So Last Night I went to the Most Surreal Party in Paris

I think Dali would have been proud of me last night. I had received a call from my new friends over at We are the Oracle (underground unique party planners extraordaires) inviting me to a shindig they were throwing with “a bit of a twist”. It was going to be held at the same location as one of their…

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12 Places in New York To Celebrate New Year’s Eve Like A Local

For most of 2018, it’s been all about New York City at Messy Nessy Chic, as we gear up for the release of our second book in 2019, Don’t be a Tourist in New York. So when it comes to making plans for New Year’s Eve in the Big Apple– we got this! Using our…

Last Night, I Found Heaven in Paris

I don’t usually do this– blog on the weekends that is– but I had an experience last night that I just had to share with you as soon as I stretched out of bed this morning. It feels like a dream now, but I’ll try to piece it together for you. I was told to find the Villa Mont…

Parisian Pads You Can Borrow for an Epic Party

So I heard Paris is cracking down on Airbnb landlords again. The city is officially making it mandatory for landlords to register their lodgings with city hall before listing it to vacationers online, as well as imposing a 120-day limit to rent their properties. For French entrepreneurs trying to make the most out of their…

A Little Courtyard Book Party for “Don’t Be a Tourist in Paris”

To celebrate the launch of “Don’t Be a Tourist in Paris” I had a little courtyard book party and made a toast to you all! And of course we had the video camera rolling … So after seven years on the internet, I’ve entered the world of publishing with “Don’t be a Tourist in Paris”. With…

The Art of Squatting in Underground Paris Galleries

I first met one of the founders of Madame Lupin in the Paris catacombs on Halloween one year, sharing a bottle of red wine, squatting on some ancient limestone. He told me about the secret gourmet picnics he liked to organise in abandoned chateaux around the city. He then met a girl who worked in…

Oh, to have been in Venice on the Night of September 3rd, 1951

It’s my birthday today– no, no, please, hold the gifts! I couldn’t possibly accept. But if you insist, I suppose I wouldn’t turn down a ticket and a time machine to the costume party of the century– Le Bal Oriental, hosted by an eccentric millionaire at his Venetian palazzo in September of 1951… Hosted by Charles de…

The Holiday Party at Studio 54 Got a Little Out of Hand

Tod Papageorge was not your average lingering Studio 54 paparazzi, in fact, he spent three decades as a Masters professor and director of photography at Yale. Time magazine calls his photographs of bleary-eyed disco queens as “something akin to poetry“. I can’t decide if his poetry makes me feel uncomfortable and guilty for looking, or naïve and prude for thinking…

Welcome to Liberace’s Secret Parisian Palace of Kitsch

In 1972, Marie-Helene de Rothschild threw a surrealist dinner party at the family’s mansion in the suburbs of Paris. Dali was there of course, and Audrey Hepburn showed up with her head trapped inside a Magritte birdcage. It’s a night people still talk about more than 40 years later; up there with Studio 54’s legendary New Year parties…

Exactly what Your Next Dinner Party Needs: Nuclear Reactor Porcelain Plates

To save your next dinner party (and its guests) from the curse of politically-correct small talk, set the table–and your ambiance– with a radioactive sense of irony. I’ve gone a little gaga for this collection of hand-painted porcelain plates which replace folkloric windmills and country farms with hand-painted nuclear reactors and power plants… Created by a German…