David Stewart

Championing Elitism Last week, David Tang died from a battle with cancer. We know Tang from his weekly column in the Financial Times, where he wrote a column as Agony Uncle. Tang was an elitist — a concept he famously and humorously defended. It’s a word much maligned today, except...

american music Layered, totally modern, with more than a whiff of Springsteen and Neil Young, the latest from Adam Granduciel is a claustrophobic and personal album, its overlays of sound presenting a private world. There is a skittering-to-the-edges sense of ungraspablity to this record, never quite revealing the characters.  It...

a big week for anti-anti-aging Allure announced that it would stop using the word “anti-aging.” I have to wonder if they are making a pitch for a more minted older audience, or if they are having a semantic rethink. The idea that beauty is the sole province of the young is...

There has been a considerable amount written on the downsides of the so-called demographic time-bomb that is associated with longer lives, and the proportion of the population over 65. But we humbly suggest that there is another side to this that is getting overlooked. If people are living longer,...

ageist travel the anti-florence Staying with the theme of challenging one’s self, we bring you the city of Naples, Italy. This city is not for the faint of heart, for the package tourist, or people who enjoy their reality mediated.  Naples is the anti-Florence. It is the wild, woolly west...

Staying Protected We here at AGEIST are sunblock nerds. We have been fascinated by the substance for a long time, probably since we read that Australian skin cancer rates started to soar right about the time that "suntan lotion" became available. Interesting, right? The quick reason: UVB is what gives...

Let’s say you’re 60 — but as far away from behaving like a codger as you were at 40. Let’s say you see people your age in advertisements — maybe they’re holding hands in clawfoot bathtubs, hoping that the sex-performance drug kicks in, or they’re waiting sadly on the sidelines...

From our Notebooks "If 80 percent of success is showing up, the other 20 percent is knowing when to leave. People would always say that I left Studio too early and Steve left too late. Steve would stay there because he loved it. I mean, to the bitter end. I was...

Curiosity As A Way Of Life If there’s one single characteristic of AGEIST people it is curiosity. It’s rather remarkable, every person we have spoken with has a deep-seated inquisitiveness. But as we think about it, how could it be any other way? I had the privilege to hear Brian...

Our New DTLA Obsession...But Don't Tell Nobody If you are in Los Angeles, go to Manuela, it’s our new favorite spot. The room is perfection: the colors of the tiles, the artwork, the brass coordinates; we appreciate that someone put a lot of consideration into this place. Then there is...