#chef whitney thomas

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I don’t know how many people here watch Hell’s Kitchen, but it’s one of my favorite TV shows. Season 23 is currently airing and some of the contestants have been receiving a lot of hate over their appearances and are being misgendered.

One particular contestant is Chef Whitney “Whit” Thomas, pictured here. I’ve seen comments on Instagram, Reddit, and Facebook calling her a man, mocking her facial hair (I’ll get to that in a bit), and mocking her sexuality. Conservatives are the main ones complaining and sending her hateful comments and messages. It’s downright disgusting.

She made a post on her personal Instagram page (also pictured here) explaining why she has facial hair. She has Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), which causes some women to grow facial hair.

I also have PCOS and like Whit, I have facial hair. I keep it shaved and waxed because I’m so insecure about it. It’s caused me a lot of distress and has made me even more afraid of dating. I’ve been teased about it as well. It angers me to see such vile comments over a medical condition.

I applaud Whit for being brave and not letting the bigots and haters get to her. She’s one of the strongest contestants on the show. I admire her and have even more respect for her after her post on Instagram. I hate to see women with PCOS get bullied, especially those who grow facial hair. I also hate to see people get misgendered and harassed over their appearance and sexuality.

Even if you’re not a fan of Hell’s Kitchen or are unfamiliar with it, I recommend following Whit on Instagram and Facebook. Her Insta is chefwhitneythomas. Sorry for the long post, but as someone with the same medical condition, it pisses me off seeing someone get ridiculed.

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“In the years before World War II, footmen had stood behind every chair at dinner parties at Holiday House. During Rebekah Harkness’s tenure there, the various chefs in the different apartments into which the house was divided were themselves catered to by a master chef”

One of the most notable cottages of Watch Hill, Holiday House, later called High Watch, was built in 1929‒30 for Mrs. George Grant

Snowden (Pearl Pinkerton McClelland Snowden) of Philadelphia, whose husband had died in 1918.  It stands as a landmark for sailors on the great bluff from which Watch Hill takes its name. 

Mrs.Snowden had acquired the historic and dramatic site from the estate of Eugene Atwood in 1929.The Snowdens, beginning with George Grant Snowden’s father,

James McKean Snowden, who was born in 1831 and lived in Pittsburgh, had made their fortune in oil and gas exploration. George Grant Snowden and his brother, James H. Snowden, explored for oil first in Pennsylvania and then in Texas and New Mexico. An unanticipated result of their explorations in New Mexico was the discovery of what at the time was the largest potash deposit in the world. The next generation, George Grant Snowden, Jr., and his brother, James M. Snowden, continued the family business from an office in New York. 

James M. Snowden, Jr., remembers skyrockets and roman candles being set off from the terrace over the ocean on the Fourth of July in the 1940s.  These fireworks were launched from glass milk bottles that were current then. He recalls that one guest, Joe Thomas, senior partner of Lehman Brothers, lit the skyrockets with a large cigar.

Mr. Snowden also remembers hearing from his father about an attempted kidnapping, some years earlier, involving a plane which kidnappers had landed on the golf course. Owing to confusion as to which was the house of their intended victim, the attempt failed.

Even though the Snowdens were not the target, for the next several weeks at Holiday House, a night watchman was stationed with a submachine gun at the end of the hallway where most of the bedrooms were.

In 1948, Holiday House became the property of William Hale Harkness. Harkness was heir to his family’s Standard Oil Company fortune, his great-uncle, Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness, and his grandfather, Daniel M. Harkness, having been initial investors with John D. Rockefeller. He himself had been an initial investor, in 1922, in a fledgling publishing venture launched by two Yale friends, Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce. That venture was Time, The Weekly News magazine. 

Harkness came to Watch Hill through his second wife, Rebekah West Pierce Harkness, whom he had married the year before.  Rebekah Harkness, known as “Betty,” was from St. Louis and had summered all her life at Watch Hill, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen T. West, owned Stoneleigh on Wapan Road.

William Harkness brought with him his eighty-foot yacht, Ardea, which was the committee boat of the annual Yale-Harvard Crew Race at New London, the oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the country. The finish judges’ boat at those races was another famous boat, also associated with Watch Hill, Aphrodite, formerly John Hay Whitney’s cruiser, which in the 1990s was acquired by Watch Hill summer resident Charles M. Royce and was regularly docked at the Plimpton Dock.

Biographer Craig Unger describes Holiday House as “the single most imposing structure in Watch Hill”:

Situated on the bluff after which the town was named, the white clapboard house dominates the area. It is so large and rambling — with more than forty rooms, four chimneys, and half a dozen terraced sundecks — that it is hard to believe it is a single-family summer dwelling. Near the top deck is a room with windows on three sides from which one can see for miles up and down the Rhode Island coast.

After Mr. Harkness died suddenly in 1954, Mrs. Harkness, an amateur musician who had studied under Nadia Boulanger, the celebrated French teacher of composition, and at the Mannes College of Music and had written a number of popular songs, entered upon a career in dance. Reportedly at the suggestion of Yehudi Menuhin, she also took up yoga to improve her musical technique, importing a yoga teacher, B. K. S. Iyengar, to Holiday House in the summer of 1956 to teach her and her three children, Allen and Terry Pierce, and Edith Harkness, ages, 16, 12, and 7.  Neighbors’ children were invited to join in the lessons. 

Mrs. Harkness announced her intention to go to India the following year, for advanced lessons with Yogi Iyengar. In the early 1960s, Mrs. Harkness became a patron of the Joffrey Ballet, bringing the entire company to Watch Hill for two summers,1962–63. 

They practiced at the old Fire House, which she had purchased and converted into the Holiday Art Center, and on the terrace of Holiday House. In 1964, she founded her own company, the Harkness Ballet, principally with dancers from the Joffrey. She invited the new company to Watch Hill for the summer of 1965. The new company also accompanied her to Washington in September of that year, when they performed for President and Mrs. Johnson at the White House on a new portable East Room stage which she presented to the house on that occasion. 

In 1966, she had an outdoor practice floor, covered by a blue plastic Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, constructed on the lawn to the east of the house. The dome outraged neighbors, who sued on the basis of zoning violations. They prevailed, and the dome was dismantled. 

Not long thereafter, Mrs. Harkness left Watch Hill, establishing herself at a new country location nearer to New York, Sneden’s Landing on the Hudson, a half-hour north of the city. She put Holiday House on the market. A local partnership, the Watch Hill Associates, was formed to protect the property, and Mrs. Harkness conveyed it to them in 1973. 

Fearing that no single purchaser would be found to acquire the entire property, the partnership subdivided it into three lots, the center one, Lot 2, containing the house. The deed to Lot 2 required the buyer to reduce the size of the house at each end and to establish appropriate sideline distances for any structures that might be built on Lots 1 and 3. 

The Westerly Sun ran a photograph of the house with the caption, “Probably to be Demolished.”

 All three lots were sold in 1974, the Gurdon B. Wattles family being the purchasers of Lot 2. 

They renamed the cottage High Watch and over the next four years acquired the other two lots.  They reduced the cottage in size, and no further structures were built on the Watch Hill.

In 1985, Gurdon B. Wattles and seven of his friends turned fifty, and they celebrated with a spectacular birthday party dance at High Watch. The others were Whitney Addington, Malcolm Barlow, Jane Buffum, Arthur Cottrell III, Robert Knisley, Suzanne MacLear, and John McCormick. It was a flawless, full-moon August evening with a big band orchestra playing on the terrace and a steel band below, by the pool. Fireworks over Lighthouse Point were provided by Grucci. The Wattles family remained at High Watch until 1996.

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Sabre Appoints Otto Gergye as VP/RGM North Asia

Sabre has appointed Otto Gergye as Vice President and Regional General Manager North Asia - Travel Solutions Airline Sales. Otto will be responsible for Sabre’s airline operations in North Asia, a key growth region for the company. His role will involve identifying business opportunities and further expanding Sabre’s already strong presence in this fast-growing region. He will also seek to strengthen successful and trusted relationships with existing airline customers.

Otto has over 20 years of experience in the aviation and travel industry, and has held multiple senior executive roles with various airlines and technology providers across the globe. Otto joins Sabre from Qantas Airways where he was General Manager Commercial Sales Performance Asia. Previous notable roles for Otto include Executive General Manager Sales, Marketing & Distribution at Fiji Airways, Senior Vice President at Air Berlin and Chief Commercial Officer with Malev Hungarian Airlines. He has also worked in a variety of commercial leadership positions at airlines, telecommunications and software companies, including at British Airways and KLM. “Otto is a highly experienced travel, technology and business leader with a proven record for leading global teams, opening up new markets and driving growth for airline and technology companies within APAC and beyond,” said Darren Rickey, SVP, Travel Solutions Regional Sales and Accounts, Sabre. “Having worked at a number of airlines himself, he is well- placed to strengthen existing relationships and grow new ones to further cement Sabre’s position as APAC’s preferred airline technology partner.” Otto will be based out of Sabre’s APAC headquarters in Singapore. He holds an MBA from the Open University Business School. See latest Travel News, Interviews, Podcasts and other news regarding: Sabre, VP, RGM. 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SCOUT IS OUT ! The Volume 2 Launch Party Low Down

SCOUT IS OUT in Huntsville! We celebrated the launch of our 2nd volume at The Ledges in true Scout fashion. Keep reading to see the highlights, decor, food, entertainment and all of the pretty guests who made this volume’s party so special...

First off, you should know the team of ladies behind The Scout Guide Huntsville. (I am going to call this our Scout Guide Huntsville dream team shot!) Somehow we managed to all stand still for five minutes just before the party got started to snap this photo. Left to right: Nicole Thompson of B. Nicole Photography, our TSG Social Event Photographer; Sabrina Simōn, our Social Media Coordinator; Dawn Pumpelly, the Editor and Owner of The Scout Guide Huntsville, Charlotte Wessel of Buckets and Blooms and TSG’s Creative Consultant, and Ashley Vaughn of White Rabbit Studios and the TSG Photographer. We could not be more proud to share with you all that Scout Guide Huntsville Vol. 2 has to offer!

The Party Venue

You couldn't ask for a more picturesque setting atop the highest point in Huntsville. Renowned for it’s views, catering, golfing, attention to detail and fantastic service, The Ledges is one of Huntsville’s finest destinations–especially for a special event! 

These lovely young ladies from Jill’s School of Dance greeted all the guests and handed them the brand new volume of The Scout Guide Huntsville!

Launch Party Styling

And then there were the stunning flower arrangements–oh my goodness! Charlotte Wessel, our Scout Guide Huntsville Creative Consultant and owner of Buckets and Blooms, sourced the most gorgeous local flowers from 1818 Farms, Brosemer Family Farm, Field and Forage, and Collinette Flower Farm. She filled the Ledges’ entryway with a stunning five-foot showstopper and covered every table with unique arrangements and stacks of Scout Guides. Finally, as the party spilled into the final room, Charlotte’s pièce de résistance was the ombré baby’s breath arch that was the perfect spot for a photo for two happy party-goers.

Gina of Gina’s Balloons crafted the amazing organic balloon arch featured in many of the party photos and this welcoming organic balloon topiary that greeted all of our guests. 

We were also proud to display the custom watercolor created by Caroline Holcomb for our party invitations that she and her sisters Keller Wilson and Niki Hopkins created for us through their company called life as paper. (Keller, Niki and Caroline pictured left to right below)

The Entertainment

The lovely local Huntsville talent, Victoria Jones added her voice to the air for all to hear during the party.

