I am a New York based writer and editor with over 20 years of experience whose work has appeared in Wall Street Journal,The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, New York Magazine, Town&Country, Robb Report, The Telegraph, Tatler, The Financial Times, The New York Observer and The Evening Standard. I was the Editor in Chief of Avenue for over four years and am Culture Editor at Document Journal. During the pandemic I founded Digital Party, a weekly publication dedicated to chronicling the people and undercurrents of the New Twenties and completed my MBA from NYU|Stern in 2023.
Selected works
Palm Beach is Having a Category 5 Identity Crisis | Vanity Fair | January 2024
The entrance to the Everglades Club, on fashionable Worth Avenue, is almost hidden from view. The mirrored façade, behind carved wrought iron, deflects the intrusive glances of passersby. Its heavy, imposing door rebuffs the curious or unworthy. A strong push and the right pedigree are required to gain admittance, as you might expect from a club that considers itself one of the landmarks of Palm Beach. continue reading
Arki Busson Brings Hollywood to New Jersey | Wall Street Journal | July 2024 Arki Busson, whose romantic life has been fodder for London tabloids, is setting his $1 billion production studio in working-class Bayonne. Arpad “Arki” Busson was raised in Paris and Switzerland. He has dated supermodels, a British aristocrat and a Hollywood movie star. His career as a London financier began after meeting Wall Street legend Paul Tudor Jones in the 1980s. More recently, he could be found milling about the blue-collar town of Bayonne, N.J. continue reading.
Capturing the magic of Annabel’s in the US | Tatler | July 2024
Howard Cushing Jr. shares previously unseen photographs of Mark Birley in a Tatler exclusive - as he opens a Newport hotel inspired by his godfather’s famed and fêted London club. When Mark Birley opened Annabel’s in the heart of in London in 1963. continue reading.
Succession Drama at Vaux-Le-Vicomte | The Daily Telegraph | May 2023
A strong and controlling wealthy father whose psychological hold on his adult children is so tight that it could ruin their ability to run the family inheritance… It is a scenario straight from Succession. But this is also the true story of the de Vogüé family. Twin brothers Alexandre and Jean-Charles, who are 54, and Ascanio, 53, are the fifth-generation owners of the 17th-century Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. continue reading.
New York Nightlife goes Online | The New York Times | March 2020 Clubs like Nowadays, House of Yes and Marie’s Crisis are live-streaming D.J. sets and singalongs. Last Saturday night, when all of New York City’s bars and clubs were closed, a DJ known as Physical Therapy set up a turntable, mixer and webcam in his walk-up apartment in the Ridgewood section of Queens. Wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt and track pants, and standing in his cramped bedroom stuffed with records and sneakers continue reading
1968 Paris Protests | Document Journal | May 2018
It’s been 50 years since the May Riots that glutted the streets of Paris during the height of the Vietnam War. As all manner of Semicentennial recollections pop around us, few events can match the unrest that marked “Les Événements,” as the protests were known, is a stark reminder that the social divisions and unrest of this period are still present, even today. continue reading
Red Hot Chili | Evening Standard Magazine | 2008
Valparaiso, Chile is one of those cities that has defied nature’s wish to destroy it more than once. Its row of brightly colored buildings are arranged on a series of steep hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and are so precariously perched that it is easy to see how one large earthquake might make them slide like dominos into the sea, as many did in 1906 when a terrible earthquake killed 20,000 people continue reading
Green Issue | Vanity Fair | May 2006
I was the lead researcher for Vanity Fair's Inaugural Green Issue, devoted to covering the environmental concerns that threaten the planet. I was also the co-writer on the Green Portfolio, a compendium of (relatively) easy ways to help save the planet.