October Grooming Guide: Unmasking Beautiful Skin
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…
Lookin’ Good and Cookin’ Good at Red Rooster Harlem
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…
The Music in Montréal’s Soul
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…
Montreal, Quebec
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…
Gouverneur Hotel Place Dupuis: Montreal, Canada
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…
“Maxim’s: Mirror of Parisian Life”
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…
Fragrance Finds: Sex and Silver, Blood and Fire
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…
September Grooming Guide: Serving Good Face
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…