I recently broke one of my travel rules -- don't go to NYC in the summer -- and, surprisingly, ended up having an amazing time and hardly thinking about the weather. The city was empty, which translated into sailing into Alain Ducasse's Benoit at dinner time and getting immediately...

In today's uncertain economic climate, people are taking shorter vacations and escaping to locales a lot closer to home. Now more ever, we need to get away, but who wants to shell out the bucks for business class tickets to Thailand for the whole family when one's stock portfolio is...

Puerto Vallarta, that once quaint fishing village -- the Mexican St. Tropez in its day -- fell out of grace as a jet set destination about the time they built a highway connecting the town to the airport in the late seventies. Then they built Nuevo Vallarta - a Miami...

For years, I covered the entertainment industry. Right out of NYU film school, I became a film critic; later I profiled top tier film personalities and, in 2004, when I bowed out of the industry altogether -- mainly because I could no longer stand most of the handlers and PR...