Dana Brown

Aug 2, 2024 | airmail.news | Dana Brown

For the past decade or so, we have lived in the age of the branded, sponsored, experiential, celebrity-hosted, collabed, hashtagged event. Get a group of people together, throw in a couple of influencers, come up with some clever hashtags, and voilà, activation. Having written about a restaurant or two, my in-box is stuffed so full of invitations to branded events that if attending them came with benefits and a 401(k) I could make a career out of going to them.

Jun 14, 2024 | airmail.news | Dana Brown

One of the joys of raising kids in New York is pointing out landmarks from your past.

Mar 1, 2024 | airmail.news | Dana Brown

Progress requires sacrifice. As a result, the forward march of technological innovation has left many casualties: landlines, video stores, paper maps, civil discourse, facts. Words and phrases have become acronyms, and emojis have replaced emotions. Doing something “in real life” has become such a novelty, a remarkable event, that we had to create an acronym for it. WTF? Then along came the coronavirus. Suddenly, it became almost impossible to do anything IRL. The pandemic is now over (I think).

Jan 12, 2024 | airmail.news | David Kaufman |Nancy Jo Sales |Dana Brown |Maria Cornejo

The pioneering Swiss-born architect Albert Frey (1903–98) was known to welcome students, colleagues, neighbors, and seekers to the home he perched on a mountain foothill overlooking Palm Springs—known as Frey House II and completed in 1964—with a soft-spoken, egalitarian demeanor.

Jan 12, 2024 | airmail.news | Dana Brown

The bustling streets of Manhattan were alive with the energy of the city that never sleeps. Great Jones Street, known for its mix of trendy boutiques and upscale dining, was abuzz with a new addition—Atelier Jolie. Rumors of its grand opening had spread like wildfire through the fashion community, and as a reporter always on the lookout for the next big story, I couldn’t resist the temptation to explore this mysterious new establishment.