Walls of Beauty: Montreal’s Mural Festival
Held in June 2014, the second edition of Mural Festival transformed Saint Lawrence Boulevard into a veritable open-air studio and museum as 20 international muralists created works of public art on the facades of buildings around Montreal’s most historic…
Architectural Guide Through Postwar Venice
Some of the world’s most beloved cities are cherished for their architectural associations with a particular period: the 19th-century luminosity and grands boulevards of Paris, the imperialism of Rome, the 20th-century modernism of New York. Some cities…
Only For Him by Hayari Parfums
For Proust, it was the scent of linden-flower tea (and a brown butter madeleine) that took him back to his childhood and his meeting with Baron de Charlus, one of fiction’s most aristocratic aesthetes. In a similar vein, French couture designer Nabil…
Montreal Summer
Often referred to as the “City of Festivals,” Montreal hosts no less than 100 annual multi-day festivals, with the majority occurring during the high season from April through October.
Aqua Sextius by Jul et Mad
If you were fortunate enough to study in the South of France as a student, and if you were lucky enough to fall in love, and if you were happy, then it’s likely, to paraphrase Hemingway, that you’ll antagonize everyone with your good fortune – while your…
Asbury Park Rock-n-Roll at The Berkeley Oceanfront
There’s a hotel for every occasion. Let’s say you’re on a rock-n-roll road trip to Asbury Park for a long, hot summer weekend. The kind of getaway you used to take with your frat brother in college or your two best girlfriends: beach all day and party…
NYC Pride Weekend 2014
This year’s NYC Pride theme “We Have Won When We’re One” was a tacit acknowledgement of the past year’s political victories, which have included the legalization of same-sex marriage in seven more states, while also a recognition of the work to be…
New York City Pride Week Celebrates March Toward Equality
Along the edges of New York’s Madison Square Park, as the New York City Police Department Band played a rousing rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” a young girl in a rainbow dress and waving a rainbow flag, seated atop her father’s shoulders,…