Union Fine Fragrance’s Gunpowder Rose
For lovers of the English countryside and its depictions in literature and art, Union‘s collection of fine fragrances is a paean to the indigenous flora of the United Kingdom. A smoky rose fragrance charged with sulfur and coal, Union‘s Gunpowder…
A Taste of Yuletide Nantucket
“Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies,” wrote Herman Melville in Moby-Dick about the island that the Native Americans called “faraway land.” Thirty miles off Cape Cod, Nantucket…
Design for Living at Stockholm’s Nobis Hotel
This is where it happened: forty years ago in the summer of 1973, this is where the term “Stockholm syndrome” derived after bank employees were held hostage for six days in a bank vault during an attempted robbery. O tempora o mores! as…
Sleepless Gay Romance in Seattle
There’s something about Seattle that keeps the city on nearly everyone’s bucket list. Everywhere you go, you meet gay people whose eyes kind of glaze over when they talk about Seattle. Seattle is one of those places that makes people want to…
Ze Best of France at Stockholm’s Zink Grill
Eponymously named for the zinc and marble bar that is the restaurant’s focal point, Zink Grill‘s origins are the result of a serendipitous wander into a warehouse outside Paris that was filled with French restaurant curios and artifacts. With…
Sylt Seduction
If you are one of those gay men haunted by the image of the nubile Tadzio in silhouette at the water’s edge in Luchino Visconti’s masterful cinematic vision of Thomas Mann’s homoerotic novella, Death in Venice, then you must travel to…
Visiting Garbo at Woodland
Yes, of course you have come to pay your respects to Garbo, which is probably the primary reason that you have traveled to Stockholm‘s Woodland Cemetery – but this UNESCO World Heritage Site is not only the final resting place of one of…
Seattle’s Venerable Fairmont Olympic Hotel
In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, on December 6, 1924, more than two thousand guests celebrated the opening of Seattle‘s Olympic Hotel with a dinner and dance that was the year’s most Gatsbyesque gala west of the Mississippi. Built of…