Editor of JCK Magazine, specializing in jewelry, watches, travel and the occasional essay. Based in LA, NYC & a 747!
5 Critically Acclaimed Phoenix Restaurants for Centurion-Bound Jewelers
If you’re attending the Centurion Jewelry Show at the end of this month, you’ll have the evening of Thursday, Jan. 30, free to enjoy dinner...
Wait Until You See the Centurion Jewelry Show’s Hot New Location
Now in its 19th year, the Centurion Jewelry Show is kicking off the 2020s with a brand new location, a slate of unexpected educational and...
Indulge in Carats and Cocktails at This Tucson Gem Week Standout
When the seventh annual JCK Tucson opens Feb. 5 at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa, you’ll find event director Kate Youngstrom...
A Hit List of Tucson’s Finest Food and Drink
Where to eat? In Tucson, it’s a loaded question.
Longtime attendees of JCK Tucson and the other gem shows on the Arizona city’s calendar in...
5 Gemstone Trends and Topics to Know Before the 2020 Tucson Gem Shows
Rather than predict how the gemstone trade will fare over the next decade, we decided to focus on the imminent future: According to our crystal ball,...
This Show Should Be Your 1st Stop During Tucson Gem Week
To anyone with a stake in the colored stone business, “Tucson” is shorthand for the confluence of 30-something gem shows that take place in the...
3 Hopeful Jewelry Predictions for the 2020s
The future is here. Seven years ago, after attending a Swarovski jewelry conference in Vienna where an analyst from McKinsey & Co. gave a...
From the Editor, November–December 2019: Looking Back and Forward
The year 2020.
It sounds like pure science fiction, right? Wasn’t it just last week that we were battening down the hatches for Y2K?
I may sound...
From the Editor, September–October 2019: A Look Back 150 Years
Seven minutes.
That’s how long it takes to walk from JCK’s current office at One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan to its original location...
A Chronicle of the American Jewelry and Watch Trade Since 1869
An 18k gold Tiffany & Co. pocket watch, circa 1869
When JCK was founded in July 1869 as the monthly American Horological Journal, with...