini (a
50/50 stirring of Atsby
Amberthorn vermouth and
Broken Shed vodka with a
dash of Regan’s No. 6 orange
bitters) without killing his
customers’ thirst for their
antipodean wine list. He’s also
toying with a Madeira-pisco
concoction for the winter.
But more than just being
a night-extender, fortified
wines offer a dimension to
drinks that’s hard to shake
up with the usual available
accoutrements. “For
bar tenders, fortified wines
are a great way to balance
drinks without using syrups
and sugars because they
add depth and f lavor—the
nuttiness a sherry or Madeira
offers is better than Demerara
sugar, which gives depth but
not nuttiness,” says Campbell.
Vermouth and sherry, in
particular, have become the
party-date of choice for
downtown, as each offers an
entire range of f lavors for
bartenders to experiment
with. An interesting recent
entry from The Eddy’s (342
E. Sixth St., 646-895-9884;
theeddynyc.com) head
bartender, Kelvin Uffre, is
essentially a fortified
wine-based piña colada
mixing bianco vermouth,
Pinot Grigio, Japanese
shochu, grapefruit juice,
Swiss absinthe, and coconut
crème. Vermouth and
sherry are also finding
entire leagues of new fans
who enjoy sipping them on
their own at spots like
Huertas (107 First Ave.,
212-288-4490; huertas
FoRTiFicaTions:The eddy’s MonT Blanc RefResheR
1 oz. shochu
41⁄2 tsp. amber Vermouth del
Professore
41⁄2 tsp. crisp white wine
1 oz. jasmine coconut crème
3 tsp. grapefruit juice
3 tsp. lemon juice
11⁄2 tsp. La Clandestine
absinthe
3 drops orange blossom water
Build ingredients in a small
wine glass and swizzle to
homogenize contents. Fill
glass with ice.
Kelvin Uffre devised the Mont Blanc Refresher, a fortified wine-based piña colada, for The Eddy.
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Bar PrimiWhy go: When chef and
restaurateur Andrew
Carmellini (of Locanda Verde
fame) opens a new restaurant
specializing in pasta, run,
don’t walk. Must order: The
fiore di carciofi, a 16-inch coil
of pasta stuffed with artichoke
and served with smoked
bacon and pecorino. The
crowd: Downtown cool, but
the space is also family-
friendly. Signature drink:
Lambrusco sangria. 325
Bowery, 212-220-
9100; barprimi.com
ConfessionalWhy go: Latin-inspired
shared plates (divided into
categories like Mortal Sins
and Holy Sacraments) and
seasonal cocktails have
swiftly made this a date-night
favorite. Must order: The
lamb chop à la plancha,
served with a corn and goat
cheese tamal, ratatouille, and
a port wine reduction. The
crowd: Expats and Villagers
alike. 308 Sixth St., 212 477
2400; confessionalny.com
DimesWhy go: This organic and
wellness-focused café is
turning the lower Lower East
Side into the newest
see-and-be-seen spot.
Serving breakfast, lunch,
and dinner, the petite space
is always abuzz. Must order:
The açaí bowls, which are
topped with ingredients like
cashew cream or almond
walnut granola. Signature
drink: Bud Love, made with
dandelion wine, honey,
lemon, and prosecco. 143
Division St., 212-240-9410;
dimesnyc.com
Ivan RamenWhy go: Famed ramen chef
Ivan Orkin has created a new
take on the classic New York
diner, one with a Japanese
twist. Must order: The triple
pork, triple garlic mazemen.
Orkin is one of the only chefs
in New York serving this style
of noodle, which is as rich and
delicious as it sounds. The
crowd: Many chefs are
spotted here, as well as the
city’s dedicated noodle fiends.
25 Clinton St., 646-678-3859;
ivanramen.com
Root & BoneWhy go: Traditional
Southern cooking gets an
infusion of modern tech-
nique and seasonal
ingredients in one of the
area’s most charming spaces.
Must order: The fried
chicken. It’s sweet-tea
brined, then topped with
lemon powder and bourbon-
infused Tabasco honey
sauce. Signature drink:
The Blackberry Saddle,
made with gin, chartreuse,
blackberries, horseradish,
and thyme. 200 E. Third St.,
646-682-7076; rootnbone.com
Russ & Daughters CafeWhy go: The famed purveyor
of smoked salmon and caviar
finally launched a restaurant,
100 years after first opening its
shop. Must order: The
smoked fish platter or
“Hattie,” which includes
whitefish, sable, both
kippered and smoked salmon,
and all of the requisite fixings.
The crowd: Everyone from
downtown hipsters to Lower
East Side lifers. 127 Orchard
St., 212-475-4881; russand
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Cashing In on CoolManhattan’s latest restaurant Mecca, the lower east side, offers spectacular new eats. By Juliet izon
from left: The main dining room at Root & Bone; dishes from Bar Primi, Andrew
Carmellini’s new spot.
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New Yorkers may be obsessed with
being thin, but they’ll never give
up their sweets. Which may be why
Armand Arnal, a Michelin-starred
chef from Provence, investor Benjamin
Sormonte, and baker Elisa Marshall
have teamed up to open Maman, a
café, lounge, and bakery in a city awash
in cupcakes and macarons. The part-
ners contributed favorite childhood
recipes from the South of France and
North Africa, like pan bagnat made
with homemade brioche and choco-
late mandarin orange cheese cake, to
a menu filled with such delectables as
tart Tropezienne and seasonal clafouti.
Maman offers more than a sugar rush:
There are plenty of Mediterranean-
inspired and locally sourced salads,
soups, and sandwiches, too. 239 Centre
St., 212-226-0770; mamannyc.com
VIVA ZAPATADomingo Zapata, who’s
been dubbed the new
Andy Warhol, teams up
with nightlife guru Scott
Gerber to reimagine
the underground space
(formerly the Underbar
and Lilium) at the Union
Square W. Zapata’s Alice
in Wonderland–themed
canvases are sure to
entice the city’s hipsters,
along with friends like
Johnny Depp and Sofi a
Vergara, to the stylish
new space. 201 Park Ave.
South, 212-253-9119
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FASHION PLATESSt. Ambroeus restaurants have always attracted a
stylish crowd, and the latest outpost in Soho is no
exception. To showcase the talent of its clientele,
manager Alireza Niroomand asked a few fashionable
movers and shakers to design one-of-a-kind plates,
which are now part of a 30-piece collection on
display at the restaurant. Stop by, order a prosecco,
and see what style mavens like André Leon Talley,
Jonathan Adler, Simon Doonan, and Zandra Rhodes
have dished up. 265 Lafayette St., 212-966-2770;
santambroeus.com
red hot
Where better to toast the
80th anniversary of the
Bloody Mary than at the
bar that invented it? In
1934, St. Regis bartender
Fernand Petiot introduced
the tomato juice-and-
vodka concoction at the
King Cole Bar after Serge
Obolensky, a Russian
prince and man-about-
town, asked him to devise
a cocktail similar to one
Petiot had made for him
in Paris. Petiot did that
and more, spicing up
the drink with the
now-famous combo of
salt, pepper, lemon, and
Worcestershire sauce.
For the at-home
bartender, Bronson van
Wyck has created a new
Bloody Mary mix for
the St. Regis to mark
the milestone anniver-
sary. 2 E. 55th St.,
212-339-6857; stregis
newyork.com
IN THE MIX
ABOVE: Eighty years young: the Bloody Mary, originally named the Red Snapper.
Say CheeseA NEW COOKBOOK AND FLATIRON
RESTAURANT CELEBRATE THE DELECTABLE
VERSATILITY OF MOZZARELLA.
Soon they’ll be calling the Flatiron District the new Little Italy.
First came that wildly successful emporium to all things
Italian, Eataly. Now there’s the happening new restaurant
Obicá (which means “here it is” in Neapolitan dialect) nearby
on Broadway. For anyone who loves mozzarella, Obicá serves
it fresh (flown in from Italy twice a week) and varied—
whether classic and smoked or as its creamy cousin, burrata,
in everything from small plates and salads to pizzas and
pastas. Conveniently, Obicá just published a cookbook,
Obicà Mozzarella Bar Pizza e Cucina: A Contemporary Attitude to
Authentic Italian Food, with many of the restaurant’s most popu-
lar recipes. 928 Broadway, 212-777-2754; obica.com G
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The Play’s the ThingGretchen Mol and Josh radnor, starring in DisgraceD on
Broadway, do Brunch at gemma in the Bowery hotel. By Erin rilEy photography By Evan sung
Gretchen Mol and Josh Radnor sample the brunch menu at Gemma’s wine room. below, from left: Spremuta Rosse smoothie (made with apples, beets, and carrots) and Spremuta Verde smoothie (made with kale, cucumber, parsley, pear, and lemon); ambrosia organic granola with yogurt and fruit.
Friends for more than a decade, actors Gretchen Mol
and Josh Radnor recently wound up some high-profile
TV gigs—Mol finished her last season of Boardwalk
Empire; Radnor, a nine-season run in CBS’s How I Met
Your Mother. Despite these successful ventures, both
craved the chance to do theater again and eagerly
signed up to costar in Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning drama Disgraced, which opened at the
Lyceum Theater on October 23 (it runs through
January 18). The one-act, 90-minute play, which tackles
issues of Muslim identity in modern America, follows
a dinner-party conversation between two married
couples that ultimately shatters their views on race,
religion—and their opinions of one another. Gotham
joined Mol and Radnor at Gemma at The Bowery
Hotel (335 Bowery, 212-505-7300; thebowery
hotel.com) for brunch—and for a much calmer meal
than the one they enact in the play—to discuss their
roles in Disgraced, gearing up for winter in New York,
and the ever-changing Lower East Side.
Josh Radnor: You don’t remember the first
time we met?
Gretchen Mol: I do. But I don’t remember where.
JR: We went to some dinner party in Brooklyn,
which is where I had a two-hour-long conversation
with your mom, and I was like, “This is a great
woman.” That was early 2000, a long time ago.
GM: She probably loved you and you probably
loved being loved. [Laughs]
JR: Well, that does happen.
GM: You were shooting your show in LA for nine
years, right? So we didn’t really cross paths after that.
[Entrées arrive: Mol has ordered the ambrosia organic
granola with yogurt and fruit, and Radnor gets the Protein
Breakfast, with grilled chicken, scrambled
egg whites with spinach, and sliced tomato.]
JR: There’s a lot of chicken here. Would you like
some in your granola?
GM: No thanks. Can’t imagine that tasting very good.
JR: [The Protein Breakfast] is my go-to. I would
always get it when I stayed at the old Bowery Hotel.
GM: I’ve lived here for 22 years, and the Lower East
Side has totally changed. That’s what you learn
living in New York, to never get stuck on the old.
JR: I lived on Ninth between First and A when I was
in grad school for a year, and I had a bathtub in my
kitchen. Then I got a better but still weird apartment
on Fifth Street between B and C—the bed was lofted
over the kitchen. This was before the East Village
turned into the Left Bank of Paris.
GM: Those types of apartments are very specific
to the East Village.
JR: I haven’t had a winter here in years, but
I heard last year’s winter was delightful. It was
weird when I was packing because I realized
it was for three seasons.
GM: It’s amazing to have seasons. Whenever it first
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TasTe On the Town
Radner and Moss leaving Gemma after a hearty breakfast. left: Gemma’s main dining room has a rustic, farmhouse feel.
you’re thinking about it once you finish it.
JR: That’s the way it felt for me too. It was the bigger
picture… being a part of something that felt so
culturally relevant. That and working with Ayad. I
read Ayad’s novel American Dervish (Little, Brown &
Company, 2012), and I loved it so much that I wrote
him a fan letter. That’s how we became friends.
GM: I didn’t know that. When did this happen?
JR: Three years ago. We had this three-hour coffee
in New York and we traded scripts. He sent me
Disgraced to read and told me later that he always
thought of me for the role, but I was never available.
He’s just a writer whom I want to be around—a
really beautiful marriage of head and heart. [This
kind of play] is why I wanted to get back into
theater, to do New American plays that speak to our
moment, and now, it feels even more relevant than it
did two years ago.
GM: Even when I initially got involved, which was in
spring, there wasn’t this feeling of upheaval like there
is now. It had receded a little bit… and here we are
again. Every time we rehearse the play, all
I have to do is listen to what is being said and it’s
enough to upset you; you don’t have to work at it.
JR: I also like that it takes place over [the course of] a
dinner party at an Upper East Side apartment.
There’s this feeling that everything happening
geopolitically is affecting what’s happening in that
apartment. You feel like you’re tumbling forward,
and the heroes and the villains keep shifting. My
character has certain progressive, humanist values
that I feel a New York audience would understand,
but then he behaves in ways that are a little
snows in New York, it’s so magical. You feel this level
of privacy, but you’re sharing it
with the rest of the city.
JR: Now I’m excited for winter. After my show
ended, I had these two offers to do plays. And I felt
like that’s what I should be doing, because theater
reminds me of why I love acting.
GM: Exactly. At the beginning, when you’re trying
to become an actor, all you do is theater. Now it’s this
dormant part of me, and it’s a treat to return to [the
stage]. But I never feel confident about it, which is
good. It’s good to feel nervous.
JR: You’re very good in the play.
GM: Thanks, Josh. Everyone in the cast is
very talented.
JR: I feel like there are some plays that read
very well, but as you start working on them,
you realize they are held together by glue and straw.
But with this play, all the edges are
sealed appropriately. You can really feel the
mechanics and just how propulsive it is.
GM: That’s what was so exciting to me when I first
read the play: how much it works and how much
“ThaT’s whaT you
learn living in new
york, To never geT
sTuck on The old.” —gretchen mol
Down East
Gretchen and Josh name other Lower East
Side favorites. (Gotham fills in the details.)
GREtchEn MoL:
SchiLLER’S LiquoR BaR. Restaurant mogul
Keith McNally’s LES outpost has Shane McBride,
chef of Balthazar, at the helm. Open daily for break-
fast through late dinner. 131 Rivington St.,
212-260-4555; schillersny.com
LiL FRankiE’S. A popular East Village spot for
Italian food with a twist. Known for its pizzas, pastas,
and pizza burgers. Open for lunch and dinner. 191
First Ave., 212-429-4900; lilfrankies.com
JoSh RadnoR:
toRRiSi itaLian SpEciaLtiES. Haute
Italian-American fare from culinary wünderkinds
Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone, and Jeff Zalaznick.
