illustration: Danielle Grinberg
A month before the pandemic hit the United States and quarantine began, a startup social networking app called Clubhouse emerged on the scene. The invite-only platform is a form of talk radio in which conversations take place in rooms hosted by moderators and disappear when chats are over. You can’t message or email from the app. The goal is to listen, chat, and maybe learn something.
One year since its launch, Clubhouse now hosts over 10 million users whose conversations can range from how to raise venture capital for startups, to which comedians are overrated. Recently, the app was valued at $4 billion.
Howard Goldberg in 2018. He passed away last week at age 86. (Thomas Matthews) By Jan 12, 2021
Last week I received the sad news that Howard Goldberg, a longtime editor and wine writer for the
New York Times, had died. He was 86.
Goldberg was a journalist of the old school, a veteran of the
Times, where he began in 1970 and rose to senior editor for the Opinion page. He started writing about wine for the paper in 1984.
I first met Howard in 1990 at the International Wine Center (IWC) in New York. New to the city, I had signed on as a teaching assistant, setting up and breaking down tastings to further my wine education. Goldberg sat in with the Wednesday Night Wine Club as a participant, also to pursue his interest in wine.