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A Snob’s Guide to Traveling With Your Parents
5 min read What’s that saying, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions?” It pinged across my mind over the duration of a two-week trip I took with my mother this summer to celebrate her 80th birthday. We landed in Athens, where Chrysanthos Panas, author of the totemic Assouline book Greek Islands, took us for lunch and a tour of the Acropolis museum (it was too hot to tour the relic itself) with a renowned archaeologist and UNESCO philanthropist.
Camelot With Room Service: Inside the California Suite Where JFK and Jackie Spent Their Honeymoon Original
3 min read Had history gone differently, September 12 of this year would have marked John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy’s 73rd wedding anniversary.
Inside the Secluded California Cottage Where JFK and Jackie Kennedy Honeymooned
Had history gone differently, September 12 of this year would have marked John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy’s 73rd wedding anniversary. The couple married on that date in 1953 in Newport, Rhode Island, then slipped away—after a night at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria—for an extended honeymoon that took them first to Acapulco and, later, up the California coast to San Ysidro Ranch, a one-time working citrus ranch tied to Mission Santa Barbara and, by the time the newlyweds arrived, the jewel of Montecito.
Rachel Bell, Curator of High Art
“On the ledge here?” Bell asked. She leaned over. “Jesus, that will make you feel vertiginous!” She paused, hearing the pitter-patter of little feet approaching. “One of our biggest obstacles,” she said. “Kids can’t be in cannabis content.” “We spent all this time trying to save people’s lives when we could have been coming up with better fro-yo.” Cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan “It was a nightmare at the A.K.C. dog show,” Randazzo said. “So many children.” Bell was ready to start exploring.
Is Staring at Our Face So Much Bad For Us?
Hiiii from the Great Northern Catskills. Our very first Catskills Book Festival was a success and I can’t wait to tell you more about it. More to come. I hope you all are love, love, loving The Parisian Heist. If so please leave it a review on the Amazons. It’s so dumb that they help, but they help. And if you didn’t love it, don’t bother. They’re silly…
My Summer Hyperfixation Meal Is All About the Beef
I blame my Hindu upbringing for my aversion to uncooked beef (and sometimes any beef). But I am also someone who has been a fan of Big Macs since I was in the single digits, so this dietary predilection is less on God, more on me and my lack of appreciation for meat in its raw form.
My Summer Hyperfixation Meal Is All About the Beef
Oncologists Are Begging People To Stop Making This Produce Mistake It may save you time, but it’s not worth it, cancer doctors warn. If connecting the topic of oncology to “produce mistakes” confuses you, we get it: …
Nhà sáng lập Medicube: Từ những ứng dụng thất bại đến đế chế mỹ phẩm toàn cầu
Kim Byung-hoon vừa kết thúc một ngày họp kéo dài tại Los Angeles, chặng cuối trong chuyến công tác dồn dập khắp bang California. Lúc này, ông muốn dùng một chút đồ uống. Nhà sáng lập 37 tuổi kiêm giám đốc điều hành của APR Corp, "gã khổng lồ" ngành làm đẹp Hàn Quốc, tiến về phía quầy bar tại San Vicente Bungalows. Đây là một câu lạc bộ riêng tư mang đậm phong cách Nam Florida với những sọc hồng và hàng cọ cảnh, khác hẳn vẻ thâm trầm của các quán rượu truyền thống. Ông gọi một ly rượu nguyên chất.
When the Sky’s Not the Limit
Anyone privileged enough to have flown private knows the appeal. Instead of arriving hours before your flight and enduring long lines, bag-check fees, and a security screening that may or may not involve a full pat-down while your fellow passengers watch, you can pull up to the plane a few minutes before takeoff. Someone parks your car. Someone else takes your bag. Yet another person pours you a drink. You climb a few stairs, settle in, and ascend into the skies as smoothly as a bird takes flight.
