Corcoran and Cochran
Barbara Corcoran and I at Aol’s studios, about to record an episode of her coaching show, “Practical Magic.” The first segment premiered Friday at WalletPop.com. She makes everyone around her better....
View ArticleFun with CatPaint
Last weekend, someone introduced me to CatPaint for the iPhone. I am afraid I have not used the discovery for good. All this app does is take any picture and let you stamp it with pictures of kitties....
View ArticleThe Emigrating Apostrophe
I used to assume that many Western Europeans understood English better than Americans do. I suppose that is still true (it’s definitely true for American current events), but I spotted the dreaded...
View ArticleThe view from the Hot Seat
If you’ve ever wondered what TV’s talking heads are looking at during satellite interviews, this is it. This is Fix News in New York City. I get an earpiece and I stare at the black glass plate under...
View ArticleStreet Seen
I don’t know how clever it actually is, but someone planted a gallery-type card on some street furniture in Chelsea. It’s an old steam vent (I think). He over-valued. Typical.
View ArticleSetting sail on the new Norwegian Epic
Leaving Manhattan by ship is always sublime. It makes me feel lucky, or like it’s 1924.
View ArticleReal estate karma
Step 1: Raise rent on beloved neighborhood institution (such as Joe Jr.’s Diner) Step 2: Force closure of said tenant. Step 3: Suffer without rental income as a result of putting your greed ahead of...
View ArticleThe honest-to-goodness, actual, oh-my-gosh-it’s Ken Burns
You know about my passion for connecting to American history, and for remembering how we’re all product of it, and how much I love dispelling the patronizing myth that the people who came before us...
View ArticleAnother reminder that Manhattan is generous
Here’s the view from Press, the rooftop on Kimpton’s Ink48 hotel. I haven’t touched my martini yet but I’m already intoxicated. I remember feeling this elated on another September 10th once before.
View ArticlePhotos from Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth
I was lucky enough to be one of 1,600 people invited to the naming ceremony of the QE3, which is just called the QE. The Queen herself will be here tomorrow. Some images from the ship, which takes its...
View Article‘Lord of the Flies’ snowstorm disaster at JFK, courtesy of Virgin Atlantic
This is a new one. I’m blogging from the floor of Terminal 4 at JFK. The short version: Despite the fact that a ferocious snowstorm was approaching full gale, Virgin Atlantic refused to cancel my...
View ArticleThe 3 o’clock travel photo project
Before I was a travel writer, I was a full-time traveler. I spent nearly two years out on the road, backpacking around the world. And for many months of that journey, I conducted with an unusual...
View ArticleMount Rushmore souvenirs that don’t look like Mount Rushmore
Girl, you know it’s true. Mount Rushmore is empty-calorie patriotism, but it’s pretty. Local concerns overbuilt the amenities so much in the 1990s so that they’re still paying them off. Merely parking...
View ArticleBeautiful mistakes my camera made
My digital camera is an artist. It didn't screw up my pictures in some mundane way. It inserted some wry counterpoint and some beautiful geometric juxtapositions. It elevated my own commentary into...
View ArticleThe London Eye is raised, fall 1999
From my travel photo files: The 443-foot-tall London Eye is erected in the fall of 1999.
View ArticleAwesome photos of Walt Disney World from the early ’70s
A treasure trove of family snapshots from our visits to the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in 1973 and the mid-1970s. The place has changed so much it'll blow your mind.
View ArticleSaved By Decapitation at the British Museum
This is the bronze head of the Roman emperor Augustus with eyes of glass and stone. An act of vandalism and desecration saved it.
View ArticleKathmandu, Nepal, 1999
Headlines become real after you have traveled. I took this photograph in the spring of 1999. To me, it always embodied the spirit of the Nepalese people I met. These scrappy people can hold their...
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