Open daily for dinner; lunch, Friday through Monday.
250 Mulberry St., 212-965-0955; torrisinyc.com
duplicitous. And I like that. No one is entirely
virtuous in the play.
GM: It’s this sort of ready-set-go, and there’s
no stopping. You just have to trust the play
and the work you’ve done.
JR: It’s one of those plays that is impossible not to
want to talk about afterward. How you feel about it
when the curtain comes down might be different
than three days or even a month later. G
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On screen Sigourney Weaver has battled aliens, gorilla
poachers, demonic spirits, uprisings in Indonesia, and
Avatar’s lethal Colonel Quaritch. For Exodus: God and
Kings, out next month, Weaver—never a shrinking
violet—takes on no less than the almighty Moses for
her part as the scheming Queen Tuya, mother of the
pharaoh Ramses the Great. The movie will be her
third with Ridley Scott, the director who cast her as
Ellen Ripley in Alien, a breakout part that made her
an “overnight” sensation as Hollywood’s first female
action hero, and an enduring feminist icon.
The FeminisT
queenSigourney Weaver opens up
to pal Kevin Kline about her
role in Exodus: gods and
kings playing the egyptian
Queen MuM who wanted to
kill Moses, working with
legendary director ridley
scott, and why it’s great
to be a new york actor.
photography by Jason bell
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Sigourney Weaver takes in the city. “I think of myself as
a New Yorker,” she says.
Wool and velvet evening coat, Balenciaga ($2,895).
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Jet beaded strappy black gown with high slit, Michael
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Kevin Kline: When did we frst meet?
Sigourney Weaver: I may be completely
wrong, but we were in New York when we got out of
graduate school. I thought we cohosted the Obies.
KK: That’s it! That’s the frst time we met.
SW: We had fun doing it.
KK: And we lived in the same neighborhood on
the Upper West Side. I jotted down an idea or
two for this interview. I’m sure this question is
terrible—do you ever wonder if people are missing
the movies you’re in because there are so many
interviews and talk shows they’re watching instead
of going to see the movie? Have you done the
whole chat-show circus?
SW: Well, I’m about to do that for Exodus. I enjoy
the talk show because my father [TV producer
Sylvester “Pat” Weaver, former president of NBC]
invented it. I love going on Fallon.
KK: I remember now. He invented the Today show.
SW: Yes, he invented the Today show. It was a lot
more fun when he had it. [As] I like being in a
theater where there’s a live audience, I enjoy the
talk show from a live point of view.
KK: Tell me about the new flm. Is this the biblical
Exodus or the Leon Uris Exodus?
SW: It’s the biblical one, and I play Tuya, the wife
of one of the pharaohs. My son is Ramses the Great,
played by Joel Edgerton. John Turturro is the
Pharaoh Seti. I’m not his favorite wife, but I’m the
mother of the prince. To keep my power, I need my
son to become pharaoh. Moses, played by Christian
Bale, is the golden boy. He makes my son look
impulsive and small-minded. Through the whole
movie, in basically every scene I have, it’s: “Kill
Moses.” “Why didn’t you kill Moses?” “For crying
out loud, will you please kill Moses!”
KK: It must have taken fve minutes to make you
into an Egyptian queen.
SW: My dear makeup artist, Linda DeVetta,
transformed me. I had the most beautiful costumes
by Janty Yates. They found these craftspeople I
haven’t worked with since the last time I worked
“What is great about having kids is that
they’re so unimpressed by our business.”
—Sigourney Weaver
with Ridley [on 1492: Conquest of Paradise]. They
took scarab beetles and peacock feathers and made
them into a headdress for me. It’s mind-boggling the
things I paraded around in.
KK: Do you think Ramses would be king in spite
of his mother or because of her?
SW: I have a lot to do with him becoming Ramses
the Great. Even though he doesn’t do what I say, he
knows I’m right. At a certain point, he realizes it.
KK: His willful disobedience shows a certain
kind of power, doesn’t it?
SW: That’s true.
KK: What parts of the role have had the most
personal resonance for you? What aspect of your own
personality were you able to draw upon for the role?
SW: Well I do love eye makeup.
KK: [Laughs] So that was your connection to
the character?
SW: Have you ever done an ancient epic?
KK: I played Prometheus in college, but on the
screen, no. Is the historical fction in the script
the backstory?
SW: You don’t feel like you’re in a biblical epic. It’s
accessible. They were focusing on the relationships.
KK: So it’s relevant?
SW: I think it is. I’m only in court, a woman without
any power, but someone who is pretending she’s
the most powerful woman in Egypt. And her son
doesn’t even listen to her! I don’t get to go on the
chariots or on the Red Sea parting, [but] it’s going
to be everything you want a Ridley Scott movie to
be—gorgeous, suspenseful, out there.
KK: Reports say you have some va-va-voom
costumes.
SW: They certainly are va-va-voom, because they
wanted me to be a total sexpot. And it’s a waste,
because all my energy is going into my son.
KK: In the movie is your husband actively
rapacious?
SW: He seems so pro-Moses. He knew that if he
were to let me through his door, all I would do is
say, “Kill Moses.” I found it very interesting to play
someone in a court. There’s a lot of politics, and we
don’t live like that, though occasionally, we’ll be out
at a party in Hollywood and I’ll think everyone is
playing a role.
KK: How many flms have you done with Ridley?
How has your partnership evolved over the years?
SW: Three. He hasn’t changed at all. He has the
most incredible energy and knows exactly what he
wants. He’s a visual genius. We had fve cameras
on every shot. We worked very fast, did three takes,
and moved on, no matter how big the scene was.
It was very economical.
KK: Your Alien character, Ellen Ripley, is
considered the frst female action hero. How
much of you is in that role?
SW: I’m afraid of spiders, so not much. I remember
asking Ian Holm [the actor who played Ash in
Alien], “Do you think my character knows what
she’s doing is right?” and he said, “Absolutely.”
I answered, “Well, I don’t. I think she’s totally
winging it,” which was, of course, what I was doing!
KK: And she doesn’t know she’s right. You’re
playing a heroic, very strong character who has
doubts, and that’s why you’re a brilliant actress.
SW: Well, thank you. I was able to use all my self-
doubt in the role. Who would have thought that it
would be a movie that would hold up so much.
KK: Was your daughter proud of your playing the
role of a feminist icon?
SW: I don’t think she even saw it until she was in
college. I remember a reporter asking her when
she was about 6, “Are you aware that your mother
is a feminist icon?” And Charlotte said, “That goes
into the little box of things I don’t need to know.”
What is great about having kids is that they’re so
unimpressed by our business.
KK: What has been your secret in managing career
and family? Was the hardest part the location shoots
that took you away from New York? Was it any
easier when your daughter went to college?
SW: First of all, I feel like guilt is too simple a
description of how any parent feels when they’re
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Styling assistance by Valerie Usui and Laura Escalante
Hair by Maury Hopson Makeup by Sandy Linter,
Lancôme makeup artist at Rita Hazan Salon
Manicure by Casandra Lamar using Dior Vernis at Factory Downtown
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away from home during these very important passages of time. I was lucky to have my wonderful husband, because we would switch on and off. [As for] the time spent away—I feel like my daughter couldn’t care less, but I missed a lot of cool things. KK: No one asks men what it’s like to go on all those business trips. SW: I bet they’re asked that now. You have men running huge companies who are home only 40 days a year. It must be maddening for their families. For what? KK: Money.SW: Once you’re good at something, they won’t let you off the hamster wheel. Our culture has changed so much. I certainly think my mother—and maybe your mother—gave up her career to be a mother and a wife. She never talked about her work to me, ever. She never talked about her time in the theater and she was quite successful. I think Katharine Hepburn was wrong in saying you can’t have it all—you just can’t have it all at the same time. But you certainly can devote different times of your life to doing different things. KK: More and more actresses in their 40s and 50s are still working and getting key roles. Well, three of them are—you, Helen Mirren, and Meryl Streep. What are the reasons for this? SW: I don’t think it’s any more than it used to be, if you look at the character roles of the ’30s and ’40s. But I think one of the reasons the roles are coming to us is because, with someone like Meryl, people can count on her to turn in these amazing performances that [moviegoers] will go out to see. Writers are writing stories with good women’s parts because women are a part of our world. We’re much more integrated than we used to be. KK: You’re living in the same neighborhood [Sutton Place] you grew up in. SW: I don’t really live there; I sleep there. There’s nothing to do, so I go elsewhere to live. KK: As in, live it up.SW: Yes. KK: Do you still enjoy being a Manhattanite?
“We’re very lucky to live in a city Where people don’t
pay attention to us.” —Sigourney Weaver
SW: I do, actually. I think of myself as a New Yorker. KK: Do people leave you alone in New York? SW: I could be on fire and no one would pay any attention. KK: What’s your favorite place to escape to in the city? Tribeca? Central Park? SW: I like to go to Central Park. There are so many places to escape to in New York. I took the ferry over to Williamsburg this week. That was fun. KK: Actually, New York is an escape from America. SW: We’re very lucky to live in a city where people don’t pay attention to us. KK: You were once on track to get a PhD in English literature. What are you reading now? SW: I just finished The Patrick Melrose Novels.KK: Do you read nonfiction? SW: I’d love to have enough time to read all that stuff. I’d love to be locked in a library overnight. KK: This cover and feature will appear in the November issue. How does your family celebrate Thanksgiving? SW: Well, I’m going to be in Barcelona, working. KK: So you’ll have fajitas or something. SW: A turkey fajita—and a lot of red wine. KK: Tell us about the charities and causes that you’re currently supporting. SW: I’m doing something for WNET Thirteen. The organization has filmed eight different shows, all Off-Broadway, so I’m doing the spiel at the beginning to say, “Watch this.” I would say the most important contribution I made was as a cofounder of The Flea [a Tribeca-based theater dedicated to new American works; Weaver’s husband, Jim Simpson, is also a founder]. We’re constructing a permanent theater on Thomas Street now. I also work for the New York Botanical Garden, for Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, and for the Natural Resources Defense Council. I do what all of us do. We try—in between our jobs—to do whatever we can and encourage others to do the right thing. G
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Macrame Arabesque top ($3,490) and macrame Arabesque skirt ($2,990), Valentino. 693 Fifth Ave., 212-355-5811; valentino.com. White round and pear-shaped diamond and sapphire Bombe earrings (price on request), sapphire and white diamond cuff (price on request), white pavé diamond shank and sapphire Bombe ring (price on request), and 20.55-carat cushion-cut yellow diamond ring (price on request), Graff. 710 Madison Ave., 212-355-9292; graffdiamonds.com. Gold clutch, Bulgari ($2,400). 730 Fifth Ave., 212-315-9000; bulgari.com
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Anthracite duchess dress, Zac Posen ($2,590). Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave., 212-753-7300; bergdorf goodman.com. 18k white-gold, diamond, spinel, moonstone, and akoya pearls Perle de Rosee necklace ($696,000) and 18k white-gold, onyx, and diamond Camélia Sculpte ring ($170,000), Chanel. 15 E. 57th St., 212-355-5050; chanel.com. on tray: Wide diamond bracelet set in platinum, Tiffany & Co. ($140,000). 727 Fifth Ave., 212-755-8000; tiffany.com. 18k white-gold Limelight Garden Party cupcake inspiration ring ($59,000) and 18k white-gold with brilliant-cut diamonds Rose ring ($48,200), Piaget. 730 Fifth Ave., 212-246-5555; piaget.com. 18k white-gold and diamond Dentelle de Monogram necklace, Louis Vuitton (price on request). 611 Fifth Ave., 212-940-4635; louisvuitton.com
opposite page: Harmony dress, Stella McCartney ($4,520). 112 Greene St., 212-255-1556; stellamccartney.com. Diamond earrings set in platinum from the High Jewelry Collection (price on request) and diamond ring from the High Jewelry Collection in 18k white gold, Chopard. 709 Madison Ave., 212-223-2304; chopard.com. Reine de Naples High Jewellery watch, Breguet ($374,100). 711 Fifth Ave., 646-692-6469; breguet.com
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opposite page: Dress, Emporio Armani ($1,265). 601 Madison Ave., 212-317-0800; armani.com. Platinum 55.9-carat Qipao diamond choker (price on request); platinum, diamond, aquamarine, and sapphire Secret Wonder bracelet (price on request); and 18k yellow-gold and platinum, tsavorite, and diamond cluster earrings (price on request), Harry Winston. 718 Fifth Ave., 212-399-1000; harrywinston.com
this page: Basilica tsavorite and ruby earrings, Carla Amorim ($18,700). Broken English, 56 Crosby St., 212-219-1264; carlaamorim.com. 18k yellow-gold, diamond, and onyx Amulette de Cartier bracelet, Cartier ($82,500). 767 Fifth Ave., 212-457-3202; cartier.com. 18k white-gold, multicolor sapphire, and pavé-set white-diamond earrings from the Cascata Collection, Jacob & Co. ($61,400). 48 E. 57th St., 212-719-5887; jacobandco.com. 18k yellow- and white-gold cocktail ring with pink sapphire and diamonds, Buccellati ($99,000). 810 Madison Ave., 212-308-2900; buccellati.com. 18k white-gold and round and pear-shaped diamonds and custom oval blue sapphire necklace, Mimi So ($98,000). 22 W. 48th St., 212-300-8642; mimiso.com. 18k rose-gold diamond flower earrings, Wendy Yue ($19,560). Fragments, 116 Prince St., 212-334-9588; fragments.com. Pink-gold, diamond, morganite, white mother-of-pearl, and sapphire Gourmande Pastel ring, Dior (price on request). 21 E. 57th St., 212-931-2950; dior.com
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opposite page: Dress, Max Mara ($2,090). 813 Madison Ave., 212-879-6100; maxmara.com. Bals de Legende Collection 18k white- and rose-gold Enchanteur necklace with multicolor spinels, diamonds, and pink sapphires (price on request); Bals de Legende Collection 18k white-gold Pansy earrings with diamonds and multicolor sapphires (price on request); and 18k rose-gold, spinel, pink sapphire, and diamond Oiseaux de Paradis Volutes between-the-finger ring (price on request), Van Cleef & Arpels. 744 Fifth Ave., 212-896-9284; vancleefandarpels.com. 18k white-gold and oval-shaped rubellite tourmaline with black and white diamonds ring, Leviev (price on request). 700 Madison Ave., 212-763-5300; leviev.com. Diamond Carpet bracelet set in platinum, Harry Winston (price on request). 718 Fifth Ave., 212-399-1000; harrywinston.com; Beaded clutch, Elie Saab ($2,400). Bergdorf Goodman, 745 Fifth Ave., 212-753-7300; eliesaab.com
beauté: Kevyn Aucoin Sensual Skin Fluid Foundation in SF03 ($65), The Sensual Skin Enhancer in SX02 ($48), Celestial Powder ($48), Creamy Glow in Isadore-Neutral Pink ($26), and Eyeshadow Duo #205 ($42). Barneys, 660 Madison Ave., 212-826-8900; barneys.com. Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil in Medium Brown ($23). Sephora, 150 Broadway, 212-566- 8600; sephora.com. Dolce & Gabbana Classic Cream Lipstick in Nude ($33). Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave., 212-940-4949; saks.com. Chanel Le Vernis Nail Colour in Rouge Noir ($27). 139 Spring St., 212-334-0055; chanel.com. FarmHouse Fresh Fluffy Bunny Shea Butter Hand Cream ($14). farmhousefreshgoods.com. Moroccanoil Root Boost ($29). moroccanoil.com. Oribe Maximista Thickening Spray ($28). oribe.com. Kérastase Elixir Ultime ($56) and Laque Noire Hairspray ($37). kerastase-usa.com
Styling by Mindy Saad at Celestine Agency
Hair by Anja Grassegger using Oribe haircare/House of European Hair at Factory Downtown
Makeup by Robert Greene at Kate Ryan Inc. for Kevyn Aucoin
Maincure by Casandra Lamar using Chanel Le Vernis/FarmHouse Fresh Hand Cream
Prop Styling by Veronique Zanettin at Sarah Laird & Good Company
Model: Sabina Smutna at Wilhelmina NYShot on location at The Monarch
Room; nymonarch.com
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in Chelsea, which they’ve since successfully
cloned as far away as Mexico City. Unlike many
rivals, they’ve also focused on restaurants, with
12-year-old hot spot Butter overseen by Food
Network star Alex Guarnaschelli. your day
begins and ends… scott sartiano: One of the
biggest myths about being a “nightlife” person
is when your day begins. I wake up around 9
am and I’m in the office until 7 or 8 at night.
