“I feel very blessed that I met my soul mate. Who just happens to be Idris Elba,” Sabrina Dhowre Elba announced over grilled cheese sandwiches and golden french fries at Shoreditch House, the achingly hip private club in East London. Dhowre Elba’s story reads like the plot of a Hollywood rom-com: ... More

Baking is a precise science and an art form, but Ron Ben-Israel doesn't think of himself as a scientist or an artist. He's just a baker. He is a baker who is also the executive chef of his own eponymous, by-appointment bakery, and one who was ... More

Tending to the locks of some the most photographed women in Hollywood can seem like a pressure-ridden job. One wrong snip or dip and someone's coveted curls can quickly become a viral meme, and not in a good way. Rita Hazan, hair colorist, founder of her More

Michigan-bred artist Nick Moss has been surrounded by steel his entire life. He first got acquainted with the material growing up on a farm and parlayed that into a high school job at an industrial contracting company. “I was a farm kid. I was always surrounded ... More

Iconic chocolate brand Compartes has been in business for 70 years and counts legends like Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and Winston Churchill as customers. Owner and creative director Johnathan Grahm took the reigns in his early 20s and the Los Angeles native put his stamp on ... More

Welcome to 2020: the year (read: decade) that promises to be your best yet. But, here’s the thing: New Year’s resolutions have the potential to be highly problematic thanks to some unattainable, perfection-driven expectations. Independent of the yearlong goals you may have set, the horribly trite saying still applies: “life happens ... More

A local ski legend, Kim Reichhelm, named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Skiers of All Time by Skiing magazine, is known in Aspen and worldwide for her Ski With Kim adventures. A champion in the world, U.S., and South American Extreme Skiing Championships, ... More

When I meet Mina Newman, executive chef of Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Sen Sakana and in-house caterer at New York City's Edison Ballroom–not to mention the winner of the reality television show Chopped in 2009–she gives me a strong, firm handshake. This is the ... More

Though he is only 28, interior design phenom Erick Espinoza, creative director at New York–based firm Anthony Baratta, distinguishes himself from his contemp­oraries. “There are so many millennials who have a sense of entitlement or feel like they don’t have to work as hard to ... More

Fostering female talent in top restaurants hasn’t always been easy for restaurateurs over the decades. Of course, there were trailblazers like Alice Waters at Chez Panisse, Lidia Bastianich at Felidia, and Nancy Silverton at Mozza. But in the past few years, chefs such as Niki Nakayama of the Michelin-starred ... More