When the Sky's Not the Limit
Nevada 2 hours ago Boring isn't working: Inside Elon Musk's Vegas Loop Mashable - Neal Broverman • 2h The tunneling company's new airport service is ... a $12 taxi on regular streets. Elon Musk's Boring Company has been hard at work on its Vegas Loop transportation system for years, and it's now in operation in 10 stations — including two at the city’s Harry Reid International Airport.
How a Millennial App Developer Made a $10 Billion K-Beauty Giant Original
has just capped a long day of meetings in Los Angeles, the final leg of a whirlwind trip through California, and he’d like a drink. The 37-year-old founder and chief executive officer of , the South Korean beauty behemoth, sidles up to a bar at San Vicente Bungalows, a private members’ club that looks less like your typical whisky den and more like it’s been air-dropped in from South Florida, all pink stripes and palm fronds. He orders a Johnnie Walker Blue, neat.
How Medicube’s Founder Pivoted From Lackluster Apps to a Skincare Empire
Photographer: Jessica Pons for Bloomberg Businessweek (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Kim Byung-hoon has just capped a long day of meetings in Los Angeles, the final leg of a whirlwind trip through California, and he’d like a drink.
Into the world of the ‘perfect vacation couple’—and what makes it a myth
Don’t be that couple on vacation. Luxury travel has a way of making love look effortless, which is perhaps the cruellest trick of all. A corner room with ocean views, a dress that dances with the sea breeze, the golden-hour photo in which both members of a supposedly besotted couple appear loose, bronzed, unbothered, and mutually adored: it’s a trifecta that creates the impression of a relationship that has transcended human behaviour and all the idiosyncrasies that come with it.
Luxury Travel Advisors Are Having a Comeback, This Time Geared Toward Social Media
In the sun-splashed corners of the Internet, this is a familiar scenario: “My post about this tiny little cottage on the sea in Sifnos got, like, 700,000 likes, and so many inquiries about how to book it,” Alexandra Taylor, the founder of the boutique travel agency Where to Wander, says.
The Pasta Pomodoro That May Change Your Life
Pasta pomodoro seems like a simple thing. It’s a dish I’ve made at home and ordered in Italian restaurants countless times with varying results: The cherry tomatoes that pop pleasingly in a salad might suffocate in a sauce; the canned Italian San Marzanos that cost several dollars more than their domestic counterpart might lose their verve when pummeled with onions and garlic.
The Pasta Pomodoro That May Change Your Life
Pasta pomodoro seems like a simple thing. It’s a dish I’ve made at home and ordered in Italian restaurants countless times with varying results: The cherry tomatoes that pop pleasingly in a salad might suffocate in a sauce; the canned Italian San Marzanos that cost several dollars more than their domestic counterpart might lose their verve when pummeled with onions and garlic.
11 Classic L.A. Restaurants Not to Miss
Courtesy Dorchester Collection Los Angeles may be a city obsessed with what’s trendy, what’s new, what’s next. But when it comes to breaking bread—and yes, we do eat bread in Los Angeles—some restaurants rise above the rest because of their commitment to the classics. From ice cold martinis to succulent salmon nigiri and chopped salads that could teach all the other bowls of greens a thing or two, L.A.’s gustatory stalwarts give the people what they want, time and time again.
Should a Workaholic Apply for the Job of Mom?
I’m not the first writer to worry that having a baby would spell the end of her career. (Or his. As Cyril Connolly wrote in 1938: “There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”) That said, I have worried a lot, and spent too much time looking over the shoulders of my female peers as the needle of my maternal compass swung wildly around the dial. “So-and-so had a kid and got a book deal.
The Rise of Diasporic Fine Dining in America
As restaurants like Gymkhana and COTE redefine luxury through memory and migration, a new generation of chefs is transforming diasporic cuisine into fine dining’s most compelling movement. It’s the scent that hits you first. Walking into Gymkhana, you’re enveloped in an aroma of oud, equal parts woody, smoky, and sweet. At least, I think it’s oud.