The Food

Oh my, the food was unique, so tasty and plentiful. Chef Phillip and his Ledges team created and modern spin on our launch party hors d'oeuvres. SO-WELL-DONE!  These spicy shrimp  appetizers were amazing and were our favorite!

Strawberry Shortcakes and Key Lime tarts were out in sweet force.

Angela and Molly of Good Company Cafe created custom TSG logo cookies in pink just for us!

I know what you are thinking. And the answer is YES, they did taste just as good as they look!!

Ashley, Dawn and Sabrina all want to go back to sipping The Ledges’ Rosé Spritzer (Recipe here!) that they created just for the Vol. 2 launch! 

Bonus! Personalized Vol. 2′s

Christina Green of The Cardinal Collective personalized copies of our new Vol. 2 for all the guests in stunning gold calligraphy! It was simply splendid and everyone loved her gorgeous work so much. 

The Members and Guests

And then there were so many special, all out amazing, talented members of TSG Vol. 2 that joined us for the launch party. You could literally feel the local love in the crowd as you chatted with folks. 

We are so very proud to call all of them all our friends. And it’s hard to chose just a few pictures - but here are some snapshots of the guests themselves!

Chef Rene Boyzo, Church Street Family/Purveyor, Heather Herrington, Heritage Kitchen + Bath, Ashley Ryals, Homegrown Huntsville’s Crush Wine and Food Festival, Stephanie Mell and Zach Spencer, Church Street Family, Nicole Roden and Katiya McKinney, Progress Bank. (pictured left to right)

Dr. Sonya Wintzell, Dental Professionals on Whitesburg.

Lauren Battle, Lankford Battle Agency, Jessica Johnson, Johnson Orthodontics, Amanda Elliott and Lauren Webb.

Jessica and Nathan Johnson, Johnson Orthodontics. 

Kristin Davis and Claire Spencer.

Leslie Ecklund, Burritt on the Mountain, and Alka Bhargav, AUM Foundation.

Ones to Watch Amy and Kelly Falter of Southern Reclaimed Salvage Barn and Dr. Rica McRoy, R City Eye Care.

Dawn with Arlene Zanlunghi, Events Coordinator at The Ledges.

Eric Lee, Amanda Lucker, Dr. Charles Lee and Lindsey Moore of Regenesis. 

WEDC Foundation’s Beth Brooks, Executive Director, and JoAnn Perez, Chair, Women Honoring Women 2019.

A great LOCAL foodie shot with Caitlin, Emily and Michelle of Pizzelle’s Confections and Angela and Molly of Good Company Cafe.

Sonja of At Some Point Press showing off the Lowe Mill Spread of talented artisans in Vol. 2.

Charles and Andrea Jones, Jones Paparella and Thomas Group | Merrill Lynch.

Brandy of Tweed Ride Huntsville, Faith of Faith Woods Events, Nancy Finnegan, MUA and Sonya Wintzell, Dental Professionals of Whitesburg.

Dawn Pumpelly, Editor and Owner of The Scout Guide Huntsville and her incredibly supportive family!

Sarah Lauren Kattos, VanValkenburgh & Wilkinson Realtors and Joy Hall, HomeChoice Windows and Doors.

Members of WEDC (Women’s Economic Development Council) - Front row: Carolyn Lankford, Lankford/Battle Agency, Kyla Kelly, FirstBank, Sandy Edwards, SDE Accounting Solutions (and TSG accountant!), Dawn Pumpelly (TSG Editor and WEDC 2019 President,) Alka Bhargav, AUM Foundation. Back row: Caitlyn Lyon, Pizzelle’s Confections, Tiffany Jordan, Driven Solutions, Beth Brooks, WEDC Foundation, JoAnn Perez, Perez Law Firm, and Teri Hartmann, DesignedByHart Pottery Studio.

Sallie Stokes, Whitney Lawery and Andrea Wilson, Accents of the South.

Aissa Castillo, Anthropologie and Aislerchic, Gabriele Smith, Ana Lewis, Native or Not Huntsville, and Lauren Petersen, Travel Patterns.

The Scout Guide Huntsville Vol. 2 Launch Party was quite simply an outstanding, elegant, and beautiful affair–filled with so much love of community, local business, and artistic talents. Outpourings of such good cheer like this don’t happen very often and we can definitely say we are so glad to be here and very much a part of Huntsville! Cheers! And LIVE. LOVE. LOCAL.

Photography by our social media photographer, B Nicole Photography.

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the bachelor, season twenty-one, episode six: forgive me, andy cohen

Blah blah blah Corinne. Blah blah blah.

We open with the girls at the house waiting to see who’s bag will get taken away by some sad producer. The only person who’s happy that Corinne’s coming home is Jacqueline, who is probably sad that Vienna stole her face and used it to fall in love and out of love with Jake Pavelka in 2010.1 EVERYONE IS SHOOK AS HELL. Meanwhile, Taylor is feeling empowered and decides it’s a good look to barge in on Nick and Corinne’s date. TAYLOR, YOU LOST. Calling her a liar flat out in front of the guy is not a good look, even if she has been drunk the entire time. They give Corinne the “Talking To Herself When She’s Really Talking To a Producer”2 edit whilst Nick and Taylor talk, and Taylor continues to try to prove she’s mature while consistently proving she’s only twenty-three. She calls it “an experience”3, and continues to maintain that she’s not a mean girl or a bully - Taylor, did you not just barge in on their date? Go back to graduate school. Everyone has been in the position where the more sexually liberated blonde girl wins. EVERYONE.

They’re still in New Orleans, and headed into the cocktail party. They’re at another “old fashioned Louisiana” house, and because I didn’t get to say it last week, here it is:

Stop. [clapping emoji] Doing. [clapping emoji] Shit. [clapping emoji] On. [clapping emoji] Plantations.

This, Top Chef, and Blake Lively’s entire existence, let’s all just stop romanticizing plantations like they aren’t the lands of horrific behavior from the past, like your feet aren’t walking on ground built by blood and torture. JUST STOP DOING SHIT ON PLANTATIONS. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO FATHOM??????????? YOU WOULDN’T GET MARRIED IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP WOULD YOU JESUS CHRIST

Anyway, Raven’s nervous, but Whitney (WHO ARE YOU) feels like she hasn’t had enough time and she’s falling behind. Whitney, have you had any time? Like, seriously, who are you? You’re the Samantha of this season, and I hope this means you’re the Samantha of this year’s Paradise4. Going into the rose ceremony, Corinne, Danielle M, and Queen Rachel #rachelforbachelorette all have roses, so they’re secure, but that means there’s at least six roses up for grabs. Rachel shows up wearing this fabulous purple sparkly two-part dress and god, y’all. Why is she my everything? You know who else fucking brings it at this cocktail party? JAIMI. Girl, you’re not lasting long whatsoever but that purple lip is giving me life.

My New Best Friend And Former Mortal Enemy Chris Harrison comes in to tell the ladies that oop - there ain’t no cocktail party tonight. The girls are immediately on edge, and I always laugh. I know that they always say the bachelor/ette “has made up their mind”, but really, I bet sometimes they’re just tired as hell and running behind because they were taking a nap. That’s at least what I would do, because I’m a better person when I’ve had at least a two hour nap5. Corinne is inexplicably happy about there being no cocktail party, which is weird because she’s safe and has a rose and it’s not like it matters except relishing in the other girls’ anxiety.

The girls walk on the ground put there by slavery out to Nick, who is getting worse and worse at pretending that it pains him to send these women home. I also feel like they’re putting him in bad Andy Cohen-lite suits on purpose. Who did you piss off in costuming, Nick? He always looks like a little boy in his dad’s suit.

Along with Queen Rachel #rachelforbachelorette, Danielle M, and Corinne who already have them, roses go to Kristina, Raven, Vanessa6, Danielle L, Jasmine7, and the final rose goes to Whitney. I do not know who Whitney is. Whitney, who are you? Not even in a Mariah Carey “I Don’t Know Her” kind of way, I literally have never seen Whitney before in my life.

That means Jacqueline, Jaimi, and Our Princess Dolphin Shark Alexis are going home. Jaimi, who I would beg to tell me what lip color she is wearing, gives Nick a hug, and despite this being the worst, she recognizes that Nick isn’t her guy. Nick seems genuinely sad to send Alexis home, but it’s okay. We’re gonna get a fuck ton of Alexis on Fuck Island 4. Speaking of islands, we’re going to St. Thomas next!

The girls all arrive in St. Thomas wearing identical outfits that probably weren’t planned, and we get our first instance of “__________ Is The Perfect Place To Fall In Love”. Honestly, at this point, you could take these people to war-torn Liberia and they would say it was the Perfect Place To Fall In Love if a producer told them to. They’re staying in a resort, of course, and we get to see the best of what the St. Thomas Tourism Bureau has to offer!

Unfortunately, Jasmine looks like she’s going to get the same edit most people of color get on this show - the “I Didn’t Get Enough Time/I’m Questioning Your Intentions” edit. She’s one of only three girls who hasn’t had a one-on-one with Nick, and she’s determined to. Sorry, Jasmine. You’re just a Filler Queen. You are Dollar General Gabrielle Union. Nick has made his intentions and his interests very clear at this point, and unfortunately, you are not the one. But that doesn’t mean they’re not going to relish in your misery.

Nick arrives by seaplane, and announces that the date is going to start straight away, and it’s a one-on-one.

I should use Date Card GIFs here, but it was so anticlimactic I can only use one.

The date goes to Kristina, and Jasmine is like, “I put lashes on for this?”8 She cries because she’s afraid of being forgotten. Last week she got blamed for a ghost on a plantation, this week she’s crying on a beach? Jasmine had a rough go of things.

It’s the obligatory “put people in a small plane” date of the season - the second one, I believe - and they get some gorgeous shots of St. Thomas, blah blah blah. Nick thinks Kristina is shy and demure and wants to get to know her. Apparently Kristina is one of 10! My mom is one of 10 too, and let me tell you...

It’s hard to keep track of who’s related to you and who’s not after a certain point. I have 27 cousins, something like that, and I swear, when I get famous, I’m going to have to get DNA tests done on everyone asking me for money because I’m a) gullible and b) LITERALLY HAVE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY TO KEEP STRAIGHT. I’m regularly asking my mom how this person is related to me. It’s how I learned to say “It’s great to see you!” instead of “nice to meet you” or something like that - you never know when you’ve met someone before.9

Kristina talks about being adopted and having a sister back in Russia - her parents had four children and adopted four others, which is noble af - but she’s not close to her sister in Russia and barely speaks Russian since she stopped when she came to America10. Nick asks her if she misses using the language and she responds “Da,” and my heart swells. Her awkward response afterwards sealed the deal. Is Kristina this season’s dark horse?

The girls awkwardly sit around in the resort hotel room and share uninteresting facts about the island - WE GET IT, ST. THOMAS TOURISM BUREAU. Corinne just wants to take it easy today and drink champagne in bed, but of course, production sends Lorna, who is queen for taking on these girls. She’s essentially the “house mom” for Phi Beta Bachelor, so of course Corinne takes advantage of this. Lorna is a saint.

