When the editor in chief sent over the theme for this issue, I almost leapt in the air and clicked my heels, like I was a lovesick fool in a…
In 1983, I donned a starched white apron as one of Café Luxembourg’s first cadre of waiters when it opened on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Since it was the second…
Whether you’re incessantly following skincare trends (who isn’t?), flipping through men’s fashion magazines (they still exist, yes?) or scrolling through your socials full of movers and shakers, I know you’ve…
Photography by Daniella Murray When my fiancée needed an externship to finish her master’s in speech language pathology, we were drawn to a small town near Poughkeepsie. Born and raised…
Photography by Mike Ruiz I was sitting in a parking lot of a McDonald’s outside Asheville, NC, when I got the call from Alan Cumming. If San Francisco and Santa…
Photography by Beth Schneck People come to New Paltz to reinvent themselves. It’s why the French Huguenots settled there in 1678. It’s why students go there to study at the…
So, when I first moved to this corner of the planet, I kept hearing cool, creative people being referred to as “makers.” Makers? Really? Aren’t they simply artists and designers…
Every night of live music is a holiday in my book. There’s nothing that fills my soul quite like sharing sonic vibrations in a room full of beautiful people. Looking…
We all know the story about the shoemaker whose kids go to school with holes in their soles. I live with the other kind of shoemaker, the one so jacked…
