Paging Robie the cat. Yes, it’s true. A burglar or burglars swooped into a Cannes hotel room this week and made off with $1 million in jewels. If life had been imitating art more faithfully, the heist would have taken place at the Carlton Hotel, setting for a number of the scenes in Hitchcock’s...
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Day 2 of the Cannes Film Festival and the talk turned to bling, the flashy, brand-conscious ethos explored in Sofia Coppola’s film The Bling Ring based on the true misadventures of a group of Southern California teenagers who decide to live the good life the old-fashioned way, by stealing it. But I’ll tell you...
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Get ready to be impressed, people. In addition to my stellar career history of reporter, secretary, Santa’s elf and fry cook, I now boast a new title: personal assistant. Specifically, I’m assisting my good friend the Trained Observer, that talented international correspondent who some of you may remember from our London adventures last year....
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Barreling down the rutted, stony track, my heart in my mouth, another part of my anatomy bouncing up and down on a bicycle seat from the spring line of Torquemada Sporting Goods, I couldn’t help asking myself: Why, Michelle, why? It had begun as such a modest proposal. Would I like to bicycle through...
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Not so fast on slipping your handy corkscrew-with-foil-cutter into your carry-on. The TSA had planned on relaxing some of its rules, including the ban on non-locking blades that are less than 2.36 inches long and no more than 1/2 inch wide. They also were allowing toy bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse...
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The last vintage wine ad we brought you was Orson Welles getting very enthusiastic about the Paul Masson wine he was advertising. Today’s offering is completely different, James Mason advertising Thunderbird wine.
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I’m not going to be spending April in Paris, but I do have this slideshow
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This week we got a rather urgent email from our neighbor, Chuck. It turned out the poor fellow had been on a tour of the Philippines, had lost his wallet and was having problems getting the hotel owner to hand back his passport unless he paid the bill. “I am sorry if i am...
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Looking for a novel approach to England’s capitol? Why not take a tour of literary London. A good place to start is the newly refurbished Charles Dickens Museum at 48 Doughty St., once the home of the prolific author. If you’ve got the time, you nip around the corner to the The Foundling Museum...
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Today we kick off a new feature, something fun for the end of your week. In this classic clip,
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