Nick and Kristina sit down to a meal of one of the least sexy foods you can eat in front of another person - lobster. I knew I had real feelings for my boyfriend when he and I ordered crab legs from Crabby Shack and I had zero qualms about going TO TOWN on some crab legs in front of him. All the best foods - crab, lobster, mussels - require some kind of nastiness in the process of eating them. I like to work to get my food, but I don’t like to look pretty while doing so. Take your pick, gentlemen.

Nick wants to go deeper with Kristina, because it’s pretty clear that there’s more to her story than she’s sharing. She was born poor in a small town with just her mother - to the point where she ate lipstick as food, god damn - and then her mother kicked her out at five years old and she went into an orphanage. She always wondered if her mom was going to come back or come visit her, but she never did. She spent eight years in an orphanage, but lived in fear of turning sixteen and having to leave the orphanage and turn to prostitution to make money. Her story is absolutely fucking heartbreaking. She eventually got adopted at twelve-years-old, but you can tell she still feels bad for leaving her sister and the orphanage kids behind for a better life. That wasn't your regular sob story. That was real, true life. I’m crying, Nick’s crying, Kristina’s crying, you’re crying. Nick offers her the rose, and she accepts.

Back at the resort, the girls are excited because they think there will be two one-on-one dates and a group date, and Whitney, whoever she is, thinks there will definitely be a one-on-one for her. Tell us more of your opinions, Whitney, I have no idea anything about you.

GUESS WHAT?

THERE’S A

DATE CARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Queen Rachel #rachelforbachelorette, Raven, Vanessa, Corinne, Danielle M., and Jasmine are all on the date card, and no one is happy because a) Jasmine’s on another group date and b) that means Whitney and Danielle L. are on another two-on-one date.

Money down that both Whitney and Danielle L. get eliminated. They don’t have two two-on-ones in a season if they’re not trying to get rid of people. We’re halfway through the season, we’re almost to “Can I Walk You Out?” time, and they can’t do that if they’re eliminating multiple girls in a night! I KNOW HOW THIS SHOW WORKS.

The girls meet Nick, and get on a catamaran, see a pirate ship, and ride it out on the beach. Nick asks the essential questions: Christmas or Halloween, Chocolate or Vanilla, you know - the things relationships are founded on11. Vanessa’s really trying to get Nick’s attention, and is being real extra. Like, you can see Raven trying not to roll her eyes12, and Nick is totally overwhelmed.

They’re drinking Glasses of Death13 - I mean BEACH COCKTAILS - and playing Cornhole14 and everyone wears really ugly bikinis. Nick does an impression of a dinosaur that I wish I captured, and then tells them they’re playing volleyball while he keeps score. I am horrified at the entire notion of playing volleyball on a date. Why would you ever, though? There are a lot of sports I don’t get15 and volleyball is definitely one of them. It just reminds me of being tortured in gym class. What’s not said is is that the winners get time with Nick and the losers don’t, apparently. Raven at least admits what’s true - Corinne’s drunk as usual - and sucks at volleyball. She walks off, takes a shot, and Nick chases after her as always.

I’ve been thinking this a lot this season - Corinne’s Nick’s Last Hurrah, right? Like, what 36 year old isn’t validated by a 23 year old being all over them? Nick is closer to 40 than 30 and Corinne is closer to 20 than 30, and that’s hot to him. He’s so transparent. Danielle M.’s totally over it, as is Vanessa16, who’s mad because they’re just playing volleyball and not relaxing on the beach. All the girls are confused as to why they’re doing this and not spending one-on-one time with each of them, and I get it. Jasmine got super into it, tried too hard, and got hyper competitive to the point of discomfort. Eventually, the date disintegrates into the girls all getting fed up with the game, as they should have been, and they all go off to lay on their towels and cry. Everyone is fucking crying now. They’re all exhausted with the entire gambit, so what’s the point? The date is a nightmare.

They go to the after-after-after-after-after-after party17 with the women, and Nick immediately tries to get some damage control out there first, and takes Queen Rachel aside first. Queen Rachel reads him the house down boots and says she’s pretty much ready to leave because she felt neglected on the date and doesn’t like feeling weak, and Nick pretty much is like WHAT NO PLEASE GOD NO. He asks her not to and tells her that he’s into her and if she decides to leave, to let him know first. Dollar General Gabrielle Union feels confidence in her relationship with Nick and wants reassurance since she’s the only girl who hasn’t gotten a group date or a one-on-one rose. She decides to show Nick how great she is and how lucky he would to be with her, but now she’s overselling herself and spiraling and I’m already cringing. The producers love the girl who’s put on ice for so long she breaks. Nick keeps coming in and asking to take the girls away himself, and it’s awkward. All the girls are like “oh shit, this is gonna be bad.” And it is!

Jasmine gets her time with Nick and immediately brings up not being reassured and not feeling confident. She just wanted one-on-one time, and she wonders if she’s ever going to feel as special as the other girls who have gotten roses have. Jasmine cries and can’t articulate herself and Nick just... isn’t having it.

I am literally sitting here shaking my head and going “JASMINE. JASMINE. JASMINE!!!!”

She jokes about wanting to choke him and when it doesn’t land, turns it into a sex joke. I am screaming internally when she pretends to choke him and asks him if he’s into that. Jasmine, maybe don't ask a guy if it's okay to choke him? And maybe, when he says "no", don't ask him nine more times if he's sure it's not okay for you to choke him? Nick’s disappointed in their conversation and decides to send her home right then and there. She wishes him good luck, and Jasmine is another POC victim of the “I’m not getting attention but I’m a catch” spiral down edit. We literally don’t even see the winner of the group date rose, I had to go on Wikipedia to find out that it was Raven.

Nick is feeling discouraged because he feels like he’s not making the proper connections and is no longer as confident as he was before. He’s concerned he wants it so badly that he’s trying to force it. Nick has summed up the entire conceit of this show.

The next day, everyone is emotionally exhausted for some reason and Nick especially. We get a good shot of all the girls laying in bed looking at the ceiling. Nick is going to suck up the fact that he has to go on a date with two vacant shells today... I mean, he’s going on a date with Danielle L. and The Artist Currently Known As Whitney. We get our THIRD helicopter/small ass plane date, and in case Nick thought today was going to be easy, both of the girls are wondering why they’re on a two-on-one, because the two-on-one is the obvious sign that someone isn’t interested in you. Is it? Is this a thing?

They take a helicopter to a beach, and it’s basically just one-on-one on a two-on-one. Whitney claims that she and Nick have spoken before, a fact I just can’t believe to be true, and Nick claims that he likes spending time with her, a fact I could believe if we’ve seen it. Apparently the girls at the house call Danielle D.Lo, and I cannot breathe at this entire insinuation. I want to call her Danny, because she reminds me so much of Robb(ie) from Joelle’s season that I think her name should have as ridiculous a spelling as his did. She’s full of generic platititudes just like Robb(ie) was. Her generic responses about "seeing myself falling in love" and making sure to hit every Bachelor trope off a checklist, ugh. Both girls wait patiently by the beach before Nick comes to drop the hammer. Nick says Whitney has an “amazing quality” about her, WHAT IS IT? NOTHING? He tells her he can’t give her the rose, as much as he’d like to18 and Whitney also reads him the house down boots when she tells him “it’s easy to build a relationship when you spend time with the other person.” The poor intern is sent into the resort to take a suitcase away, and it’s Whitney who’s being left on the beach, alone, while Nick and Danielle speed off in a helicopter together. Whitney claims she didn’t see it coming, when we’ve all been wondering who you are this entire time. Bye, stranger.

Danielle L. and Nick go to dinner, and Nick is pretty glad that he got clarity with Whitney and wants tonight to go well. Rest assured, that means it won’t. They’re eating in an old jail, and sit and talk about their past dates and reassure each other that they have feelings for each other. Danielle admits that he’s falling in love with him. It’s pretty obvious she and Nick have zero chemistry and she’s just using every trope in the book to extend her time/extend her Instagram followers by giving generic, vague, empty answers to every question he offers her, and the awkward silence that follows confirms Nick isn’t on the same page as her. His eyes literally glaze over. He feels terrible that she confessed these feelings and he doesn’t feel the same way. He does the terrible thing that Joelle did last season when he kept saying “I wanted it to be you,” as if that helps any. What’s even more horrific is that he holds up the rose WHILST DUMPING DANIELLE. She at first has this look like “YES FOR ME?” and then slowly realizes that no, not for her. He cries one Sinead O’Connor tear and hopes he’s not screwing it up, but it’s not a loss for you, Nick. “I hope I’m not making a mistake”? That’s what I want to hear when I’m being dumped.

The ladies have already watched Whitney’s bag being dragged out by the PA, so the producers gather the ladies together again so they can all be witness to Danielle’s bag being escorted away, as well. Face crack of the century, y’all19. It’s not even the rose ceremony yet, and three girls have already been sent home. The girls are in shock.

Nick comes into the girls’ hotel room in tears, and gives a speech about how he had his hopes really high at the beginning, is afraid the process won’t work for him20, is afraid that he’s making all the wrong decisions, and doesn’t know if he can keep on keeping on, because he doesn’t want to magically fall out of love with any of them. Unfortunately, I’m weirdly on his side. This is an anxiety-inducing scenario, and Nick’s admitted to having anxiety about the entire endeavor. He pretty much abruptly leaves in tears, and the girls are freaking out. They’re all crying. Okay, good night!

Next Week: The girls are still rattled because they’re afraid Nick is losing Hope & Faith Starring Kelly Ripa, and Corinne decides it’s her time to cheer him up with her vagina.

See you on Tuesday!

Random Assessments From The Desk of Amanda:

I admit it: I laughed at Raven saying Jasmine is a turnip because she’s turned “all the way up”.

Watching Nick bite his lip to keep from smiling while he broke up with Danielle L. was hilarious and one of my favorite parts from the episode.

Rachel’s hair is natural and GORGEOUS I CANNOT I LOVE HER SO MUCH

Nick just seems… tired. Like, in an “I’m too old for this shit” tired kind of way. I mean, if it was my 19th time on this franchise, I would be tired too.

Does anyone else think Nick’s concerns are based in the fact that he’s not super into any of these women? Sure, he likes some of them, but he definitely knows what happens if he doesn’t propose in the end and probably isn’t sure he likes any of them enough to be engaged to them on national television.

I swear this is the first episode where Nick got more screen time than Corinne.

I’m so sad I missed three weeks of this blog so I only got one use out of Dollar General Gabrielle Union.

SPEAKING OF, I’M BACK BABY. TWICE A WEEK, I PROMISE.

