Self-professed “nerd for music trivia,” Sarah reads a piece embodying the spirit of The Rolling Stones going to Marrakesh in 1967, after a drug raid on Keith Richards’s home. Infidelity and the future of the band hang in the balance. Unsavory circumstances abound in this novel-in-progress.
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Mark Twain once summed up the Northeast’s three major metropolises as such: “In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?” Times may have changed since Twain’s day, but Boston maintains an intellectual air thanks to its assortment of premier universities […]
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It’s the best of times and the worst of times—for in-flight airline meals. The trend in coach seats on domestic flights has been to cut costs by either selling lackluster pre-packaged meals, or doing away with dining options altogether. Meanwhile, at the front of the plane in first and business classes, particularly on international flights, […]
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Many travelers plan their airport time like a highly coordinated commando mission—get in and get out as quickly as possible. But more and more cities have stepped up their game in an attempt to transform their airports into cosmopolitan gateways that offer visitors a taste of the treats offered in their ports of call. So […]
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It seems like the perfect reciprocal relationship – pay your college tuition using a points-earning credit card and rack up big rewards that could equal a plane ticket for fun in the sun come spring break. But the reality is not quite that simple. Weigh these considerations before plunking down that plastic come back to […]
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My essay, OUR SCHOOL SHOOTING, is up on Salon this week. I felt a familiar, creeping dread when I saw the first mention of the July shooting in Aurora, Colorado, on Twitter and again not two weeks later when I read newspaper reports about the massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. It had been even […]
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I felt a familiar, creeping dread when I saw the first mention of the July shooting in Aurora, Colorado, on Twitter and again not two weeks later when I read newspaper reports about the massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. It had been even worse when I first became aware of the shootings at […]
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Although Shanghai is known for its pork soup dumplings, dumplings with a multitude of fillings turn up at breakfast, as appetizers at multi-course family-style meals, and as popular to-go snacks. For this dumpling windfall, we’ve got the where and how for sampling this local staple while visiting Shanghai. Stuffed with pork filling in a savory […]
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Sarah Tomlinson was spirited into my life last month at the beautiful boutique Tavin, where I helped myself to way too much of the free chocolate and wine while Sarah read an excerpt from her upcoming third novel The Year of Mr. Nobody. The story, in Sarah’s words, centers on three characters: “a free-spirited poetess, who chases […]
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Aurélia Thierrée likes to say that her mother gave life to everything in “Aurélia’s Oratorio,” including Aurélia herself, which bodes well for audiences at the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, California, where the show is currently being staged. Thierrée’s mother, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin — renowned theatrical innovator and daughter of cinematic icon Charlie Chaplin — knows her way around […]
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