There’s not a ton of rest in what we do. how is
ny nightlife changing? richie akiva: People have
gotten pickier and they have shorter attention
spans, so you have to keep them entertained. ss:
Ten years ago there was much more of an under-
ground scene. Now, with the Internet and blogs,
the second there’s an idea, it’s made public to
the world. bottle service: yes or no? ra: Eight
years ago, when we opened, it was all about bot-
tle service. It was almost becoming an ordeal to
go out in New York and have to wait until you
got seated at a table, then be charged a huge
minimum. When we opened 1Oak we decided
to take it back to an old-school way of nightlife:
no minimums. who are the new money guys? ra:
Wall Street guys are not spending like they did in
the late 1990s. Nowadays, it’s mostly Europeans
who are the ones trying to show off. But we have
a strict, tight door that’s not about money. You
can’t buy your way into our places. tell me about
your wildest big spender. ra: Someone came in
and ordered 100 bottles of Cristal. Then, as the
bottles were coming out, he walked out and said,
“Just give it to everyone else.” He didn’t even
stay until they hit the tables. It put everybody
in a great mood. how do you stay hot in new
york? ss: Stick to what you know. Be consistent
with that product. We created a niche with what
we were: an upscale, exclusive nightclub. ra:
A lot of people coming into the nightlife busi-
ness make the mistake of trying to reinvent the
wheel. A lot of times it comes off too harsh, as a
little much. that involves your music program-
ming, too? ra: We kept it open-format—rock ’n’
roll, house music, hip-hop, ’80s, feel-good music
people want to dance to—rather than just EDM
[electronic dance music] beats that are strong,
hard, and pretty one-dimensional.
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The Butter Group’s Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano at
Up & Down. “We have a tight door that’s not about
money,” says Akiva.
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Thanks to such nightclubs as Finale and Lulu’s, and Top Chef-helmed restaurants like Catch, the EMM team, spearheaded by Eugene Remm and friend Mark Birnbaum, has over the last eight years helped blur the distinction between the dance f loor and the dining room. what’s the
biggest shift you’ve seen in nightlife? eugene
remm: People’s jobs have changed. They have to be up early and have a lot of responsibilities. They aren’t out until 4 am. Entertaining and socializing are done earlier, over food. are
there more high rollers in restaurants now?
mark birnbaum: In one of our restaurants a very serious wine buyer spent almost half a million dollars on wine at one seating. And yes, he did drink it—not all of it, though. We and the staff took a sip of whatever was left. what about big
spenders in nightclubs? mb: They’re from out of town, Mexico, Texas or wherever. People used to buy the biggest bottle; now, they like to make a splash, with maybe 20, 30, even 100 bottles of Cristal, DP, or Ace of Spades Champagne. There are more people being brought out, more sparklers [hand-held fireworks]. You can do this a few times a night instead of once. If someone is in the bathroom and misses the first show, they’ll catch the second or third. how
has social media impacted your business? mb:
Not long ago, people would show up and you had them until the end of the night. Now, if someone is bored, they can look down at their phone—and Twitter or text friends to see what’s around that’s better. People go to three places a night, minimum. er : You can’t really control the message in the same way. Now, people are looking on their phone at 1 am, and if they see something amazing happening elsewhere, they get up, close their tab, and leave. sounds
like we’ve moved into a much more democratic,
post-bottle-service world. mb: Bottle service came from Europe in the early 2000s. It was more about VIP rooms, separate from regular clubs, with an entry fee. Well, that lasted until the economy blew up in in 2008. Then everyone realized you didn’t have to buy 20 bottles to get the same treatment. what happened to those big-
spending wall street wolves? er: There are a lot of restrictions, mostly by the government, on the finance guys now, so that type of spending isn’t what it used to be. New York has become an international market, and that wealth is balanc-ing it out. so there are still crazy, big-spending
nights? er: Recently someone bought 100 bot-tles of Perrier Jouet in one shot. That was pretty wild. He provided the evening’s entertainment for the entire place.
BEYONG THE DANCE FLOOR //
Eugene Remm & Mark Birnbaum
Monday There’s plenty of top-tier mingling taking
place every Monday—a highly underrated night for
socializing—at the rooftop lounge Catch Roof (21 Ninth
Ave., 212-392-5978; emmgrp.com/nightlife/catchroof).
Owners Mark Birnbaum and Eugene Remm ensure a sexy
mix of socialites and celebs who ignore the work week’s
realities with great grooves from rotating DJs (such as
Mel DeBarge and DJ Reach) and fowing Champagne.
Meanwhile, Electric Room at Dream Downtown (355
W. 16th St., 212-229-1269; electricroomnyc.com)
hosts Playroom Mondays, which celebrate underground
electronic music. Some of the world’s greatest spinners
offer intimate sets, and the well-heeled crowd makes it
hard to remember what day it is.
Tuesday The now-legendary party “Tuesday Baby
Tuesday”—the brainchild of promoter Alon Jibli—is
happily at home at Lower East Side drink-and-dance
destination Finale (199 Bowery, 212-980-3011;
emmgrp.com/nightlife/fnale), drawing boldfacers into
the subterranean space shared by sister venues The
General and Jazz Room. Grammy favorites like Miley,
Enrique, Ciara, and R. Kelly have all christened this
nightspot as one not to miss.
Wednesday Getting over the hump of the workweek
is easier within the glitzy confnes of Gilded Lily (408
W. 15th St., 646-790-7050; gildedlilynyc.com). The
“Feel Up” party is hosted by big-wattage nightlife
stars Paul Sevigny, Susanne Bartsch, Andre Saraiva,
and Simonez Wolf. This is the fête of choice for young
Brants, Schnabels, and Sevigny’s sister, Chloe.
Midweek is also a great time to rub elbows with models
and celebs at nightlife genius Amy Sacco’s No.8. (357
W. 16th St., 212-206-1096; no8ny.com). There, top DJs
such as Reach, Sinatra, and Truth keep the glittering
crowds—Adam Levine, Cara Delevingne, Karlie Kloss,
and George Clooney among them—hopping.
Thursday Start your weekend now: If you and your
scene-loving crew want to have a really memorable
The Nomad BarThirsty power players will enjoy the $198 Vieux Carré cocktail at this newly opened lounge, next to the Nomad Hotel in the Flatiron District. The drink, made with 50 -year-old cognac and Thomas H. Handy Sazerac straight rye whiskey, was developed for high f lyers, such as Derek Jeter, who f lock here. In contrast to the luxe
drinks, the menu is filled with comfort food like dry-aged burgers and chicken pot pie. The masculine, ’60s-style décor will have visitors feeling as if they just stepped into an episode of Mad Men. 10 W. 28th St., 212-796-1500;
thenomadhotel.com/#!/dining/
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Top of the StandardThe 360-degree view of Manhattan at night from this rooftop lounge is dazzling and so are the celebrities who f lock to it. There’s a chance you’ll see Madonna or Jared Leto mingling by the gold bar, perhaps drinking one of the Top’s superb Champagne cocktails or just swaying to the
live jazz music. 848 Washington St.,
212-645-4646; standard
hotels.com/high-line
The LeonoraThis new Chelsea club may have the hardest door in town. But if you make it into the small 200-capacity club, you’ll find celebrities like Damon Dash as well as Julia Stiles, Jackson Browne, and, of course, co-owner Patrick McMullan, whose photographs are displayed on the wall near the oxblood leather banquettes. Once inside, try The Leonora, made with vodka, prosecco, and grapefruit juice. 525 W.
29th St, 212-594-6000;
theleonoranyc.com
RaisiNG thE baRHere’s a short list of
high-roller favorites all
around the town.
By Jennifer ashley WrighT
Where to go each night of the Week
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Patrick McMullanAndy Warhol once said, “If you
don’t know Patrick, you ought to
get out more.” That’s a statement
as true now as when the photog-
rapher began shooting photos in
the 1970s. On his website,
patrickmcmullan.com, check out
last night’s pictures alongside the
latest Gwyneth and Angelina
snaps and the happenings at hot
spots like Marquee and
Beautique. If you want to find
yourself in his lens, he says, “I
like people who go over the top. I
don’t like people who act like
they’re doing you a favor by
letting you photograph them.”
He laughs as he explains, “I’m an
attention giver in a world
of attention seekers.”
Billy FarrellBilly Farrell learned from the
master, Patrick McMullan, his
former employer. Farrell set up his
own agency, BFA (bfa.com), in
2010 and soon became a staple on
the party circuit. Fortunately for
scenesters, Farrell has a large
social media presence on
Facebook and Twitter, so they can
share snaps with all of their chic
friends. If you want your picture
taken by Farrell, all you need to
do is ask. “I will almost always
take it,” says Farrell, “unless I’m
waiting for a key shot and then I’ll
come back to that request.”
Josh WongJosh Wong, a longtime photogra-
pher for guestofaguest.com, who
started working the party scene in
2007, knows all the cool spots.
You’ll find him at sizzling places
like The Box, where he shot
Journelle’s party to kick off Fashion
Week. If you want your picture
taken, pay attention to your
footwear. He claims that he picks
his stylish subjects based on who is
wearing the most stylish shoes.
Nick McGlynnNick McGlynn’s Random Night
Out is a go-to website for New
York’s young tech and media
crowd. He documents artists and
nightlife perennials like Molly
Crabapple or the DJ duo Andrew
Andrew. McGlynn picks his
subjects based on people who are
“doing something interesting.”
He wants people to look at the
photos and say, “Wow, that party
really looks fun!” So make a
funny face or get out on the dance
floor to catch his eye.
SNAP CHAT The city’s top lensmen on who
gets photographed—and why.
By Jennifer Ashley Wright
night of glass-clinking and celeb-hobnobbing (look, don’t
touch), make your reservations at 1Oak (453 W. 17th St.,
212-242-1111; 1oaknyc.com). This legendary venue is a
sure-fre, late-night memory-maker. Known for a Chinatown-
inspired setting, stylish waitstaff, and come-as-you-are (in
heels) vibe, Mister H (Mondrian Soho, 9 Crosby St., 212-
389-1000; morganshotelgroup.com) is also worth a stop to
commingle with sexy crowds and listen to sublime tunes.
fridAy There are countless glorious and mysterious ways
to spend Friday night in New York. One of our favorites: the
underground dance music series from DJs Sleepy & Boo
at Marquee (289 10th Ave., 646-473-0202; marqueeny.
com), which has invited a wide array of guest spinners
from across the globe to its turntables. Everyone from Lee
Burridge and Steve Lawler to Erick Morillo has taken a turn
shaking this spot to the rafters. In a town where large-scale
nightlife can often feel like a thing of the past, this party
just might restore your faith. Another swishy Friday night
affair takes place at Le Bain (The Standard, High Line, 848
Washington St., 212-645-4646; standardshotels.com), the
penthouse playground of the incredibly fabulous that offers
eye-popping Hudson River views (Hello, Jersey!), a plunge
pool on the dance foor, indoor-outdoor firting, and an elite
roster of international DJs. And let’s not ignore the swank
of the new—the 20,000 square feet of Spanish-style favor
called Space Ibiza New York (637 W. 50th St., 212-247-
2447; spaceibizany.com). With DJs like Luciano and Duke
Dumont, plenty of glamour, and visitors like Leonardo
DiCaprio, it’s a party you’ll want to be a part of.
sAturdAy Before the late-late-night festivities go into
effect, do your crew a favor and migrate to Sunset Saturdays
at PH-D Lounge (355 W. 16th St., 212-229-2511; phd
lounge.com), a dance party on the Dream Downtown’s
rooftop, where DJ Dalton, the resident spinmeister, gets
everyone revved up for the night ahead. Up&Down (244 W.
