Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick exclusively for The Mountains I’d only just returned from a morning trail run in the southeasternmost corner of the Berkshires when I got a call from our editor-in-chief. “Goggins can do it, but only today… at two.” Could I have expected anything less from one of Hollywood’s soon-to-be hottest leading men? Definitely not. And when Walton Goggins says go—you go. After catching my breath, I still have six hours before my daughter’s school bus arrives. Plenty of time for a sunny October drive up scenic Route 7 to the picturesque Columbia County village of Chatham,…
Almost four decades ago, I was a contributing editor to Interview magazine. I’m also an insomniac. Consequently, I routinely wrote at night and went to bed late. That is, until…
Photography by Dori Fitzpatrick About eight years ago, I started writing (and posting on social media) a weekly e-mail blast I dubbed 5THINGS2LIVE4 (Five Things To Live For) to…
Photography by Douglas Friedman (courtesy of Patti LuPone) My heart rate is quickening as I approach Patti LuPone’s door at her sprawling home in the bucolic town of Kent, CT…
“If we really want to help this world, we have to uplift women,” says Shana Falana. “That alone would heal the planet.” The Leeds-based psych-rock musician manifests this intention with…
Photography by Quentin Bacon When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn…
Music is music. If it moves you, it moves you. If it doesn’t, then it doesn’t.” So simple, yet so profound—which makes a lot of sense coming from a bass…
When summer winds chill and leaves begin to fall, it’s easy to start thinking about hibernation. I think we all know people who we simply don’t see between November and…
It’s not just the art that makes a museum worth visiting, it’s the overall experience—something I was reminded of on a recent trip to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art…












