November 2021

Art Basel Returns
By Paul Clemence After skipping a year for, at this point, well established reasons, Art Basel is back to Miami Beach this week, attracting collectors, exhibitors, artists, art lovers, art media, critics, and the glitterati, all in search of great art, the newest next big thing and/or the most raucous

Discovering the Mohawk Culture of Akwesasne
By Bart Beeson For Evan Cree, making a wooden lacrosse stick using traditional methods involves getting to know the piece of wood you’re working with. “I like to say that I take the stick and talk to it for a while,” he explains, while shaving down the piece of hickory

Holiday Gift Guide 2021: The Best Men’s Footwear For Winter Adventures
AETHER Dolomite Boots These new boots from AETHER are so handsome and well-made that you could be forgiven for thinking that you shouldn’t get them wet. The Dolomite Boot was designed in collaboration with century-old Italian shoemaker Fracap. Each boot is handmade with 100% vegetable-tanned Italian leather and suede and then

Holiday Gift Guide 2021: The Best Men’s Outerwear For Winter Adventures
Ski season is already looking a lot different this year. We will still be wearing masks but we can branch out and ski and snowboard in Europe, Japan and Canada as well as the United States. The uphill skiing boom will also continue, as people continue to enjoy aerobic exercise

Vital Impacts: Photographs To Support Conservation
By Everett Potter What are you giving your nearest and dearest for the holidays? Amidst the whirl of seasonal spending, this is also the time of year when gift giving that has real meaning and influence is on many people’s minds. Vital Impacts, a new conservation organization and print sale

5 Adventure Trips With Bragging Rights For 2022
By Everett Potter There’s a lot of pent-up demand among travelers seeking amazing adventure trips and discoveries in 2022. We’re talking about something beyond the usual six-day soft adventure trip. If you want to take your travels to the next level and return home with amazing tales and bragging rights,

Why You Should Ski Europe In January
By Everett Potter For Americans who’ve been waiting to go back to Europe to ski, the winter of 2022 is shaping up to be the perfect time. The month of January has long been the sweet spot for such a vacation. The holidays and holiday crowds are gone, and it’s

Meditations: The Photographs of Paul Clemence
Meditations: The Photographs of Paul Clemence An Exhibition at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden Photos by Paul Clemence/ Text by Mitchell Snow One branch of our ideas about the art of the modern garden can be traced back to early eighteenth century Japan, when its rulers began crafting carefully created

Around the World in 200 Pizzas
By Beverly Stephen Two hundred! That’s how many pizzas Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya ate as their 100,000 miles of travel took them through a good swath of the U.S. and to far flung destinations from Italy to Argentina to Japan for their book Modernist Pizza. The three volumes tell

5 Best Ski Trips For A Unique Vacation This Winter
By Larry Olmsted Like much of the travel industry, skiing and snowboarding suffered mightily from the pandemic with an early end to the 2019-2020 season, and last winter severe travel and capacity restrictions hampered resorts in this country, while most of Europe’s lifts never opened at all. Even summer skiers