14th St., 212-242-4411; uadnyc.com) is the newest addition
to the Chelsea-Meatpacking landscape. It has already hosted
parties with Mark Ronson, Lil’ Kim, and the guys behind
Crystal Castles. Once the scenesters make their way past the
ropes, it turns into a churning bi-level club scene with a back
stairway that’s a legend in the making.
sundAy Wind down the weekend in a marvelous, molto
Italiano manner at the Riviera Sundays dance party at Lavo
(39 E. 58th St., 212-750-5588; lavony.com). Legendary
restaurateur Rocco Ancarola has combined the appeal of a
Sunday family dinner with a shake-off-the-calories DJ set
from a rotating roster of Euro DJs. Of course, if you absolutely,
positively must slink and sip in top-model fashion until
Sunday morphs to Monday, do it at the chicest new spot
in Chelsea: The Leonora (525 W. 29th St., 212-594-6000;
theleonoranyc.com) is the latest from nightlife mastermind
Noel Ashman. In this violet-hued, subterranean spot, fashion
unions are forged, sublime cocktails are splashed (“My
shoes!”), and prayers to the nightlife gods are answered.
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The Strategic Group has been at the center of New York’s nightlife scene for almost two decades. Company honchos Goldberg and Schwartz now export the group’s successful NYC mainstays like Tao, Marquee, and Lavo worldwide. are you a
night owl? jonathan schwartz: We’re definitely not late-to-arrive kind of guys. I’m up at 8 am. In the morning, I’m working on programming; from 1 to 8 pm, we’re taking meetings. I’m probably planning dinner for 10:30 pm, and I’m at the club from 12:45 to 4 am. how do you stay relevant in nyc after
nearly two decades? andrew goldberg: I preach “hospitality, hospitality, hospitality.” If we opened a barn that had great speakers and took our hospitality to that room, guests would come. People want to spend money wisely and not have buyer’s remorse the next day. has the number of free-spending high
rollers diminished? ag: We’re lucky. In New York, the 1 percent still exists. We deal with jet-setters. New York has become the hub for Russians and South Americans. They don’t like to party in their own countries, as that could show political bad taste. They come to New York to feel liberated. no matter
what, everyone wants to party in manhattan? ag:
New York is the capital of everything trendsetting. The number-one songs hit New York before any other city; fashionistas get their clothes here before they hit Paris. People will always be watching to see what happens in New York. It 100 percent sets the temperature of things. talk to me about the
rise of the brand-name dj, which is one of your
signatures. js: When I got into the business 12 or 13 years ago, everything was about the door policy and fashion and who’s who. Now, I think music is the biggest driving force inside most NYC clubs. The number-one question I get is, “Who’s deejaying tonight?” how do you program your music? js: It isn’t just about EDM. Marquee is an example of that; on Wednesday nights, it has a great niche that is 90 percent hip-hop. On Friday nights we have an amazing deep house night [deep house is a subgenre of EDM that combines elements of jazz, funk, and soul]. Then on Saturday night, we go for a Tiesto [a Dutch DJ and record producer], or even a local $1,000-a-night DJ who plays great EDM. People love hearing their favorite downtown pop track, whether it’s from Spotify, Billboard, or the iTunes chart. Right now, you can’t walk into a club without hearing the new Kiesza track three times in one night.
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“Music is the biggest driving force inside most NYC
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Lavo and Pink Elephant vet Kolodny teamed up
with Rande Gerber protégé Tarantino to form Tri
Hospitality, with its anchor property a New York
outpost of St-Tropez boîte VIP Room. Barely a year
old, it’s already welcomed everyone from Rihanna
to Jack Nicholson. what’s the biggest shift you’ve
seen in ny nightlife? shawn kolodny: The market
is much more corporate, with bigger groups
playing with bigger dollars. We’re affiliated with
VIP Rooms in Paris, St-Tropez, and Dubai, and
we share databases, so we can send guests back
and forth. you’ve invested heavily in technology
for your space. ryan tarantino: When I started,
you just needed to have superior liquor and an
attractive staff. Now, a nightclub has to provide
an experience that’s not just a room with loud
music; you need light shows, DJs, entertainment.
We dumped a million dollars into a state-of-the-
art light show that creates different graphics to go
along with an event in the room. If it’s your birthday,
your name will be flashed in bright lights and do a
360, so the entire room will know. how has social
media impacted your business? sk: Everybody is
tweeting or Instagramming where they are, so
things spread quickly—word of a specific event or
something cool can take off on its own. It’s great for
last-minute things, too. We’ve had celebrities tweet
or Instagram from the club, which is fantastic for
us. how do you become a celebrity magnet? sk:
We just try to cater to them as best we can. Some
are more difficult than others. But everybody
wants to be close to them for a second. who was
a memorable guest? rt: One gentleman’s favorite
thing was to spray very expensive Champagne,
monster 12-liter bottles of Cristal or Ace of
Spades. He would ask us to buy ponchos for the
entire staff so he could stay until almost closing
time and spray everyone. how do you retain buzz
with such reduced attention spans among clients?
rt: If a table setup isn’t working or a certain sitting
arrangement, we change it. The newest thing for
us is extending the VIP area, roping off the section
and adding personal security. It’s right in front of
the DJ booth. Everyone is focused on the DJ, but it
creates more of a show with VIPs in front of them.
The VIP is the show as well.
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Shawn Kolodny & Ryan Tarantino
Dispatches
from the DoorIf you want to hobnob on the fun
sIde of the velvet rope, these are
the gatekeepers you need to know. By Andrew C. Stone
Posh Portal: Zac Nichols, a flmmaker who bounced
at Acme, keeps things posh at Gilded Lily—the lounge
downstairs from sleek eatery The Monarch Room. “It’s not your
typical bottles and models venue,” he says. To get in, people
regularly say they’re best friends with celebs. Occasionally
they claim to own the Yankees.” He keeps it sweet, regard-
less. “No one likes to hear no, so I try to say it as kindly as
possible.” 408 W. 15th St., 646-790-7050; gildedlilynyc.com
Beyond the Bounce: Damon Peruzzi is the frontman at
the Dream Downtown’s Electric Room. “If you’re well-dressed
or with a gorgeous woman, you might make it in,” he says.
He never feels bad about a bounce, though. “It’s just a party,
people.” 355 W. 16th St., 212-229-1269; electricroomnyc.com
sexy soirées: Claudio Pesce and Disco make sure
No. 8 stays sexy. “It’s models next to downtown hipsters,
next to guys in awesome suits, next to celebs,” says Pesce.
Disco lives by: “Never judge a book by its cover,” though
they’re both strict. “One time a girl—who was turned
away—rushed through,” recalls Pesce. “She screamed,
‘I have to be in here!’ She didn’t make it far.” 357 W.
16th St., 212-206-1096; no8ny.com
catch him if you can: George Priovolos keeps the crowd
churning at Catch Roof. Guests have tried everything to curry
favor: “A group did a complete performance routine at the door,”
he says. He believes in upbeat hospitality and honesty. “When I’m
unable to accommodate, I let them know right away.” 21 Ninth
Ave., 212-392-5978; emmgrp.com/nightlife/catch-roof/
marquee value: Rich Thomas, a partner at Marquee,
manned its door in 2003, and again upon reopening in 2013.
“I can’t let everybody in, but I try never to make people feel bad,”
he says. What’s welcome: “Better-looking people are better for
a room,” he says. While the “bounced” might pout, Thomas
shrugs it off. “I don’t feel bad for people who can’t get into a
nightclub when there’s war and famine going on,” he says.
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DaviD Rheins
Founder of Seattle’s Marijuana Business Association (MJBA)
On Marijuana PrOhibitiOn:
“We’ve had the discussion about
prohibition. We’ve given it well past
its due with 80 years of a war not on
drugs, but on people, in a culture where
pharmaceuticals are on every other
commercial and ad page.”
FOunding the Mjba: “We
chronicle and promote the industry. The
best way to build a sustainable industry
is by providing reliable information
and the network of experts and folks
that every small and start-up business
needs. [They] just happen to also have
an extra layer of compliance and
regulations to contend with.”
tax talk: “We’re told we can’t
afford to fund teachers in schools, to fx
the roads, to clean the air, to develop
alternative energy. The reality is
that with these extra dollars we can
apportion this in such a way that we
can say, ‘Yes, let’s address these social
issues.’ I would rather pay a higher
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Nearly half of all states have legalized medical marijuana,
with Colorado and Washington serving as bellwethers
for recreational use, and the US is amid an end to a
prohibition on par with that of alcohol. But just how will
the Green Rush grow? And why is it attracting some
surprising advocates among doctors, entrepreneurs,
politicians, attorneys, and businesspeople?
Weed. Ganja. Marijuana. Pot. During the opening session of the heady 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival held in June of this year, references to the potent plant were the keynote kicker. An intellec-
tual with enviable wit, David G. Bradley, owner of the Atlantic Media Company, delivered an opening mono-logue that imagined some 250, type-A festival speakers high on Colorado cannabis, enlivening a crowd of CEOs, politicians, doctors, and thinkers with scenarios such as for-mer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pulling her tempted husband into a car with a reference to her memoir, “We’re making hard choices, Bill.”
But all jokes aside, this international platform—which eventually staged a very serious conversation on mari-juana between Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and Katie Couric—is illustrative of an escalating national debate embracing medical marijuana and its rapid-fire industry growth. And for many close to the cause, weed is no laughing matter, posing hard choices indeed.
Pot chatter is pervasive throughout the US, whether at dinner parties or on the floor of Congress. In Atlanta, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and CNN’s chief medical correspondent, who was once vocally anti-pot, passionately discusses the benefits of canna-bis in his second documentary film, Weed 2: Cannabis
Madness. In Nevada, State Senator Tick Segerblom and Congresswoman Dina Titus are championing bills that favor post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) medical mar-ijuana research and protect the rights of legal users. In Los Angeles, former talk show host and celebrity Ricki Lake is producing a new documentary, Weed the People, which
follows cancer-stricken children and the use of cannabis as medicine. In Denver, Tripp Keber, founder and CEO of Dixie Elixirs and Edibles, is launching his latest edible product, Dixie One. And just a 20-minute drive from Keber’s new 40,000-square-foot Colorado headquarters, Governor Hickenlooper is repeatedly quoted as stating that we are in the midst of one of the “great social experi-ments of the 21st century.”
On late-night talk shows and in countless political jokes, the enduring dope-fiend stereotype propagandized in the 1936 film Reefer Madness is perpetuated, but in fact, the growth of the marijuana industry is predicted to outpace smartphones: A projected $2.34 billion worth of legal weed will be sold in the United States in 2014, according to the State of Legal Marijuana Markets (2nd Edition) pro-duced by ArcView Market Research. The same report projects a whopping $10.2 billion market by 2018.
In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 215, a milestone ballot that legalized cannabis for medicinal use. Since that time, more than half of all states have either fol-lowed suit—in July, New York became the 23rd state to sanction medical marijuana—or taken steps to decriminal-ize the substance, making possession of a small amount on par with a traffic ticket. And referendums on legal recre-ational use of marijuana are cropping up on ballots nationwide since Washington State and Colorado voters approved the practice in 2012.
The New York Law, termed the Compassionate Care Act, allows for the medical use of marijuana to help allevi-ate the symptoms for a wide range of diseases, among them cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), and mul-tiple sclerosis. Under consideration for inclusion in the law are such illnesses as Alzheimer’s, PTSD, and rheumatoid arthritis. Patients won’t be permitted to smoke the drug;
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they will be allowed to consume it in a number of different
forms, whether in edibles, oils, or with vaporizers. New
York State Senator Liz Krueger says she plans to intro
duce the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act in early
2015. This bill would tax all state marijuana sales and
limit possession to two ounces.
Simply put, we are witnessing an end to a prohibition on
par with that of alcohol. As Keith Stroup, founder of the
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
[NORML], says, “It is the most exciting political change
I’ve seen in my lifetime. You almost can’t keep up with the
change that’s going on.”
But first, the power of a plant.
Weed 101
The preferred scientific term for
this lauded and condemned
botanical is cannabis, derived
from the Greek word kánabis. It
relishes sunlight, is an annual,
and can flourish in nearly any
environment, thus the nickname
weed. According to Martin A.
Lee’s book Smoke Signals, most
scholars agree that cannabis
arrived in our neck of the woods
during the 16th century. Ships
carrying slaves, explorers, and
immigrants were outfitted with
rope, sails, and netting made of
hemp, while slave passengers
also carried seeds for marijuana
(hemp’s psychoactive cousin) in
their pockets.
Lee notes, “Christopher Co l
umbus, Ferdinand Magellan,
and Sir Francis Drake all sailed ships equipped with hemp
products. And in 1619, eight years after colonists first
planted hemp in Jamestown, the Virginia assembly passed
a law requiring every household in the colony to cultivate
the plant because it had so many beneficial uses. Hemp
farming and processing played an important role in
American history (as evidenced in the name of towns
from the Atlantic coast to the Midwest, such as Hempstead
and Hempfield). Several of our Founding Fathers, in fact,
were hemp farmers, including George Washington.” By
the 1850s, hemp was the thirdlargest crop behind tobacco
and cotton.
As the plant made its way across the globe in many
forms—and was ingested via inhaling, tinctures, and med
ical experiments among varying societal ranks—it gained
a particular stronghold in Mexico, where, according to
Lee’s research, farmers discovered the power of “Rosa
Maria.” During the Mexican Revolution, smoking weed
was prevalent in small Texan towns like El Paso, which in
1914 became the first city to ban both the sale and posses
sion of marijuana. Thus the national debate on this
botanical’s potent power began as a murmur, which has
since evolved, at times, into a screaming match. Today,
though new state laws are being enacted rather quickly,
on the federal level, cannabis remains a Schedule I sub
stance, which is defined as “the most dangerous” drugs
“with no currently accepted medical use.”
