Archive for November, 2009

A Select List Of People I’ve Interviewed

November 20 2009one Commented

Categorized Under: Celebrity, Food + Wine, It's All About Me, Music + Movies

Chefs

Mark Andelbradt, Paul Bartolotta, Geno Bernardo, Osamu Fujita, Martin Heierling, Jean Joho, Emeril Lagasse, Scott Linquist, Shawn McClain, Michael Mina, Rick Moonen, Bradley Ogden, François Payard, Luciano Pellegrini, Guy Savoy, Kerry Simon, Alex Stratta, Masa Takayama, Charlie Trotter, Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Actors, Directors and Personalities
Ben Affleck, Jessica Alba, Alison Anders, Greg Araki, Samaire Armstrong (Entourage, Dirty Sexy Money), [...]

NICHE Media Cover Stories

November 20 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Celebrity, NICHE Media

From 2006-2009, I wrote 25 celebrity cover stories for Niche Media’s luxury titles, including 13 VEGAS magazine covers (see related blog) as well as the following covers for OCEAN DRIVE (Miami) and ATLANTA PEACH:

click to see full text:
MAGGIE GRACE
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE
REBECCA GAYHEART      SAFFRON BURROWS
STYLE of the Venetian/Palazzo
CARLA GUGINO        KELLY CARLSON
Here’s some attention from bloggers on the [...]

Emeril’s Carnivale du Vin 2009: A Starchef Superfest!

November 18 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Food + Wine, Las Vegas

Emeril Lagasse’s fifth annual Carnivale du Vin brought the charity celebration of food and wine (benefiting his post-Katrina New Orleans-based Foundation for Children) back to Las Vegas, where it was first held, and fittingly so. With four outlets here, Vegas has been a second home of sorts for Emeril, and arguably no city better supports [...]

Umami Burger: Love U Long Time

November 17 2009one Commented

Categorized Under: Food + Wine

The timing couldn’t have been better/worse. Just as I was finishing my odyssean quest to find the Best Burgers In Las Vegas three different friends enjoined me to check out the new burger joint in LA–well, new-ish–Los Feliz’s Umami Burger.  Of course I couldn’t say no. I was curious, at the very least, to see [...]

Designer Dodd Mitchell

November 9 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Food + Wine, Spa + Luxury

No two spaces are alike for hot LA-based interior designer Dodd Mitchell (click here to download PDF) who continues to top himself with one impressive restaurant or nightclub design after another. I was lucky enough to be able to print one of the more rare lengthy interviews with him.
Other intriguing designers I’ve interviewed include Thomas [...]

Funny Folks: David Spade, Roseanne

November 9 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Celebrity, Music + Movies

Click on the images above and below to download full PDFs of features on two great comedians, David Spade and Roseanne.

Reno Air Races

November 9 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Travel

One of the coolest events I’ve gotten to report on are the one-of-a-kind Reno Air Races (click to download full PDF). You want death-defying excitement? This is as intense as it gets.