Diana Hubbell
@dianahubbell.bsky.social
2X James Beard winner Senior Associate Editor at SAVEUR She/Her dianahubbell.com
As always, as bad as you think people like Sam Altman are, they’re actually much worse than that. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack
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There's some truly wild stuff buried in the New York subway system (a dinosaur-run bodega, a soundbooth for buskers, an iconic dive bar, and a Michelin-starred restaurant, to name a few). I wrote about it for AFAR www.afar.com/magazine/bes...
The Coolest Underground Restaurants, Art Spaces, and Speakeasies Hidden Inside NYC Subway Stations
A tasteful selection awaits underground in New York City.
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Check out my latest piece in the March print issue of @cntraveler.com.web.brid.gy www.cntraveler.com/story/the-ri...
The Rise of Cool in Frankfurt
With booming dining and design scenes, the financial city is now moving beyond its stiff reputation.
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This ICE agent lost it and killed an innocent woman. Despite the bloodthirsty braying of JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., and Tom Cotton that this is exculpatory, that is what this video "proves." I didn't think Vance could be more of a moral abomination after "They're eating the pets," but I was wrong.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.
Wrote about my favorite way to escape New York without buying a plane ticket blog.resy.com/letter-of-re...
Café Sabarsky Is Manhattan’s Ultimate Coffee Break — Resy | Right This Way
The magic of this grand kaffeehaus never fails to enchant and transport you.
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"Sugar was scarce." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @dianahubbell.bsky.social & @popsci.com! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe www.popsci.com/health/hersh...
How WWII made Hershey and Mars Halloween candy kings
From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey’s bars into symbols of American abundance.
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Over the past few years, Chika Hanyu has built up a cult following entirely by word of mouth, all while making extraordinary cream puffs, canelés, and cakes out of a ghost kitchen in Sunnyside, Queens. Check out my latest piece for @eater.bsky.social. ny.eater.com/dining-out-i...
Meet NYC’s Most Under-the-Radar Pastry Maven
Chika Hanyu is making next-level cream puffs and cakes out of a ghost kitchen in Sunnyside
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I said goodbye to a lot of things this past summer, among them my favorite bar in New York. I wrote about letting go, a thing I am fundamentally bad at and do not like one little bit. Shoutout to the wonderful folks at @offassignment.bsky.social www.offassignment.com/gttp/diana-h...
Goodbye to Dirty Precious — Off Assignment
“I’ve heard it said that the key to loving New York is learning to live with perpetual loss. The longer you stay in this inconstant city, the more rubble accumulates on the map etched into your psyche...
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I'm constantly amazed how deeply entwined the US food system is with the military industrial complex. Here's why Hershey's became "The Great American Chocolate Bar," featuring a rogue pilot who became known as "The Berlin Candy Bomber" www.popsci.com/health/hersh...
How WWII made Hershey and Mars Halloween candy kings
From sugar shortages to military contracts, World War II helped make M&Ms and Hershey’s bars into symbols of American abundance.
popsci.com
New York is awash in really fantastic Thai food right now. I wrote about one of the best newcomers blog.resy.com/2025/08/sams...
Samsaen Whisks Diners on a Journey Through Regional Thai Gastronomy — Resy | Right This Way
One of Queens’ top Thai chefs now has a place in Manhattan, named for his childhood Bangkok neighborhood and inspired by its train station.
blog.resy.com
As we listen to RFK's heavy, heavy breathing before Congress, take a moment and read @wired.com's package on what is really going on with science and medicine right now! www.wired.com/beyond-welln...
Beyond Wellness
The line between science and wellness has been blurred beyond recognition. WIRED is here to help.
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Reyhan Harmanci@harmancipants.bsky.social · last yr.🧨 New @wired.com cover package dropped
Today, Labor Day stands for little more than summer’s end, sales, and maybe a barbecue. But it was originally meant to honor both the individual worker and what workers accomplish together through activism and organizing, Chad Broughton wrote in 2014. https://theatln.tc/AIcURZrb
Real question for editors out there: has gen AI killed the em dash? Are we no longer allowed to use the most fun form of punctuation?
Suddenly, Silicon Valley Is Lowering AI Expectations: “AI is still a huge deal, they’re suggesting. But after years of issuing one sort of warning, they’re now voicing another: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” nymag.com/intelligence...
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
This is not a joke: I’ve started opening my drafts with “The woman wondered what she had gotten herself into” and writing about whatever from there, and it’s honestly been nuking my writer’s block
Bittersweet but still really something to see the first big editorial package I commissioned and ran out in the world. The Great Escape features on-the-ground reporting and photography from regions across the U.S., plus some beautiful illustrations www.atlasobscura.com/hubs/the-gre...
The Great Escape
The Great Escape is your guide to planning unforgettable family and group adventures across the U.S.
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Good, now stop stealing traffic from the food journalists reporting the stories too thx www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Google Ends Recipe Pilot That Left Creators Fearing Web-Traffic Hit
Google has ended tests of a feature that would have let users open a snapshot of cooking-recipe content directly in web search results — a welcome development for creators and food bloggers who were c...
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Last year, I wrote a Sydney dining guide for Gastro Obscura's Feast. The series covered 9 cities (from Lagos to Penang) and has just won a James Beard media award for Dining & Travel! Congrats to @dianahubbell.bsky.social, Anne Ewbank and Sam O'Brien on the win! www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whe...
A Gastro Obscura Guide to Sydney
Wattleseed pudding, Vegemite-braised ribs, and more freewheeling fusion in the harbor city.
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Next up is Mason J. Adams, who takes readers on a remarkable journey from mountain string-music jamborees to old-growth forests to a chef serving up her own rendition of a Black Appalachian fish fry www.atlasobscura.com/itineraries/...
The Explorer’s Guide to Road Tripping Around Appalachia
Seek out old-growth forests, live bluegrass, and an old-school fish fry.
atlasobscura.com
The first piece of the first big editorial package I commissioned is out and it's a real banger. Aaron Joel Santos road tripped 400 miles from Memphis to his hometown of New Orleans for @atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com/itineraries/...
The Explorer’s Guide to Road Tripping Down Highway 61
Highway 61 is known as “The Blues Highway” as it makes its way from New Orleans to Memphis, following the Mississippi River through lands forged over eons, from the coastal swamps of Louisiana to the ...
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