ReefeR Madness & PRohibition
Prior to 1906, the federal government had yet to regulate
any psychoactive drug. During that year, Congress enacted
the Pure Food and Drug Act, the first legislation that
included cannabis among ingredients that had to be noted
on a product label. By 1914, the Harrison Act tightened nar
cotic control, stating that a nonmedical user could not
possess cocaine or opiates; with this, the first line was drawn
in the sand between medical and recreational drug use.
Though alcohol prohibition occurred all at once on the
national level, marijuana prohibition was enacted in stages.
By the mid1930s, cannabis was
regulated as a drug in every state.
It was around this time that Harry
Anslinger helmed the newly cre
ated Federal Bureau of Narcotics
(FBN), a post he held for 32 years.
Both idolized and villainized,
many allege that Anslinger’s
antimarijuana campaign was
fueled by a desire to increase
his department’s budget: If he
could successfully vilify weed, his
bureaucratic power would result
in further funding for the FBN.
There are also scores of reports
that pot prohibition was fueled by
big business, a premise referred to
as the Hemp Conspiracy Theory.
It is reported that the Hearst and
DuPont empires felt threatened
that hemp would compete with
their woodpulp paper and nylon products, and the theory
thus played a major role in campaigns and propaganda
against pot in all its forms.
Love him or hate him, Anslinger was central to the
American public’s perception. He coined the term “Devil’s
Weed,” championed such antipot propaganda as Reefer
Madness (today a cult comedy classic often watched ironi
cally by college students as they get high, along with its
musical 2005 parody version), and was instrumental in the
passage of the Marihuana Tax Act, which heavily regu
lated the plant and served to drastically limit doctors’
ability to legally prescribe cannabis.
Today, many physicians, including the outspoken Gupta,
are realizing that this little green plant could have a huge
impact across several medical fields. “This is legitimate
medicine,” argues Gupta.
the LittLe PLant that CouLd:
MediCaL MaRijuana
“I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am dou
bling down,” proclaimed Gupta in a March CNN column.
When asked to explain his 180degree turn on the benefits
of cannabis, he’s quick to explain, “The tipping point was
when I started to look at the research coming out of other
Ricki Lake,
Celebrity; producer of Weed the People
Lake, who was introduced to a young fan
with cancer during her stint on Dancing
With the Stars, is flming a documentary,
Weed the People, with director Abby
Epstein that follows ill children, includ-
ing a cancer patient named Sophie, and
the results of medical marijuana.
GettinG involved: “[Pot] was
not something that I did. I looked at it
like a gateway drug. I didn’t want to be
paranoid, out of it, like a couch potato. I
was really turned off to it. I fell in love
with this girl via social media, and I went
on this quest for her, to heal her.”
Cannabis Curve: “I’m still learn-
ing with cannabis—the ratio, the dosing,
the CBD versus THC, and what kills the
cancer cells and what keeps the bad side
effects at bay. But it’s fascinating to me. I
want to know more, and I want the public
to know more. A whole new world opened
up to me because [before,] I was sheltered
and judgmental.”
Her Film: “It shows a lot of amazing
characters who are all relatable; par-
ticularly Tracy and her daughter, Sophie.
Baby Sophie [represents] our biggest fear
with our own children. And this mother
will do anything to get her baby healthy
and keep her from suffering. We have
great results from the last scan.
Hopefully we will see continued
cell death in the tumor.”
ProCeed witH Caution: “There
are a lot of people in this industry who
take advantage, and that is really scary.
There are people selling cannabis oil to
desperate families, but you have got to
know what you are getting and you need
to test, and that takes money. There are
so many advantages, but I think people
still need to take a lot of precautions.”
vision Quest: “I would love to be
able to prove that cannabis is killing
cancer cells. It’s so much better than doing
a talk show. We have more than enough
people that want to be documented and
are willing to tell their stories.”
Though new state
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countries and smaller labs. [When] I started to spend time
with patients who were convinced it was helping them, I
realized it was a very large group of patients who seemed to
be getting objective benefits. And that’s what really started
getting me researching it again.”
His research led him to Charlotte Figi, the central figure
in his provocative film Weed. Charlotte has been plagued
with complex seizures—nearly two an hour—since she was
an infant, and the film follows a harrowing family journey
to save Charlotte’s life after being diagnosed with Dravet
syndrome. Also known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of
infancy, this rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy was at
one point causing Charlotte 300 grand mal seizures a
week. As a last resort, the Figi family turned to medical
marijuana, pitching Charlotte into the center of a national
debate as the youngest medical marijuana applicant in
Colorado. And though Charlotte’s story has become
known across the country, what many may still not fully
understand, Gupta explains, is that young patients such as
Charlotte are not getting intoxicated. “This isn’t getting
them high. [Particular strains of medical marijuana] are
high-CBD concentration; they may become a little bit
sedated like they would with other antiepileptic drugs,”
says Gupta. “The biggest misconception is that kids are get-
ting stoned or high or psychoactive.”
Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the principal psy-
choactive component in marijuana, the form of cannabis
responsible for euphorias, or highs, whether smoked or
ingested via edible products. On the other hand, can-
nabidiol (CBD) is one of at least 60 active cannabinoids
identified in cannabis, which, when isolated, can have a
wide scope of medicinal uses, and does not get patients
high like THC.
Charlotte was given a very specific, highly concentrated
CBD strain cultivated by the Stanley brothers—one of
Colorado’s largest marijuana growers—at their Garden of
Eden grow house. The six brothers crossbred marijuana
with industrial hemp, and the resulting strain, Realm Oil
(which Charlotte would ingest under her tongue via an
olive oil blend, not as smoke), was renamed by the Stanleys
as “Charlotte’s Web.” It was so successful in combating
Figi’s seizures that families with similar stories have relo-
cated to Colorado in order to legally obtain medical
marijuana. Today, Charlotte is reported to have about
three to four seizures a month. The Stanleys have since
created Realm of Caring, a nonprofit that provides free or
low-cost cannabis therapies to families in need.
It’s not just celebrity doctors such as Gupta who are
championing the potential of medical marijuana. Ed
Bernstein, a prominent Las Vegas attorney and television
show host, is applying for a dispensary license, with a 33
percent stake in La Casa Verde Operating. As a successful
businessman, he sees opportunity, but the impetus for this
new venture is his 25-year-old daughter, Dana, who was
diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 3.
“She’s had about 200 hospital day trips,” explains
Bernstein. “She’s had a couple of dozen surgeries. Over
the years, she’s had her intestines removed. She is in con-
stant pain, 24/7.” While living in California during high
school, Dana applied for a medical marijuana license and
nevada State Senator
tick Segerblom
Author of SB 374, which allowed the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries
Why Senate Bill 374? “People
didn’t have the ability to actually purchase
medical marijuana that they were entitled
to use under the Constitution.”
touriSt tokeS: “Las Vegas is going
to be the Amsterdam of the West. Everyone
is going to want to have their picture taken
in front of a marijuana dispensary.”
allocating tax revenueS:
“Education. The money frst goes to offset
administrative costs, then to police costs,
then it goes to education.”
Pot’S hot: “Support for medical mari-
juana is at 90 percent. It’s incredible.”
congreSSwoman
dina tituS
Nevada, District 1
PtSD & Pot: “As a member of the vet-
erans committee and the ranking member
of the subcommittee on benefts, I began
to hear more and more about the potential
of medical marijuana for treating PTSD.
I am circulating now to get signatures
that will go to the Department of Health
and Human Services, asking them to lift
the limitations on studying the effects of
marijuana. It’s very restrictive now. We
need to study it just like any other kind of
medicine, or any other kind of drug.”
BuDS & Banking co-oPS: “I
have signed on as a cosponsor to Ed
Perlmutter’s bill that will change the
banking laws so that we could have
legitimate marijuana businesses operating
through bank accounts.”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta with Josh Stanley at his family’s booming Colorado grow house, in a still from Gupta’s new documentary, Weed 2.
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discovered the drug significantly
decreased her pain. Now a Nevada
resident, it’s become difficult for
Dana to obtain marijuana for
medicinal use, thus her father’s
quest to fight for her rights and
open a dispensary.
“Medical marijuana has been
legal here for a number of years,
but there was no way to access it,”
he says. “I am very aware of the
legislation, and we immediately
looked into getting a dispensary
here.” Bernstein hopes to open a
boutique that features quality
medical marijuana, a shop “that
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with the strains, with universities,
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have the same interests in helping
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Both Bernstein and Gupta are
quick to point out the harmful side
effects of conventional painkillers
(in Dana’s case, the opioid
Dilaudid). Gupta adds, “The abuse
of pain medications is the most
tragic thing in our country. Someone dies every 19 min-
utes from an accidental prescription drug overdose. It’s
now the number-one preventable cause of death in the
United States.” Gupta also notes that epilepsy, pain, and
multiple sclerosis are particularly responsive to cannabis-
based medicines. Another hot topic in both medical and
political circles is the effect of medical marijuana on
PTSD. “We are following the trial of marijuana for PTSD
among veterans,” says Gupta. “I think the initial research
will be promising. Survivors of the Holocaust are being
treated for PTSD with cannabis, right now. It’s the initial
drumbeat, and very positive.”
Use & AbUse: The NexT
GeNerATioN
As the medical benefits of CBD strains are further
researched, there’s still considerable apprehension
among medical experts (Gupta included), law enforce-
ment, and politicians surrounding marijuana and young
users. Now that teens may gain easier access to the drug,
potential for abuse and the effects on the young brain are
a particular concern.
A groundbreaking study published by The Journal of
Neuroscience in April is the first to show that frequent use
of marijuana is related to major brain changes.
Researchers—including experts from Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts General Hospital—con-
ducted MRIs on 40 people: 20 recreational users who
smoke an average of 11 joints per week and 20 nonusers.
The scientists found that the shapes and sizes of two neu-
ral regions essential to motivation and emotion were
significantly altered in users.
Concerns about marijuana’s negative impact on the
growing brain has spurred leaders to create forums, such
as the Aspen Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo’s Valley
Marijuana Council, to discuss the impact and warn
young users of the dangers. Though supportive of the
legalization of both medical and recreational pot, during
an address to the annual NORML Legal Seminar in
Aspen, Sheriff DiSalvo stated, “Marijuana is not a prod-
uct for brains under construction. The message we are
giving students is delay, delay, delay. The longer you
delay, the better your chances of not compromising a
brain under construction. We want to increase awareness
and lower adolescent drug use.”
Governor Hickenlooper is in agreement. “We have a
moral responsibility to regulate it properly,” he says.
“That means making sure kids under 21 don’t get it. There
are neuroscientists who believe if people with growing
brains smoke high-THC-content pot, it can hurt their
memories. But kids think because it’s legal, it’s less dan-
gerous. We are arguing caution.”
Keith Stroup,
Founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
smokers’ rights: “As long as it
was a crime, there wasn’t a lot you could
argue for consumer rights. Now we’re
beginning to focus on the real consumer
issues. A private employer can drug test,
and if you test positive for THC, even
though there is no indication you were
impaired on the job, they can fre you.
What they need is an impairment test, not
a test that asks, ‘Have you smoked in the
last six weeks?’”
dui debate: “We all agree that we
don’t want people impaired when they
drive. But THC adheres to your fatty
tissues and can be detected weeks after
smoking. We’ve got to convince legislators
to use science so we test impairment.”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
Neurosurgeon; CNN chief medical correspondent
Cannabis ConneCts: “There are
cannabis receptors in the body. So it’s more
natural than a lot of drugs, which simply
inhibit the transmission of neurons from one
cell to another cell. This binds to something
that already exists in the body.”
Farming For the Future:
“CBD strains are going to become more in
demand as a medicine. It’s harder than
people realize to breed these plants up to
specifc strands of CBD versus THC. But
there is going to be higher demand and
will continue to be very necessary.”
on reCreational use: “This
is legitimate medicine, and I wouldn’t
take it away from people because of the
concerns of recreational use.”
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So just how does the industry tackle potential abuse among young users, and even adults? Certainly there are scores of medical marijuana licenses issued to “patients” who are, in fact, using medical marijuana licenses to simply get high. As with alcohol, or any substance for that matter, abuse is inevitable. When asked how this will be navigated, most advocates suggest extensive educational outreach.
In August 2014, a controversial Colorado public educa-tion campaign titled “Don’t Be a Lab Rat” was driven by the Colorado governor’s office. Human-size rat cages were dropped around Denver in an effort to warn teens that Colorado is a testing ground for medical marijuana legal-ization and there is still uncertainty involved in relation to pot use and the young brain. Additionally, though Governor Mark Dayton passed medical marijuana legisla-tion in Minnesota, the state’s strict new law bans smoking marijuana and home cultivation, and allows for only two cannabis dispensaries statewide.
The MighTy
edible
“The only thing consistent in this industry is change,” says Tripp Keber. “It’s at hyper speed.” Standing in what will soon be a sleek reception area of his new 40,000-square-foot headquarters in Denver, the founder and CEO of Dixie Elixirs & Edibles has been recently hyped himself on shows such as 60 Minutes and HBO’s Vice. Keber describes the booming marijuana business as having experienced “hockey stick growth,” from completely flat to straight up.
While leading a personal tour of his impressive new facility, he candidly explains, “We are not marijuana people. We are busi-nessmen and women that have applied what we have learned professionally to the cannabis space. There has never been a nationally branded line of THC-infused prod-ucts like Dixie. Our intention is taking this company not only national, but potentially public.”
A successful entrepreneur who served in the Reagan administration, Keber has been called the Gordon Gekko of Ganja. But nicknames aside, he helms a serious, and seriously lucrative, business, squarely in the spotlight of edible entrepreneurs (the industry is moving so fast that at a recent Las Vegas “cannabusiness” convention, one busi-ness proposal was a Domino’s-esque pot delivery service).
Founded just four years ago, Keber’s Dixie Elixirs has grown from a 400-square-foot office and two employees who made one product (an orange elixir) to his new mari-juana industrial mansion, which currently houses some 50 employees and serves as the assembly line and grow house for the more than 40 Dixie THC-infused products and 100 different SKUs. Most cannabis sold in Colorado dispensa-ries comes in four forms: as the buds of the plant; as liquid
extractions meant to be used in vaporizer pens; as edibles, such as gummy candies, chocolates, and sodas; and as salves and lotions for rubbing into sore muscles and joints.
