View fullsize #Chinatown.
View fullsize byphoebeeaton In an election year, Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg retries #HarveyWeinstein adding a troubled ex-model with a history of psychiatric hospitalizations to the roster. Shortly after her grand jury testimony, @kaja_sokola_official @kajasokola
View fullsize Petit four from book party tonight celebrating the release of the very funny, moving, smart-as-hell memoir "I Regret Almost Everything" by the incomparable @keithmcnallynyc, audio version by the incomparable @richard.e.grant. Proud to have
View fullsize The Shawshank Exception: Behind the jailhouse bars with Harvey Weinstein & prison consultant Craig Rothfeld, the guy who helped Weinstein survive being locked up in one of the nation’s notoriously dangerous jails. A solid year in the report
View fullsize It’s ovah? Frankie Buffa of Ferdinando’s Focacceria (as the Ouija-board-like sign says), on Union Street since 1904. A period piece where you could still get a kind of genuine Sicilian: pasta con sarde, XXL arancini, and vastedda sandwich
View fullsize Many Japanese in town for a single night, just to clap eyes on Mont Cervin, aka Zer #Matterhorn. Apparently it’s a thang, a bucket-list item. Shot this afternoon. #Toblerone
View fullsize Grand Prix Pontresina trotting race atop frozen Lake St. Moritz, still something of a time warp with all the fur coats, unapologetic smoking, and Moon Boots™ on display. #whiteturf #iceicebaby
View fullsize Bon sheikh, bon genre series. #sultansofswing
View fullsize The Sheikh Zayed grand mosque is as interestingly architected (in its way; see the Photo 2’s domes and arches contained inside a single doorway) as the Isle of Museums featuring a Guggenheim and Louvre slowly coming online in Abu Dhabi. A rigor
View fullsize This polo club started out as a racecourse. Sheikh Falah bin Zayed al Nahyan made it what it is today; it’s a rough game, and I am reliably informed by a player on the royal team that they are instructed not to go easy on him. Overleaf is a til
View fullsize Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace was completed in 2004 and remains famous for an ATM delivering up gold bars on request until 2016. It's sole charm turns out to be external; the place is entirely generic inside save for the underutilized Vendôme res
View fullsize Came across this unattended seeming falcon shop in some generic strip mall. From the outside, it looks like a mere mobile-phone store. Falcons once could sold for millions of dollars here, but with advanced breeding techniques, their numbers have ris
View fullsize Horsemen pass by. #everydayUAE
View fullsize The camel traders of Al Ain. #lips
View fullsize 7 a.m. at the camel races. #AlWathba #camelraces #justdeserts
View fullsize New investigative story on Substack: Alleged “CEO Killer" #LuigiMangione had trouble sorting out his manhood after growing up something of a prodigy. A visit to the crime scene reveals the less-than-saintly story untold in this not quite R
View fullsize @keithmcnallynyc ‘s new Minetta Tavern in D.C. Worth checking out; like a wider, side-street carbon copy with more booths.
View fullsize “America’s Game”—the 125th Army-Navy Game—feels very Republican prom this year. Click through for DJT and JD sporting his signature human Pez dispenser look. (Lee Greenwood is surely kicking around somewhere.) #armynavy
View fullsize Tree bargain: #JFK and #JackieKennedy Christmas ornaments @nyhistory.
View fullsize #Selfie-indulgent.