Cool Hunting
Ted is a New York-based professional wordsmith-actor-musician and full-time renaissance flâneur in search of ephemeral transcendence and the ideal chocolate-chip peanut butter cookie.
Originally a classical pianist from the coast of southern Maine, Ted spent three years as a macro-political analyst at a leading Wall Street/Capitol Hill policy intelligence advisor. As an actor and singer he has appeared across Europe and the United States and was most recently seen on The History Channel and Off-Broadway. When not performing or researching Ted spends his time working on a novel that follows the journey of a Sub-Saharan, Nepali child who escapes the Idi Amin regime of the 1970s in order to pursue artistic dreams in America.
Ted holds a B.A. in French Literature from Tufts University, a B.M. from the New England Conservatory, and a certificate in 19th Century French Literature from the Université de Paris - Sorbonne Nouvelle.
What happens when an Italian opera director and a Japanese chef collaborate on a restaurant? Cho-Cho San, a new culinary hot spot in NYC's Greenwich Village, is the result of famed Metropolitan Opera director, Fabrizio Melano, and Jun Nagano, of the venerable Taste of Tokyo, joining forces. Named after the heroine of the opera Madama Butterfly, Cho-Cho San's menu combines traditional Japanese fare with...
If you're looking for a little sunshine to brighten up a cold winter day, check out the delightful debut album from indie pop singer-songwriter, Lauren Molina. An accomplished Broadway actress currently playing the role of Johanna in the national tour of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Molina is a veritable one-woman orchestra, whose innovative arrangements for Doo-Be-Doo have her playing cello, ukulele, guitar, accordion, Wurlizter...
The second album of French/Italian model-cum-chanteuse, Carla Bruni just hit stores in France. Two years in the making, No Promises is a unique and personal interpretation of some of the greatest poets of the American and British traditions, including texts by Emily Dickenson and W. B. Yeats. No Promises won't be released in the U.S. until the end of January but is availble for...
Last year at this time we posted designer Nicholas Feltron's ingenious personal annual report and this year he's at it again with another clever visual journal of 2006. The Feltron Report 2006 was conceived as a booklet to be distributed later in the month. You can preview the report and sign up to receive a copy via snail mail on his site....
For King lovers who can't make it to Memphis, now you can have an all access tour of Elvis Presley's famed mansion right in your own living room with the arrival of Graceland: An Interactive Pop-Up Tour. The book contains nine different three-dimensional spreads designed by pop-up master Chuck Murphy, dedicated to the most popular aspects of the castle of rock 'n roll, including...
Cockpit USA is a WWII-inspired clothing line designed to combine new, high-end fabrics with elements such as zippers and buttons that stay true to the originals, creating a highly unique military look. As recently mentioned on Thrillist, Cockpit's newly opened NoHo store in lower Manhattan functions as part museum, part time capsule, where you can buy authentic aviation, military and outdoor artifacts, as well as...
Leni the Pug: The Comet Christmas Caper is a new illustrated holiday 'tail' chronicling the adventures of Leni (a female Pug), who leads a pack of pooches to help Santa find Comet the reindeer and deliver his Christmas presents after the magic sleigh crashes in a Central Park dog run. Written by Keith Fiore, Illustrated by Alex Sacui, and self-published by Keith and his...
The world's first international news magazine on cotton, T-post is a subscription t-shirt service based in Sweden. Silkscreened onto American Apparel tees, subscribers get a new "issue" every six weeks with a design about a current news item on the outside and a short article on the topic printed inside. Many of the stories covered by T-post are outside the radar of the traditional...
