Discovering Art in Airports

Discovering Art in Airports

With earlier check-in times due to increased security measures, passengers have become a captive audience at airports worldwide. While the downside is longer waits, the upside is the push by many airport authorities to make the experience more pleasurable. The installation of public art in airports – architectural builds, sculptures, water features, moving walkways, murals, mosaics, lighting […]

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The 10 Best Plays of London’s Theatre Season

The 10 Best Plays of London’s Theatre Season

The launch of London’s theatre season for 2016/2017 is a portal into the universe of star-studded entertainment, Shakespeare and the collective history of English theatre, and thought-provoking productions of exquisite beauty. It marks the beginning of London’s winter social season, a time for dressing up, eating in and going out. Here is a curated selection of London’s […]

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Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos

Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos

In the opening sequence of 2015’s Spectre, James Bond, dressed as a calaca – a skeleton – stalks his target through Dia de Los Muertos celebrations in Mexico City.  A bit of Hollywood cultural appropriation perhaps, but, like the films of Tim Burton, a popular introduction for those unfamiliar with Mexico’s “Day of the Dead,” an ancient holiday that celebrates […]

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NYC: Village Halloween Parade

NYC: Village Halloween Parade

Not unlike Santa’s workshop, there is a studio in Rhinebeck, New York that spends the better part of the year creating fantasy-sized articulated creatures, hand-crafted giants who lumber and slouch, sway and dip at the whim of their puppet masters. There are thousands of lesser masked and costumed beings who come alive on Halloween night, as well as […]

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Best Hotels for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Best Hotels for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is Manhattan’s biggest social event of November and signals the beginning of the Christmas Holiday season. But before we begin planning for the ‘C’ word, first things first.

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Celebrity Vineyards and Distilleries

Celebrity Vineyards and Distilleries

What do you do when you have more cash than you can stuff under your mattress? You do one of three things: If you’re famous, you design your own liquor or partner with an existing distiller or vintner; You invest in the hospitality sector, picking up – or opening up – a restaurant, hotel/resort or bar; You buy an […]

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The Surprising Legacy of New York’s Studio 54

The Surprising Legacy of New York’s Studio 54

For a place open just 33 months and closed for half a lifetime, New York’s Studio 54 should be nothing more than a footnote in popular culture. But the memory of the nightclub remains fluid, the gold standard by which the success of any other is measured. It was wild. It was sexy. And it was packed with 2,000 of the world’s […]

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