Photos by Christopher Leggett
Ku De Ta is one of the most relaxing and sophisticated spots I’ve ever visited in my life.
To get there you have to drive out of the busy, tourist-laden streets and western hotels, through back streets and open suburbs, littered with shacks - basically the epitome of modern-day populated Bali, but once [...]

To be honest, I do really love this place.Angelika Theater in Soho is one of the the three main independant cinemas along Housten, the other being Sunshine Theater further east and the other Film Forum, which is further west. They all play the latest independant films and have a really great vibe. Angelika has a [...]

Now, I’ve only been to London Heathrow Airport a handful of times in my life (including a few when I was between 8 and 12yrs old) but here’s my story. Learn from it what you will:
Dad’s a pilot, so until I was 22 I got great deals on travel, both domestic and international. [...]

Picture by J Isaac Swanenburgh
Fiji’s surrounding waters, the brightest blue I’ve ever seen and filled with tiny and gorgeous coral atolls, is one of the most breathtaking places on earth.What never fails to amaze me about it is that from the time your plane touches down in Nadi Airport to the time you step onto [...]

Television at Summerstage Image Courtesy of Brooklynvegan.com
In the midst of the concrete jungle that I live in there are pieces of tranquility and peace found in NYC parks. It’s only in this crazy little place called Manhattan where you live on an island but rarely you get to sunbathe by the water (unless you retreat [...]

Global Village Antiques and Collectables, The Regent Cinema, Helensville, Auckland, New Zealand

I have eaten in some pretty rough places in India and China, but my most scary dining experience took place in Bondi.

Desperately hungry after a long day of walking the Sydney beaches, my partner and I made the mistake of stopping in the first place we saw.
As we ate and our hunger-induced haze started to [...]

Things I Like About Autumn:
- Baking ANZAC cookies
- Planting spring bulbs
- Lighting the fire for the first time
- Persimmons
- And, best of all, the first walk on a beach when it’s kind of chilly and you have to rug up a little bit
The best place in the world for this last one is [...]

1. The manager at Hot Bagels: Hot Bagels is an ok bagel place around the corner from my apartment. I’ll be honest, the food isn’t good but if you need a quick coffee or whatever it’ll do. Anyway, when I first started going there I HATED the manager. I just thought he was so mean [...]