If lunching with Joan Collins indicates that you’ve arrived, then I’m definitely here, in the right place. Okay, so I’m not really dining with Joan Collins, more like within fedora-stroking distance of the actress. Nothing unusual there, you might think: Joan Collins at Manhattan’s 21 Club, a fashionable, jacket-required midtown restaurant. The unusual thing is [...]
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Jan
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15
Jan
I am planning to surprise my partner in May or June this year, with a long
weekend in New York and a proposal. We are a gay couple. Can you recommend
some romantic places to propose? - Name withheld
Sunday Times travel expert Richard Green responds: New York City does
gay-friendly glamour like no other, so finding great [...]
14
Jan
The tree’s lit, the windows are animated, the horses bewreathed. But what to do if you’re short on time in Manhattan during the holidays? ruthlessly rate five holly jolly cliches to help you get the most out of your visit. Rockefeller Center. Go gape at the tree, absolutely, but we’d skip lacing up at [...]
4
Jan
It’s coming on dark in New York City. Dr Robert Neville (Will
Smith) is hanging by one leg from a snare, caught like an animal,
with his German shepherd Samantha yapping beneath him in the
street.
Neville is alone in the city, sort of. He is the last uninfected
survivor of a virus that was supposed to cure cancer but [...]
3
Jan
LAS VEGAS � The principle behind the mega-resorts of 21st century Las Vegas is no different from the one that powered the city’s celebrated Strip more than 50 years ago: Keep customers on site � all day and all night � so no one else gets their money.
Only today, it’s on a much grander scale.
When [...]
2
Jan
The remnants of a winter storm moved through the Northeast and headed out to sea Saturday, a day after blanketing the Great Lakes region with several inches of snow that disrupted holiday travel.
Aviation officials said nearly 300 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport on Friday and delays averaged 30 to 45 minutes. Delays at [...]
17
Dec
A novel New York Christmas, with “Catcher in the Rye” as a guide
Posted by admin Published in Book TourNEW YORK %26#8212; Where do the ducks go in the winter?
It’s a question Holden Caulfield, the moody teenage narrator of the classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” asks about the ducks in the Central Park pond.
And it’s a question that Sara Cedar Miller, the Central Park Conservancy historian, hears often.
“People are always calling and [...]
17
Dec
NEW YORK CITY %26#8212; We sat in the big yellow taxi, immobilized in Manhattan gridlock. The taxi driver sighed heavily, then asked if I minded if he honked his horn.
“Go for it,” I replied. He gave a long, angry blast. We both felt better, although, of course, it didn’t make the traffic mess any better.
In [...]
17
Dec
Unless you’re closest to Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski or the Amish, DVDs remain the all-time safest bet for Christmas presents.
In most other homes, the players are nearly as ubiquitous as indoor plumbing, and the choices are as tightwad or extravagant as you feel your victim %26#8212; that is, recipient %26#8212; deserves. As far as variety, here [...]
17
Dec
by Tyrone Beason
photographed by Ken Lambert
If you’re going to walk up on Wes Sims and his buddies during one of their afternoon card games on the docks along Lake Washington in South Seattle, you’d better be ready to talk a little good-natured smack. “You’re with The Seattle Times?” Sims says, turning his face up in [...]
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