Josh McHugh

Looking Forward to Surfwise

My pal Tommy Means produced Surfwise with Graydon Carter and Mark Cuban. The film got some love from the NYT and just looks like a blast.

Vanity Fair's 2007 New Establishment

At last, the New Establishment issue of Vanity Fair is on newsstands everywhere, at 400 pages threatening to leave the nation's particle-board magazine racks in splinters. Nicole Kidman is on the cover baring her brassiere. Here's the online version of the Vanity Fair 100 list (in a dead heat with New Establishment as the project's official name for at least another year).

I wrote entries on 22 globally heavy hitters; 15 of them made the final cut. Apologies to the 7 who fell to the pitiless X-Acto of my editors, Peter Newcomb and Heather Halberstadt. You have 10 months to remake yourselves into the power-dripping, large-living, Graydon-Carterrific beings we see depicted in the list's sepia, golden and money-green glory.

Anticonstructionism

A. A. Gill's piece in Vanity Fair's "Suri" issue [ah, the tawdry business of newsstand sales], about the wave of new euro-style condo buildings in NYC is the sharpest, nastiest, most crackin'-est magazine article I have read in a while, and the best architecture criticism I have read, um, ever.

It is *possible* that the version on the Web didn't have the benefit of that last round of copy-editing. Possibly.

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