Sometimes a compliment runs deep inside of you. For me, this is one. Thank You BASTA! I’m incredibly thrilled (and genuinely honored) to have Va Bene Style recognized by BASTA!, an Italian Lifestyle Newspaper. Any recognition is gratifying, especially when you’ve poured your personality, opinions, time and probably too much espresso into building something. But when that recognition comes from Italy, it carries a little extra weight for me. I am enormously proud of my Italian

It's taken a while, but the turnaround is happening Starbucks,Meet Your Customers For a few years, Starbucks seemed determined to prove it could destroy one of the greatest consumer concepts ever created. It had coffee. Comfortable chairs. Good music. Friendly baristas. That wonderful smell. And millions of customers happily paying six bucks for something that costs roughly eleven cents to make. Naturally, they screwed with it. Under a hand-picked CEO. who told staff that his

I Feel Better But I Miss The Martini! The Standard Let me start with this: I didn’t quit drinking because I had a drinking problem. I quit because I wanted to see what would happen. I like drinking. Not getting drunk (haven’t done that since high school) but just drinking. There’s a difference. I love an ice-cold, (Grey Goose please) very dirty martini before we head out for Friday-night dinner not only because it sets up the evening, but because martini’s in Palm Beach ar

The Snobs, Pageantry and Pony Moms of the Hamptons Classic The Pony Mom Illustration by Trivia Draws Every summer, as August burns itself out and Labor Day looms like a threat to linen pants, the Hamptons Classic Horse Show gallops into Bridgehampton, and with it comes an elite stampede of high-society posers, passive-aggressive riders, champagne-sipping nouveau snobs, Pony Moms and influencers Wouldn’t know a crop from a crop top. Some will tell you the Classic is one of the