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Tom Colicchio Lost 23 Pounds While Building a Food Empire
With carrot sticks always at the ready, the famed chef constructed his newest restaurant“The building is really special. As soon as I saw the space, I knew I wanted to be there,” said Chef Tom Colicchio, decked out in a sturdy apron and munching on raw baby carrots. He was talking about his soon-to-open restaurant at the historical Beekman hotel, Fowler ... More -
Unreal (But True) Requests for the Private Concierge
From sourcing an off-the-runway coat to flying in live chickens from Greece, four companies have made the impossible possibleEvery day presents a new set of challenges for the New York-based concierge company Insider, according to its CEO Lindsi Shine. The company, which was founded 10 years ago, assists its high net-worth clients in everything from securing a coveted restaurant reservation to planning a citywide scavenger hunt ... More -
Inside the Surprisingly Sober World of the Pot Lobby
It's not, in fact, going up in smokeHeather Podesta boasts a slate of blue-chip clients to whom anyone would be happy to bill a steak-house lunch. The fortysomething lobbyist works with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Prudential Financial, Marriott International and the MacAndrews & Forbes Group—members of industries that since time immemorial have sought ... More -
Helen Gurley Brown by the Numbers
Thanks to more than three decades as the editor of Cosmopolitan—and a career as the author of nine books—Helen Gurley Brown, the subject of the new biography Enter Helen, helped redefine the modern woman. We break down her career by ... -
Famous Musicians Who Have Scored Your Favorite Plays and Films
Trashing hotel rooms is so passé. For these musical heavyweights, rock stardom was just a stop on the road to becoming…a composer?Thom Yorke Act One: Frontman for fanatically adored rock band Radiohead.Act Two: In 2015, Yorke made his Broadway debut with the sparse, electronic score for a highly stylized production of Harold Pinter’s 1970s drama Old Times. David Bowie Act One: World-famous rock star and style icon.Act Two: The ... More -
How PopSugar Grew into a Media Empire
Life is sweet for PopSugar co-founder Lisa Sugar, as she balances motherhood and her rapidly growing business“It takes a long time to build a media company,” says Lisa Sugar, who in 2006 founded the pop culture news site PopSugar alongside her husband Brian. “That June we had our first official day of training, we were six people,” recalls Sugar, whose team now numbers nearly 460. It isn’t just her ... More -
A Look Inside Adam Weinberg’s Office
At the new Whitney, the director’s aerie is a photorealistic reflection of its occupantThe one thing you’re always aware of in this building is that you’re on an island,” says Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, sitting on a wire-mesh Bertoia chair in his eighth-floor office. “You always have a sense of place.” The museum reopened to ... More -
The Art of Needlepoint
After 12 years in business, two college friends look back at the accessories empire they’ve createdIn 2004, while Peter Smathers Carter and Austin Branson were roommates at Bowdoin College, they decided to launch a line of needlepoint belts. “We had each been gifted a needlepoint belt from our then girlfriends and became intrigued,” says Branson. “We discovered that no one was mass marketing finished hand-stitched ... More -
Oprah Winfrey Made $12 Million from 1 Tweet
A tweet about bread…Who says only the Kardashians of the world profit from the Twitterverse? Winfrey (ever the diligent Weight Watchers spokeswoman) took to Twitter on Tuesday to share a video about her weight-loss journey with the company. The 30-second clip—captioned “Eat bread. Lose weight. Whaaatttt? #ComeJoinMe”—portrays an enthusiastic Winfrey proclaiming her love ... More -
Eating Simpler in L.A.
How The Eveleigh's Jordan Toft successfully brought the farmer's market to the Strip on Sunset BoulevardIn his kitchen, a bad leaf in a salad or an herb that's yellowed could be considered criminal to Jordan Toft—which at first comes across a bit fire-and-brimstone of the chef, but it's not what you think. For Toft, who helms The Eveleigh in L.A., it's less an ... More
