Walker Loetscher

When English bartender Daphne Henderson arrived on Jost Van Dyke — the smallest of the four main islands that make up the British Virgin Islands — in 1970, she found a stretch of pristine white beachfront that she presumably never wanted to leave. And so she didn’t. Before long, she was the proprietor of an open-air bar on that same beach, which at that time lacked a road, dock or any other conventional access point. Nonetheless, people found their way to shore, throwing anchors down in t…

The best thing about the One11, the first new hotel to open in New Orleans’s French Quarter since a city moratorium on new guesthouses was imposed in 1969, is that it’s just barely in the French Quarter. Set in an eight-story brick building adjacent to the Canal Place shopping center — and beyond it, the Central Business District and its modest outcrop of commercial towers and casinos — it’s easy to miss on the drive in, which my taxi did, circling back around the block a couple times before…

In the pantheon of contemporary American interior designers, Kelly Wearstler’s name is at or near the top. Identifiable for her singular brand of California maximalism, she’s been the subject of profiles in The New Yorker (“the presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design”), Architectural Digest (“among the most influential in the world”) and Vogue (”[she] boldly goes where few have dared to go before, and many now follow”) over her 25-plus-year career, and her production shows no signs o…

Matt Beisner shares some thoughts on socialization, crate training and the impending separation-anxiety epidemic

ModernHaus Soho is a stylish, artsy retreat with a superb restaurant and one of the best rooftop bars in the city

Greetings. I am in Miami Beach, where it is 78 degrees at the time of this writing, and the beach is 163 steps from my desk. I am here under the guise of “editorial research.” Miami, it seems, is quite hot right now, and I do not only mean in the literal. Real estate prices have hockey-sticked since the onset of the pandemic, with the worlds of tech and finance taking up quarters alongside more traditional local pursuits like “hiding beers from the lifeguard” and “cycling down the board…

From its inception, Komodo was the kind of restaurant to divide opinions. That’s to be expected when the restaurateur — Jeffrey Chodorow, of China Grill and Asia de Cuba fame — who trademarked the much-imitated Miami staple of restaurant-as-spectacle joins forces with Groot Hospitality’s David Grutman, the de facto king of South Beach nightlife. Whether they love it or hate it, though, there seems to be one thing critics can agree on: the Peking duck. (Per The Infatuation, though I could c…

Nothing is truly binary, but if you want to get as mathematically close as possible to a true 1’s and 0’s situation, try asking a man about his jeans preference. Unlike the variety of ways to get dressed up, wear shirt jackets and just generally exist in the universe, jeans (and the guys who wear them) fall into two distinct camps — the brutalists of stiff, influencer-coveted selvedge denim and their antithesis... fellas who search for the most comfortable jeans they can find. What Makes a…

The TSA announced this week that they expect to screen 20 million passengers this Thanksgiving — by some accounts, that’s as much as an 80% increase from 2020, when air travel was at a near standstill due to COVID-19. A month after that, they’ll buff their badges, don fresh nitrile gloves and do it all again. Which means ample opportunity for Americans to do one of the things they do best: act like a bunch of complete and total bozos at the airport. And so, in the midst of a veritable e…

“Adapt or perish.” H.G. Wells wasn’t referencing shaving when he wrote that, but it’s an imperative the industry has always abided nonetheless. For decades, the Schicks and Gillettes of the world have been adding bells and whistles to their products in an effort to improve something that was never really broken in the first place: the cartridge razor. Chief among these alleged innovations has been the addition of extra blades (Gillette thinks five is the magic number), even though studies…