One of the world’s largest Pride celebrations with an estimated attendance of 1.2 million people, Toronto Pride is a two-time winner of “Best Festival in Canada” and one of the “Top 50 Festivals” in Ontario, as well as one of Toronto’s eight city-designated signature events.
Lazy days and dog days might lull you into late summer apathy – but don’t get fooled. Like so many things you like to imbibe and ingest, the sun is a two-faced monster: good for you in small doses, your nightmare in overdose. Want to know the best possible summer skincare regimen? Stuff your face…
From Prohibition through the early Fifties, Manhattan was the crossroads of the jazz world. The two-block stretch of 52nd Street, between Fifth and Seventh Avenues, was chockablock with such renowned jazz clubs (including 21 Club, Jimmy Ryan’s, the Onyx, Club Samoa, Club Downbeat, Club Carousel) that the street became known as “Swing Street.” Times change….
Few locales are more associated with the classic American summer than Cape Cod and the Islands. Long before “Jaws” was filmed on Martha’s Vineyard, the town of Edgartown was one of the nation’s most prominent summer resorts, thanks in part to the Harbor View Hotel, a rambling Victorian shingle-style hotel originally built in 1891. The “Grande…
It’s all about the views. The Sheraton Waikiki is the kind of hotel where you find yourself waking before dawn to marvel at the sunrise from your oceanfront balcony. And that expansive balcony is where you’ll stand at gloaming, cocktail in hand, as the lights of Waikiki shimmer like a diamond necklace all the way…
Apart from Diamond Head, the singular most definitive landmark of Waikiki would be “the Pink Palace.” While the Royal Hawaiian is not the oldest luxury hotel on the fabled beach (that honor goes to the Moana Surfrider, which opened in 1901), there’s little question that the Royal has served as the standard-bearer for the deluxe…
There’s no question that one of the definitions of paradise is to be seated in an oceanfront, world-class restaurant at gloaming, the sun sinking into the horizon as candles flicker at neighboring tables and Pacific Ocean breezes waft through the open doors into a bejeweled dining room adorned with mother-of-pearl walls and plush banquettes. If…
The only state not located in North America, Hawaii is a bit like the one family member who escaped a small hometown and became famous. What other state’s name is uttered like a sigh of pleasure? Go ahead, try saying “New Jersey” and see if you get that same lilting lift you get when you…