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Park Hyatt Kyoto by Tonychi Studio and Takenaka Corporation: 2020 Best of Year Winner for International Chain Hotel February 25, 2021 Photography courtesy of Park Hyatt Kyoto. Naturally, Tony Chi steeped the Park Hyatt Kyoto with the myriad influences of Japanese architecture and design, particularly the city’s ancient culture and the site’s surrounding Higashiyama Hills. The Interior Design Hall of Fame member dubs the property a “modern mountain house,” albeit one with 70 guest accommodations and a host of amenities. Its serene sense of place starts with a low-ceilinged, tile-roofe...

Mick Jagger he described as moving ‘like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire’.  Even Elizabeth Taylor, whom he got to know well and had profiled for a magazine, describing her eyes as ‘so liquid with life’, was defined as having ‘an extraordinary inferiority complex, and it’s difficult to get through’. But then Truman Capote was not for nothing hailed as one of the sharpest writers of the 20th Century.  His 1958 novella, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Audrey Hepburn (though he hated her in the role), while his 1966 tr...

Things You Get Wrong About Gilligan's Island By Jan MacKell Collins/Jan. 19, 2021 1:39 am EDT "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship." Oh come on. You knew you were going to hum the theme song from Gilligan's Island the minute you started reading this. Whether or not we want to admit it, we've been fans of this show forever—even those who weren't yet alive when it premiered in 1964, or was unexpectedly canceled in 1967. But Gilligan's Island remains an iconic piece of modern Americana even in reru...

It took millennia to find out.  ‘In the High and Far off Times, the Elephant … had no trunk,’ wrote Rudyard Kipling. ‘He had just a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side.’ But there was one elephant’s child who was more curious than the rest. He wanted to know what the crocodile had for dinner. Since no one would tell him, he went down to the banks of the Limpopo to find out for himself. When he bent down to see, the crocodile bit his nose – and pulled until it was ‘nearly five feet long’. That, Kipling smiled, was how the ele...

Paine in the Neck “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.” - James Madison “I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” - Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776 “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” - Socrates “Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” - Benjamin Franklin “We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” - Benjamin Franklin “Wise men learn by others’...