Perhaps no fashion item, not even the shoe, can claim a more mythical status than the handbag. On the outside, it says so, so much about the bearer—inside, it says, um, way, way more. Endlessly fetishized by everyone from anxiety-riddled fashionistas to, well, virtually every other female in the Western (and most of the Eastern) […]

But don’t take our word for it, see last weekend’s New York Times. Now if they’d only bring back free cocktails we’d be all set.

Quite likely the most grandiose creation ever fit within the confines of four walls, the Versailles Hall of Mirrors was ironically feted in song by devout Teutonic minimalists Kraftwerk. It is now once again open to an oohing and ahhing public, its restoration (oddly, in culturally free-spending France) financed entirely by private concerns. The staggeringly opulent 17th […]

This just in from the European Travel Commission website, a report on how much fun swinging a golf club is in Sweden, (not to be confused with Sweded which is how Jack Black describes his and Mos Def’s re-imagined movies in Michel Gondry’s not very satisfying new flick Be Kind Rewind.) And now the golf…Skåne is one of […]

Unsicht-Bar, Berlin, and Blindekuh, Zurich, are both restaurants staffed by the blind, and you’re obliged to share in their experience for an evening, dining in total darkness. Only in this case, the blind leading the blind ends up in a fascinating culinary experience—remembering that when one sense is impaired, the others (taste, smell) are heightened. Similar […]