There’s plenty of places in this country that encourage disenchantment, cities and states that practically compete to provide visitors with a sense of disillusionment and despair. Then there’...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/10/03/hawaii-kauai-beauty-gabby-pahinui/
Brooklyn is a funny place in summer. This is the season when it is best to be here, and it is also the season when it is best to escape. Of course, escape is only temporary; escapes are, to quote...
Let’s face it: even though it’s really fun to score mini-bottles of shampoo and body wash from whatever hotel you might be staying at while on vacation, there’s nothing worse than traveling...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/27/dont-leave-home-without-us-ten-essential-products-vacation/
Korean Air Lounge Terminal 1, John F. Kennedy International Airport There’s a saying in Denmark: “Only a fool isn’t afraid of the ocean.” This maxim typically gets employed every summer, ...
Far be it from us to suggest that you spend your hours after take-off doing anything other than watching Unlikely Animal Friends 4 on repeat and drinking yourself into oblivion, but in case you d...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/27/best-books-plane-mile-high-literary-club/
Photos by Jane Bruce You can get a sunburn in Copenhagen. I knew this, I think, before I went. But knowing is not the same as believing, and I didn’t yet believe that I could get a sunburn so c...
The Internet is a place of inherent contradiction and duality; its very language is premised on a binary system. (It, like, literally is the binary code. So.) And beyond that, the Internet is a p...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/06/10/two-types-people-internet-69-versus-420/
“And then they’re going to take a helicopter up to the tippy-top of the eastern Canadian coast and get dropped off in literal polar bear country, all in order to canoe back down to New York S...
Montero’s Bar and Grill 73 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn Heights Do new bars have a smell? Something like that of new cars? I think they do; many of the newer bars in Brooklyn smell like white pain...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/05/26/dive-bars-monteros-brooklyns-best-bar/
We live in the borough of the $42 roast chicken, of the $100 gold doughnut, of too many to even count bazillion dollar homes. And now, it seems, we live in the borough of the $21 avocado toast. V...
https://www.bkmag.com/2016/05/18/avocado-toast-williamsburg/