The latest Dixie Elixir? Dixie One, a soda that, unlike most edible products, offers one single, measured 5mg dose of THC. Which begs the question—as the fast-paced edible business booms, how does one properly package and regu-late dosage amounts? This growing debate among edible entrepreneurs and state legislators was thrust into the national spotlight when New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd alleged in her “Don’t Harsh Our Mellow, Dude” col-umn back in June, that she, unaware of the potency, accidentally ate too much of a THC-infused candy bar, resulting in a panic-stricken hotel stay in Denver.
Commenting on this (Dixie’s Chief Marketing Officer Joe Hodas wrote a reactive op-ed in The Times), Keber says, “Dosing is the single-greatest focus that we should be look-
ing at as an industry. Now you have your average soccer mom from Ohio who may or may not have had a relationship with can-nabis in 20-plus years, and [today] cannabis is dramatically differ-ent. What was previously 3 or 4 percent is now 23 or 24 percent [THC].” As an answer to the growing concern of packaging and marketing dosing amounts, Keber and his team developed Dixie One to eliminate the guess-work: One soda, one dose.
Keber touts his new HQ’s state-of-the-art security, a necessary feature at a time when few banks have been willing to provide accounts and other services to marijuana businesses due to its federal Schedule I classification, and most dispensaries have to conduct business in cash. He
notes that two dispensaries in his area had recently been robbed. But his sometimes-risky business also means seri-ous tax revenue—numbers, he opines, that cannot be ignored by the government on both state and federal levels, given the potential for education, city infrastructure, addi-tional medical research funding, and much more. And headway is being made, particularly in Colorado, with banking institutions and the marijuana industry, as politi-cians and banking co-ops are quickly realizing reform is inevitable in regard to banking and buds.
In February of this year, Governor Hickenlooper stated that taxes and fees from recreational and medical mari-juana sales would be $134 million in the coming fiscal year. And though some may criticize his choice of industry, Keber says, “You cannot argue with taxes and jobs. The revenue reported from April [2014] was up 17 percent from the month before, and up 53 percent since the month of January.” There’s no doubt he believes in the industry’s sky-rocketing potential. “You are seeing this real steep growth. Sometimes we feel like we have a tiger by the tail.” G
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tie-dyed Businessman: “This is
not a fool’s business. You have to be intel-
lectually charged, committed, and funded
to succeed, because you can’t go to the bank
and get a loan.”
a kinder drug? “There may be two
[marijuana-related] deaths in Colorado
since January. How many hundreds of alco-
hol- or opiate-related deaths are there?”
Potent Packaging: “We as
manufacturers have to set the tone, to make
sure that the packaging is not attracting
children. Our products are designed to look
like a luxury consumer packaged brand.”
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Las Vegas attorney
daughter dana & crohn’s
disease: “When she smokes medical
marijuana, oftentimes before going to the
hospital and going through that cycle with
the Dilaudid, it takes the edge off her pain.”
Betting on Business: “The
law is still unsettled regarding lawyers
and doctors and their professional licenses
around dispensaries. But legislators in
our state are very positive about medical
marijuana; the voters certainly are.”
gateway drug? “A lot of people
don’t understand the medical benefts
and have been so brainwashed about
marijuana being the gateway drug that
under any circumstances they are not in
favor of it. In the past, to buy it you had to
go underground, dealing with people who
are selling cocaine, crack, marijuana, and
heroin. Legalizing marijuana will have
the opposite result. If you have a legal,
safe place to purchase the medical mari-
juana, then you will not come into contact
with the stereotypical pusher.”
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The Fashion CondoStyle amenitieS lure
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Central Park South
ProPerty. By C. J. HugHes
Landscaped terraces, spas, and golf
simulators may have attracted condo buyers
during the last boom, but as the city’s
housing market becomes flooded with
foreign buyers, high- end buildings are
changing the types of amenities on offer.
Today, services are increasingly devised to
cater to the pied-à-terre set, those people who
come to New York for short periods of time.
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conversion near Fifth Avenue, developers are
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in the afternoon and have one delivered in
time for a party that evening. A stylist could
also drop by the apartment to apply makeup.
Savvy locals who take pride in running
these kinds of errands themselves—or who
just enjoy a stroll through Bergdorf’s
elegantly stocked aisles—may not get too
A seven-unit condo conversion at 22 Central Park South offers a unique amenity—a concierge with a hotline to Bergdorf Goodman.
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replaced by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group (corcoransunshine.com). Prices on some units, which take up entire floors and feature casement windows and decorative fireplaces, appear to have been dis-counted, like the fifth-floor unit, which dropped to $7.8 million from $9.8 million. Overall, in early September, the average asking price was about $5,000 a square foot.
Still, prices at 22 Central Park South can seem steep for the neighborhood. In late summer, the 22 co-ops and condos for sale on Central Park South had an average asking price of $3.3 million, accord-ing to streeteasy.com. Those apartments ranged from $695,000, or about $1,350 a square foot, for a studio at Trump Parc, at 106 CPS, the data show, to $26.9 mil-lion, or $4,800 a foot, for a four-bedroom at The Plaza.
Though what are now considered basic building amenities like pools, sun decks, and children’s play-rooms, may appeal to international buyers, newer offerings, like the Bergdorf concierge service, are designed with them specifically in mind. For example, 432 Park Avenue, an 84-story spire in Midtown from Macklowe Properties (mackloweproperties.com) and CIM Group (cimgroup.com), offers an in-house per-formance venue that globe-trotting executives might use to stage TED-style events. And because so many of the city’s recent super-tall apartment towers are hotel-condos, foreign buyers, who have been estimated to make up as much as a third of the buying market for new condos, may feel uniquely catered to anyway.
At One57, a 90-story high-rise on West 57th Street from Extell Development Company (extelldev.com), which sits atop a Park Hyatt, the hotel staff is versed in multiple languages. At the same time, the services provided by concierges, who have become fixtures of many of the major new condos, have dramatically expanded, brokers say. No longer do they just score Book of Mormon tickets: Now, they “plan honeymoons in Bora Bora,” says Céline Bossart, an executive with Luxury Attaché (luxuryattache.com), a concierge pro-vider for 170 East End Avenue, One Madison, and 100 Eleventh Avenue.
Even if not all concierges are created equally—some can be glorified doormen—they can take the stress out of hiring a caterer, reserving a limousine, or finding somebody to fix a computer, which is especially helpful for part-time residents, says Donna Olshan, president of Olshan Realty (olshan.
com), a luxury brokerage. “It can take the New York experience to a whole other level,” she says. G
excited about this kind of pampering, but the condo’s developer, the Elad Group (eladgroup.com), is bet-ting that the multinational homeowner will come running. “Everybody looking at a home here is a worldwide traveler,” says Samantha Sax, an Elad executive vice president, “and our buyers are really Bergdorf buyers.”
Oren Alexander, a Douglas Elliman broker (thealexanderteam.elliman.com) who isn’t affiliated with 22 Central Park South but works with many overseas clients, believes the project will be successful because it’s in a popular corner of Midtown. “Fifty-seventh Street does not have appeal for everyone,” he says, cit-ing its congestion and noise. “The pied-à-terre buyer wants to run in Central Park and see the horses.”
A first-of-its-kind offering for Bergdorf, which opened in 1901 and has had its main store at Fifth Avenue and West 58th Street since 1928, the 22 Central Park South service also allows residents to enjoy one-on-one consultations with designers from the store’s seventh-floor home collection. If buyers like
what they see in the condo’s on-site model unit, they could procure similar items from the home shop at Bergdorf, says Andrew Mandell, a Bergdorf vice pres-ident; the consultations are free, though buyers are on the hook for any housewares. Already one buyer has inquired about getting vintage art and history books for their own shelves, Mandell says. “It’s a very inter-esting experience, because we never really get to see products we buy for the store end up in a home.”
The strategy seems to be paying off. As of early September, four of the building’s seven apartments have sold, its brokers say, adding that international buyers are in the mix, but until deals close and deeds are filed with the city, the provenance of the buyers is tough to confirm.
While sales in the building, which is adjacent to The Plaza Hotel, an Elad condo conversion project from a decade ago, are on an upswing, the condo, despite its glamorous neighbor, went through a few struggles. The original marketer, Brown Harris Stevens, was dropped a few months after sales began last fall and
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A sleek, modern kitchen with glass cabinetry, marble countertops, and built-in wine storage.
At 22 Central Park South, living rooms feature coffered ceilings, decorative fireplaces, and
expansive views of Central Park.
A soothing palette of neutrals in a master bedroom.
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Wainscott South | 2,200 SF | 4 BR | 3.5 BA | Full Basement | 2 Fire-
places | .42 Acre | Room for Pool | Exclusive. $3.295M Web# 27591
east Hampton | 3,100 SF | 4 BR | 4 BA | Fireplace | 3 Acres | Heated
Pool | Tennis Court | Exclusive. $1.995M Web# 47525
east Hampton | 2,800 SF | 4 BR | 3 BA | Full
Basement | Fireplace | 1.4 Acres | Heated Pool |
Exclusive. $1.72M Web# 45494
Wainscott South | 3,000 SF | 4 BR | 4.5 BA | 2 Fireplaces | .54 Acre
Heated Gunite Pool | Exclusive. $3.295M Web# 46795
east Hampton | 2,800 SF | 3 BR | 2 BA | 1.93 Acres | Room for Pool
Exclusive. $1.995M Web# 27276
east Hampton | 1,500 SF | 3 BR | 2 BA | Full
Basement | Fireplace | .84 Acre | Heated Pool
Exclusive. $1.295M Web# 50098
east Hampton | 3,300 SF | 4 BR | 5 BA | Full Basement | 2 Fireplaces
.79 Acre | Heated Pool | Exclusive. $1.999M Web# 48752
Amagansett South | 3,651 SF | 5 BR | 4.5 BA | Finished Basement
Fireplace | .31 Acre Heated Pool | Exclusive. $2.995M Web# 38449
Sag Harbor | 1,800 SF | 5 BR | 3 BA | 2 Half BA |
Full Basement | Fireplace | Garage | Pool House |
.42 Acre | Pool | Exclusive. $1.195M Web# 46961
east Hampton | 1,600 SF | 3 BR | 2.5 BA | Full
Basement | Fireplace | Garage | 1.2 Acre | Pool |
Pondview | Exclusive. $925K Web# 14891
Signature cappuccino from Fika.
The Roof bar at the Viceroy.
above: Nova Scotia lobster with Burrata, eggplant al funghetto,
and basil at Marea. below: A view of the skyline along
Central Park South.
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here’S the SCoop on the area’S beSt SpotS. By Suzanne Charle
Best for a coffee Break: Fika, Lars Akerlund’s
ultrasleek café and espresso bar. Don’t miss
the croissants and juniper-marinated salmon
sandwich. 41 W. 58th St., 212-832-0222
Best Brunch: Art Deco shrine Petrossian, known for
its caviar menu, offers a weekend brunch that is one of
the best in town. 182 W. 58th St., 212-245-2214
for hungry kids (and grown-ups, too):
Sarabeth’s. Try French toast and toasted coconut
waffles. Frequented by CBS Early Show guests,
including Claire Danes and Zac Efron.
40 Central Park South, 212-826-5959
for hungry horses: Kids can feed Central
Park’s carriage horses every day at noon at The
Ritz-Carlton. 50 Central Park South
Best workouts: New York Running Company
offers clinics and training sessions for runners of
varying abilities; 10 Columbus Circle, 2nd fl., 212-823-9626. If you’re a member, head to the august
New York Athletic Club; 180 Central Park South, 212-247-5100
posh pampering: La Prairie day spa at The
Ritz-Carlton. 50 Central Park South, 212-521-6135
for stargazing: Tom Hanks, Beyoncé and Jay Z,
and Mick Jagger are just a few of the big fish sighted
at Michael White’s haute-Italian seafood restaurant,
Marea. 240 Central Park South, 212-582-5100
star dining: Thomas Keller’s Per Se—if you can get
a reservation. Tip: Call at 10 am one calendar month
ahead. Or take your chances at the first-come, first-
served salon. 10 Columbus Circle, 4th fl., 823-9335
knockout views: The Roof, on the 29th floor
of the Viceroy. 124 W. 57th St., 212-707-8008
the local Beau monde scene: Beautique,
with an interior inspired by Coco Chanel.
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Central Park South is now one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, with Lady Gaga, Tommy Hilfiger, and
Liam Gallagher among the glitterati who call the street home. The draw: Central Park, “the money shot” as one
curator calls it. (CPS is also two blocks away from Billionaires’ Row.) And November is a prime month for the
street. Those with front-facing apartments can enjoy great views of the finish line of the NYC Marathon and
the bands and balloons of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For anyone contemplating a move to the neigh-
borhood, or for out-of-town visitors eager to know the area better, we sought out insider favorites by taking
suggestions from residents, doormen, and Susanne Carter, chief concierge of The Ritz-Carlton Central Park.
Buying in:
price appreciation: Two-bedroom condos ran
from $2 million to $9 million in September 2011. This
October the range was from $2.95 million to $11.995
million, according to streeteasy.com.
Brokers to know: Oren Alexander,
Douglas Elliman, 485 Madison Ave., 212-350-
8561; thealexanderteam.elliman.com. John
Burger, Brown Harris Stevens, 445 Park Ave.,
212-906-9274; bhsusa.com
coming soon: 220 Central Park South,
a 160-condo 1,031-foot-high limestone
skyscraper by Vornado and Robert A. M.Stern,
slated for completion in 2016. 212-369-0022;
22centralparksouth.com
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Today’s on-the-go celebs don’t always sell if circumstances require a gig out of town or the need for new space. Kirsten Dunst, for example, has put her two-bedroom penthouse at 533 Canal Street on the market for $12,500 a month. The loft, which comes fully or partially furnished, has river views, 11-foot ceilings, and a windowed chef’s kitchen. The listing broker for the unit, available for a minimum six-month lease, is Jared Seligman, of Douglas Elliman (212-891-7104;
jaredseligman.elliman.com). Hockey star Scott Gomez is also
renting his penthouse duplex—for $23,000 a month. The three-bed-room, three-bath condo is located in the Chelsea Mercantile building, where Katie Holmes now lives with Suri. This unit also has a notable celebrity past. Top fashion designer Marc Jacobs rented the apartment for a year; pop star Nick Jonas did too (at another time). The unit comes with great entertaining space, a fabulous furnished terrace, and knockout river views. Corcoran’s Erik Ternon (212-444-7977) and Noble Black (212-444-7926) have the listing.
