Under the them of “Love & Liberty,” more than 5,000 LGBTQ athletes competed in the 2015 EuroGames, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden in front of nearly 250,000 visitors.
Songdo: 21st-Century ‘Aerotropolis’
Northeast Asia is such a hub of explosive growth that international cities appear to emerge overnight. Take the case of Songdo, the world’s most sustainable, all-new LEED-certified city along the Yellow Sea near Seoul that offers the wide boulevards of Paris, a canal system inspired by Venice, convention center architecture influenced by Sydney’s Opera House,…
Soaring Nonstop to the Guadeloupe Islands
From the air, the two largest isles of the French Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe resemble a verdant emerald green butterfly floating above an aquamarine sea. Located in the French Caribbean (aka the French West Indies), the Guadeloupe Islands are one of the overseas departments of France. A favorite of Francophiles, the French archipelago attracts adventure…
Picasso’s “Le Tricorne” at New-York Historical Society
New York has always been a trove of hidden treasures. For more than half a century one of the city’s most beloved shrines was a somewhat concealed passageway known to cognoscenti as “Picasso Alley.” There in the corridor between the Grill Room and the Pool Room at the landmark Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram…
Martha’s Vineyard Summer Idyll
Few places better capture the halcyon joys of summer — lobster rolls, donuts, sunsets, sunrises, fried clams, fresh oysters — than the island off Cape Cod known as Martha’s Vineyard.
Bordeaux Beguiling Second Label Wines
This year’s winner of the title of “European Best Destination” is the Bordeaux wine region, which should please any oenophile who has previously wined and dined through the largest wine region in the world. With more than 2,000 wine estates open to visitors, Bordeaux is but an hour from Paris by plane and less than…
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Returns for 8th Annual Smorgasbord
Not unlike the Summer of Love in 1967 when American youth headed by the thousands to the Haight in San Francisco, Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has attracted music and food fanatics to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for the past seven years. A Dionysian bacchanal of food, wine, and song, the three-day food…
Leighton’s ‘Flaming June’ Makes New York Debut at The Frick Collection
Less than forty years after its glorious reception at London’s Royal Academy in 1895, Frederic Leighton’s extraordinary painting “Flaming June” fell from favor and disappeared from view—only to be unearthed in 1962 behind a false panel of a mantelpiece in a house on the outskirts of London. With a narrative nearly as captivating as its…