Timeless Elegance and Grace: Grace Kelly at Montreal’s McCord Museum
In this debauched era where rehabbed reality stars and washed-up celebrities are rewarded for spitting and swearing and dangling their children from balconies, it is a comfort to rediscover a star of grace, elegance, and style. That would be Grace…
The Copley Plaza is Still Boston’s “Grande Dame”
Years ago, in another century, my godfather hosted a graduation dinner for me at The Copley Plaza, which is where my then-boyfriend, now-husband met my parents for the first time. It was our memory of this celebratory occasion that caused us to return to…
Global Gourmet at Montreal’s Apollo Restaurant
Food porn is nearly as addictive as the other kind. If you’ve ever leafed through one of Chef Giovanni Apollo‘s glossy cookbooks and ogled at the lubricious photos and suggestive illustrations, then you know what it is to be tempted into…
The Future is Now in Hamburg
As one gay Hamburger noted, the two gayest neighborhoods in Hamburg are the only two that are named for saints: St. Pauli and St. Georg. What could be more heartening for a gay boy on a Hamburg holiday? Located along the banks of the River Elbe, St.…
Montreal’s Divers/Cité Festival Celebrates 21
Montreal loves to party. Montreal loves to party all night long, night after night, a fact that was made abundantly clear throughout the nearly weeklong 21st edition of Divers/Cite, one of Montreal’s most beloved summer festivals. A multi-day LGBT…
Ontario Is Not Only Toronto
Most everyone falls in love with Toronto – but there’s more to the province of Ontario than Canada’s cultural, entertainment, and financial capital. In spite of all that Toronto is, the largest city in Canada is not the country’s…
“Designing Circulation Areas”
Anyone who has ever made the trek to Florence and then to the monastic complex of San Lorenzo in search of Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library understands the magnifience of a staircase. Of course, Michelangelo’s work at the Laurentian Library…
“The Images of Architects”
Most of us have stood in awe in front of a landmark building, but how many of us have wondered what went on in the heads of the architects behind those iconic structures? What, for example, was the inspiration behind Frank Gehry’s “Dancing…