And we all are better because of it. ↩︎

I MISS PARADISE. ↩︎

At least it’s not “journey”, right? ‘Cause we know the contestants can’t call it a “competition”, despite that being exactly what this is. When I become The Second Black Bachelorette™, I’m going to call it an “endeavor”. It has this kind of false hope I really like. ↩︎

If you don’t understand this reference, we’re probably going to go back and rewatch BIP2 after this is over and Vanderpump Rules is over. Fuck Island 2 is the best one of them all, and they’ve only done 3. ↩︎

This is not an exaggeration, and I’m sure everyone reading this is nodding their heads. Shut up, everyone. Especially you, Mom. Seriously, though - the nights I’ve looked my best, I’ve had a nap in preparation, and at least two glasses of water. I’m such a youth. ↩︎

Burning Love Reference Time: Does Vanessa remind anyone else of Annie? OH MY GOD CORINNE IS TITI. HOLY SHIT. They clearly got Ken Marino to cast this season. ↩︎

Are Jasmine and Rachel the first two black contestants to make it this far in any season of this show? ↩︎

The number of times I have forced myself to do something because I put lashes on, y’all. ↩︎

Conan O’Brien and Andy Cohen taught me that. This is the second Andy Cohen reference in this blog, what is HAPPENING? ↩︎

Kristina totally could have gotten the Shushanna “She’s from a foreign country” edit, and I’m really glad they respected her and her story enough not to. It’s a small standard of “respect” coming from this show, but it’s still there. ↩︎

I have no idea where my boyfriend leans on either of these topics, and he’s literally sitting across from me and I CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO ASK. ↩︎

Holy shit, this is the first time I realized how gorgeous Raven is. ↩︎

I’m both allergic to pineapple and a lightweight, the only thing I’m drinking on a beach is water. From the ocean. ↩︎

Apparently this is a Midwestern game and not something everyone’s doing without Buster. ↩︎

By a lot, I mean most. ↩︎

I love that Vanessa already acts like the put-on wife whose husband is cheating on her with other women. ↩︎

This is one of my favorite recurring jokes, I’m sorry. ↩︎

And I don’t think he wanted to very much. ↩︎

Can you guys tell I just finished rewatching all of Drag Race? ↩︎

I mean, would you look forward to being possibly disappointed for a FOURTH TIME on this franchise? ↩︎

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Insurers are denying coronavirus claims. Restaurants are fighting back

A closed sign hangs on the door with a view of the empty restaurant during the coronavirus pandemic on April 14, 2020 in New York City.

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As the coronavirus pandemic upends the restaurant industry, insurers are denying restaurant companies’ claims for payouts that could help their businesses survive. 

States across the country have mandated that eateries only serve their food via takeout, delivery or drive-thru lanes to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Some restaurants have chosen to shutter temporarily for the safety of their employees and customers, while others have tried to adapt. Restaurant transactions plunged 41% in the week ended April 5, compared with a year ago, according to the NPD Group.

Restaurateurs, like many other business owners, thought that the situation would be covered by business interruption insurance, which covers the loss of income suffered by a business after a disaster. But following the SARS outbreak, regulators approved an exception in such policies for viruses and bacterial outbreaks.

Fred Castellucci, chief executive of Atlanta-based Castellucci Restaurant Group, said that his insurer denied his claim because his policy included an exception for virus outbreaks. 

“My frustration with insurance companies is that they’re essentially in business to take your money, make money off of your money and then never pay you out when you have an issue,” Castellucci said.

Even when an exception is not spelled out in the policy, insurers are denying claims using the argument that the virus does not constitute physical damage to the property.

But political pressure is mounting on insurers to reverse course. 

Following calls from industry groups like the recently formed Independent Restaurant Coalition, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., unveiled a bill on Tuesday that would nullify virus exclusions and force insurers to pay pandemic business interruption claims. Similar bills have been introduced in several state legislatures, including those of New York, South Carolina and Ohio. New Jersey’s bill was withdrawn before it could reach the state Senate.

President Donald Trump has signaled that he believes that business interruption policies without specific pandemic exceptions should cover claims related to the coronavirus.

“I would like to see the insurance companies pay if they need to pay, if it’s fair. And they know what’s fair. And I know what’s fair,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday during his daily coronavirus task force briefing.

The American Property Casualty Insurance Association said in a statement that pandemic outbreaks are “uninsurable.” The lobbying group for the insurance industry estimates that losses for businesses with 100 employees or less are now as high as $431 billion, dwarfing annual premiums of $71 billion.

Some restaurateurs, including celebrity chef Thomas Keller, are hoping that the courts will resolve the issue, even if lawmakers do not. Keller, who recently joined the White House’s economic revival industry group, is suing his insurer, arguing that his restaurant company should receive a payout because his policy does not have a pandemic exclusion.

Skip Durocher, an attorney at Dorsey & Whitney who represents policyholders in such disputes, said that even a fast court decision could take more than a year. The pandemic, which has closed many courts, is slowing down the already sluggish legal system. 

Still, payouts from business interruption insurance policies will likely fall short of the actual losses to the business.

Darden Restaurants executives said in March that the situation is covered by its business interruption insurance policy, which has a coverage limit of $10 million. The Olive Garden parent, which raked in $8.5 billion in sales in fiscal 2019, said that its same-store sales have plunged 39% during the first six weeks of its fiscal fourth quarter.

Castellucci said that he’ll be looking at alternatives to traditional insurance after this experience. 

“At a certain point, when you get to a certain level of success, you should self-insure,” he said. 

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February 2020 | New Studio Space in Downtown Greenville | Kyiv, Ukraine | London, England | Greenville, South Carolina | Commercial, editorial, wedding photographer - Jack Robert Photography

January- leading into February, I was in Detroit to spend time with family and photograph three amazing couples. I had three engagement shoots within a week there! For the first photo shoot, we had a golden hour sunset shoot planned. I met up with Clint and Serene at the Detroit Athletic Club, however they ended up arriving one hour after the scheduled time (no worries) - which pushed me to take on the challenge of photographing with street light instead of natural light. There wasn’t a golden hour anyways- it was overcast. Despite the darkness and challenge of photographing with only street light- I think we got some solid shots! We wandered around, took photos and walked to the nearby Madcap coffee. Then we took an Uber to the David Whitney Building where the Aloft hotel is- which made for a gorgeous photo! To finish off the night, we had a delicious multi-course meal from Michelin Star and James Beard Award Chef Thomas Lents at the Apparatus Room in the Detroit Foundation Hotel.

The first day of February, I met another awesome couple where they are to be married: Matthaei Botanical Gardens. All I can say is WOW! What a gorgeous place to get engagement photos done- especially in the cold weather! Celeste and Forest hadn’t taken any photos together- the last time they had professional photos was eight years ago! I was honored to capture such special moments for them and to put them at ease in front of the camera. Look at the review they left me on WeddingWire:

Celeste MacQueen

5.0 STARS

Best Photographer EVER!

Let me start off by saying that we have not even gotten our actual wedding photos done yet just our engagement photos, and we are already so thrilled that we hired Jack! We have never been photo people by any stretch of the imagination, yet Jack made us feel super comfortable the entire time. He was so professional, and is incredibly prompt when replying to messages. I've heard horror stories from past brides about how long the had to wait for their photos so i was super surprised to receive our engagement photos just a few days after the shoot! Jack is truly about his couples, and i would recommend him for anything you need photographed.

By the end of the shoot, there were massive snowflakes falling outside and I was able to convince Celeste and Forest that a photo in the snow would look amazing- even in their non-winter clothes 😊 They were down, and I think we got an awesome shot!

The next day I met up yet another awesome couple, Laryssa and Marcello. They’re Italian so by default they are a good time. We decided to go with the Belle Isle Casino (not what you think!) as a backdrop, check out how beautiful it was: After some solid shots at the Belle Isle Casino, we made our way over to the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory AKA Belle Isle Conservatory and ended up taking photos in there, too! Two conservatories in two days! Turns out they are amazing places for photos- so glad we were able to do it!

When the weekend was over I made my way back to Greenville, South Carolina for a solid week of editing and photographing. Here’s some huge news: I struck a deal with Parlour Nouveau and Walter and Woods to open a studio in their space on Lauren’s St - one block of Main Street downtown Greenville- starting March 1!! I’m going to be focusing on package deals for headshots, fashion and beauty portrait sessions that include hair and makeup ALL IN ONE PLACE! I’m really excited to have this space to explore lighting techniques and make more studio photographs! I’ll also be able to focus more on product photography as well! Please message me on Instagram @jackrobertphotography or email to stop in, have a shoot or chat about the space!

In other cool news- not only I was able to photograph the wedding for Karen and Keith in December, but on February 6, I photographed the grand opening of their business on Woodruff road- Stretch Zone Greenville. The night consisted of food, fun and free stretches! They are certified to stretch you out- and it’s certainly worth it! I know you’ve probably never had a professional stretching session (unless your an athlete) but it’s a very good experience and I highly recommend you try it at least once!

From February 8-21 I was in Kyiv, Ukraine with my wife! Then February 21-23 Had me in London to photograph a world class opera singer and her family - Aivale Cole - who is a featured vocalist in the soundtrack for The Fellowship Of The Ring.

On Sunday the 23 I flew back to Greenville, SC so I could photograph Upstate Forever’s 2020 Forever Green Luncheon on Monday the 24. Upstate Forever is a nonprofit conservation organization that protects critical lands, waters, and the unique character of Upstate South Carolina. 

Directly after the Upstate Forever Luncheon- I headed over to Parlour Nouveau and Walter And Woods to photograph Bourbon and Blowouts in partnership with Makers Mark Bourbon

Also on the 24, I flew to New York City with Tiana Schowe to film and photograph her giving a presentation at the United States second largest independent real estate firm- Douglas Elliman.

I was also honored to have a headshot session with Douglas Williford - the Manager of the Douglas Elliman (The Triangle Below Canal Street) TriBeCa Office in New York City.

In February 26 I flew back to Greenville just in time for Upstate Business Journals networking event- Business on Tap hosted in the Greenville One center this month.

February 28 I was hired by the awesome people at Forest Kitchen Design to photograph a lovely kitchen they custom designed!

All in all, I’m incredibly thankful for all of these opportunities I get. I won’t ever take all the travel, experiences and people that I get to meet for granted. Here’s some tips for photographers: be flexible, kind, honest and upfront with all of your clients. They will write you awesome reviews and you’ll have a great business.

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How an Author and His Husband Host Casual Dinners in Their New York Apartment

It’s tempting to call the author Richie Jackson’s new book, “Gay Like Me,” a memoir or an epistolary — but it’s really a manifesto, a 156-page letter from a gay 54-year-old father to his gay 19-year-old son, Jackson Wong, about what it meant to be gay when the writer was young in New York and what it means to be gay now. In that way, the work is a magnanimous gesture of generational transference: a cheat sheet on queer history; a lecture about safe sex; a call to get angry, harness one’s otherness and ultimately claim individuality. But it’s also one man’s personal history, a timeline of decades spent pursuing fatherhood as well his (nonbiological) L.G.B.T.Q. family at large.

That the author’s eldest son is gay was both unexpected (as such news usually is), and a catalyst for Jackson, who spent his career as a television, film and theatrical producer, to finally commit to paper his thoughts and wisdom: “When I rejoiced that you were gay, I was really wishing for the good parts — the community, the camaraderie, the creativity. The incredible beings who populate our community, who against all odds are themselves,” he writes. “But you can’t be gay with just the good parts: Your life daily will be touched by all the difficult parts, too. The fight, the struggle, the challenges, will make it even more valuable, even more worthy.”

