At three o’clock in the morning, the Athens airport looks about the same as any given Athens street: littered with strays. Everyone is folded up on a bench or sprawled on the floor. People-puppy-piles rest on backpacks, friend curled into friend. This is the best time to travel, before the rush, before the slog, before the delays. This is when the mighty, they who power through the night and fly into the morning, stake their claim to destiny and a window seat.

Shopping is a job? Kate Oldham lives the age-old dream as a Senior Vice President and General Merchandise Manager for Saks Fifth Avenue, finding the perfect products in Beauty, Jewelry, and Home just so they can go from their shelves to your front door. She unpacks what it was like to move to New York to start a new life in her late 20’s and offers advice to any and all who dream of being retail royalty.

The Jane Ballroom in the Jane Hotel on Jane Street, commonly referred to as The Jane never fails to provide the boring with stories and the interesting with cocaine, though I’d recommend partaking in neither. The lines inside the Jane are nearly as long as the line outside, which wraps neatly around the corner of the block, leaving latecomers to down the vodka water bottles with only the west side highway in view.

It was easy to justify the cost of my travels in the summer of 2022. I would simply win in Monte Carlo. I would walk into the casino, and raise my bet until the rich old men across from me had to fold their hands. And when they fainted at the revelation— “She was bluffing!” they’d say as a woman less glamorous than I fainted to the expensive Persian carpet below, I would sit back and laugh “Ha Ha!” so. very. richly.

With all the constant excitement of the world, the simple pleasure of a Saturday night cannot be overstated, and the need to guard this treasured— nay— sacred time is of the utmost importance.

How unfortunate it would be…

if someone were to…

interrupt you.

Media maven Roxanne Donovan, the founder and President of Great Ink Communications, breaks down the trials and tribulations of starting your own business as she explains how she went from interviewing musicians for her college paper, to managing communications for some of the biggest names in New York commercial real estate.

We arrive at the reading an hour and forty minutes into the two-hour set. Fashionably late.

Outside the venue stands an ironic smoker and two halfway tipsy women debating left door or right. We dust the pavement off of our shoes and enter with an air of pretentiousness that lets the room know that, yes, we’ve been to a reading before.