San Francisco has a habit of hovering in the collective gay imagination like an empyrean city beckoning at rainbow’s end. It’s the city that most often answers the question, “If you could live anywhere else…”, one of the world’s most favorite cities – and particularly for the LGBT community. … Read More
How better to weather the winter than an eight-day cruise through the Eastern Caribbean on the Celebrity Constellation with ports of call to St. Bart (aka St. Barths), St. Croix, San Juan, and Labadee— with three days at sea. … Read More
One of the strengths of the Landeros New York AW2015 collection was that you saw the clothes first: strong exaggerated silhouettes echoing the 1980s album art and music culture of goth and New Wave. Only gradually did you begin to perceive the gender of the models. … Read More
A city of 14 islands joined by 57 bridges, Stockholm radiates romance, from the royal blue waters of lake and sea to its numerous verdant parks, which, together, make up nearly two-thirds of Stockholm’s land area. … Read More
Roughly the size of Massachusetts, Wales offers a bountiful larder of farm and sea with more than 80% of the land given over to agriculture and another 12% to woodland. With less than 3 million inhabitants, this is a country where sheep outnumber people by a ratio of four to one. … Read More
Arriving in the Sonoran Desert in 1928, Wisconsin-born architect Frank Lloyd Wright contended that there was “nothing more inspiring to an architect…than pure Arizona desert.” … Read More
“The most beautiful city in the world,” claims the heroine of Czech writer Milan Kundera’s hauntingly romantic novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a verdict hard to dispute should you find yourself at dawn on the Charles Bridge. … Read More
If you’re on your way to the San Juan Islands, consider an overnight at Seattle’s beautifully restored Mayflower Park Hotel, one of the last locally-owned independent hotels in a city dominated by worldwide chains. … Read More
