New York’s Garden Party to Celebrate 30 Scrumptious Years
Turning 30 is one of those milestone birthdays where you want to celebrate with a big party. That’s one of the many good reasons why New York’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (affectionately known as “the…
Sylt Seduction
For over a century, Sylt has been a sanctuary for writers, journalists, publishers, and performing artists, thereby insuring that the island's fabled beauty is immortalized in art.
Five Savage Summer Fragrances
As the 1955 song has it, “spring can really hang you up the most,” which is itself a sort of paraphrase of T.S. Eliot’s opening line to The Waste Land: “April is the cruelest month.” In other words, spring can be dangerous…
Springtime in Hamburg
One of the most affluent cities of Europe, Hamburg is currently in the throes of a massive maritime renaissance. Throughout the city's 1,200-year history, Hamburg's port has provided the foundation for the city's enviable prosperity.
Immigrant Vision: “Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection”
In 1965, two émigrés from Communist Czechoslovakia arrived in New York with all of their possessions packed into a pair of suitcases. Within a few months, the young woman began working for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she remained for 32 years,…
Hamburg’s “White House”: Hotel Atlantic Kempinski
The wealthiest city in Germany, Hamburg has celebrated its maritime pedigree throughout its 1,200-year history, though perhaps nowhere more elegantly than at Hotel Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg. Opened in 1909, the Atlantic quickly filled with first-class…
Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Hamburg, Germany
Nestled on the banks of the Inner Alster Lake, Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten is Hamburg’s “Grand Hotel,” a spectacular century-old landmark whose hallmark has been an unerring adherence to the philosophy, “Service, service,…
We Leica Berlin
It was fifty years ago, in June of 1963, that JFK gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, which soon became known as the "I am a donut" speech, thanks to the iconic jelly-filled pastry that goes by the name of "Berliner" throughout Germany.