Michael Gross The Italian government has concludedan agreementfor the return of 40 antiquities from the Getty museum in Los Angeles, the latest coup in its crusade to recover what it deems Italy’s cultural patrimony. The Metropolitan Museum made a similar deal last year. The blog Looting Histor...
Michael Gross This week’s terrific New York Magazineprofileof Balathazar/Pastis/Morandi impresarioKeith McNally–which includes an account of his breakup with his once-upon-a-time partner in London’s Balthazar, the former garmentoRichard Caring, reminded me of my 2015 Departures (R.I.P.)story...
” but it’s been updated with a new Afterword. In the original, “Gross summed up Lauren by saying that the things which made him a success like obsessiveness and control were ‘negative when viewed on the human level,'” the Mail reports. “In the new afterword Gross...
I stayed that summer, getting a piano gig in the restaurant four days a week. Pete and I became friends. Driving old mining roads, shooting guns in the hills, visiting friends, we traveled everywhere with his dog Burr and cheap watery beer (drinking and driving laws only applied to hard ...