Robert De Niro and his wife, Grace Hightower, have moved into a 35th-floor rental at 15 Central Park West—for a whopping $125,000 a month. Part of the space, owned by steel mogul Leroy Schecter, was once home to Yankees star Alex Rodriguez (before the A and B units were combined). The apartment is also on the market for $65 million—a hefty $30 million off its original $95 million. The De Niros have been on the move
since their apartment at the Brentmore was destroyed in a 2012 fire. They’ll be at 15 Central Park West for a year, until their new abode, at 88 Central Park West, has been fully renovated. The listing broker was Paula Del Nunzio, of Brown Harris Stevens (212-906-9207; pauladelnunzio.bhs
usa.com), who declined to comment. Other celebrities, like Sarah Jessica
Parker and her husband, Matthew Broderick, are also moving. They’ve just put their historic Greenwich Village townhouse on the market for $22 million. The manse, at 20 E. 10th Street, was purchased in 2011 and was listed for sale only a year later. Now it’s back on the market at a lower price. The five-story, 6,800-square-foot brownstone dates to 1846, but the interiors are modern and include lots of fabulous storage space for one of the city’s best-known fashionistas. As for guests, there’s a whole floor for them, with three bedrooms and en-suite baths. The listing brokers are Douglas Elliman’s Fredrik Eklund (212-727-
6158) and John Gomes (212-891-7676;
theeklundgomesteam.elliman.com).Finally, Sean “Diddy” Combs is
selling his chic bachelor pad in the Park Imperial, at 230 W. 56th Street, where Daniel “007” Craig once lived. The price is $7.5 million, down from $7.99 million. Although 2,292 square feet, the space is set up as a two, rather than three-bedroom, unit. A grand piano and wet bar are the centerpieces, making it a perfect place for grand-scale entertaining. The listing broker is Dolly Lenz, of Dolly Lenz Real Estate (917-885-9169; dollylenz.com). G
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“If there is one place to push your chips in, it’s
New York,” says Singapore-based mega-archi-
tect Soo K. Chan, who has done just that with
the game-changing Soori High Line building
(16 private pools!) under way in West Chelsea.
But the buy-in was steep: His firm is architect,
interior designer, landscaper, and a principal
investor. “At a certain point,” he explains, “you
just have to say, ‘I’ll do it myself.’ I started out in
New York; I got my license here. But nobody,”
he laughs, “ever asked me to design anything.”
When last seen in these parts, circa 1990,
Chan was a student at the Yale School of
Architecture, interning in the city and knock-
ing on doors to spread some love for a chair
he’d designed. “I was just calling anybody
who worked for a magazine,” he remembers.
“People were very nice even if my chair,
maybe, wasn’t really the best chair.”
He’s doing better with the chairs these days
(among much else, Chan now creates furni-
ture for Italian design darling Poliform), and
his career—on its 25-year-loop from New York
to New York—has reached something like
nova proportions. Chan’s SCDA Architects
(Soo Chan Design Associates) has built
nearly 200 buildings worldwide, from high-
rises to museums to embassies, including his
own hyper-luxury resort in Bali. And pools.
Lots of private pools.
Design-conscious New Yorkers, if they can
put Soori High Line’s much-clucked-over
swimmin’ holes out of their minds for a
moment, will have plenty of other reasons to
thank Chan for the 11-story structure, slated to
open at 522 West 29th Street in 2016. It is, for
starters, an elegant addition to the High Line
building boom, notable even in a neighbor-
hood featuring projects by fellow starchitects
Jean Nouvel, Robert A.M. Stern, Zaha Hadid,
and Norman Foster.
Soori High Line—following much to-ing and
fro-ing with New York building authorities—
will realize Chan’s dream of literally “blurring
inside and out.” Its curtain-glass façade, por-
tioned by formal, wafer-thin, wood-clad
vertical mullions, is punctuated by a series of
open spaces for pools and surrounding ter-
races. (“The codes here don’t actually allow for
that,” he notes. “You have to negotiate for how
much you can dissolve the façade.”) Inside and
out, the building has an organic, understated
geometry and sense of airy proportion that
typifies Chan’s neo-Modernist, Mies-meets-the-
tropics aesthetic. (A second Chan building,
down the street at 515 West 29th, will be
showier, what with its wavy-glass top f loors
grafted onto the existing brick building and
Diving inThe ciTy’s laTesT sTarchiTecT, Soo Chan, sees The in-home pool as The laTesT condo musT-have. By RichaRd Nalley
A bathroom at Chan’s 515 West 29th Street high-rise typifies his elegant,
minimalist aesthetic.
At the Soori High Line, outdoor pools are visible through the glass walls of each unit, giving residents the serene and tranquil sight of flowing water year-round.
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massive, rotating-exhibition “art wall” abutting the High Line. It is scheduled to open in 2015.)
Outfitting a residential building with 16 private pools is not a technical stretch for Chan, who has tucked 120 of them into his Nassim Park Residences complex in Singapore and nearly 100 more into a Kuala Lumpur high-rise. But still… nobody has done this in New York City for lots of good reasons, including our all-American menu of liability issues, the problems of humidity and condensation in a four-season living space, and winter freezes that burst pipes and cause watertight materials to expand and contract.
Says Chan, “We spent maybe one year debat-ing it. Eventually I brought the whole team to Singapore to tour all the pools. I wanted to be sure they bought into it, because by then... it was too late! It was out there that we’d have pools in the building. Now we had to do it!”
Chan solved the indoor humidity problem in a typically Chan way: Tropics or no tropics, he didn’t put the pools indoors. The four pools in the $22 million penthouses are entirely exposed to the elements on roof decks, complete with their own dedicated boilers for heating, and under-deck snow-melting systems in case you fancy a skinny dip in a blizzard. The substantial 24- to 27-foot pools in 12 lower units (prices start at $3.7 million) are part of the living space—even central to it—in the sense that
they are visible through interior glass walls, their professionally calibrated rows of underwater lights casting soothing patterns on the ceiling. But there is no fourth exterior wall separating them from the outdoors. Even with their heaters, skimmers, and bubblers, the pools are designed to be swimmable only from, say, May to October.
And anyway, notes Chan, the voice of indoor aquatic experience, “Most of the time people don’t even swim in them; maybe they use them a few times a year, but they like looking at them and having the tranquility of the water, hearing the sound of it.”
Apparently New Yorkers, or at least an influential segment of movers and shakers, also like having Soo Chan around. After a 25-year drought, Chan is argu-ably Manhattan’s “It” architect of 2014, signed on for three additional projects after Soori High Line, including that second building on West 29th. “New York is tough to break into,” he observes. “But I think we’ve got some traction now.” G
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Pools are an integral part of the decor at Chan’s Soori High Line high-rise. Here, the pool is adjacent to the living and dining rooms.
At 515 West 29th, wavy glass top floors and a
massive “art wall” were grafted onto the existing
brick building.
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is informed by the Mad Men set.”
Ashe + Leandro’s list of upcoming projects
includes a celebrity house in Brooklyn and two
renovations downtown, one for Meyers and his
wife, Alexi, Ashe’s sister.
“Seth’s first apartment was one of our first jobs,”
says Ashe. “The look will be the much same, ’50s
and ’60s—just a bit more grown-up.” Ashe hesitates
and laughs: “[However,] there will be palm trees. I’m
obsessed.” Ashe + Leandro, 611 Broadway, 212-242-
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He’d had enough of corporate design. She was tired
of decorating endless bathrooms. When Ariel Ashe
called Reinaldo Leandro, a young architect from
Venezuela—then working at Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill—for design advice about a friend’s bunga-
low, she got that and a lot more… a new business.
After they discussed bungalow-decorating strate-
gies, Ashe and Leandro, who had worked together at
Pierce Allen, brainstormed about founding their
own design firm, which they launched soon after.
“The day I left Pierce Allen, the story on my
friend’s bungalow came out in O at Home,” says Ashe.
The design—white walls with charcoal and black
accents and pops of color—went viral in the blogo-
sphere. Commissions quickly followed: a studio for
her brother-in-law, Seth Meyers of Saturday Night
Live, where Ashe had interned as a set designer; an
office in the Seagram Building for a hedge fund.
When the economy in the US took a nosedive, the
duo focused on Venezuela, where they renovated
The Hotel VIP Caracas in 2010, the heyday of South
American Modern.
In fact, “Tropical Modernism,” as Leandro calls it,
informs many Ashe + Leandro designs. Growing up
in Caracas, Leandro had an intimate knowledge of
the work of leading Modernists like Cipriano
Domínguez, a disciple of Le Corbusier, and Carlos
Raúl Villanueva, Venezuela’s preeminent 20th-cen-
tury architect.
Leandro says New York’s density and climate
“make it hard” to evoke all the elements of Tropical
Modernism, but he works diligently to introduce the
flow of natural light into his designs. Ashe builds on
the tropical theme with the use of bold color palettes,
painted tiles, paintings, rugs, and textiles.
Ashe says design, like theater, “is the telling of a
story,” a narrative driven by and adapted to a client’s
personality. For the Astor Place loft of Coldplay’s
Jonny Buckland, the team created “a masculine, pol-
ished, rock-star vibe” with a dark palette, brightened
with white spaces and pops of color. When Seth
Meyers moved to Studio 8G to host Late Night, the
firm designed everything, from the green room to
Meyers’s office. This is in Rockefeller Center, they
A New New York AestheticWith business doubling this year, Ariel Ashe and reinAldo
leAndro have become the go-to design team for the doWntoWn celebrity set. By Suzanne Charle
above: In Jonny Buckland’s Astor Place loft, the team used a dark palette with pops of color. below: A midcentury dresser makes a mod ern ist statement in a West Village apartment.
Reinaldo Leandro and Ariel Ashe call their design style “Tropical Modernism.”
“Design, like
theater, is about
telling a story.” —ariel ashe
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after the paradeThe Lambs CLub rethinks thanksgiving classics. By Juliet izon
For a long time, it was a sacrosanct tradition. Even in time-pressed, space-
challenged Manhattan, Thanksgiving was celebrated at home. Maybe
the notion of home was stretched a bit to include the Hamptons or a
Bedford getaway, but bottom line—New Yorkers liked to give thanks and
overindulge at their own dining tables. As foodies came to rule the city
and top chefs reimagined this most traditional of American meals, locals
started to step out and book Turkey Day at the city’s best-known restau-
rants. Now power spots like the Four Seasons draw a big-name crowd. The
Lambs Club, a place popular with Bill Clinton, Sting, and Tom Hanks, is
a more recent entry into high-profile Thanksgiving dining. The venue,
with its dramatic floor-to-ceiling fireplace and large picture windows that
look out onto the Theater District, is booked from early in the day for
brunch (the restaurant is a block from Broadway, the thoroughfare for the
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade). In the afternoon and until 8:45 in
the evening, The Lambs Club serves a lavish four-course holiday dinner.
Culinary star Geoffrey Zakarian and his team devised a menu that puts
a new spin on Thanksgiving mainstays. For starters, there’s squash soup
with lemon and rosemary curd. An alternative entrée to the turkey, which
is served here with fennel sausage and cornbread stuffing, is the roasted
diver scallops cooked with fennel, grapes, and pine nuts. You’ll want to eat
all your veggies: The whipped sweet potatoes are topped with ginger
marshmallows, and crispy Brussels sprouts come doused with malt vine-
gar dressing. There’s a bounty of sweets—a simple cranberry sorbet for
anyone sated by all the preceding delectables—but dessert adventurers
can revel in the cheeky takes on holiday fare, like eggnog and butter
squash macarons, or opt for requisite classics like pecan pie or pumpkin-
spice cake. It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without leftovers, so The Lambs
Club is promising there will be treats to take home. A Thanksgiving menu will be served from noon to 8:45 pm; $85 per person, $35 for children under 12. 132 W. 44th St., 212-997-5262; thelambsclub.com G
The Lambs Club, with its only-in-New York vibe,
has become a go-to place for Thanksgiving dinner
for the likes of Bill Clinton, Sting, and Tom Hanks.
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Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Mandarin Oriental’s Asiate offers a new menu and a new look, as well as a sumptuous Thanksgiving menu.
There are few better places
to indulge on Thanksgiving
than Asiate, a 35th-foor
restaurant famous for its
cinema-worthy Central Park
views. The menu is fve-star,
with starters that include
truffe ambrosia with but-
ternut squash and mandarin
oranges, and chestnut velouté
with La Querica ham,
apples, and lobster. For
entrées there’s everything
from braised bison short ribs
with spiced red currants
and caramelized turnips to
traditional turkey with cran-
berry jam and sweet potato
popovers. Those wanting to
catch the parade can come
earlier in the day for a prix-
fxe breakfast that begins
at 7 am. The Thanksgiving
menu starts at noon.
