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Rodney Ascher doesn’t need to take the red pill to explore how deep the rabbit hole goes. The documentary director has made a career out of burrowing into the dark recesses of these modern times. His debut feature, 2013’s Room 237, looked at viewers who promote alternate readings of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, while The

Adelina Wong Ettelson, Global Head of Residences Marketing Adelina Wong Ettelson is the Global Head of Residences Marketing for the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson. Adelina has been instrumental in establishing the brand as a sought-after hotel partner for luxury residential developers globally. She has successfully launched branded residential properties in

There’s never been a great reason for the Golden Globe Awards to exist. At best, they’re a kind of diet soda version of other awards shows, a slimmed-down combination of the Oscars and the Emmys, At worst, they’re a pale imitation of those institutions that devalues the loftier honors by throwing out nominations and awards

Bowlus Launches Terra Firma Luxury Travel Trailer for Off-Grid Road-Trip Adventures   LuxuryTravel/Luxury Vacations As discerning travelers continue their search for much-needed experiences in the great outdoors amid changing travel habits, Bowlus provides a sophisticated solution with the release of the new Terra Firma model. The unique aluminum teardrop shape of Bowlus travel trailers, paired

(credit: The Residences at Secret Bay) Within the gated confines of Secret Bay, Dominica’s all-villa rainforest resort lies The Residences at Secret Bay, a limited luxury collection of fully-appointed, sustainable residences. The renowned resort, a member of Relais & Châteaux, announced the completion of its first phase of new Hillside Ti-Fèy Villas and launched its

Bly’s book and accompanying gatherings sparked national attention (and plenty of blowback), but by the mid-90s his moment had largely dissipated. Now, in this age of post-Me Too reckoning, men’s groups with similar DNA have sprung up again–but this time with less Jung, greater diversity, and a lot of social media-savvy (similar nouveau-mythopoetic men’s groups

Image courtesy of Chablé Hotels Surrounded by the lush greenery of the Yucatán Peninsula and nestled against the cerulean waters of the Mayan Riviera, Chablé Maroma is the sort of otherworldly wellness resort that leaves a lasting impression on all those fortunate enough to discover it. A short ride from Cancun International Airport, a narrow

Was that a big focal point in the original script? What I felt it was doing in the original script was creating a sense of the sort of danger that the kids are in when they’re left on their own, and when their grandmother can’t take care of them because of her illness. But then

Are you two in talks for another collaboration sometime soon? Yes, we do have something in mind. It’s something he wrote a long time ago, and he never got it made. Now he’s refined it, and he wants to shoot it. Hopefully it’ll be this summer we’ll be filming. I would say, without giving the

I read a piece in the Times about how the FBI is going to build the cases against people who rioted at the Capitol a couple of weeks ago, and one of the participants in this Facebook page was actually a longtime informant. Felix’s account probably would have become FBI evidence of the conspiracy to

Jan. 29th, 2021 Having covered and traveled to the world’s most alluring and luxurious resorts for over 20 years now, it is rare that we add any new properties to our personal list of the best of the best. And yet after our recent visit to Malliouhana, Auberge Resorts Collection in Anguilla we did just

It does not bother the members of PrettyMuch when people call them a boy band: Brandon Arreaga, Edwin Honoret, Nick Mara, Austin Porter and Zion Kuwonu embrace their place in history. That’s because they haven’t had to check their individual identities at the door. Where Zayn had to leave One Direction before he was allowed

Lurie only lightly touches on this backstory in his show, which comes with a simple credo: Creativity is the only survival tool for cursed times. The show’s set-up is simple, too. Lurie, who has become a collected and well-respected painter since giving up the saxophone, paints from his home in an undisclosed location in the

You’re surely familiar with the critique of some of the stuff that you guys are doing now, which is that the sites and companies that provide a free internet to the rest of us do so basically by selling ads, and that these changes by Apple are going to threaten the business of all kinds

(courtesy of Hotel Healdsburg) Hotel Healdsburg, a luxury boutique property in the heart of Healdsburg’s charming downtown, recently announced its Healdsburg Hideaway package, perfect for all wine-lovers. Starting at $35,000, this package allows two travelers to safely indulge in the best of Sonoma County’s renowned wine country. Starting with private jet transportation and culminating with

Implicit in all this performative athleticism is, of course, youth and vitality—Rep. Aaron Schock was perhaps a bit too explicit when, as the youngest member of Congress in 2011, he displayed his abs on the cover of Men’s Health. That was in the midst of the House Republican caucus’s obsession with P90X, a “a get-tough

(credit: sbe) sbe and Accor have just announced the opening of SLS Dubai Hotel & Residences in March 2021, SLS’s first property in the middle east. Standing 75 stories tall, it is set to be one of the tallest hotel and residences in the region. This hotel marks the seventh SLS hotel, with seventeen additional trendsetting destinations across North

Drew Barrymore: Yeah, old soft T-shirts. It’s just the softness, the feel of them, like a second skin, not wearing anything, nothing’s binding, nothing’s tight—it’s like you’re naked without having to be naked. No constriction whatsoever. I didn’t think I would wear clothes until they disintegrated, but I’ve become that person. I hate when they