Critical Shopper - Den
The New York Times
“Fourteen years ago these clothes would have been incomprehensible to me. If I had walked in, listening to Letters to Cleo on my portable CD player, I would have reacted like a cave man who, hurtled through time, had come across a microwave and was dumbfounded. “Wha? $135 for T-shirt? Me no understand.”
photo by Hiroko Masuike
How Broad City Became The Greatest Show on Television
Out magazine
An interview with Abbi Jacobsen and Ilana Glazer at the peak of Broad City’s rise into the comedy canon. We met at the St Regis hotel. It was early in the morning. Like any celebrity at the dawn of notoriety, they had green juices and chia parfaits and were tired. But they were both super nice as the fame cloud was rolling over their heads.
The New Wellness Aristocracy
Town and Country
How Spiritual Snobs became the new One Percent
The Bitcoin Billionaires
Town and Country
How to speak, act, and shop like a cryptocrat—even if you have no idea what a blockchain is.
Book review: Solo Acting
American Theater
A review of four books on performing solo work and monologues.
Merman, Andrew, Martin
American Theater
A triple-book review of biographies about three leading lady legends of the stage: Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman, and Mary Martin. A joy of an assignment!
This is Not My Beautiful House! This is Not My Beautiful Life!
New York Magazine
That night in 2007 when I slept in a luxury loft. “I jumped at the opportunity to spend a night there… to find out what it’s like to live in the high-rises that are sprouting up all over my neighborhood like stalks of white asparagus.”
Phone Numbers
Word
From around 1997, one of the early essays I wrote for Word. com...me as a gay 20something who looks at all the phone numbers he has collected and feels the feels.
Generational Stereotypes Busted
AARP #DisruptAging
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Are we really defined by our generations?
Who You Calling 'Young Lady'?
AARP #DisruptAging
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Ageist language that needs to change.
Highbrow Monsters
Refinery29
Photo courtesy of Broadway Books
Zombies went from B movies to A list in a decade.
Los Roques, Venezuela
The New York Times
For the Times’ T magazine, I traveled to Venezuela’s archipelago of islands. It was the tail end of Chavez’s rule. Not in this story was time spent with both pro and anti- Chavez Venezuelans. Passionate divisions that at the time seemed so foreign, but were a premonition of America in 2016 and beyond.
Petey and the Boys
New York Magazine
For men, the modeling industry isn’t so glam. A look into the hectic, surprisingly hardscrabble lives of aspiring male models.