“Who wants club food if anyone can have it?” Sam Sifton asks at the end of his anticipated write-up of The Lion, a question that seems to sum up the spirit of his one-star review.
Sifton was apparently spotted every time he dined at restaurant—which is partially owned by Read More
Last week, Times food critic Frank Bruni panned perennial Midtown media hangout Michael’s: “California cuisine?” he sneered. “More like gloppy, affected pub grub.” Though Mr. Bruni did acknowledge that “food is no longer the point of Michael’s," it shouldn’t be resting on its laurels as a go-to power lunch and breakfast Read More
Dave Zinczenko, the most primped and best-chinned major magazine editor in chief of his gender, has a new multimillion-dollar condo on Greenwich Street.
And it has a towel warmer.
According to public records, the Men’s Health guru, who has penned best-selling books about his abs diet (such as the exclamatory Abs Diet Get Read More
One by one, from Hollywood to the Hamptons, men have liberated themselves from the flat-stomached emo-boy reign of terror. Over the weekend in Westchester, U.S. Open enthusiasts cheered for Phil Mickelson, the golf crowd’s non–Tiger Woods favorite, whose previous winning record coincided with a softly expanding waist line and what one observer near the 18th Read More
One by one, from Hollywood to the Hamptons, men have liberated themselves from the flat-stomached emo-boy reign of terror. Over the weekend in Westchester, U.S. Open enthusiasts cheered for Phil Mickelson, the golf crowd’s non–Tiger Woods favorite, whose previous winning record coincided with a softly expanding waist line and what one observer near the 18th Read More
From Boldface Names, The New York Times, March 28, 2003:
How Do I Get a Cute Actress To Add Sizzle to My Steak?Next to MAER ROSHAN, who has gotten endless attention for a magazine he has not published (Radar), we are shocked and awed by the Men’s Health editor, DAVID ZINCZENKO, who had gotten Read More
Before W. Mark Felt was conclusively identified as Deep Throat, he took on one last alias: “The Guy.”
That was how Mr. Felt-the former F.B.I. official who’d secretly leaked Watergate developments to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post-was known around the offices of Vanity Fair as the magazine put together a piece by Mr. Felt’s Read More
‘It’s Good to Be the King’: Richard Lewis on Alan King
That was a Mel Brooks line, and it couldn’t have a better meaning nor a better fit than for the comedic master who just retired into immortality. Right up front, my deepest condolences to his family and thousands of friends who really knew and Read More
“Magazine editors are the new rock stars,” said David Zinczenko, the dreamy, hazel-eyed editor in chief of Men’s Health as he sat in a taxicab early on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 27. “It’s about time people start recognizing us as the smart, funny guys that we are. And we smell better, too.”
Mr. Zinczenko’s Read More
