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City Smart: Washington, D.C.
The first postage stamp debuted 176 years ago—it featured the Queen of England’s regal profile and was valued at a penny, earning the name “Penny Black.” Soon after followed the postage system as we...
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City Smart: New York City
Linda Lavin—an accomplished triple-threat actress in film, television (who, over 35, can forget “Alice”?) and theater—returns to the stage in the world premiere of the dramedy, “Our Mother’s Brief...
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Jax to the Max
The St. Johns River flows through downtown Jacksonville. When my dad moved to Jacksonville, Fla., in 1999, to take a job, my stepmother and younger sisters in tow, it was like many other port cities at...
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City Smart: Washington, D.C.
Prepare to rock harder this month when AC/DC and The Who both descend upon the Verizon Center (albeit separately—the early-to-rise capital probably couldn’t handle them at the selfsame show). AC/DC...
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City Smart: Philadelphia
Courtesy of MATT SAUNDERS Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins turned America on its head in 2014 when his OBIE Award-winning play, “An Octoroon,” debuted. “An Octoroon” reboots the plot of the...
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City Smart: New York City
Woot! When you consider that Whoopi Goldberg is a respected actor on both large and small screens—as well as a theater thesp—but also (quite obviously) a comedian… and talk show host with producing...
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Hot Happenings in New York, Washington D.C. and Philly
New York City Saoirse Ronan was pretty much born to play Abigail Williams—one of theater’s most dramatic teens—in Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible.” With her cool blue eyes, youthful freckled face (and...
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Vampires of South Beach
The circa 1939 Carlyle Hotel, located on South Beach’s scenic Ocean Drive, features on eponymous sidewalk cafe (and a pretty pink sign). It is a sunny Friday morning in South Beach: Parakeets perch...
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Stormy Weather
At Washington, D.C.’s newish Pineapple & Pearls, you’ll find not only sophisticated cuisine, artful coffee drinks and intrepid cocktails, but also a striking work of art by Baltimore-based Jowita...
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The Other Shore
There’s lots to love about the Cape Charles Public Beach. Saturday night, and the restaurant is so jumping it’s all my wife, Jill, and I can do to snag the last two seats at the bar. Next challenge:...
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Shroom with a View
Fun Gus, the Mushroom Festival mascot. Tucked away inconspicuously in the southeastern corner of Pennsylvania, a shiitake’s throw from Philadelphia, lies the town of Kennett Square, the self-proclaimed...
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California Dreamin’
On a cool Monday night in West Hollywood, silver stars light the sky as I snuggle under a fur throw to screen a thriller. I’m rooftop at the Petit Ermitage Hotel, savoring a glass of pinot noir, its...
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Meet the Folk-ers
Festival moments past: folk dancers, left, and a traditional musician, right. A dizzying array of music, food and art, the three-day Richmond Folk Festival emphatically puts the life into folklife by...
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Slo Good
On a sunny September afternoon three years ago, my wife and I sat on a veranda overlooking Slovenia’s Lake Bled, noshing on a slab of local cream cake. Not the prettiest named locale, I admit—does...
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Southern Comfort
When Nina Compton was a fledgling N’Orleanian, a friend offered her crawfish bisque at Easter time. The idea underwhelmed Compton, who helms Compère Lapin in the city’s warehouse district. “I’m...
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Lucky Star
On December 1, for the eighth—and final—time, Barack Obama, accompanied by his immediate family, will preside over the lighting of the National Christmas Tree. If you were not among the lucky few to...
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Separate But Equal
A jet approaches Princess Juliana Airport above onlookers on Maho Beach. The short runway gives beach goers close proximity views of the planes. Then we were like, “Where is St. Martin?” I mean, it had...
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Field Trip: The Kinky Collection
A visitor to the interactive “Jump for Joy” exhibit. Established in 2002, New York City’s Museum of Sex offers a stimulating peek into the evolution of human sexuality by tracing our collective...
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Get Your Groove Back
Women’s Quest assistant Pia Plant (center) gets the girls jumping. The tide is moving in—splashing black sea urchins cleaved to gray rocks—as I lounge on Hermosa Beach in a hammock strung between...
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Field Trip: Cry Freedom
At some hazy point in the not-too-distant future, Harriet Tubman—escaped slave, Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War spy/nurse/cook—will take up residence in your wallet by giving the heave-ho to...
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