Ultimately, Jackson says, he wanted to write the book that he felt he needed when he was growing up, back when he looked to late-20th-century memoirists, essayists and fiction writers to “learn how to be gay.” So to celebrate the book’s launch, and his own entrance into this lineage of queer authorship, Jackson and his husband, the theater producer Jordan Roth, recently hosted a dinner party at their West Village apartment, gathering some of their favorite contemporary L.G.B.T.Q. writers for conversation over a relaxed meal. It was a broad, varied group, a room full of thinkers who’d followed each other’s work but rarely met in person, from the eminent author Edmund White to the playwright Matthew Lopez to the memoirist and screenwriter Thomas Page McBee. Some guests, like Camille Perri and Raquel Willis, had started their careers in journalism and were now branching out, while others, like Lane Moore and Michael Arceneaux, had published books of essays that were as personal as Jackson’s, whose editor, Jonathan Burnham (the president and publisher of the Harper division of HarperCollins), was in attendance with his husband, Scott Rothkopf, the chief curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Both Jackson and Roth, who is increasingly a fixture on the international fashion circuit, often host guests in their home — they have a system in place, down to the catering and stemware and elegant corner dining table. But the added joy of this night came from shining a brighter light on Jackson and his literary accomplishments: “Now that my book is out, I’m learning how to walk in the world in a completely new way,” Jackson says. “Sometimes I feel reborn.” As the dozen guests milled about, discussing the imperiled state of L.G.B.T.Q.-focused media or regaling White with tales of contemporary gay sex (the children were not in attendance), it became clear that the evening was also a kind of salon, a throwback to an era when gay people gathered exclusively among one another to celebrate and get mad and express their true selves. “When I first got to New York in 1983, you would find yourself in spaces where you were around only gay people,” Jackson says. With assimilation and progress, of course, those sorts of safe spaces have become less customary or necessary. And yet to create your own majority, in a beautiful home over a delicious meal, no less, remains an empowering and vital act of generosity. “It’s obvious,” Jackson adds. “You have to get your gay stories from gay writers.” Here’s how the night came together.

Extend the Cocktail Hour

Roth and Jackson like to invite a group of people over “just because it’s Thursday night — or who don’t know each other, or who have no reason to find each other at the same table,” Jackson says, which necessitates building in extra time at the beginning of the party to welcome everyone, extend introductions and allow people to get comfortable with each other in their corner living room, where through the wide windows you can see the city’s lights glinting off the Hudson River. On this particular occasion, guests spent much of the evening configuring themselves in small groups, weaving between each other: White and Lopez discussed the legacy of AIDS, Roth and Willis complimented each other’s looks, Perri and McBee compared notes about Hollywood. Inviting everyone to socialize before sitting around the table meant that the dinner itself felt like a continuation, rather than the inception, of a sprawling conversation.

Go Family-Style, but on the Side

The table was arrayed, simply, with Calvin Klein glassware and plates and flatware from the Italian company Match. However, Jackson and Roth prefer to present their meals, which are prepared by their own culinary team, nonchalantly in a banquet-like spread on the nearby sidebar. This approach to family-style dining limits clutter and prevents the food from being the sole focus of a meal, letting human interaction take center stage. It also allowed guests to follow their own dietary restrictions and preferences with minimal fuss, as everyone created their own colorful plates of, say, citrus-glazed salmon — “I would date this salmon,” Willis joked — or Spanish-spiced chicken, farro with porcini mushrooms, shawarma-roasted purple cauliflower and mixed greens crowned with edible flowers. “We always do buffet because we feel it’s more casual,” Jackson says. “We want it to feel not so stodgy.”

Outsource Dessert

Though a pastry chef baked a few treats to celebrate the release of Jackson’s book — including a seven-layer cake with fresh raspberries, plus a chocolate-and-orange layer cake and white chocolate torte that were both vegan and gluten-free — the couple typically ends such parties with a bounty of their favorite baked goods from a rotating roster of iconic New York bakeries and chocolatiers. For this one, they brought in chewy chocolate chip and dark-chocolate “explosion” cookies from Mah Ze Dahr bakery in the West Village, plus double-chocolate gluten-free pecan cookies from the famed Dominique Ansel, whose shop is also nearby. Guests couldn’t stop passing around the cakes and cookie plates — proof that, sometimes, it’s better to leave a few key details in the hands of pros.

Decorate With Proportions in Mind

“Our entire dining room, which Jordan created, is designed to encourage intimate conversations,” Jackson says. The custom table in polished concrete is longer and narrower than is typical so that people can form intimate groups and actually hear each other — its dimensions and gray color evoke a New York City sidewalk. The chairs are vintage Steiner, but reupholstered in a sumptuous-but-comfortable Castel “teddy bear” fabric. Flowers are nonnegotiable, of course, but this night’s arrangements — peony and orchid varieties in red and pink (the hues of which matched Roth’s sweater), clustered in small bunches in amber apothecary bottles by the florist Frank Fiore — were a reminder that a single, low line of blooms adds visual interest without being a distraction.

Switch Up the Seating

For dinner, guests were assigned places via simple name cards; the hosts separated themselves and made interesting calculations about who should sit next to whom. Though Jackson and Roth were at opposing ends, their final party trick was to swap seats halfway through the meal, which provided an unexpected jolt of energy to conversation that was, perhaps, lagging a bit between bites of food. It’s a dead-simple, foolproof idea to steal: “Did you notice, after the dinner, nobody got up from the table?” Jackson recalls. “Everybody stuck around and kept talking — perhaps because it was so fun to watch Edmund White hold court.”

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The town has a love-hate relationship with its new precinct for the uber-rich, Hudson Yards. What’s it actually like?

Cities U.S.A. Prachi Joshi | POSTED ON: September 10, 2019

  Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel is a centrepiece of Hudson Yards. Its design is impressed by the stepwells of India. Photograph By: José Fuste Raga/Agefotostock/Dinodia Image Library

New York Metropolis. The Large Apple. A metropolis so passionately immortalised in creativeness by means of films, TV exhibits, and popular culture that it appears acquainted even when you have by no means been there. The long-lasting Manhattan skyline is immediately recognisable (even after being completely altered by 9/11), its museums and artwork galleries are warrens of surprise. New York is actually a sensual feast.

And now there’s Hudson Yards, a 28-acre neighbourhood playground of the ultra-rich, constructed from scratch on the West Facet. Set atop rail yards, it’s the largest non-public actual property improvement within the U.S., the place swanky residential towers glint within the solar, and workplaces, a lodge, procuring centres, eating places, and artwork installations vie for consideration. New Yorkers have a love-hate relationship with the district—‘open to all, however not for all,’ claimed Forbes earlier this yr. A neighborhood I met on a river cruise censured it as being for the vacationer (like me). It solely made me curious—what’s it that individuals do at Hudson Yards?

  eight a.m.

Hudson Yards certain attracts early birds and maybe those that revere their exercise even on trip. In case you’re one in all them, join a SoulCycle ‘cardio get together’ at 35 Hudson Yards. Hop on an indoor bike and comply with the choreography of your teacher set to some critically high-energy music. However for those who’re like me, get on the Excessive Line (thehighline.org), the two.3-kilometre elevated railroad-turned-public park, from its southern entrance at Gansevoort St. and stroll all the way in which to Hudson Yards. I see artwork installations on the way in which and nice views onto the town and the Hudson River. There’s additionally The Spur, a newly opened part of the Excessive Line (feeding straight into Hudson Yards), with planted balconies, vertical gardens, and cascading wood seating steps in an open piazza. You’ll additionally discover The Plinth, a devoted area for monumental artwork installations; the inaugural paintings is Brooklyn-based sculptor Simone Leigh’s Brick Home, a 16-foot magnificent bronze bust of a African American girl. In case you want a bathe and alter after that stroll/exercise, reserve a slot at 3Den, a pay-as-you-use area which has pristine bogs, nap pods, and free espresso—properly, leisure doesn’t come low-cost at Hudson Yards (www.goto3den.com; stage 4, 20 Hudson Yards, the place all of the retailers and eating places are situated; $6/Rs430 for each 30 minutes).

  Opening later this yr, the cantilevered Edge at Hudson Yards would be the highest commentary deck within the metropolis. Photograph By: Richard Levine/Agefotostock/Dinodia picture library

Movie star Chef José Andrés’ restaurant Mercado Little Spain brings the standard bustling Spanish meals market to NYC. Photograph By: Bruce yuanyue Bi/Alamy/Indiapicture

10 a.m.

All retailers nad eating places at Hudson Yards are situated at a procuring complicated referred to as The Retailers & Eating places. Because you’re staying, seize a late breakfast of artisanal pastries and savoury entrées at celeb chef Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bakery (stage 5) then roll up at BLVD, an expensive spa inside Neiman Marcus (stage 7) for a spot of pampering. In case you’re right here to spend, start at Neiman Marcus (stage 5-7) itself, it’s the division retailer’s first foray into NYC. Drop in at Forty 5 Ten (stage 5) the place artwork meets style, and upcoming expertise and luxurious designers rub shoulders. Elsewhere (relying in your pockets measurement) you have got every thing from Chanel, Dior, and Fendi to H&M, Uniqlo, and Zara. Japanese model Muji has a big area on stage 2 alongside Batch, a classy house furnishings retailer the place the gathering adjustments each two months. There are the same old suspects in magnificence (Sephora, M.A.C, Origins, and so forth.), or pop in at Atelier Cologne (stage 2) to create your personalised fragrance.

  1 p.m.

Wander all the way down to road stage into the full of life Mercado Little Spain, celeb chef José Andrés’ upscaled model of a Spanish market harking back to Barcelona’s La Boqueria. It options two sit-down eating places and an all-day diner, however the focus is on the central mercado (market). Trawl the farm stands and grocery shops for recent produce, sausages, cheese and bread. Then do an impromptu meals crawl by means of the kiosks, sampling an empanada right here, some tapas there, and churros to complete off, interspersed with Spanish wines at one of many three bars.

  Three p.m.

Shake off the post-lunch languor at Snark Park (stage 2), which options immersive exhibitions designed by Snarkitecture, a New York-based design studio. The debut set up I noticed, Misplaced and Discovered, was a monochromatic maze dotted with columns, seating areas, totems adorned with mirror tiles, fake fur, and latex, and way more (https://ift.tt/2ZCLXVF). The area additionally has a retail space with restricted version merchandise like T-shirts and toys, in addition to a Kith Treats ice cream and cereal bar. Get your espresso on the California-favourite Blue Bottle Espresso (stage 2) or the Aussie-style Bluestone Lane (stage 3).

  Hudson Yards has dramatically altered the skyline of Manhattan’s West Facet. Photograph By: José Fuste Raga/Agefotostock/Dinodia Photograph Library

5 p.m.

There’s no lacking the Vessel, the gleaming, copper-coloured centrepiece of Hudson Yards. Designed by the British architect Thomas Heatherwick (who drew inspiration from India’s stepwells for this set up), the 16-storey, honeycomb-like construction is a spiral staircase of types. I consider the The New Yorker calling it a “shawarma-shaped stairway to nowhere,” and lace up my trainers to climb a few of its 154 flights of stairs comprising practically 2,500 steps. I catch my breath at one of many 80 landings for sudden views onto the town. On the prime, I look again at Downtown and Midtown Manhattan after which, flip round for a sweeping view of the Hudson River. Because the solar units, the burnished copper glows eerily. A shawarma? Possibly. However I can’t assist feeling it’s spectacular too (entry free, purchase time-specific tickets at interactive kiosks on-site or reserve on-line; hudsonyardsnewyork.com/uncover/vessel).

  The ultimate section of the Excessive Line opened earlier this yr, providing direct entry into Hudson Yards. Photograph By: Richard Levine/Agefotostock/Dinodia picture library

Public artwork on the Excessive Line adjustments yearly. En Plein Air runs by means of March 2020, that includes out of doors work by eight up to date artists. Photograph By: Prachi Joshi

7 p.m.

