It was a gray January day when The Observer met Ilan Bracha at the Sony Building on Madison Avenue for lunch. But inside the Philip Johnson-designed atrium, at Solo (Zagat: the “be-all, end-all” of “gourmet” glatt kosher restaurants), it could have been a breezy summer evening in Mr. Bracha’s native Tel Aviv.
Speakers piped in Read More
When The Observer met Katie Thomson at Landmarc restaurant in Columbus Circle, we wanted to congratulate her. We were beaten to it.
“Monica Lewinsky sent a note saying congratulations,” she said. Ms. Thomson, sipping green tea, was wrapping up her first week as the senior producer for Piers Morgan Tonight.
“She’s really lovely,” she added. Read More
The skyscrapers of Manhattan loom through the glass windows surrounding the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Nearly hidden among them is the High Line, one of the architectural firm’s recent triumphs. That reinvigorated relic of old New York is visible through the glass if you look down, weaving through the buildings between 10th and Read More
The skyscrapers of Manhattan loom through the glass windows surrounding the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Nearly hidden among them is the High Line, one of the architectural firm’s recent triumphs. That reinvigorated relic of old New York is visible through the glass if you look down, weaving through the buildings between 10th and Read More
“You have to try the hot chocolate–it’s the best hot chocolate in town,” David Swinghamer said. The 53-year-old CEO of Shake Shack was perched atop a neon-orange stool at the back of the newish Shack at the corner of 44th and Eighth. “Especially on a day like today.”
It was Friday, Dec. 17, yet again Read More
It was the day after Thanksgiving at the Chelsea office of Talking Points Memo, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in November. The place was quiet but still in business. Three reporters sat in the pit, watching three separate flat-screen televisions–playing FoxNews, CNN and C-Span, respectively–the sounds competing with one another and filling the room with Read More
Fei “Phillip” Lam made a rare trip to Manhattan last week. After class let out, the high-school senior hopped the No. 7 train from Flushing, Queens, to Times Square, where he met with The Observer. After sipping a glass of water, he nervously showed off his wares: the front and back of the elusive, unreleased Read More
Howard Mittman is a big boy. Emphasis on big, emphasis on boy: 6-foot-3 and 240-ish, poured well into a black Zegna suit, but disarmingly mild, with a cherubic expression and none of the murderous drive you might expect to find in the publisher and vice president of Wired.
Last Thursday, at the launch party for Read More
For the past month, David Droga has been waking up to a daily email from a team of 20 creative people and producers outlining when and where pages from Jay-Z’s memoir Decoded, out this week from Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, would show up around major cities. Mr. Droga’s elaborate marketing campaign Read More
The problem with losing your job when you’re a high-level executive in contemporary book publishing is that your options are basically to become a literary agent or do something vague and most likely super-boring involving e-books. So one could have forgiven David Rosenthal for feeling a little gloomy this past summer after being fired abruptly Read More
