Lifelong New Yorker Cristina Alger, who penned 2012’s The Darlings, returns this month with her second novel, This Was Not The Plan (Touchstone), an incisive, hilarious and tender exploration of fatherhood, love, loss and family life through the eyes of a young widower. Alger’s book tour includes a reading at Madison ... More

Airlines don’t get credit for much these days, but a blessed few are finally recognizing one basic fact: Passengers are people too. It’s not just about shepherding us from Point A to Point B (though, duh, that’s kind of a given); we’d like to be marginally comfortable during the process. ... More

Montreal is another one of those foodie cities—like Austin, Portland and Chicago—that I've been eager to visit for a while. It seemed doable in a weekend, quaintly European, English-speaking, easily walkable and blessed with an exploding food and wine scene. So on a recent weekend, I decided to make the ... More

If 2015 was the year Conrad Sewell first made a spark—thanks to hit tracks like “Firestone” with Kygo and the chart-topping “Start Again”—then 2016 promises to be a full-blown inferno. This year, the 27-year-old, British-born, Australian-raised singer will release a new EP, All I Know, and in January he’ll ... More

Having a martini with François Thibault is like shooting hoops with Michael Jordan. Thibault, who has been Grey Goose's Maitre de Chai (cellar master) since the company launched in 1997, is the guy responsible for developing Grey Goose's billion-dollar vodka recipe. And that's not an exaggeration: The brand ... More

Scottish-born whiskey expert Nicholas Pollacchi spent years as a brand ambassador for big name companies like Macallan and Highland Park. He would often host tasting events for corporate clients and whiskey enthusiasts, but he found that while the tastings were fun, they didn’t accurately reflect consumers’ drinking habits. “Brands position themselves ... More

Forrest Hayes didn’t die an ordinary death. In the fall of 2013, the executive at Google’s mysterious development facility, Google X, suffered a fatal heroin overdose on his yacht in Santa Cruz while in the company of a prostitute named Alix Tichelman. Not surprisingly, the story sent shock waves through ... More

1. Sleep in an Igloo Nearly six thousand feet up Engelberg’s Mt. Titlis stands Iglu-Dorf, a snow hotel erected every winter that sleeps 38 guests and boasts a top-shelf bar and outdoor Jacuzzi. We recommend the “Romantic Plus” suite, which includes a private toilet, fondue dinner and guided snowshoe hike. Worried ... More

Let me begin by saying that my idea of a good time does not usually involve barreling through magnificent vistas on a tour bus, battling stomach-churning waves in the middle of the ocean, or braving the masses at midnight buffets. I much prefer doing things my own way, on my ... More

Crested Butte, Colorado, is often called the last great Rocky Mountain ski town: It's got an Old West charm that Vail, which sprung up out of nothing half a century ago, never had. Best of all, tour-and-lodge company Eleven Experience is making it very, very easy to enjoy this ... More