The Shed hopes to be an thrilling cease on NYC’s cultural panorama. The multi-disciplinary arts centre bodily transforms itself to accommodate every efficiency, set up, or exhibition. Its monumental shell made from translucent Teflon-based polymer might be pulled up over your complete eight-storey venue or rolled out to embody the encircling open courtyard. The area hosts theatre and music performances, and artwork exhibitions. Upcoming occasions embrace live shows by the digital music composer Arca, conceptual artist Agnes Denes’ first complete exhibition in NYC, and creative choreographic works of William Forsythe. In November, Verdi’s haunting Requiem might be staged alongside shifting pictures by the late avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas (theshed.org).

  9 p.m.

Wind down at Milos Wine Bar on Stage 5 and select from practically 100 styles of Greek wines. Head as much as Estiatorio Milos to style Greek and Mediterranean seafood specialties by Chef Costas Spiliadis. At road stage, strive the Spanish riff on seafood at Mar at Mercado Little Spain; don’t miss the navajas al azafrán (razor clams cured in saffron sauce), gambas al ajilo (fats purple shrimp sautéed with garlic), and the seafood paella.

  Within the hood

What to see & do close to Hudson Yards

Neighbouring Chelsea is understood for its vibrant artwork scene and there’s loads of gallery hopping to be carried out. Tempo Gallery is one the most important with two areas (540 West 25th Road opens mid-September); at present ongoing is a retrospective on American sculptor Alexander Calder and an exhibition of American painter Loie Hollowell’s summary biomorphic work (pacegallery.com).

Different galleries price testing embrace Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth. Positioned in a 19th-century heritage constructing, the Chelsea Market occupies a complete road block between West 15th and 16th Streets. It homes cafés, small eating places, meals shops, and even an artisanal flea market. Have a sit-down breakfast at Sarabeth’s Bakery, or queue up for tacos at Los Tacos or for sausages at Dickson’s Farmstand. Later, get bite-size treats at Doughnuttery, and at last gas up at Ninth Road Espresso; chelseamarket.com.

South of the market is the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, which solely showcases 20th-century and up to date American artists. The Whitney Biennial displays the creative zeitgeist and is at present on till September 22; whitney.org.

  Room service

The place to remain close to Hudson Yards

The 43-storey Instances Sq. EDITION opened earlier this yr providing understated luxurious and a Michelin-starred chef behind its three eating places (editionhotels.com; doubles from $509/Rs36,000). Boutique lodge lovers, verify into the dog-friendly Staypineapple situated in Midtown, with rooms carried out up in vivid colors (staypineapple.com; doubles from $198/Rs14,000).

  Chook’s-eye view

Transfer over Empire State Constructing; NYC has a brand-new commentary deck opening later this yr. At 1,100 ft above the bottom, Edge at 30 Hudson Yards would be the highest out of doors deck within the Western Hemisphere. The glass-floored ‘balcony’ juts out 65 ft and is skirted by a nine-foot wall of angled glass permitting you to actually lean over Manhattan (advance reservations at hudsonyardsnewyork.com/uncover/edge).

There are direct flights between Mumbai and Delhi to New York. Hudson Yards is on Manhattan’s West Facet between 10th and 12th Avenues, from W 30th to W 34th Streets. It’s simply accessible on foot or by public transport —the No. 7 Subway connects to Instances Sq. and past (hudsonyardsnewyork.com).

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Accor has signed a 24-pool villa resort in Phuket, Thailand. The V Villas Phuket - MGallery is being developed on a hilltop near Ao Yon Beach, approximately 1 hour by road from Phuket International Airport and 20 minutes from Phuket Town. The resort, scheduled to open in H2 2020, will feature five F&B outlets, a swimming pool and a spa & wellness centre.

Khun Vichaya Poolvaraluk, owner of V Villas Phuket - MGallery, said, “V Villas Phuket is destined to be an unforgettable destination with its privileged location high up on the hills overlooking the Ao Yon Bay in southern Phuket. The hotel also provides direct access to one of the area’s last hidden and beautiful secluded beaches. Like its sister property in Hua Hin, it will offer an unparalleled level of service and privacy including dedicated butler service. One standout feature will be the hotel’s dining concept with a restaurant and outdoor deck facing the azure blue water and a roof top bar offering a 360 degree view 50 meters above sea level for what promises to be a stunning sunset spot.” Accor currently operates 89 hotels in Thailand and has a pipeline of 10 hotels scheduled to open over the next five years. The group currently manages a portfolio of 36 hotels under the MGallery Hotel Collection across the Asia Pacific region. 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NFL Panic Index 2017, Week 12: Thanksgiving football worth talking about

It’s Thanksgiving, and your friends and family are going to be worked up over a lot of football things. Put their minds at ease with the Panic Index.

Thanksgiving is finally here, and that means food and football, our two favorite things! It also means a day with the relatives, who will complain about all of these while you eat and watch the NFL triple header on tap for Thursday.

Fortunately, we are here to help. These seven things will come up again and again, not just Thursday either, but all weekend long. Inoculate yourself from inane football banter. When your friends and family start complaining about any of these topics, you can set them straight about what’s worth panicking about and what’s really not.

Good luck and happy eating!

Everyone’s favorite players are hurt

Some fans love to complain that football isn’t the same because of concerns with player safety, and changed rules.

Well, they’re kind of needed. Especially when you look at the list of players who have been injured and lost for the season:

David Johnson

Joe Thomas

Eric Berry

Andrew Luck

Ryan Tannehill

Jason Peters

Darren Sproles

Odell Beckham Jr.

Aaron Rodgers

Julian Edelman

J.J. Watt

Whitney Mercilus

Dalvin Cook

Deshaun Watson

But there are other players out there to watch. Carson Wentz and the Eagles have been incredible to watch, Le’Veon Bell, JuJu Smith-Schuster, and the Steelers have been a joy. Of course, there’s always the Seahawks and Russell Wilson, and that No. 12 in New England to watch.

Panic index: Help lead your family members in other directions. Football is still good. Be thankful that there’s been other players in good health.

Some relatives will love the Color Rush uniforms, and some will hate

Color Rush is a mixed bag. Some uniforms are more appealing to some than others, but like anything, it’s all about personal preference.

Now, if your grumpy old uncle doesn’t like them because they aren’t traditional or claims they come off as players or the NFL wanting more attention — then he’s just being a Crusty Old. Color Rush uniforms are fine, but some are certainly better than others.

An example of good:

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images

An example of bad:

Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports

Not everyone can get things right, and that’s OK.

Panic index: Good thing the uniforms have no bearing on the game’s result, right?

The QB who is Actually Fine

It’s inevitable that quarterback play among family members’ favorite teams are going to be discussed. Unless your team has an MVP-candidate quarterback, it’s almost a guarantee that talk is negative in some sense.

There are plenty of reasons for quarterback play that’s less than ideal. It could be a bad offensive line, lack of weapons, or a combination of the two. It could also be that a team’s quarterback just stinks — see: Brock Osweiler, Blake Bortles, etc.

A lot of casual fans don’t understand that football is more complex than a quarterback snapping a ball, and delivering a pass like he’s in a backyard with a parent. Those guys are out there moving fast, and there’s 10 other players with him that also have to be even just *decent*.

Panic index: Just nod your head, and pivot to the next conversation as swiftly as possible.

We have to watch the Lions again, who haven’t had a good running back since Barry Sanders

Thanksgiving used to be a day where you could escape the mountains of food and forced family banter, spill into a vaguely human-shaped puddle near a big television, and let Barry Sanders move like a caffeinated water bug en route to carving up opposing defenses like so much turkey.

And then, 19 years ago, he was gone, leaving a 5’8 hole in our hearts in late November, forcing us to watch the Lions struggle through meaningless season after meaningless season. Sanders’ retirement after the 1998 season took the only sail from a rudderless Detroit team. In the Thanksgivings since, we’ve been forced to watch tailbacks like Shawn Bryson, Mikel Leshoure, Greg Hill, and Joique Bell run two yards into the backs of their own blockers before falling to the turf. It’s a frustration that permeates through the FOX broadcast and into homes across the nation. Since Sanders’ retirement, Thanksgiving arguments have increased by 113%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.*

2017 is no better. Ameer Abdullah’s greatest NFL accomplishment is sinking fantasy teams across the globe. Theo Riddick has run for just 3.5 yards per carry. For players with at least 10 carries this fall, quarterback Matthew Stafford has the team’s highest per-carry average. Never before has the Detroit offense been so reliant on its highly-paid passer.

Panic index: There’s a non-insignificant chance the Lions’ longest run of any given game will come from Stafford, and that’s not depressing at all.

*no they haven’t.

Your brother insists Bama can beat the Browns

The Browns are bad. We’re not going to dispute that. But could they beat Bama? Yes. That’s not going to stop your brother from piping up at Thanksgiving with an opinion to the contrary. He is wrong.

Here’s the thing: Alabama has a very good college football team. They’re well-coached, and they’re stacked with talent. They tend to dominate their competition, which is also a bunch of guys who are in college. They’re not professional athletes.

About 1.5 percent of college players make it to the NFL, according to data from the NCAA. That means that 98.5 percent of the guys Bama’s beating right now are going pro in something other than football. The Browns can’t seem to get a win against any other team in the NFL, but that roster is still made up of the best of the best from the college level.

Panic index: Tell your brother to have a seat. The Browns can definitely beat Bama.

The guy who goes on and on about how there’s too much offense

Defense wins championships. That’s the old school refrain. And somebody at your gathering is going to lament the fact that there’s too dang much offense in today’s NFL.

Every rule is geared toward making life easy for the offense. Defensive players can’t even glance in the quarterback’s direction without getting flagged. Wide receivers can interfere as much as they want, but if a cornerback does a little hand checking, here comes a penalty.

They’re not wrong. The rules are kind of slanted toward the offense. But here’s the thing: Offense is fun.

Panic index: We love sacks and interceptions as much as the next fan. But we also love the one-handed Julio Jones catches and watching Jay Ajayi bust through the entire Dallas defense for a 71-yard gain. Just let us have this.

The fan of the surprise team that won’t talk about anything else

It’s exciting when your team goes from perennially missing out on the postseason to a virtual lock. And teams like the Rams, Vikings, Eagles, and Jaguars are all riding high right now. Sure, that’s fun for fans of those teams.

We get it. You’ve lived through season after season of futility, and you can’t believe the Rams or the Jaguars or the Eagles are actually good. Now all you want to do is flex on people who doubted your team. But at some point you’ve got to give it a rest.

There are so many other things to discuss with your loved ones at Thanksgiving. Talk about the wonderful spread, and compliment the chef. Ask your cousin about his new job. Ask your family what they think about whatever off-the-wall thing President Trump tweeted this morning.

Actually, on second thought, don’t do that last one.

Panic index: Your team is rolling, and you’re right to be happy about it. But think of the Browns fans at the table. Just give everyone a break here and there about your team’s winning ways this season.

The person who makes a big show about not watching football

We love football, but not everyone does. AND THAT’S FINE. You know what’s insufferable, though? The people who acts morally superior to everyone else because “hmmpf, I, better person than YOU, have stopped watching the NFL.”

And yes, some reasons for tuning out are more understandable. Concussions, for one, are not something to be taken lightly, in any sport.

But the majority of those who pat themselves on the back for quitting the NFL belong on the scale of eye rolls:

The “Take a Knee My Ass” crowd. Educate yourself.

