Culture: Single City Girl Seeks Smoky Single Malt
Gina Horan shares her experience at the Whiskies of the World Expo, highlighting women’s increasing appreciation for whisky in a traditionally male-dominated sphere.
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Inspiration: One Cup of Sugar, Several Chords of Classical Music Creates Elizabeth Podsiadlo, San Diego’s Opera Singing Chef
by Alexa Trotta Elizabeth Podsiadlo is busy coloring. She’s helping her eight-year-old daughter with a school project, but that doesn’t mean she’s unavailable for a quick chat. Podsiadlo is good at multi-tasking and as of now this opera singing chef’s plate is quite full. Her annual music program, “Slow Growth” just wrapped up which featured…
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Culture: San Remo, Italy: In Bocca Al Lupo
I had packed up all my possessions in San Francisco, abandoned my apartment, quit my job, ditched my cat with my parents and boarded a plane for Europe. The nervous breakdown occurred about ten minutes into the flight. After a glass of water, a Valium and my boyfriend’s reassurance that we were not in fact…
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Culture: Canada: Victoria, Vancouver and the Red Coat
Luckily ladies, Vancouver is a foot-friendly city, offering a plethora of footpaths and plenty of lush green park areas to work off your expanding middle-belly. Or, if you’re so inclined: rent a bike and peddle around the Stanley Park Seawall and watch the floater planes glide in through the harbor. It was on one of…
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Activity Review: NYC: “Sex and the City” Tours Ease Withdrawal
by Alexa Trotta Feeling lonely at nine o’clock on a Sunday night? Perusing television channels in desperation, only to find “Cops” and reruns of “America’s Funniest Home Videos”? Get off that couch—and plan a trip to New York City, where you can toss your dusty sneakers out the window and strap on a pair of…
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Wellness: Fiji: De-stressing and Un-dressing on Waya Island
by Alexa Trotta I found Nemo while snorkeling a few feet off the coast of a wild, deserted island in Fiji. His yellow-and-blue-striped body darted beneath my flippers, then disappeared into the winding blue, green, pink, and purple coral mountains of the serene undersea-scape surrounding us. I was miles from home—and a world away from…
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Wellness: New Zealand: Cave Trekking by the Light of Bio-illuminescent Maggot Shit
by Alexa Trotta The thought of wading through murky waters surrounded by dark, slimy cave walls didn’t impress me at first. In fact most things that involve the word “slimy” don’t particularly excite me. So when Matt told me we were going cave spelunking in an underground dwelling of glowworms and who knows what else,…