Make Your Los Angeles Super Bowl Party a Carousel Party
I first heard about Carousel from the chef Doug Rankin (formerly of Pasadena’s Bar Chelou, which he recently revived in Denver). Ten years ago, I was living in a Hollywood apartment and contemplating what to order for a group of friends that would soon be coming over. “Do Carousel’s party for four,” Rankin said. What was Carousel, what was this party? “It’s the best Lebanese restaurant in Hollywood,” he told me. “And they give you a mountain of food.” Rankin was not wrong.
Checking In, Selling Out
You might arrive at London’s Beaverbrook Town House and assume you’re checking into a one-of-a-kind boutique hotel. Each of the 14 plushly appointed rooms is named after a local landmark. In the Haymarket, one of Beaverbrook’s first-floor suites, vintage Oscar Wilde posters coexist with a hardbound edition of the defunct British quarterly The Yellow Book. But, as John Donne noted, “no man is an island.” Neither, as it turns out, is Beaverbrook.
Doto’s Bento Box Is the Antidote to January Slop Bowls
Consider the one and done meal, as revelatory as it is rare. How often can you point to a single item on a menu and know that it will satisfy twin appetites — the animalistic compulsion to fill our bellies, the aesthetic urge for something that looks as good as it tastes? Something that makes you think, intuitively: No, actually, I do not need a side of fries with that.
Crudos are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles. Well, not actually. Crudos in perpetually temperate, seafood-rich coastal cities are more like $300 a dozen, assuming an average price of $25 per plate. Crudo crops up on appetizer sections like concert fliers on telephone polls, a reliable starter for pescatarians and omnivorous seafood lovers alike. But most, let’s face it, are middling at best.
Sheila Yasmin Marikar
Sheila Yasmin Marikar is a Los Angeles-based writer. Her work has appeared in publications including Fortune, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a People Inc. Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore.
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Death & Co. Made Cocktails Cool. Now They’re Coming for Boutique Hotels
Municipal Grand’s lobby bar serves family-style batched drinks at happy hour.
Family Style - Homemaker
Food The stylish Rose Chalalai Singh draws Paris’ most high-profile to her 11th arrondissement hot spot, but her ability to fashion delicious comfort extends far beyond borders and time. The evening I speak with Rose Chalalai Singh, she is helping her teenage son, Gabriel, choose an outfit while plotting one of three dinners she will preside over the following week in Milan—where the 15-year-old will act as her sous chef. “Maybe this jacket with that hat,” she suggests to him.
The Instagram Flex of Summer 2025? The Perfectly Timed Status Post
To be in the right place at the right time: a boon, a mindset, a stroke of luck. But to post from the right place at the right time? That’s the not-so-subtle flex of summer 2025, as a certain set of upwardly mobile Instagrammers has figured out.
The TV Dinner Goes MAHA
Given the alternatives—farm to table, app to front door—can the microwavable meal compete? Since débuting in March, a company called Crave New World has been hawking its next-gen TV dinners on college campuses, even brokering a deal with fraternities and sororities: free food to fuel a social-media competition (the prize: tickets to the N.C.A.A. Final Four).
In India, wine culture takes off - with a vineyard scene that’s worth a trip
By Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Bloomberg News At Nashik International Airport, there are so many posters advertising vineyards and wine tastings, you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve landed in California’s wine country rather than India’s west, 100 miles north of Mumbai. Yet in the past two decades, Indian wine production has, in fact, become a thing, and Nashik is its epicenter.
In India, wine culture takes off - with a vineyard scene that’s worth a trip
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In India, wine culture takes off
At Nashik International Airport, there are so many posters advertising vineyards and wine tastings, you could be forgiven for thinking you've landed in California's wine country rather than India's west, 100 miles north of Mumbai. Yet in the past two decades, Indian wine production has, in fact, become a thing, and Nashik is its epicenter.
In India, wine culture takes off - with a vineyard scene that’s worth a trip
At Nashik International Airport, there are so many posters advertising vineyards and wine tastings, you could be forgiven for thinking you've landed in California's wine country rather than India's west, 100 miles north of Mumbai. Yet in the past two decades, Indian wine production has, in fact, become a thing, and Nashik is its epicenter.
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