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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more suitably named cocktail bartender than Brooklyn-based Ivy Mix (@ivymix). And not only for the obvious reason that the woman can make a drink. (Her favourite is the negroni: “It’s a tough one to
When I was in Sochi the year before last, I took a pleasure cruise on the Black Sea. I remember being fascinated by the city’s skyline, its cranes as striking and numerous against the snow-capped mountains as the dashes on
The Sochi Winter Olympics, which begin next week, will forever be known as Putin’s Games. However they eventually pan out, Russia’s President has staked a good deal of political capital on their success — not to mention plenty of actual
“One thing that I really like about the Spanish,” my friend John Hemingway wrote in a recent blog post, upon his return to Montreal from Madrid, “is that when they get fed up with something, usually having to do with
“You smell that?” Johnny Depp asks towards the end of The Rum Diary, Bruce Robinson’s 2011 adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel of the same name. Playing Paul Kemp, Thompson’s thinly veiled self-portrait and protagonist, Depp stands in the middle
We depart Kiptopeke State Park, on the eastern bank of Chesapeake Bay, a little after dawn, the sun a burning penny behind us. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel sends us below and above the waterline intermittently, our hired car descending into
The year is 1788, and you, being a fellow of good standing in the colony of NSW, are cordially invited to toast King George III’s birthday with Governor Arthur Phillip at Government House. The menu may include local alternatives to
Long before Dennis Rodman’s most recent trip to North Korea, his status as an incorrigible twit was pretty much beyond doubt. His blow-up on CNN this week, followed by the news that he had sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to Kim Jong-un—lover