Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

New York

Senior Writer at New York Magazine

writer @nymag @thecut @a24 @archdigest @marieclaire

Articles

At Thailand’s Real White Lotus Hotel, Where the Ultrarich Get Coddled

1 month ago | vulture.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

At the Four Seasons Koh Samui, a five-star hotel overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, staff study guests like spies watching their marks. Their research goes beyond the usual notes on allergies and coffee orders. “I know everything,” says Hannes Schneider, the hotel’s handsome, six-foot-six Austrian resort manager. “I know when you arrive, what kind of car you have. I have a picture of you. I know if you’ve stayed at other Four Seasons.
Kauai, Hawaii, Itinerary: 3 Days of Things to Do

Sep 30, 2024 | nymag.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Photo-Illustration: The Strategist; Photos: Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz Everyone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind–style spreadsheets to come up with the best vacations and itineraries possible.
Am I a Bad Pet Owner? Confessions of Dog and Cat Owners.

Aug 11, 2024 | thecut.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Photo: Charlie Engman You love your cat. Also sometimes you go away for three days and leave it a big bowl of dry food. We asked cat and dog owners to anonymously share their worst fears and guilty feelings about how they’ve treated their animals. Is my dog heartbroken by my breakup? My ex and my dog were very close. After we broke up, every morning he would run to the room my ex used as an office. He worked remotely and used to be home with him all the time.
How a Yale Peabody Museum Paleontologist Gets It Done

Mar 26, 2024 | thecut.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Yale Peabody Museum Susan Butts fell in love with fossils as an undergrad. She’d gone to school to study political science and only signed up for Geology 101 to fulfill a course requirement. “A lot of my colleagues have known since they were 5 that they wanted to study butterflies,” she says.
The Chaos Inside Diddy’s Harlem Charter School

Mar 15, 2024 | thecut.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Getty Last summer, Sean “Diddy” Combs was celebrated at the Apollo Theater for his work in education. The rapper was presented with an award by students from Capital Preparatory Harlem, the charter school he co-founded in 2016, the same year Forbes named him the richest man in hip-hop.
The Chaos Inside Diddy’s Harlem Charter School

Mar 15, 2024 | gossipbucket.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

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‘Girlboss’ Sophia Amoruso Has a New Venture-Capital Fund

Feb 29, 2024 | thecut.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Photo: Getty Images Sophia Amoruso, the founder and former CEO of Nasty Gal, has been lying low for the past several years (perhaps because she’s the woman who popularized and will forever be associated with the term girlboss.) But it seems she’s back, with new hair and a new business, though there’s little about that in a profile of her published today in Elle, which declares that the “original #Girlboss is casting off that label and embarking on her next chapter.” Amoruso founded Nasty Gal...
Does This New K-Beauty Treatment Really Fix Acne Scarring?

Feb 29, 2024 | thecut.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Left: During exosome therapy. Right: Six months after my first session. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz I got my first zit in elementary school. It popped up one morning right in the middle of my nose, shiny and painful. I said it was a spider bite, but knew it was a zit because my mom had adult acne and I’d been bombarded by Clearasil commercials since I was 4. Several years later, I would start getting acne in earnest.
What Is Taylor Swift’s Grammys Braid Trying to Say?

Feb 5, 2024 | thecut.com | Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Photo: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Polarizing hair was all over the Grammys red carpet last night, from Miley Cyrus’s bouffant (described by people on the internet as looking like an “expensive cat”) to Lana Del Rey’s fringe helmet (ask your stylist for “gradient waterfall bangs.”) But no one’s hair was more divisive than that of Taylor Swift, who wore hers mostly loose, save for a scruffy side braid that looked a little at odds with her custom Schiaparelli gown.
Stop making plans

Dec 29, 2023 | eelsbooks.substack.com | Susan Howson |Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Since 2008, I’ve started each year with a reading theme.