Jenna Schnuer

Entrepreneur: Tasteful TreasuresMay, 2013

A flea market as restaurant incubator, hipster destination and a great place to find a lamp? Indeed. Find out how partners Eric Demby and Jonathan Butler got the Brooklyn Flea off the ground--and turned it into one of the borough's anchor events. 

Read the piece on Entrepreneur.com.

One+: Tell It Like It IsApril 2013

There are many traits common to real New Yorkers: A love of discussing how much they pay for their apartments; the absolute confidence with which they hand out subway advice; and the inability to keep the first appointment of the day—it’s part of the narrative of New York life.

So it wasn’t a big surprise when Joan Firestone, executive director of New York-based storytelling organization, The Moth, emailed to change the next day’s interview time. But Firestone had the most NYC-of-all reasons for the change: She was going to former Mayor Ed Koch’s funeral. 

Read my profile of Firestone from the April One+.

Round-Trip America: April 15 - November 8, 2012

The drive is over but the stories continue. Find out what happened as I road tripped and ferried from the New York City area to Alaska and back again. From April to November 2012, I drove across the northern United States, took a ferry across the Gulf of Alaska, spent three months in Alaska, and then took a rambling drive back east. 

Visit the Round-Trip America site.

Entrepreneur: Open and Shut (and Open Again)Dec. 2011

The parties often went late into the night, with up to 150 friends milling about their pool, gathered around the piano, singing, talking and laughing. Scott Jones and his partner, Kell Hicklin, loved entertaining. So when they decided to tank their respective careers in marketing and human resources, the couple determined it was time for a complete change. They bought a then-failing seasonal inn and restaurant on Martha's Vineyard.

"She was just an old girl that was all rough and worn out and needed somebody to love her," Jones says.

With a new name on the inn's sign--Lambert's Cove Inn & Restaurant--Jones and Hicklin spent two years and $1.5 million of their own money to renovate the property.

"We thought, How much harder can this be than throwing a big party? It still sounds stupid as I say it again even now," Jones says. "It's like a never-ending party, especially the restaurant part. It's like you have continual houseguests."

Find out what it's really like to run a seasonal business.

National Geographic Traveler: A Fair to RememberJuly/Aug 2011

The Ferris wheel awaits. This charticle serves up the Blue Ribbon goods on five State Fairs. Pick up the July/Aug issue of Traveler to find out the best place to eat candy buckeyes, which fair serves reindeer sausage, and where you can meet Bardo the Clown.

American Way: The Chef Recommends...June 1, 2011

Even chefs need a night out on the town (or just a quick postservice meal). “As a chef, depending on what kind of food you do, all you want at the end of the day is something simple and warm and comforting,” says Albert Aviles, executive chef at Corkbar in Los Angeles. “You don’t want to go out after service and go for 45 courses.

So, when their toques come off, here’s where top chefs in five great eating cities head for their next meal.

Entrepreneur: 100 Brilliant CompaniesJune 2011

The magazine's annual 100 Brilliant Companies report highlights great ideas across 10 different industries. For this year's section, I wrote about a travel search company, Hipmunk; a media app, Zite; and Yellow+Blue, a company that boxes up wine in the name of convenience, flavor, price, and the earth. Also in the June issue: How to map out an M&A brand strategy.

American Way: Mission ImprobableOctober 15, 2010

Can artist Jason Polan draw every person in NYC? Maybe not, but that won't stop him from trying.

No piece of paper had ever looked so blank. Or so threatening. But the only way to get a Taco Bell Drawing Club membership card--and you want a Taco Bell Drawing Club membership card--is to grab the pen being offered and start drawing a line on the blank before you.

It doesn't matter if the line wobbles, weaves and is the start of something horrific. With that first line, artist Jason Polan starts filling your name in on that card. You're part of his world.

And it's a good place to be.

Read the profile on the American Way site.

National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel Blog: Make Your Own FestivalSeptember 28, 2010

 I couldn't tell exactly what the noise was or where it was coming from: There was the ping ping ping of xylophones, a beating drum, and the shaking rattling noises of...something. Pursing the sounds across the grounds of the New York Hall of Science, I expected to find a small band of people using a clearing as a practice space. Instead I found a guy in a plaid shirt standing behind a folding table loaded with small player-pianoesque musical instruments (aka, Nick Yulman and his Bone Conductor Mechanical Orchestra).

My brain-swirling day at World Maker Faire NY was officially underway.

Read the piece.

American Way: Inside JobJuly 1, 2010

It was 1:43 a.m. on a Monday when I realized for the first time ever that there’s a streetlight on my block. I made this discovery while standing on the front steps of my house with a near-dead cell phone in one hand, a flashlight in the other and a carbon monoxide detector screeching away inside. Other than three (very lucky) houses in the middle of the block and that one streetlight, my neighborhood was completely in the dark and without electricity.

The guy on the phone at the power company didn’t have any ideas for me. Well, he had one: If the house was well ventilated, I could wait inside. So I sat in the front seat of my car. For 10 minutes. Then I called my neighbors, walked next door and crawled into the bed in their spare bedroom.

And started laughing.

Read the article to find out why all the laughing and about author Peter Lovenheim's book, In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time.