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Ace Hotel Toronto | July 23, 2026

10 Caribana Tracks

Whine & Kotch’s DJ Taima shares a festival pregame playlist ahead of Caribana celebrations this weekend in Toronto.

Ace Hotel Kyoto | July 9, 2026

Queer Belonging Through Books

A reading list from Tokyo’s loneliness books and Kyoto’s Megaphone Books.

Ace Hotel | June 25, 2026

5 Things with Saturdays Football

A 2026 World Cup field guide from Saturdays Football for fans of all stripes.

2026-05-29 12:05:46

Perfectly Imperfect x Ace Hotel: The Local’s Guide to Brooklyn

2026-05-05 16:39:07

Packing List: Mei Semones

The 25-year-old Brooklynite songwriter and guitarist shares what she’s touring with.

Ace Hotel Kyoto | April 20, 2026

Stones Throw’s Sonic Guide to Kyoto

Stones Throw Records is a West Coast child of the ’90s, unbending enthusiasm for vinyl still intact.

Ace Hotel | March 5, 2026

PORTRAITS OF QUEER LIVING: 5 THINGS WITH QUAN THAI

TO·BE·LONGING introduces fluidity to domesticity, subverting historically defined heteronormative ideals of the home. The installation, the work of architect Quan Thai, rethinks the rigidity of home for those who do not conform. On display: nearly 40 artifacts received in response to the query, “What makes your home queer?” Here, Quan shares a selection of objects manifesting queerness in homes across North America.

Ace Hotel | January 30, 2026

Packing List: Madison Cunningham

Joan Didion authored many American classics — her shortest: a packing list published in 1979. The list, from her collection The White Album, was kept taped to the door of her Hollywood apartment closet for utilization at a moment’s notice. A tidy catalog of things that includes both stockings and bourbon, we often turn to Joan when staring down an empty suitcase. All this to say, we’re excited to introduce Packing List — a new Reader feature chronicling the tried-and-true travel companions of the wayfarers we know and love. Singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham kicks off the series as she tours in support of her fourth studio album, Ace (a coincidence, we swear).

Ace Hotel Sydney | December 22, 2025

Flo Dill’s Guide to Sydney

It was Londoner Flo Dill’s first time in Sydney, and she came with notes. “Like everyone, I ask friends who’ve been there before — but I try to get just two or three top things,” the NTS Breakfast Show host says. She’d come to romance Ace Sydney’s Lobby with her signature blend of leftfield pop and feather-light rock, and to try out a new way to travel. “I’m trying to free myself from the tyranny of Google Maps and just go where it feels good.” Her hot take: “Not every meal needs to be life changing.”  Alongside friends, Flo also polled her devoted NTS listeners for their can’t-miss spots, which is how she discovered the gem that is Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden — right at home on her outdoorsy-leaning list.

Ace Hotel Kyoto | December 5, 2025

The Mister Behind Mr. Maurice’s Italian

If one happened to be in Japan when the craving for a Caesar salad set in, one would be wise to make haste for Mr. Maurice’s Italian — the neighborhood Italian restaurant and bar at Ace Hotel Kyoto, run in partnership with the inimitable Philly chef Marc Vetri.

Ace Hotel Brooklyn | November 17, 2025

5 THINGS WITH ELISE PETERSON

Elise Peterson was pregnant and living in New York when the question hit — how would she maintain her independent identity postpartum? The artist and writer looked outward for advice on upkeep of her inner self, seeking guidance through conversations with women she admired. These heart-to-hearts birthed COOL MOMS, a podcast — and eventual event series — devoted to amplifying mothers who prioritize their passions.

Ace Hotel Brooklyn | October 24, 2025

FIVE THINGS WITH MISSY MAZZOLI

Missy Mazzoli had an ex who used to tell her she was a sex and death artist. “Unapologetically, I would say, yes, that’s true,” the Brooklyn-based, Grammy-nominated composer says. “I think that sex and death are the things that we are the least able to talk about in an intelligent and deep way. And they’re the most interesting things in the world.”

Ace Hotel Brooklyn | September 19, 2025

TV on the Radio Talk Brooklyn

TV on the Radio threw our dream festival — food, art, no overlapping sets and Hannibal Buress as emcee. There Goes The Neighborhood saw the band honor the borough that bore them with an all-Black lineup featuring majority female performers including Sudan Archives, Moor Mother and Spelling. Beneath Brooklyn’s K Bridge, the celebration of community, music and culture coalesced around fierce and glorious joy last Saturday. The eve before, the band led the Lobby at Ace Brooklyn into the weekend with an iridescent set from behind the decks.

Ace Hotel Athens | August 27, 2025

Paris’ Quixotic Projects Arrives in Athens

Parisian hospitality collective Quixotic Projects, the brains behind Candelaria and Le Mary Celeste, landed at Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens this summer. Led by Carina Soto Velasquez and Josh Fontaine — alongside their head of mixology Chris McNulty — Quixotic brought their signature creativity to the drinks at Sebastian and the Lobby Bar.

