Andrew Sessa
The Archive
The best new Boston restaurants to try this fall
New England’s busiest city has got more than clam chowder and Dunkin’ Donuts for fall visitors. Here are the eateries that have Sox fans chomping at the bit: Bar Mezzana...
Get your bon appétit at Dallas' French-Mex Madrina
It sometimes feels like you find more Tex-Mex restaurants than 10-gallon hats in Dallas. But French-Mex? Not so much. So the Gallic-slash-South-of-the-Border concoction that is Madrina comes as a particularly pleasant...
Win in Rome: An inside guide to the best of Italy's hippest 'hood
When Rome restaurant Antica Pesa opened a satellite in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2012, it brought a bit of the Eternal City’s atmospheric Trastevere neighborhood with it. That ancient district sits...
The craziest stunts pulled by NYC's A-list party planner
Beloved for his theatrical, over the top and always beautiful celebrations, Bronson van Wyck has played party planner to some of the world’s most glittering grandees and important institutions — from...
This is how billionaires do summer at the beach
The force behind the (now-defunct) C. Wonder brand and former husband of fashion maven Tory, entrepreneur and investor Christopher Burch has called the Hamptons home — well,o ne of his...
Meet the hunk behind the Shazam of art
Magnus Resch — a 31-year-old German-born economist and entrepreneur, who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics — is ready to shake up the art world with his...
Mongolia is so much more than a bucket-list destination
Mongolians call their country “munkh khukh tengeriin oron” — “land of the eternal blue sky” — and driving across the Gobi desert, deep in the nation’s south, it’s easy to...
The world's biggest architects are now building in NYC
New York City is having a big, global architecture moment. Some of the most intriguing luxury apartments under development in the five boroughs feature designs by a who’s who of...
NYC's 4 most stylish new hotels
Four of NYC’s buzzy new and coming-soon stays have one thing in common: cool mise-en-scène created by the most sought-after aesthetes in the land. As part of Marriott’s efforts to...
Famed architect Zaha Hadid's interview — just 3 days before she died
"I believe that every project should have a very strong idea,” the iconic architect Zaha Hadid told Alexa, in what would be one of her final interviews, just three days...
Four buzzy NYC restaurants you should book right now
Beyond the litany of star chefs and restaurateurs setting up shop in new properties — Tom Colicchio and Keith McNally at The Beekman, José Andrés at the SLS, Daniel Rose...
Explore New York City's best new hotels (from $99/night!)
New York’s new-hotel rollout just won’t let up. Last year saw the addition of some 5,000 rooms to the city’s inventory, bringing the end-of-2015 total to 107,000 rooms throughout the...
The world's top 19 hotels to visit in 2016
The new hotels we’re most looking forward to next year run the gamut from big-name big brands to boutique beauties, and from urban escapes in familiar destinations to far-flung lodges...
Luxurious new(ish) stays in the City by the Bay
Writer Mark Twain supposedly once quipped "the coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco." Luckily, the Fog City's weather is actually far more temperate, making it a...
This $1.6M watch went to the moon
Want a watch that takes things to the extreme? Last month, Boston’s RR Auction sold the one and only lunar-landing watch held in private hands: Commander David Scott’s Bulova prototype,...
The 4 edgiest architects designing around the world
Oualalou+Choi (formerly KILO architectures) Paris, France, and Casablanca, Morocco The firm: Husband and wife Tarik Oualalou (born in Morocco and educated in Paris) and Linna Choi (born in Korea and...
The awesome architect behind the Wythe Hotel has 21 chickens
New York architect Morris Adjmi is a whiz at blending past and present — witness his oh-so-hot Wythe Hotel in a 1900s cooperage or the glass box he floated above...
The 20 biggest power players in New York City real estate
With a staggering $10.1 billion in sales for the first quarter of this year — a 21 percent increase over 2014 — NYC’s residential real estate business is a global...
Venetian chefs give tourists a real taste of Italy
Venice is a notoriously difficult city to eat in — that is, it’s a notoriously difficult city to eat well in. With a historic center mobbed by tourist hordes —...
How fitness guru Tracy Anderson's life adds up
1 Cups of coffee consumed each day last summer in the Hamptons, always from Sagtown, in Sag Harbor; she’s since given up caffeine. 3 Weight, in pounds, of dumbbells from...