The Scents of Summer: Five Fresh Summer Fragrances
It was Faulkner who wrote “Memory believes before knowing remembers.” Roll that one around your head for a minute; it’s a lovely way of honoring the role of memory in our quotidian existence. And as Proust showed us with his lime-blossom tea,…
Divers/Cité: Montréal’s Music and Love Festival
As the locals like to say, there are two seasons in Montréal: winter and festivals. And while Montréal’s winter can last for eight months, that still leaves an entire four months to celebrate 24/7 amidst a profusion of outdoor festivals. Few festivals…
Sexy Summer Skin: Keep It Cool, Keep It Fresh
Look, we’re in the heat of it – the thick of summer – and it’s time to pay attention to what’s happening to your skin. According to the experts, the month of June 2010 was the hottest June ever recorded on Earth – and the month of July…
Mohegan SunDayz: LGBT Fleur in Bloom
As the third state (out of five) in the US to perform same-sex marriages, Connecticut has embraced the LGBT community rather more passionately than most of the country-and that embrace extends to the gaming industry as well. Recently, Mohegan Sun…
Garden Party 27: Foodie Paradise
Here’s what we ate (and drank) in the first hour: strawberry crème tart, fried zucchini flower moo chu with pickled summer flower in rice crepe, green chile mac-and-cheese with tortilla crumbs, caramel crème sandwich, baked brie pops with strawberry…
A Roman Holiday at Aroma Kitchen & Winebar
There’s a small ristorante a Roma, not so far from the Hotel de Russie, a short walk from the Spanish steps. A ristorante you discovered your first time to the Eternal City. You were given its name on a slip of paper by a member of the American Academy…
D. Rodriguez Cuba in South Beach
For years, New York gourmands seeking the kind of Italian cuisine that Mamma used to make have flocked uptown to Rao’s in Harlem. But why should Italians own the market on comfort food-and particularly when Cuban cuisine has been for so long about making…
Pee-wee’s Playhouse: Miami’s Barton G. Restaurant
The Pee-wee’s Playhouse of South Beach restaurants, Barton G. The Restaurant offers the same brand of childlike delight that Pee-wee Herman afforded millions of children and adults every Saturday morning. Everything’s hyperbole. “Wow” is the only…