In France writer Pierre Assouline is a literary star. He has a weekly column in the daily paper, LeMonde where he also writes the most popular literary blog in France. He has published…
Montmartre Mon Amour Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, Paris by Jacqueline Swartz The theme of Paris’ Hotel Montmartre Mon Amour, is love – or rather passion, expressed by celebrated French writers, singers and…
BOSTON UNCOMMON: Combining Hipness with History Taking a water taxi for a dreamy ride from a waterfront hotel to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art is like a screenshot of what Boston…
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of Ensemble Vacations. Click here to see a PDF of the original article Architecture Blooms in the Sonoran Desert In the…
Vienna, Austria has long had the reputation as a dreary city stuck in the past, getting by on Mozart and Sachertorte. But, as I found out, anyone who has been there in the…
This article originally appeared on May 27, 2011 in Nuvo Magazine. Click here to see the original version A contemporary old master. Not only is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio one…
This article originally appeared in Nuvo Magazine It was night in the Botswana bush and everything seemed hyper real: the blackout sky was crammed full of stereophonically bright stars, and…
This article originally appeared on June 1, 2010 in Nuvo Magazine. Click here to see the original version (appeared in NUVO Magazine) Long before the Material Girl, Andy Warhol was…
This article originally appeared on June 1, 2010 in The City Traveler. Click here to see the original version A century ago, Cardiff, the capital of Wales, was a prosperous…
Savouring the Bordeaux Culture of Wine In the tasting room of the Bordeaux winery, Chateau Lynch-Bages, I raised my glass, noted the dark brick colour of the wine and inhaled…