It’s October – and the rhythms of autumn have taken over: the days are shorter and the nights are meant for howling at the moon. It’s time to eat your kale and carve a jack-o’-lantern – and slather your face with a pumpkin mask. For autumn skin care, think about exfoliation and rehydration. Remove the…
Aficionados of the Harlem Renaissance might have felt themselves slipping happily back in time upon crossing the threshold of Red Rooster Harlem the other night for chef Marcus Samuelsson’s celebratory party at his uptown restaurant. Home cooking and soulful music – and some of Harlem’s most fashionable denizens made for a New York mural as vibrant as…
Back before the bubble burst, when we were fantasizing about a tertiary residence in Montréal, we found ourselves in a residential sales office, talking to a fellow New Yorker, a classical violinist, who was moving permanently to Montréal because “this city has music in its soul.” That sentiment echoed in our ears throughout this year’s…
During the past decade, Montreal has earned a reputation as one of the world’s best LGBT destinations – and after spending time in Canada’s second-largest city, it’s easy to understand why (and it’s not only because Montreal’s original name was Ville-Marie or “City of Mary”).
As the host hotel for numerous editions of Divers/Cite, as well as BBCM’s Black and Blue, the Gouverneur has been, for many years, the command center for all things gay. To stay at the Gouverneur during a circuit weekend or Pride festival is a little like being on an all-gay cruise, where breakfast is a…
In the greatest of the world’s cities, there exist certain restaurants that become larger than life, serving as theaters for that city and its more flamboyant players. For years, supper clubs such as El Morocco and the Stork defined the joie de vivre of a New York night. Before them was Delmonico’s, and later, there…
For some people, there’s only autumn. Autumn and its feast of fragrances: spiced pears and pumpkins, chestnuts and smoky teas, honeyed vanilla, boozy cherries, patchouli and ginger. Now is the time to wander aimlessly through the park; get lost in the woods. And everywhere you go, breathe in the heavy richness of autumn: oakmoss and…
September often has an elegiac connotation – the end of vacation, the loss of freedom and innocence – and yet after this summer’s cavalcade of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones, and beastly heat, more than a few of us are anticipating a season where we’re not at war with weather. Furthermore, as everyone who saw “The September…