Nacho, Danny Ocean, Elena Rose, Lele Pons and Mau y Ricky talk about music, politics, social media and activism.
UNSUNG Six people who have quietly changed the automotive world. 📝 by Chris Perkins 📷 by Mary Beth Koeth for Road & Track Magazine
| DOCTOR STEPHEN OLVEY |
FOR DECADES, American open-wheel racing was the source of much motorsport innovation, including in safety. That’s thanks largely to Dr. Stephen Olvey, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Terry Trammell, an orthopedic surgeon. The biggest names in IndyCar owe their continued careers—and in some cases, their lives—to these two doctors.
Olvey grew up in Indianapolis and began attending the Indy 500 as a kid. The speedway was the first racetrack in the world to have an on-site medical facility, and as a med student at Indiana University, Olvey volunteered his services during the 500. There he met Dr. Thomas Hanna, who ran the center and hired Olvey to be the on-track doctor. That led the USAC, the sanctioning body for American open-wheel racing, to bring on Olvey as a traveling doctor, ensuring that drivers received the same level of care at all tracks. Olvey also standardized post-crash procedures by creating the modern rapid-response safety team.
Digi tech | Javier Sanchez
Creative Director | Nathan Schroeder
In her South Miami studio, Ana Trelles Portuondo is being watched. Her figural portraits—mostly female—gaze at her with an intensity of her own creation, as though hinting at sacred stories masked beneath layers of paint and collage. “I believe the eyes are the expression of your soul,” the artist says. “Capturing that expression is, for me, everything.” 🎨
📝 by Jennifer Pfaff Smith 📷 by Mary Beth Koeth for LUXE Magazine
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I had never heard the word pergola until this shoot.
Here’s to continued vocabulary development this coming year.
Client | Cabot Stain
Agency | VMLY&R
Producer | Robyn Nagorsky
Assist | Javier Sanchez and Jake Soper
Retouching Hugo Ceneviva
He may have made it to the NBA a decade ago, but Bismack Biyombo's heart never left home. Biyombo hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a nation rich in natural resources like cobalt and copper, but still plagued by extreme poverty. "I've seen so much suffering from our people," says Biyombo, a 6 ft. 8 in. center who has played in Charlotte, Toronto and Orlando, and was a free agent going into the 2021–2022 season. "Every day, you go home, you go back in your room, you're by yourself, crying. You're trying to find an explanation to certain things you don’t understand. Why? Why? Why? Then it gets to the point where, instead of the why, why, why, it's time to take the action." Biyombo, 29, is doing just that. He has donated his own money and raised funds through the Bismack Biyombo Foundation to build schools and sports facilities, provide scholarships and improve health care in Congo. Biyombo says he and his foundation have given scholarships to more than 5,000 Congolese students. "This has become my lifetime mission," he says. "I'll be willing to keep pushing until I have nothing left in the tank for my people." Photograph by Mary Beth Koeth for TIME
Digi Javier Sanchez
Assistant Miguel Mori
Photo Editor Whitney Hollington Matewe
Billboard Latin Music Week Portrait Booth Mary Beth Koeth for Billboard
Huge thanks to this spicy crew 🌶
Photo Editors | Jenny Sargent and Katie Spoleti
Retouching | Babydoll Studio
Photo Assistant | Jake Soper
DigiTech | Javier Sanchez
As Latin’s latest rising star, Rauw Alejandro approaches music with a winner’s mentality — and it’s paying off.
“I see [music] as a sport,” says Alejandro, 28. “If you are doing the job well — you are disciplined and you are focused — the coach will give you an opportunity to play an important game.
Rauw Alejandro
Photographer: Mary Beth Koeth for Billboard
Digi: Javier Sanchez
Styling: Darius Baptist
Hair: Alexis Centeno
Makeup: BBellabyMillie
Location: El Tucán
I spent the best fifteen minutes of my life with Jimmy Johnson yelling "How 'bout them Cowboys" over and over again. Next guy who wants to win my heart, I’m going to tell him that it’s over there in a puddle next to Jimmy.
Jimmy Johnson, 78, tells ESPN the inside story behind "How 'bout them Cowboys?"
Written by Todd Archer, Photography by Mary Beth Koeth for ESPN, Digi | Assistant Javier Sanchez
What's better than talking about yourself for over an hour? Pretty much everything. This gal made it comfortable. She even let me ask her questions back. My therapist never lets me do that.
When it comes to running hotels, men have traditionally ruled. But a new generation of female entrepreneurs is shaking things up — and changing the face of the industry.
‘The Great One,’ Wayne Gretzky for MasterClass 🏒
📷 by Mary Beth Koeth
Digi Javier Sanchez
Stylist Jenny Figueroa
Art Direction Max Morse
Production Becca Selin
#waynegretzky #thegreatone #masterclass
On January 1, 1975, when Raven was 24 years old, he made a New Year’s Resolution to run eight miles every day. Next week, he hits 136,000 streak miles. 🏃🏻♂️💨
A Lingering Effect of the Pandemic: ‘Never-Ending’ Guilt
Both Stephanie Hills and her mother contracted Covid-19 earlier this year, but Ms. Hills survived and her mother did not. She still feels guilty that she could not visit her mother in the hospital during her final days. Photographs by Mary Beth Koeth for the The New York Times
They say “Never meet your heroes”.
I left with a bottle of champs and a warm heart. Thank you Prof G.
Scott Galloway: the wolf at Big Tech’s door
How the maverick US academic took on Silicon Valley.
by Bryan Appleyard by Mary Beth Koeth for NewStatesman
Assistant Sandra Arenas
Photo Direction Gerry Brakus
David Beckham's Inter Miami could be a great team. But it has to win first
📝 by Bruce Schoenfeld 📷 by Mary Beth Koeth for ESPN
Assistants Javier I Sanchez and Sandra Arenas
Photo Direction Kristine LaManna
Retouch Babydoll Studio
The Great Mow Show: Inside the World of Lawn Mower Racing
Writing by Jessica Giles
Photography by Mary Beth Koeth for Flamingo Magazine
In pursuit of speed and glory, NASGRASS drivers of all ages race to keep the sport alive in Avon Park.
Latin Music's New 'Gods' for Billboard Magazine
In 2013, on the Upper East Side of New York City, I saw a beautiful frail woman talking to her miniature poodle like the dog was her closest confidante. They were both dressed in pink. The interaction made me smile. So I sat down on a bench outside a café called Gotham, and, very fortunately, this woman whose name was Carol Ann, sat down next me. I don’t remember how we started talking, but our conversation lasted two hours. We exchanged emails and kept in touch with long letters that covered our lives of the past and present and hopes for the future. We’d also catch up over coffee at Gotham Café whenever my travels landed me in New York City.
In May 2018, a few days before I was scheduled to be in Manhattan for a one day stopover before heading to London, Carol Ann’s husband called and said Carol Ann was on life support in the hospital. “I just wanted to let you know, in case you could come and say goodbye,” he said. “You meant a lot to her.” My one day layover in New York was the same day that Carol Ann was taken off of life support. I was able to say goodbye to my sweet friend. Today, Carol Ann is on my mind, I just wanted you to know about her and the good things that can happen when we’re kind to strangers on a bench.
Think of your senior year photos. How did you wrap up your high school years, and what events surrounded your graduation? Twelve Dallas seniors share their experiences of graduating during the era of COVID-19 and discuss how they’re reckoning with missed milestones.
