The Lazy and Entitled Guide: Newport Newport has a rich and exciting history that I’m not going to bother paraphrasing from Wikipedia. Your friend told you that their wedding, or bachelor(ette) party is here and your Google search pulled up this article. You want to know how to make it…

Hitch-22, a memoir by the late Christopher Hitchens, is one of the few books I have purchased and downloaded for the Kindle app on my phone. I usually have a few digital books on the go from the New York Public Library, but sometimes the title you want is already…

by Paul Joseph Walsh This week* Jeff Bezos agreed to purchase three apartments at 212 5th Avenue in Manhattan for approximately $80 million. …

Why do we travel? My great-great-grandparents traveled to America from Ireland because of the potato famine. That was a pretty good reason; no point in hanging around the old bog when there’s nothing left to do but starve to death. My favorite travel writer (though he shuddered at the title)…

…before the mind intoxicate With present objects and the busy dance Of things that pass away, a temperate show Of objects that endure. ~ Wordsworth I guess it started with Instagram. Not a very high minded medium but there it is. Post after post of people walking through wide open…

He had written, in letters that had not quite jelled yet, the single word “Delighted.” The Matron of Honor, reading over my shoulder, gave a sound faintly like a snort, but I quickly looked over at the great writer and tried to show by my expression that all of us…

Life is choice and choice is loss. But what happens when people don’t make choices? Nebraska revisits the same themes of age and irrelevance as Payne’s About Schmidt, which you may remember was no skip through the tulips. …