80 Columbus Circle,
212-805-8800;
mandarinoriental.com
City restaurants jazz up their offerings
on Turkey Day.
autumnal favorites like caramelized pear and parsnip soup with toasted hazelnuts and pan-seared turkey breast with turkey hash and cran-berry relish. The Landmarc’s Thanksgiving brunch offers pumpkin pancakes and a great view of the parade. 179 W. Broadway, 212-
343-3883; 10 Columbus
Circle, 212-823-6123;
landmarc-restaurant.com
Maialino On November 27, this Danny Meyer spot, whose name means “little pig” in Italian, is all about the big turkey. The haute trattoria will provide guests with two separate menus—one with a distinctly Italian cast, offering dishes like tortelli di zucca (a stuffed pasta with pumpkin, sage, and Parmesan) and tachinella arrosta (heritage turkey with polenta and kale). The Classics menu will include restaurant mainstays like turkey soup and roasted suckling pig with potatoes. 2 Lexington Ave., 212-777-
2410; maialinonyc.com
Tocqueville Tocqueville has long been a pioneer in farm-to-table cooking and is often praised for its hyperlocal sourcing (the Union Square Greenmarket is half a block away). The restaurant excels in locavore with a Euro twist, so on Turkey Day, there will be winter squash soup, house-made potato gnocchi, fettuccine with shaved white truffle, and roast organic free-range turkey. Desserts skew toward American flavors: Pumpkin mousse, cranberry crumble, and pecan pie are just a few of the options for ending the lavish meal on a sweet note. 1 E. 15th St., 212-647-1515;
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Benoit Head to this Midtown gem for Thanksgiving with Euro and Modern American twists. For starters there’s lobster bisque with tarragon cream, or quiche. The roasted turkey comes with spiced sweet potato purée and wild mushroom fricassee. For those wanting to “do” French, there’s filet mignon frites and steamed loup de mer. The endnotes are all-American, with desserts like pumpkin pie and pecan tarts.60 W. 55th St., 646-943-
7373; benoitny.com
Betony Eamon Rockey and Bryce Shuman serve New American at its best—familiar flavors in modern ways. So if you’re expecting an innovative menu, you’ll get it big time with items like poached hen’s egg with black trumpet mushrooms and ginger,
glazed cavatelli with white truffles, and grilled beef tenderloin with romaine and sweetbreads. For classic tastes, there is traditional turkey with sides like roasted parsnips and cornbread stuffing. 41 W. 57th St., 212-465-
2400; betony-nyc.com
Boulud Sud As one of seven children, Executive Chef Travis Swikard knows how to plan big family celebrations, an experience that comes in handy when mapping out a menu that will appeal to all ages. This year Swikard is planning a three-course dinner featuring pumpkin agnolotti, roast turkey with rosemary stuffing, and a pumpkin tart with spiced whipped cream. Alternative desserts include crystalized pumpkin seeds and cranberry sorbet. There’s a takeaway,
too: Each guest will leave with a turkey sandwich, and if that’s not enough, Épicerie Boulud next door will offer deluxe Thanksgiving-to-go packages.20 W. 64th St., 212-595-1313;
bouludsud.com
CraftThis popular spot offers a family-style menu reflecting Tom Colicchio’s modern culinary wizardry. Along with Craft’s regular offerings, you’ll find all-American classics: herb-butter-roasted free-range turkey with raisin and fennel stuffing, roasted autumn vegetables, and sweet potato purée. Guests will go home with a box of leftovers. 43 E. 19th St., 212-780-0880;
craftrestaurantsinc.com
Landmarc Marc Murphy’s Tribeca and Time Warner Center spots serve a menu of jazzed-up
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Manhattan’s Best New BarsStyliSh watering holeS make happy hour even happier.
By Juliet izon
Champers, anyone?Sarah Simmons opens a bar where the bubbly never stops flowing.
Why it’s hot: Sarah
Simmons, beloved chef of
City Grit, has finally opened
her own place, Birds &
Bubbles, which has built-in
Champagne troughs. What
to drink: Nearly 40
varieties of bubbly are on
offer as well as Champagne
cocktails. Order the
Madame Pommery, which
features gin, Lillet Rosé,
raspberry, lime, and
Champagne. What to eat:
Classic Southern bites rule
here. Sample the deviled eggs
with Sriracha flakes or the
shrimp rillette, served with
black pepper crackers. Don’t
miss: The restaurant walls
feature portraits of
Simmons’s friends, all
enjoying fried chicken, of
course. 100B Forsyth St.,
646-368-9420; birdsand
bubbles.com
A martini from The Living Room in the newly opened
Park Hyatt.
cocktails. What to drink:
Guests can select their
liquor of choice and have the
bartender create a bespoke
cocktail on the spot. Even
“mocktails” are on offer.
121 W. 10th St.
The LodgeWhy it’s hot: Located on
suddenly hip West Eighth
Street, this venue features live
music as well as scrumptious
craft cocktails. The space:
Think English country meets
ski lodge; the fireplace is
perfect for when the tempera-
ture dips. What to drink:
Mixologist Jamie Gordon is
creating seasonal drinks that
pack a punch. Order the
Autumn Elyxir: a mix of
bitters (orange, Angostura,
and lemon), Absolut Elyxir,
and green Chartreuse
sweetened with toasted
pumpkin seed syrup. What
to eat: The lobster truffle
chowder, made with Yukon
Gold potatoes, bacon, leeks,
and clam broth, is comfort
food at its best.
35 W. Eighth St., 212-253-
2999; thelodge.club
SixtyFiveWhy it’s hot: Located on the
65th floor next to the newly
reopened Rainbow Room,
this is Midtown’s poshest new
boîte for cocktails. Best
nights: This bar is exclusive:
It’s only open to the public
Monday–Friday from 5 pm til
midnight. What to drink:
Many cocktails draw
inspiration from the space’s
storied history—for example,
the 1915 Gin & Tonic, made
with Dorothy Parker gin,
lemon, Angostura bitters,
and Johnnie Ryan tonic.
Don’t miss: Part of the bar
encompasses a previously
unused terrace that delivers
outstanding skyline views.
30 Rockefeller Center,
212-632-5000; rainbow
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Aldo Sohm Wine BarWhy it’s hot: It’s not
surprising that this epony-
mous bar from the
acclaimed wine director at
Michelin three-star
restaurant Le Bernadin
features share plates that
star Executive Chef Eric
Ripert has whipped up. The
space: A sleek custom-
finished oak bar acts as a
communal “sommelier
table,” where guests can
interact with staff. What to
eat: Dishes were chosen
with wine in mind: Try the
cheese and charcuterie
platters along with the crisp
salads and tartines. What
to drink: With a Le
Bernardin pro at the helm,
you expect the wine list to
be phenomenal and
rigorously curated—and it
is. You can also order
sipping spirits by the glass.
151 W. 51st St., 212-554-
1143; aldosohm.com
The Back Room Why it’s hot: The f lagship
restaurant and bar in the
luxe, newly opened Park
Hyatt New York features
stunning f loor-to-ceiling
windows with views of
Carnegie Hall. Only the
well-heeled crowd may be
more stylish. What to
drink: The Oaxaca Old
Fashioned is a sultry twist
on a classic, made with
smoky mezcal, reposado
tequila, and mole bitters.
What to eat: The lobster
cocktails and market
oysters. Don’t miss: The
Living Room, an intimate
70-seat Champagne bar
located next to The
Back Room.
153 W. 57th St.,
212-897-2188;
thebackroomone57.com
The Happiest HourWhy it’s hot: The double-
decker space is the latest
from Acme’s Jon Neidich
and seasoned bartender
Jim Kearns (formerly of
Pegu Club and the NoMad
hotel). The space: A large
horseshoe-shaped bar
anchors the main foor,
where the soundtrack is rock
and soul. Downstairs there’s
a more intimate six-seat
bar, where the soundtrack
features the smooth sounds
of Ella Fitzgerald and Ray
Charles. The crowd: Expect
all of downtown royalty to
fock here for the custom
The June Bug cocktail.
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// style spotlight //
FASHION-FORWARD
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, LYDIA
HEARST, AND CINDY CHAO
STOLE THE SHOW IN DAZZLING
FORMALWEAR.
Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch
Andy Cohen and Scott Wittman
William and Jenny Laird with Thom Browne
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Carolina Portago, Di Mondo, and Fe Fendi
Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera
Sarah Jessica Parker wore a dramatic floor-length gown by Mary Katrantzou, who was also in attendance.
Lydia Hearst looked ethereal in an embellished chiffon Marchesa Notte gown.
Cindy Chao donned a custom sleek white gown by Stephane Rolland with a matching Judith Leiber clutch.
Marjorie Gubelmann and Chris Salgardo
Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater.
Indre Rockefeller and James
Reed Hague
BEFORE NEW YORK City Ballet’s Fall Gala at
Lincoln Center, cochairs Sarah Jessica Parker and
Cindy Chao debuted their jewelry collaboration, a
2014 Black Label Masterpiece Ballerina Butterfly
brooch, which was auctioned at Sotheby’s Hong Kong
on October 7 to raise money for the ballet. Parker and
Chao joined fellow event chairs Marianne Lake,
and Jennifer and Trey Laird for an evening of
dinner, dancing, and a performance that featured
dancers dressed in one-of-a-kind designs by
Carolina Herrera, Sarah Burton, Mary
Katranzou, and Thom Browne, all of whom
were in attendance.
NYCB FALL GALA
Martha Stewart and Nate Berkus
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Alexis Sclamberg, Agapi Stassinopoulos,
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Denise Carberry, Jessica Mindich, and Jennifer Duke
Sandra DiFiglia and Lisa Rosenstein
Lourdes Diaz and Katarina Pimenthal
Sydney Campos and Jacqueline Bartz
TOWN RESIDENTIAL, NEW YORK’S LEADING luxury real
estate services firm, and Elevate GenY, a group that promotes professional
and personal development for women in their 20s and 30s, hosted The Power
of Connection Celebration Party on the rooftop of Town West Village. The
evening saw female leaders in different industries come together for a night
of conversation and wine tastings, which culminated with a speech by
special guest Agapi Stassinopoulos, author of Unbinding the Heart.
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CELEBRATION PARTY
Simone Levien, Elisa Maggio, and Danielle Palumbo
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Shoshana Hochdorf, Andrea Brancheau, and Charlene Chang
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Jen Dang and Emily Ward
ON SEPTEMBER 18, C. Wonder and Gotham
magazine hosted the opening celebration of the
brand’s new Flatiron store. Stylish guests shopped the
new fall collections while enjoying bites by Scoozi
Events, signature drinks by Minibar, makeovers by
Priv Braid Bar, and complimentary on-site mono-
gramming for all of their new purchases.
C WONDER
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Lauren Foster, Todd Swisher, and Jessica Fidler
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FASHION-FORWARD
TONI GARRN, JAMIE CHUNG,
AND DARIA STROKOUS MADE
FASHION WEEK NEWS WITH
ON-TREND FALL LOOKS.
Linda Evangelista and Alicia Keys Grace Coddington
and Fran ois Nars
Abigail Breslin
Kate Foley and Chelsea Leyland
Carla Gugino
Ophelie Guillermand
Zuzana GregorovaSimon Doonan
Caroline Issa and Monique Pean
Steven Klein and Fabien BaronLily Kwong
Taylor Schilling and Thakoon Panichgul
Liza Voloshin, Margot Moe, Cleo Wade, and Kate Greer
Daria Strokous kept it simple and elegant with a black silk dress from Balmain’s 2015 Resort Collection.
Toni Garrn dazzled in a sophisticated Barbara Casasola dress with Stuart Weitzman shoes and a Hunting Season bag.
Jamie Chung went casual-chic
in an Aritzia jacket, Avery
sweater, Babaton for
Aritzia pants paired with Stuart
Weitzman heels and a Coach
purse.
A STARRY COLLECTION of celebrities,
models, and industry heavyweights filled
Maccarone Gallery in the West Village for Nars’
20th anniversary in honor of founder and
creative director François Nars. Hosted by
Linda Evangelista, Fabien Baron, and Simon
Doonan, the stylish Fashion Week soirée saw
such high-profile guests as Alicia Keys, Taylor
Schilling, Abigail Breslin, and Grace
Coddington mixing and mingling against a
stunning backdrop of photographic highlights
from the past two decades of Nars’ ad campaigns
and published volumes of his work.
NARS 20TH
ANNIVERSARY
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Misery may not just be a state of mind but also
geography, if recent research is correct. Not long
ago, a study found that New York is the unhappi-
est city in the United States. Pittsburgh,
Louisville, Milwaukee, and Detroit are also
down in the dumps, but NYC takes the laurel as
the capital of despond. How has the city coped
ever since? Miserably well!
But first a little background: This claim came
from three lads working for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, who after long
analysis and hours, presumably, of thigh-slap-
ping, hysterically cheerful toil (or are happiness
scientists themselves glum?), fingered the Big
Apple as the Big Gloom.
I say, hang on a minute! Does this not conflict
with the idea of New York as a place of go-getting
vim? But perhaps those two are connected, for is
the twin of ambition not, quite often, a sense of
constant, surging, vein-bubbling anxiety about
under achievement?
I am not entirely surprised by the conclusions
of the researchers, the Messrs. Glaeser, Gottlieb,
and Ziv. During stints in Manhattan, I occasion-
ally find myself disheartened by all the right
angles of the city’s buildings. The street layout
compounded this, the grid grinding into one’s
soul after awhile. My old-country aesthetics han-
ker for a winding country lane rather than an
arrow-straight avenue filled with honking yellow
cabs and sidewalks of stressy (and as we now
know, doleful) New Yorkers.
What else can have caused the unhappi-
ness? Lack of shuteye? New York is, after all,
“the city that never sleeps.” Is it too much
salt from all the ramen and Chipotle chips
clogging Manhattanites’ arteries and mak-
ing everyone feel dyspeptic? Is it the chronic
hyperventilation of the New York Post that
makes us antsy? Or the maddening snooti-
ness that shimmers off the pages and website
of the Gray Lady, The New York Times?
The drivers of those yellow cabs were never
exactly angels of mirth, but I guess that since
being sweated by Uber and Hailo, they are now
feeling even more beaten down. New York hous-
ing prices (do we hear a million bucks for the
broom cupboard of a maid’s room on Central
Park these days?) do not help, and then there is
the constant worry about bumping into some oli-
garch from Kazakhstan who has just arrived on
Billionaires’ Row with his gun-toting entourage.
Or is it that New Yorkers actually take a
certain satisfaction in being malcontents? Is
Weltschmerz not a sign of sophistication? Put
it like this: The survey found that the happiest
towns in America included Lafayette, Louisiana;
Nashville, Tennessee; and Honolulu, Hawaii. So
unless you like grits, country ’n’ western, and
grass skirts, you may prefer to remain heroically
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