Once upon a time, way back in the '90s, the iPad hadn't been invented yet, Boy Meets World was still on the air, and interior playgrounds at fast food restaurants weren't regarded as foul dens of germs and discarded heroine needles. During this magical age, children frolicked in ball pits and slid down slides in the playscapes of restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King. Meanwhile, their parents chatted nearby, knowing their kids were fenced in and playing someplace "safe."

Since their joint suicide in 30 B.C., Antony and Cleopatra's tomb has remained hidden somewhere in Egypt — but researchers may now be closing in on where the storied queen is buried.

After years of being outshined by the cosmopolitan glow of Lisbon, Porto—Portugal’s once scrappy but now sublime second city—has been stealing the spotlight these days. Cinematic landscapes, balmy weather, and a blossoming food and wine scene have all contributed to a boom in international visitors to Portugal. The winner of European Best Destination in 2012, 2014, and 2017, Porto now draws a record number of travelers with an average of 1.6 million visitors each year. Planning to visit this incredible city in the coming year? Here’s a guide to a perfect 48 hours in Porto.

Until very recently, the idea of working remotely while traveling the world was the stuff of fantasies and Travel & Leisure articles. So-called younger digital nomads were out there, owning multiple passports, taking pilates classes on mountaintops, and posting laptop-by-the-ocean selfies—but they made up a small, enviable niche of the travel market.

It would be remiss to write a blog highlighting the work of BIPOC artists without taking a moment to reflect on the events and conversations of the year. Propelled by the momentum of protests following the horrific deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and Dominique “Rem’mie” Fell, the world is protesting, watching, listening, trying, speaking out, making mistakes, and — hopefully — changing.

When The Beatles got their start playing grueling seven-hour sets in the dark dancehalls of Hamburg before a sparse audience of night owls, could they have imagined they’d one day be playing to a stadium packed with more than 55,600 screaming fans?

Up there with the existence of alien life and the location of Cleopatra’s tomb, the meaning behind Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” is one of the universe’s great unsolved mysteries. The hit song was released in 1972, ironically on an album called “No Secrets.” “You’re so Vain” is a super meta, brazen accusation of a past lover who digs himself way too much. The tune famously accuses, “You’re so vain, you probably think this song is about you”.

From baby food to juice cleanses, diet trends rise and fall with time and scientific advancement. But while many nutrition fads have been discredited or forgotten, others have withstood the test of time and nutrition science scrutiny. Counting macros (short for “macronutrients”) is a nutritional strategy long favored by bodybuilders that has recently gained mainstream popularity.

Music has the power to educate, inspire, empower, influence, heal, and transform. And in the summer of 1988, it just might have had the power to help bring down a wall.

The evening before I am scheduled to accompany film catering professional Ed D'Orio and his crew on a 12-hour shift, he calls to make sure I haven't changed my mind. "You still want to do this?" he asks. "Really?" Ever since I contacted Ed and expressed interest in shadowing him to see what it's like—as he puts it—"in the bowels of the movie catering profession," he has been trying to dissuade me. The hours are long, the work is demanding, and most people can’t handle the stress, he tells me.

As the legend goes, the ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius advocated the use of chopsticks at the dinner table, believing that knives and forks bore resemblance to weapons. Confucius’s influence looms large in San Francisco, where hundreds of Chinese restaurants favor chopsticks as their tableware of choice (though many provide fork and knife alternatives for their less chopstick-savvy western guests). Chinese eateries pack the city’s world-renown Chinatown and spill out into neighborhoods across the city, sending the aroma of steaming dumplings, sizzling mu shu meats, and tangy fried rice out into the fog.

The scene at the Hideout is about what you'd expect to find at a neighborhood watering hole on a Saturday afternoon. Scruffy regulars hunch over the bar, nursing pints of Gumballhead and A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale. Smokers cluster around the front patio’s picnic tables, puffing on Pall Malls. Lilly, the cheerful bartender, trades quips with customers and whips up some serious bloody marys with all the fixings—celery, olives, cubes of cheese, and a stalk of pickled asparagus for good measure. But one thing separates this otherwise standard Saturday drinking tableau from any other: instead of shouting at football matches on TV or huddling around pool tables, the clientele are flipping through notebooks and scribbling down jokes. It's a few minutes until the start of The Late Late Breakfast comedy open mic, and everyone is putting the finishing touches on their set.

Because the small town of Wimberley, Texas doesn’t fall on any major highways, residents are fond of saying, “You have to mean to visit Wimberley”. In other words, you can’t visit Wimberly on a whim(berley).

Though food carts in some form or another have been meandering the country for hundreds of years, the mobile dining revolution truly took hold of America during the last decade.

Capable of conjuring Instagramable butterflies out of steamed milk, remembering your seven-ingredient-long drink order, and keeping cool when faced with a queue of caffeine-fiending customers, baristas may seem superhuman.