Today’s WSJ included a story about a man they call ‘The Statue.” He’s Jose Tomas, Spain’s most famous and legendary modern bullfighter, and this Sunday he has all of the nation’s eyes upon him. Though the sport is having a tough time, Tomas might be its second coming. In a […]
Today’s WSJ includes a profile of Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman. He’s one of the people who make the most money of anyone on earth. He buys and sells companies, and does it with such ruthlessness that he’s made millions. And now that the company is going public, his take will be […]
One of my favorite things about living and working in a close knit neighborhood is the intimacy between all of us, whose working lives intersect in so many ways. We do business together, drink coffee together and laugh at each other’s jokes. Mornings in the cafe, I am surrounded by […]
David Blum writes in the NY Sun that the Sopranos has elevated the common bloggers and showed that the mainstream critics don’t matter much any more. Here is his commentary on the despised final episode. “At his blog “The House Next Door,” the erudite Matt Zoller Seitz (also of the […]
Tomorrow morning I’ll rise a little earlier than usual. That’s because I am joining Tom Vannah of the Valley Advocate on his new radio show at 6:30 am. The Van Man has his new gig and it’s going strong weekdays from 5:30 till 9. He’s the morning man on the […]
I got a chance to feel like a Copenhager yesterday when I got out on a bicycle to tour the city. The flood of bikes is unceasing, and the first thing you hear upon exiting a taxi is ‘watch out for the bikes!’ After dodging the three and two wheelers […]
Our last night in Copenhagen was our best. That’s because we met such interesting people and learned all about their lives at an intimate dinner party held in a spacious art-filled apartment in the city. Jacob Termansen and Pia Marie Molbech are a glamorous and successful couple who photograph top […]
We drove up the Danish coast today. It was a gloriously sunny day, a good day for the beach. The houses here on the gold coast toward the city of Elsinore were stately and set back from the road. It was, as our guide told us, the high rent district. […]
You enter into a freezer chamber and don this huge furry cape with gloves. Then you order a drink that comes in a piece of frozen ice shaped like a glass. You drink it in the Ice Bar, where everyone is bundled up and it is about zero. After one, […]
It’s our last full day in Denmark, and today we’ll drive up the coast to Elsinore and Kronborg castle, the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Being in Scandinavia has made me think a lot about the priorities here versus what I am used to in the US. I’ve had this same […]
This oddly shaped skyscraper is the tallest part of the city of Malmo’s amazing transformation. A Saab plant and a shipyard threw 29,000 out of work. So the city built this new area of parks, connected housing and common areas, environmentally cutting edge building and development right in this area […]
It’s another sunny hot day in Denmark, and we sailed a Viking boat in Roskilde, just outside of Copenhagen. Our captain spoke in a low voice, telling us to row starboard, or row port, or rest. We made our way out of this harbor. We could see the Viking ship […]