Andreas Tzortzis

Randy Miller is a lawyer, a spin instructor and — recently — a budding community organizer. But what he really wants, is to DJ. “I love being in front of people; I love entertaining people,” says the career trial lawyer. “Throw music into that and it’s a trifecta.” At Coachella —...

A couple of years ago — at the age of 66 — dancer Naomi Sorkin performed in London’s legendary Coronet Theatre as the spirit of French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt. Her depiction of the femme fatale was well received by the press, but it was the reaction of her fellow, much...

In 2002, after spending the previous 12 years building up a PR agency with 12 other partners, serving as the primary caregiver to her husband, and turning 50, Patrice Tanaka visited an executive coach. “I was fried,” she says. The coach asked her to do something predictable: write down what...

gallipoli, italy Yes, there are the standard stops to hit when in Italy — the Vatican, Florence, Venice’s charming canals — but count us among those looking for something different. Which is why we were pretty excited to hear that this week’s profile subject, Pierluca De Carlo, owns a B&B...

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Maybe it’s been like this since his childhood in Italy. Or maybe it’s been his frivolous, whimsical relationship with the English language that planted the seed. But a year ago the career commercial director suddenly felt a burst of creative expression that he could no longer contain. On paper, and later on...

A walking billboard for her singular sense of creativity, Beatrix Ost is a transcendental artistic talent. The visual artist, designer, fashion muse, screenwriter, filmmaker and producer also possesses one of those rich century-spanning biographies that seem rare nowadays: a childhood spent exploring her creative identity in barren, postwar Germany, formative...

The French street artist JR made his name with large format photographs of locals from one of Paris’ largest housing projects that he then wheat-pasted onto ornate buildings in Paris’ tonier quarters. The middle-of-the-night street art mission in 2004 prompted high-level discussions around the depiction of project kids in French...

Lori Carter hit her low point 15 years ago. A husband battling addiction left her with six children to raise alone while struggling through a mountain of debt he had accrued without her knowledge. “When your credit is ruined and you’re left with no money, it’s hard to dig yourself...

A few years ago, former West End star Roni Page came to Philip Foster with a problem. At 68, the soprano hadn’t worked in years and had been rejected by the top theater agents in London when she attempted a comeback. So Page turned to Foster, a voice coach and...