New York’s Garden Party to Celebrate 30 Scrumptious Years
Turning 30 is one of those milestone birthdays where you want to celebrate with a big party. That’s one of the many good reasons why New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (affectionately known as “the…
Five Savage Summer Fragrances
As the 1955 song has it, “spring can really hang you up the most,” which is itself a sort of paraphrase of T.S. Eliot’s opening line to The Waste Land: “April is the cruelest month.” In other words, spring can be dangerous…
Immigrant Vision: “Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection”
In 1965, two émigrés from Communist Czechoslovakia arrived in New York with all of their possessions packed into a pair of suitcases. Within a few months, the young woman began working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she remained for 32 years,…
Hamburg’s “White House”: Hotel Atlantic Kempinski
The wealthiest city in Germany, Hamburg has celebrated its maritime pedigree throughout its 1,200-year history, though perhaps nowhere more elegantly than at Hotel Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg. Opened in 1909, the Atlantic quickly filled with first-class…
Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Hamburg, Germany
Nestled on the banks of the Inner Alster Lake, Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten is Hamburg’s “Grand Hotel,” a spectacular century-old landmark whose hallmark has been an unerring adherence to the philosophy, “Service, service,…
Serving New Yawk Attitude at Bobby Van’s Grill
Sandwiched mid-block in midtown Manhattan between two chain restaurants and with an entrance beneath a nondescript awning, Bobby Van’s Grill is the sort of establishment that you could pass by every day for years without a second thought. Should…
Five Fascinating New Fragrance Finds from Sniffapalooza 2013
You might think that nothing tops the fanaticism of Justin Bieber’s fans – but then you haven’t been to a Sniffapalooza event. Launched in 2004, Sniffapalooza is a group of fragrance aficionados whose devotion to the latest and the best…
The Mandala Hotel, Berlin, Germany
In the midst of the architectural cacophony of Potsdamer Platz exists a stylish sanctuary of calm: the 5-star Mandala Hotel. A favorite of celebrities for its understated elegance, the discreet 157-room boutique property complements its contemporary…