Ace Hotel Palm Springs | August 18, 2025

Latashá Moves Differently in the Desert

Opposites that attract Latashá: technology and nature. The LA-based musician, performance artist and all-around creatrix holed up for 30 days at Ace Hotel & Swim Club Palm Springs in January, meditating on the primal bond between humans and nature.

Ace Hotel Athens | July 9, 2025

A Swim Club Summer

The season of music, art, wellness and pool parties is upon Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens. And in true and proper worship of the burning ball in the sky, the Swim Club’s Summer Series welcomes a roster of international and local DJ talent, wellness practitioners and artist-led workshops — all open to hotel guests and day visitors.

Ace Hotel Athens | April 3, 2025

Greek Visions Finds Meaning in Incoherence

“It’s an incoherent archive of contemporary Greek culture,” says Greek Visions founder Takis Zontiros. What began as an Instagram account cataloguing movements and moments in Greece’s past and recent present — 1970s to 2010s — grew long, curious arms. Greek Visions resembles a virtual museum preserving the minute and monumental of the country’s cultural identity, its reach now spanning a popular Instagram account, regular merch drops and a Substack. Newly notched in the brand’s résumé — curator of the in-room vinyl at Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens (hear a preview here) and collaborator on an apparel collection that revives the decadence of Greek discotheques.

Ace Hotel | August 22, 2024

Willem Verbeeck’s Perfect New York Day

The Los Angeles-based photographer balances assignments for the likes of Rolling Stone and the New Yorker with personal projects driven by long walks through otherworldly landscapes. Raised in the New York tri-state area, he spent a weekend with us during a recent trip back east, doing what he loves: strolling through Manhattan accompanied by his camera. Below are a few of the stops Willem made along the way.

Ace Hotel Palm Springs | July 2, 2024

Corey Wash Walks on the “Sunny Side”

Don’t forget to log off. That’s the gist of “Sunny Side,” Corey Wash’s commission for the Palm Springs mural wall, which gets a refresh every spring in time for Desert Gold, our Coachella-season shindig. The painting, a riotously colorful ode to communing with nature, isn’t just a call to get off your phone, but more broadly to take a step back and think about what matters.

Ace Hotel | March 19, 2024

An Endless Art Practice

It’s her studio, but to a passerby Hyungi Park would seem out of place. A vision in all black, the 28-year-old artist dons only a trace of color — the smattering of red tattoos that start on her left cheek and snake their way down her neck and arms, punctuating the thick collage of black ink. Her studio, on the other hand, is almost ethereal. Its white walls hold shelves brimming with machines, tools and containers of organic materials that Hyungi foraged, found or made.

Ace Hotel | February 12, 2024

Soy Sauce, Like a Fine Wine

Eri Miyagi and Miki Nomura started Brooklyn-based Japanese condiment company Cabi Foods in 2022 for multitude reasons. One, their love of a really good mold called koji. Two, to share the Japanese home cooking they grew up on and its inherent emphasis on flavor and fresh ingredients. And to destroy the idea of Japanese condiments that “just sit there.” Launching with a yuzu vinegar, dashi soy sauce and sansho peppercorn miso — all sourced from small, regional producers — Cabi condiments focus on Japanese-specific flavors that go with anything: kale, chicken, vanilla ice cream.

Ace Hotel Los Angeles | January 29, 2024

Fantasma Paraiso / Phantom Paradise

Have you ever seen someone you love reduced to a blurry apparition on Google Street View? Felix Quintana has. With fantasma paraiso, Felix layers beauty, day-to-day routines and emblems of Los Angeles’ diasporic communities into such imagery through the cyanotype process.

Ace Hotel Toronto | December 13, 2023

Fran Miller’s Toronto Guide

Founder of the eponymous, pared-back line of natural skincare staples F. Miller, Fran Miller is a person we trust. We trust her to make our hair soft and our skin strong. We also trust her taste in Toronto, the city she’s based, where F. Miller’s products are designed, formulated and bottled by hand. Here, we share all-inclusive list of her local haunts, from fresh flowers to designer vintage to advice on accessing the Cheese Boutique’s cheese vault.

Ace Hotel | November 1, 2023

Sister Act

Shane Thomas and Saturn Risin9 are luminous. Tucked into an Ace Suite in DTLA at magic hour, buzzing with a magnetic, conspiratorial energy — plus cunning wit cut with vulnerability — it’s clear the two multi-faceted creators have a direct aux cord to the source — both together and individually. In advance of Blush!’s sure-to-be sickening soirée over Pride weekend at Ace Hotel Palm Springs, Shane and Saturn join us in dialogue.

Ace Hotel | September 22, 2023

Ballroom: 5 Things with Function

Launched last year, FUNCTION is a Toronto-based platform for everything Ballroom: culture, stories, events and education. Recently, they brought Ballroom royalty through our doors for our collaborative “Class of ’23” sessions, an ongoing series centering sexual health, community and movement. We gathered monthly to talk about history, sex ed and the courageous creative expression of voguing, as led by four of Ballroom’s most influential figures. Tears, cheers, breakthrough moments on the floor — the effects of FUNCTION remind us how alive and how staggeringly inextricable sweetness and pain can feel. Here, FUNCTION lays down five pillars of Ballroom.