The “NBA/college/hockey/cricket is better” folks. We here at SB Nation are of the opinion that all sports are good and you should like whatever you want to like. But just because YOU prefer one doesn’t mean any other opinion is wrong. It’s just different. There’s no need to crap on one sport to pump up your favorite.

”The games suck!” Oh, some of them do, for sure. No one wants to watch the Dolphins or Ravens, let alone Dolphins vs. Ravens. But there are legitimately good games each week. First game of the season? Patriots vs. Chiefs, a banger. The most recent game? Seahawks vs. Falcons, a thriller. Heck, even the “bad” games can be fun — if you just sit back and let yourself enjoy them.

”It’s all about money now.” As opposed to when exactly?

Panic index: You will probably have to deal with at least one of these people on Thanksgiving, but if you want watch football, then watch football. Don’t let anyone else take the joy out of that for you.

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Black Restaurant Week Atlanta – NOSH Event

​This post was written by Guest Blogger, Sherita Thomas with Photos by Justin Thomas.

The NOSH event was the kick off to the final weekend of Black Restaurant Week in Atlanta! NOSH is a culinary showcase of best bites featuring the top caterers and chefs in the Atlanta area.  It was hosted at 595 North near West Midtown and sponsored by Verizon. The venue that was selected for Black Restaurant Week – NOSH, was absolutely beautiful! Upon walking in we were greeted warmly by Ronnika of IGNPR we were happy to be filling in for our amazing friend and partner-in-wine,  Stacey Taylor “The SistahChick”.

At our first stop we had crab mac n’ cheese, a selection of fruit and herb infused tea and lemonade. The best part was that the Chef created this in the palm of of Justin’s hand!

We loved that he focused on the art of food! It was super cool to witness him art 1 st hand! Blackberry whipped cream and a real fig! Ahhhh-mazing!

  The next highlight of our night was being selected for Seat 1! While we were making our rounds and visiting the different chefs tables, we were able to find a great table near the front of the room.  From here we could see everything including the live demonstrations that were taking place on stage! My husband Justin left our table and when he returned he had a card that said, “Seating One”.  I had no idea what it meant until the host began to call all guest with the cards to the stage! What a treat that we were seated on the stage!

Having no idea what was going on we were blessed to enjoy a fully vegan meal prepared by  a princess from Ghana who has prepared for celebrities like Whitney Houston!

She began with a Hebrew prayer and then began showing all the dishes she had prepared meat and dairy free! This was vegan soul food! We experienced collard greens, BBQ ribs, mac n’ cheese, veggie burgers, country fried steak, and much more! I must say as a “not yet vegan’ or almost vegetarian the food was super yummy! Adjust your palate for better health! I’m just saying!

Finally, our favorite, FREEZE CREAM! No, I’m exactly right its freeze cream not ice cream! This handmade vegan safe solution to ice cream! We tried the strawberry (our favorite) and oreo options! It was delicious and  you can choose from soy milk or coconut milk to make your freeze cream. The fresh strawberries were second to none!  Think Coldstone, vegan and freeze plate and you will totally get it! These young guys had so much energy! They both attribute it to the delicious freeze cream they make! These guys are based in Helen, Georgia, which is fine with me as Stacey, Justin and I are always down for a short road trip to Georgia’s Wine Country!

We had an amazing time at Black Restaurant Week – NOSH Event and hope to return next year!

For more information on Black Restaurant Week check out their Facebook page!

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How an Author and His Husband Host Casual Dinners in Their New York Apartment

It’s tempting to call the author Richie Jackson’s new book, “Gay Like Me,” a memoir or an epistolary — but it’s really a manifesto, a 156-page letter from a gay 54-year-old father to his gay 19-year-old son, Jackson Wong, about what it meant to be gay when the writer was young in New York and what it means to be gay now. In that way, the work is a magnanimous gesture of generational transference: a cheat sheet on queer history; a lecture about safe sex; a call to get angry, harness one’s otherness and ultimately claim individuality. But it’s also one man’s personal history, a timeline of decades spent pursuing fatherhood as well his (nonbiological) L.G.B.T.Q. family at large.

That the author’s eldest son is gay was both unexpected (as such news usually is), and a catalyst for Jackson, who spent his career as a television, film and theatrical producer, to finally commit to paper his thoughts and wisdom: “When I rejoiced that you were gay, I was really wishing for the good parts — the community, the camaraderie, the creativity. The incredible beings who populate our community, who against all odds are themselves,” he writes. “But you can’t be gay with just the good parts: Your life daily will be touched by all the difficult parts, too. The fight, the struggle, the challenges, will make it even more valuable, even more worthy.”

Ultimately, Jackson says, he wanted to write the book that he felt he needed when he was growing up, back when he looked to late-20th-century memoirists, essayists and fiction writers to “learn how to be gay.” So to celebrate the book’s launch, and his own entrance into this lineage of queer authorship, Jackson and his husband, the theater producer Jordan Roth, recently hosted a dinner party at their West Village apartment, gathering some of their favorite contemporary L.G.B.T.Q. writers for conversation over a relaxed meal. It was a broad, varied group, a room full of thinkers who’d followed each other’s work but rarely met in person, from the eminent author Edmund White to the playwright Matthew Lopez to the memoirist and screenwriter Thomas Page McBee. Some guests, like Camille Perri and Raquel Willis, had started their careers in journalism and were now branching out, while others, like Lane Moore and Michael Arceneaux, had published books of essays that were as personal as Jackson’s, whose editor, Jonathan Burnham (the president and publisher of the Harper division of HarperCollins), was in attendance with his boyfriend, Scott Rothkopf, the chief curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Both Jackson and Roth, who is increasingly a fixture on the international fashion circuit, often host guests in their home — they have a system in place, down to the catering and stemware and elegant corner dining table. But the added joy of this night came from shining a brighter light on Jackson and his literary accomplishments: “Now that my book is out, I’m learning how to walk in the world in a completely new way,” Jackson says. “Sometimes I feel reborn.” As the dozen guests milled about, discussing the imperiled state of L.G.B.T.Q.-focused media or regaling White with tales of contemporary gay sex (the children were not in attendance), it became clear that the evening was also a kind of salon, a throwback to an era when gay people gathered exclusively among one another to celebrate and get mad and express their true selves. “When I first got to New York in 1983, you would find yourself in spaces where you were around only gay people,” Jackson says. With assimilation and progress, of course, those sorts of safe spaces have become less customary or necessary. And yet to create your own majority, in a beautiful home over a delicious meal, no less, remains an empowering and vital act of generosity. “It’s obvious,” Jackson adds. “You have to get your gay stories from gay writers.” Here’s how the night came together.

Extend the Cocktail Hour

Roth and Jackson like to invite a group of people over “just because it’s Thursday night — or who don’t know each other, or who have no reason to find each other at the same table,” Jackson says, which necessitates building in extra time at the beginning of the party to welcome everyone, extend introductions and allow people to get comfortable with each other in their corner living room, where through the wide windows you can see the city’s lights glinting off the Hudson River. On this particular occasion, guests spent much of the evening configuring themselves in small groups, weaving between each other: White and Lopez discussed the legacy of AIDS, Roth and Willis complimented each other’s looks, Perri and McBee compared notes about Hollywood. Inviting everyone to socialize before sitting around the table meant that the dinner itself felt like a continuation, rather than the inception, of a sprawling conversation.

Go Family-Style, but on the Side

The table was arrayed, simply, with Calvin Klein glassware and plates and flatware from the Italian company Match. However, Jackson and Roth prefer to present their meals, which are prepared by their own culinary team, nonchalantly in a banquet-like spread on the nearby sidebar. This approach to family-style dining limits clutter and prevents the food from being the sole focus of a meal, letting human interaction take center stage. It also allowed guests to follow their own dietary restrictions and preferences with minimal fuss, as everyone created their own colorful plates of, say, citrus-glazed salmon — “I would date this salmon,” Willis joked — or Spanish-spiced chicken, farro with porcini mushrooms, shawarma-roasted purple cauliflower and mixed greens crowned with edible flowers. “We always do buffet because we feel it’s more casual,” Jackson says. “We want it to feel not so stodgy.”

Outsource Dessert

Though a pastry chef baked a few treats to celebrate the release of Jackson’s book — including a seven-layer cake with fresh raspberries, plus a chocolate-and-orange layer cake and white chocolate torte that were both vegan and gluten-free — the couple typically ends such parties with a bounty of their favorite baked goods from a rotating roster of iconic New York bakeries and chocolatiers. For this one, they brought in chewy chocolate chip and dark-chocolate “explosion” cookies from Mah Ze Dahr bakery in the West Village, plus double-chocolate gluten-free pecan cookies from the famed Dominique Ansel, whose shop is also nearby. Guests couldn’t stop passing around the cakes and cookie plates — proof that, sometimes, it’s better to leave a few key details in the hands of pros.

Decorate With Proportions in Mind

“Our entire dining room, which Jordan created, is designed to encourage intimate conversations,” Jackson says. The custom table in polished concrete is longer and narrower than is typical so that people can form intimate groups and actually hear each other — its dimensions and gray color evoke a New York City sidewalk. The chairs are vintage Steiner, but reupholstered in a sumptuous-but-comfortable Castel “teddy bear” fabric. Flowers are nonnegotiable, of course, but this night’s arrangements — peony and orchid varieties in red and pink (the hues of which matched Roth’s sweater), clustered in small bunches in amber apothecary bottles by the florist Frank Fiore — were a reminder that a single, low line of blooms adds visual interest without being a distraction.

Switch Up the Seating

For dinner, guests were assigned places via simple name cards; the hosts separated themselves and made interesting calculations about who should sit next to whom. Though Jackson and Roth were at opposing ends, their final party trick was to swap seats halfway through the meal, which provided an unexpected jolt of energy to conversation that was, perhaps, lagging a bit between bites of food. It’s a dead-simple, foolproof idea to steal: “Did you notice, after the dinner, nobody got up from the table?” Jackson recalls. “Everybody stuck around and kept talking — perhaps because it was so fun to watch Edmund White hold court.”

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The town has a love-hate relationship with its new precinct for the uber-rich, Hudson Yards. What’s it actually like?

Cities U.S.A. Prachi Joshi | POSTED ON: September 10, 2019

  Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel is a centrepiece of Hudson Yards. Its design is impressed by the stepwells of India. Photograph By: José Fuste Raga/Agefotostock/Dinodia Image Library

New York Metropolis. The Large Apple. A metropolis so passionately immortalised in creativeness by means of films, TV exhibits, and popular culture that it appears acquainted even when you have by no means been there. The long-lasting Manhattan skyline is immediately recognisable (even after being completely altered by 9/11), its museums and artwork galleries are warrens of surprise. New York is actually a sensual feast.

And now there’s Hudson Yards, a 28-acre neighbourhood playground of the ultra-rich, constructed from scratch on the West Facet. Set atop rail yards, it’s the largest non-public actual property improvement within the U.S., the place swanky residential towers glint within the solar, and workplaces, a lodge, procuring centres, eating places, and artwork installations vie for consideration. New Yorkers have a love-hate relationship with the district—‘open to all, however not for all,’ claimed Forbes earlier this yr. A neighborhood I met on a river cruise censured it as being for the vacationer (like me). It solely made me curious—what’s it that individuals do at Hudson Yards?

  eight a.m.

