Bite my shiny, metal…

Today’s Style Invitational presents the results of a contest in which entrants were asked to create a drink named after a famous Washington personality: Second Runner-Up: The Al Gore: A tall drink, conspicuous by  [more...]

The Hotel San Jose has entrances off the street, dark and green pathways that lead to one’s room. If this had been an ordinary hotel, I’d have walked in through a brightly lit, cavernous lobby, through which  [more...]

The writer Helene Hanff came to fame after publishing her years of correspondence with an antiquarian bookseller in London. To find just the books she wanted, it was easier to reach out across the Atlantic then to  [more...]