Articles

  • 1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Alex French

    The 911 call came in shortly after 8 p.m. on the evening of December 9, 2024—a Monday. Olivia Ponton, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, arrived at the $7.5 million Cincinnati-area mansion of Joe Burrow, quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals. Ponton told authorities she was there to check on the place while the Bengals were in Dallas on their way to a 27-20 nationally televised victory against the hapless Cowboys on Monday Night Football.

  • Oct 15, 2024 | robbreport.com.sg | Alex French

    By the time Gordon Ramsay burst into the American consciousness in 2007 as the star of a restaurant-rescue reality-TV series called Kitchen Nightmares, he was already among the most successful restaurateurs in the world. At 40, he controlled a seven-site empire that included dining rooms at the Savoy, the Connaught, and Claridge’s in London. His eponymous establishment in Chelsea, then just a few years old, had developed a reputation as one of the best anywhere.

  • Oct 5, 2024 | robbreport.com | Alex French

    By the time Gordon Ramsay burst into the American consciousness in 2007 as the star of a restaurant-rescue reality-TV series called Kitchen Nightmares, he was already among the most successful restaurateurs in the world. At 40, he controlled a seven-site empire that included dining rooms at the Savoy, the Connaught, and Claridge’s in London. His eponymous establishment in Chelsea, then just a few years old, had developed a reputation as one of the best anywhere.

  • Aug 16, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Alex French

    When my cofounder Andrew and I first embarked on our entrepreneurial journey at Bizzy Cold Brew, I couldn't have predicted the dramatic growth that lay ahead. Starting in 2013 with a few cups of homemade coffee in our cramped apartments in Minneapolis, our passion for making the perfect cold brew coffee would soon lead us to producing hundreds of thousands of cups daily in our own manufacturing facility.

  • Jul 24, 2024 | inverse.com | Alex French

    The surfing competition for the Paris 2024 Olympics will not be staged at any of France’s famous mainland surf spots. Not at Biarritz or Anglet or even the thumping sand-bottom beach break at Hossegor. Instead, the competition will be held at Teahupo’o, a Tahitian reef break 10,000 miles from Paris.