Hudson Yards certain attracts early birds and maybe those that revere their exercise even on trip. In case you’re one in all them, join a SoulCycle ‘cardio get together’ at 35 Hudson Yards. Hop on an indoor bike and comply with the choreography of your teacher set to some critically high-energy music. However for those who’re like me, get on the Excessive Line (thehighline.org), the two.3-kilometre elevated railroad-turned-public park, from its southern entrance at Gansevoort St. and stroll all the way in which to Hudson Yards. I see artwork installations on the way in which and nice views onto the town and the Hudson River. There’s additionally The Spur, a newly opened part of the Excessive Line (feeding straight into Hudson Yards), with planted balconies, vertical gardens, and cascading wood seating steps in an open piazza. You’ll additionally discover The Plinth, a devoted area for monumental artwork installations; the inaugural paintings is Brooklyn-based sculptor Simone Leigh’s Brick Home, a 16-foot magnificent bronze bust of a African American girl. In case you want a bathe and alter after that stroll/exercise, reserve a slot at 3Den, a pay-as-you-use area which has pristine bogs, nap pods, and free espresso—properly, leisure doesn’t come low-cost at Hudson Yards (www.goto3den.com; stage 4, 20 Hudson Yards, the place all of the retailers and eating places are situated; $6/Rs430 for each 30 minutes).

  Opening later this yr, the cantilevered Edge at Hudson Yards would be the highest commentary deck within the metropolis. Photograph By: Richard Levine/Agefotostock/Dinodia picture library

Movie star Chef José Andrés’ restaurant Mercado Little Spain brings the standard bustling Spanish meals market to NYC. Photograph By: Bruce yuanyue Bi/Alamy/Indiapicture

10 a.m.

All retailers nad eating places at Hudson Yards are situated at a procuring complicated referred to as The Retailers & Eating places. Because you’re staying, seize a late breakfast of artisanal pastries and savoury entrées at celeb chef Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bakery (stage 5) then roll up at BLVD, an expensive spa inside Neiman Marcus (stage 7) for a spot of pampering. In case you’re right here to spend, start at Neiman Marcus (stage 5-7) itself, it’s the division retailer’s first foray into NYC. Drop in at Forty 5 Ten (stage 5) the place artwork meets style, and upcoming expertise and luxurious designers rub shoulders. Elsewhere (relying in your pockets measurement) you have got every thing from Chanel, Dior, and Fendi to H&M, Uniqlo, and Zara. Japanese model Muji has a big area on stage 2 alongside Batch, a classy house furnishings retailer the place the gathering adjustments each two months. There are the same old suspects in magnificence (Sephora, M.A.C, Origins, and so forth.), or pop in at Atelier Cologne (stage 2) to create your personalised fragrance.

  1 p.m.

Wander all the way down to road stage into the full of life Mercado Little Spain, celeb chef José Andrés’ upscaled model of a Spanish market harking back to Barcelona’s La Boqueria. It options two sit-down eating places and an all-day diner, however the focus is on the central mercado (market). Trawl the farm stands and grocery shops for recent produce, sausages, cheese and bread. Then do an impromptu meals crawl by means of the kiosks, sampling an empanada right here, some tapas there, and churros to complete off, interspersed with Spanish wines at one of many three bars.

  Three p.m.

Shake off the post-lunch languor at Snark Park (stage 2), which options immersive exhibitions designed by Snarkitecture, a New York-based design studio. The debut set up I noticed, Misplaced and Discovered, was a monochromatic maze dotted with columns, seating areas, totems adorned with mirror tiles, fake fur, and latex, and way more (https://ift.tt/2ZCLXVF). The area additionally has a retail space with restricted version merchandise like T-shirts and toys, in addition to a Kith Treats ice cream and cereal bar. Get your espresso on the California-favourite Blue Bottle Espresso (stage 2) or the Aussie-style Bluestone Lane (stage 3).

  Hudson Yards has dramatically altered the skyline of Manhattan’s West Facet. Photograph By: José Fuste Raga/Agefotostock/Dinodia Photograph Library

5 p.m.

There’s no lacking the Vessel, the gleaming, copper-coloured centrepiece of Hudson Yards. Designed by the British architect Thomas Heatherwick (who drew inspiration from India’s stepwells for this set up), the 16-storey, honeycomb-like construction is a spiral staircase of types. I consider the The New Yorker calling it a “shawarma-shaped stairway to nowhere,” and lace up my trainers to climb a few of its 154 flights of stairs comprising practically 2,500 steps. I catch my breath at one of many 80 landings for sudden views onto the town. On the prime, I look again at Downtown and Midtown Manhattan after which, flip round for a sweeping view of the Hudson River. Because the solar units, the burnished copper glows eerily. A shawarma? Possibly. However I can’t assist feeling it’s spectacular too (entry free, purchase time-specific tickets at interactive kiosks on-site or reserve on-line; hudsonyardsnewyork.com/uncover/vessel).

  The ultimate section of the Excessive Line opened earlier this yr, providing direct entry into Hudson Yards. Photograph By: Richard Levine/Agefotostock/Dinodia picture library

Public artwork on the Excessive Line adjustments yearly. En Plein Air runs by means of March 2020, that includes out of doors work by eight up to date artists. Photograph By: Prachi Joshi

7 p.m.

The Shed hopes to be an thrilling cease on NYC’s cultural panorama. The multi-disciplinary arts centre bodily transforms itself to accommodate every efficiency, set up, or exhibition. Its monumental shell made from translucent Teflon-based polymer might be pulled up over your complete eight-storey venue or rolled out to embody the encircling open courtyard. The area hosts theatre and music performances, and artwork exhibitions. Upcoming occasions embrace live shows by the digital music composer Arca, conceptual artist Agnes Denes’ first complete exhibition in NYC, and creative choreographic works of William Forsythe. In November, Verdi’s haunting Requiem might be staged alongside shifting pictures by the late avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas (theshed.org).

  9 p.m.

Wind down at Milos Wine Bar on Stage 5 and select from practically 100 styles of Greek wines. Head as much as Estiatorio Milos to style Greek and Mediterranean seafood specialties by Chef Costas Spiliadis. At road stage, strive the Spanish riff on seafood at Mar at Mercado Little Spain; don’t miss the navajas al azafrán (razor clams cured in saffron sauce), gambas al ajilo (fats purple shrimp sautéed with garlic), and the seafood paella.

  Within the hood

What to see & do close to Hudson Yards

Neighbouring Chelsea is understood for its vibrant artwork scene and there’s loads of gallery hopping to be carried out. Tempo Gallery is one the most important with two areas (540 West 25th Road opens mid-September); at present ongoing is a retrospective on American sculptor Alexander Calder and an exhibition of American painter Loie Hollowell’s summary biomorphic work (pacegallery.com).

Different galleries price testing embrace Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth. Positioned in a 19th-century heritage constructing, the Chelsea Market occupies a complete road block between West 15th and 16th Streets. It homes cafés, small eating places, meals shops, and even an artisanal flea market. Have a sit-down breakfast at Sarabeth’s Bakery, or queue up for tacos at Los Tacos or for sausages at Dickson’s Farmstand. Later, get bite-size treats at Doughnuttery, and at last gas up at Ninth Road Espresso; chelseamarket.com.

South of the market is the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, which solely showcases 20th-century and up to date American artists. The Whitney Biennial displays the creative zeitgeist and is at present on till September 22; whitney.org.

  Room service

The place to remain close to Hudson Yards

The 43-storey Instances Sq. EDITION opened earlier this yr providing understated luxurious and a Michelin-starred chef behind its three eating places (editionhotels.com; doubles from $509/Rs36,000). Boutique lodge lovers, verify into the dog-friendly Staypineapple situated in Midtown, with rooms carried out up in vivid colors (staypineapple.com; doubles from $198/Rs14,000).

  Chook’s-eye view

Transfer over Empire State Constructing; NYC has a brand-new commentary deck opening later this yr. At 1,100 ft above the bottom, Edge at 30 Hudson Yards would be the highest out of doors deck within the Western Hemisphere. The glass-floored ‘balcony’ juts out 65 ft and is skirted by a nine-foot wall of angled glass permitting you to actually lean over Manhattan (advance reservations at hudsonyardsnewyork.com/uncover/edge).

There are direct flights between Mumbai and Delhi to New York. Hudson Yards is on Manhattan’s West Facet between 10th and 12th Avenues, from W 30th to W 34th Streets. It’s simply accessible on foot or by public transport —the No. 7 Subway connects to Instances Sq. and past (hudsonyardsnewyork.com).

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Manhattan: Flora Coffee Builds A Warm Cafe In A Midcentury Landmark

When one of Midtown Manhattan’s mid-century gems adds great coffee to an already-lauded bar program, you listen.

Launched earlier this year, Flora Coffee sits inside the Breuer Building, the ’60s brutalist inverted pyramid that once housed the Whitney Museum of American Art and is now the home of the Met Breuer. The cafe adds morning service to Flora Bar, the acclaimed new bar and dining space from Estela and Café Altro Paradiso founders Thomas Carter and Ignacio Mattos.

Coffee director Jess Che tapped Brooklyn roaster Parlor Coffee to fuel the program, and pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz (formerly of Marlow & Sons and Montreal’s Lawrence) to provide the treats. To Che, the lineup brings a bit of a, well, cooler vibe to Madison Avenue.

“When we first moved uptown from Estela and Altro, we were all coming from primarily a ‘downtown’ background, whether from the coffee, food, bar, or service side of things,” says Che. “In some ways, this could have been considered a gamble, but there is also something analogous and freeing about being a part of the Met Breuer’s opening year, in that we all were introducing something new and contemporary into the space.”

Che was already familiar with Parlor and In Pursuit of Tea from Estela and Altro (the latter of which is now offering a morning coffee service as well), and says she saw the daytime program at Flora as an opportunity to showcase coffees and teas “that might be stylistically new to an Upper East Side palate or a museum-going tourist.”

Alongside Flora Coffee’s espresso and filter offerings, made with Parlor’s Latin American blend named for the Brooklyn enclave Wallabout, is a selection of inventive baked goods both savory and sweet.

Pickowicz’s roster of pairable pastries includes a gianduja chocolate chip cookie, bacon gougères, walnut shortbread, and one big mother of a sticky bun.

The latter is a particularly inspired pastry that’s a little left of center, says Che. In a way that makes perfect sense with the space’s coffee—and the art.

“Everyone knows what a sticky bun is; they’re recognizable and comforting, but [Pickowicz’s] are subtle and unique in flavor, not overly sweet,” says Che. “It’s not always necessary to be hit over the head, and likewise, there’s more to museum coffee than a shot of caffeine. Our intention was to create a cafe experience that could live alongside the museum-going experience.”

And what an experience it is, sunken just below street level in an Upper East Side oasis of mid-century lines and curves. Although by lunchtime the sleek space becomes the terrain of gallery break-takers and sandwich-seekers, midmorning at Flora is a serene, and semi-secret, coffee hangout. There’s even WiFi.

“I’d personally love to encourage neighborhood folks to utilize the space,” says Che, who notes that one can simply tell the museum staff they’re headed right downstairs to the cafe and bar.

“If I didn’t work here, I’d be parked on that banquette for hours with a book.”

Flora Coffee is located at Flora Bar within The Met Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, New York. Visit their official website and follow them on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

Liz Clayton is the associate editor at Sprudge, and the co-author of Where To Drink Coffee, due this summer on Phaidon Press. Read more Liz Clayton on Sprudge.

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