Downtown Austin
My favorite places to stay, eat, shop, and watch a whole bunch of bats, in Downtown Austin’s Congress Avenue and Rainey Street Historic Districts. Giddy-up! 🤠
Across the Tracks=
ACROSS THE TRACKS: A LAS VEGAS WESTSIDE STORY—produced and directed by native Las Vegan Emmett Gates—shares the unadulterated history of Las Vegas’s Historic Westside neighborhood
Padel
Padel—an easy-to-learn cross between tennis, racquetball, and squash—has come to Las Vegas, thanks to the sparkling facility built by Real Racquet Academy.
Goddess Sphere
The female-led GODDESS SPHERE launched at The Sutton Place Hotel with its first product, BLOOM™, for an audience comprised of prominent names from Vancouver's finance, media, and lifestyle sectors.
Elton John auction
THE COLLECTION OF SIR ELTON JOHN: GOODBYE PEACHTREE ROAD—the upcoming auction at Christie’s New York— comprises 920 lots, of which 200 are jewelry. Herein are the 16 sparkling jewels I’m following.
Covers
01/26/2024 My Fave Covers; Part 301/26/2024
It takes a lot of nerve to cover another artist's song; and, for my money, a cover-version should aspire to be at least as good as the original. Having made a list of my eighteen favorite covers, here are numbers 4 through 1 [Part 3 of 3]
Covers
01/23/2024 My Fave Covers; Part 201/23/2024
It takes a lot of nerve to cover another artist's song; and, for my money, a cover-version should aspire to be at least as good as the original. Having made a list of my eighteen favorite covers, here are numbers 10 through 5 [Part 2 of 3]
Covers
01/20/2024 My Fave Covers; Part 101/20/2024
It takes a lot of nerve to cover another artist's song; and, for my money, a cover-version should aspire to be at least as good as the original. Having made a list of my eighteen favorite covers, here are numbers 18 through 11 [Part 1 of 3]
Spa Botánico
Spas may be de rigueur at any luxury resort, these days, but there's nothing standard about the five-acre, Bill Bensley-designed Spa Botánico at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve; nor the transportive and transformative treatments it offers.

A look back at a standout from The COUTURE Show at Wynn Las Vegas in 2019: This one-of-a-kind, museum-quality necklace of hand-carved Angelskin Coral beads, presented by ASSAEL.