Chicago is a city of world-class status and unsurpassed beauty, with its stunning architecture on the shores of Lake Michigan. We set up in the heart of the “Magnificent Mile,” in a hotel jus…

What would become of us if anyone could guess our most secret desires? If I had known a couple of decades ago, what I know now about my own desires, would I have run from […]

If Columbus is the heart of Ohio, the Short North is the pulse. Fine art. Fine Food. Great Shopping. Great Entertainment…it’s the SoHo of the Midwest. I was merely “dipping my toe in the p…

In the midst of the roaring 10s, lavish social affairs took place at what is now my hotel in the Pacific Northwest, this weekend.  On the site of what was the first campus of the […]

Did you know that while we say “Happy Valentine’s Day,” actually a more accurate phrase would be “Happy Saint Valentine’s Day”? Valentine was a Christian bishop who was martyred in Ro.

Nous sommes arriv’s sur la rue Faubourg Saint-Honore, se sentant ‘trangement frais (voyagez en jet le retard a ses avantages) un matin fran’ais geler-froid. Notre h’tel, qui a ‘t’ ouvert depuis 1925 ..

To get away from the relative cold, I headed to Art Deco-laden South Beach. Since Don Johnson’s hit days and the Calvin Klein “Obsession” photo shoot, South Beach has only been gettin

It was a memorable night, one I’ll tell you about if you’ll indulge me: I got to my friend’s house, to meet her for what I thought was dinner, and the door was already open. […]

Silicon Valley is strange and wonderful. The mecca of high-tech, it’s overwhelmingly male (with all the engineers in this town, restaurants are full of tables of only MEN…a heaven for the sin….

The smoking lounge of the cigar lounge was ripe with the smell of my friend’s Macanudo…since the place was packed, I just had to sit in his lap (he didn’t protest) as we watched the […]

In 1909 they started building Crater Lake Lodge in southwestern Oregon, but it was never properly finished due to budget constraints. Refurbished in 1995 with historical details and a rustic aestheti….

Competitive markets are good, economically. So why does the government so often engage in destructive meddling? The Justice Department and the FCC prevent monopolies–but are all the monopolies they….

So I had the privilege, this week, of visiting the site of the world’s first African elephant artificial-insemination. Kinky! White River State Park houses the Indianapolis Zoo, which is actua…

Ironically, I was stuck in Milan on the horrible September 11, years ago. Not able to get home then, I remember Italian hospitality toward me as something comforting, as my American world was dark an..

Although not everyone has actually experienced it, most people are stimulated by the thought of group sex. Knowing this, makes of adult content routinely fill their work with scenes involving more th….

Fukuoka faces the Genkai Sea, and is surrounded by the Sefuri, Sangun, and Inunaki mountains. Unlike the rest of the land near the Sea of Japan, the climate here is very mild. Close to the […]