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The Mystery of the Missing Time Magazine Cocaine Cover

The Mystery of the Missing Time Magazine Cocaine Cover

Published by Sam Flores

Peruse eBay, and you’ll see endless swag swiped by stylish sticky fingers: baby pink pens from the Beverly Hills Hotel, silver catchalls from the Hôtel du Cap, a leather wine-list cover from The Polo Bar. “People convince themselves they’re preserving a memory, not committing a misdemeanor. Or, if you want to be generous, it’s ‘status archaeology’: proof that you were there and that you mattered,” Griffith hypothesizes. Ergo, the Time cover. Cecchi-Azzolina, who was formerly the maître d’ at Raoul’s and The River Café, gets the joke. Anyone who’s been in New York’s downtown social scene over the last fifty years gets it. Cocaine picks up in the city’s historic lineage right around the time Tammany Hall ends. Which leads us back to the cocaine cover. When Cecchi’s opened in 2023, the editor in chief of Time magazine, Sam Jacobs, came in for dinner. He had just read Cecchi-Azzolina’s memoir Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D’, in which the restaurateur recalled reading a 1981 Time cover story about the …

Paul McCartney, Unfiltered, Part 2: “Go Back and Look at Who Wrote the Hits”

Paul McCartney, Unfiltered, Part 2: “Go Back and Look at Who Wrote the Hits”

Published by Sam Flores

Yeah. And then we had to deal with Sam. Everything we wanted—I’d nearly have Yoko agreeing to something, then Sam would get hold of it, the decision would be reversed. Oh my God. Well, this is the story: Jann’s involvement in all these different people’s lives, Lennon and Ono, and their fates, and their records getting reviewed by his people. But it’s kind of clear. I mean, I saw U2’s latest album—glowing review [in Rolling Stone]. And I thought, I don’t think it’s that good. Well, Jann and Bono are two peas in a pod. They’re very good mates. And Bono is a lovely, lovely boy. Jann could be friends with John, very good friends with Bono. But I think it’s a little bit visible, a little bit obvious. I saw that and thought, They’re going to get a great review. It’s going to be great, whether [the album is] great or not. Let me just tell you, as an aside—this is just a fan thing to say. My favorite post-Beatles album by any Beatle …

Gus Van Sant Is Best Known for His Films. His Paintings Are Brilliant Too.

Gus Van Sant Is Best Known for His Films. His Paintings Are Brilliant Too.

Published by Sam Flores

Gus Van Sant with Minnie Driver and Matt Damon on the set of Good Will Hunting. ©Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection Van Sant tells Vanity Fair his interest in painting began when he was a student at Middlesex Middle School in Darien, Connecticut. “We had this great teacher named Robert Levine, and a lot of the students were influenced by him if they were interested in art. So it was just a little club of wannabe artists, painters that were 12 and 13 and 14,” he says. Then in high school, he bought himself a camera with money from his summer job. He started making his own movies, partially because that’s what his favorite artists did too: “Stan Brakhage was painting on film,” he says. When he later got into the Rhode Island School of Design, he seesawed between picking a major in painting or film. The choice ended up being a practical one: “I majored in cinema instead of painting, only because I thought the degree would seem better,” Van Sant says, shrugging from his Los …

A Tour of Tracee Ellis Ross’s Effortlessly Cool Office in West Hollywood

A Tour of Tracee Ellis Ross’s Effortlessly Cool Office in West Hollywood

Published by Sam Flores

To borrow a phrase from the classic millennial film Mean Girls, Tracee Ellis Ross isn’t like a regular boss. She’s a cool boss. So when designing the West Hollywood offices for Pattern Beauty, her natural hair care brand, she wasn’t just going to throw a bunch of drab cubicles under fluorescent lighting and call it a workday. (She’s an actor too, after all. And actors know lighting means everything.) “That fluorescent buzz?” she says, making a disapproving face, as we stroll around the offices, bathed in a warm glow thanks to the natural Los Angeles sunlight and Louis Poulsen pendants, originally designed in 1958. She wanted a place with a vibe! A place that you could work in—and might actually want to work in. There are wheelie desk chairs and computer monitors, sure. But there’s also rare Togo Fireside chairs in a deep tobacco color, the classic Eames lounge chair, and a moody brown Ellison Studios Muse sofa inspired by the Italian modernists of the 1970s. (Although the Scandinavian modernists deserve a shout out as …

Trump’s State of the Union: Hockey Champions and Grisly Tales of Bloodshed

Trump’s State of the Union: Hockey Champions and Grisly Tales of Bloodshed

Published by Sam Flores

Around 20 minutes into his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump started shouting. His voice grew distorted as the microphone struggled to contain the decibels. “Our country is winning again! In fact, we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it! People are asking me, ‘Please, please, please, Mr. President, we are winning too much! We can’t take it anymore! We’re not used to winning in our country! Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we’re winning too much!’ And I say, ‘No, no, no, you’re going to win again! You are going to win big, you’re gonna win bigger than ever!’ And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud! The men’s gold medal Olympic hockey team—come on in!” The chamber erupted in applause as the semi-toothed heroes who beat Canada in Milan basked in the adulation of the United States Congress. The star-spangled spectacle was a …

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s New Reported Home, Marsh Farm, Is a Boggy Exodus

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s New Reported Home, Marsh Farm, Is a Boggy Exodus

Published by Sam Flores

There’s an entire book written about the Royal Lodge—Royal Lodge: Windsor by Helen Cathcart. It’s 189 pages long and includes 11 chapters and 16 illustrations: One, titled “Riding Time,” shows a young Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth on horses exploring the bucolic 99-acre grounds of the Lodge, where they lived from 1932 to 1936. Another, “Princesses at the Fireside,” shows the child royals resting by a roaring stone hearth. Then there’s “The Children’s Garden,” which depicts them tending to a leafy plot, an idyllic wood in the background. They’re woven through tales of its history and its colorful occupants: like King George IV, a monarch known for his extravagant fashions, Margaret and Elizabeth, who lived there before their father ascended to the throne, and the Queen Mother, who lived amongst its 30 stately rooms until her death in 2002. Cathcart also writes prolifically about its architecture—brick, with Georgian and Victorian detailing—as well as its interiors: The Royal Lodge, she notes, was known for its “superb Gothic windows.” Cathcart’s book, written in the ’60s, ends before …