City Notes
Texas, San Antonio, Pearl; a mixed-use culture and culinary destination with history that dates back to 1883 — a revitalised 'neighbourhood' built on the heritage of the State's largest brewery. Green spaces, events, a farmers market, retail...
The Edit
However much fine art permeates contemporary culture — with art hotels, art restaurants and so forth — a stigma of stuffiness still remains within the white cube format of traditional galleries. Even those who know their Roths from their Rothkos...
City Notes
Shenzhen is a gargantuan city of some 10 million inhabitants and growing — and if the proposed Hong Kong-Shenzhen metropolis was to go ahead, that would be 'growing considerably'. It is 2016, which means: any good metropolis needs a craft beer...
City Notes
Do you like scuttling around abandoned places? I do. Just thinking about the idea gets me excited. How do you feel about the notion of getting lost deep underground, before stumbling across a cordoned-off, abandoned Victorian Tube station beneath...
City Notes
Born amid the massive minimalism — or essentialism, as they call it — wave five years ago, ETQ is now an established label for clinical footwear obsessives. The brand is dedicated to quality, ageless products that suit forward-thinking fashion...
Stuff Crush
We are increasingly living our lives through filters. Through social networks, through smartphones, through the mortal coil of fibre and unseen airborne nexus. We're closer, yet further, than ever. In the communication age, it is so often through a...
Stuff Crush
With a sold out inaugural guide, how do the peeps behind Barcelona Foodie Guide make a second edition work just a year later? Lucky for them, Barcelona is a city in the midst of change; new places opening on the regular ... a street food...
City Notes
The Triangle, North Carolina, a region anchored by cities Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill, that takes its name from Research Triangle Park; a 1950s masterplan that created one of the world's largest research parks. It is now more commonly known as a...
The Edit
The desired effect of visiting an art exhibition: get lost, escape from reality ... whatever the final destination, whatever the journey can lead to. Jess Johnson's latest show completely disturbs its visitors' senses through a stunning immersion...
City Notes
With micro-distilleries already launched in Berlin, Amsterdam, Detroit and Seattle — and more in the pipeline (Los Angeles, New York, Miami and Houston) — pioneering locality-conscious brand Our/Vodka is produced by a growing global family, that...
City Notes
Art Strikes Back! It is not solely the name of Fundació Gaspar's debut exhibition, but a battle cry; a defiant call to arms, a declaration of the new Barcelona gallery's intent. Open for 90 years from 1906, Joan Gaspar i Xalabarder's Sala...
City Notes
Mr Miyagi always looked the sort to abstain from any vices, although it seems that when Mrs Miyagi's back is turned the crafty old bugger looks to his young mistress Yukie for kicks. Wax on, wax off indeed. Seductive Yukie revealed herself to...
City Notes
Interior design studio and creative consultancy Ste Marie has completed Olia Ristorante and Mimi Bar, a pair of hospitality venues conceived as a day-to-night sequence at the base of new residential tower Citizen on Jasper. Commissioned by Corso 32...
City Notes
On a private estate in central Ukraine, YOD Group has reimagined the traditional mazanka — the archetypal rural home — for the contemporary era. These 50 square metre guesthouses reinterpret the vernacular, translating thick whitewashed walls...
City Notes
Situated at the edge of Montmartre, where Pigalle’s energy meets Parisian rooftops, Hôtel Rochechouart is a 1929 Art Deco landmark given a contemporary pulse. Design duo Festen has restored the building’s historic details while threading a...
The Edit
Adrian Cox’s upcoming solo show at Corey Helford Gallery in downtown Los Angeles is one that demands some serious attention. The Well of Dreams, opening Saturday 21 February in the Main Gallery, presents over 20 new works from the Los...
Dispatches
There is something about watching pigment bleed into wet paper that slows everything down. The color moves on its own terms, pooling where it wants, feathering at the edges in ways you could never fully predict. For a few minutes, nothing else...
Dispatches
In 2025, India had over 65 million active merchants accepting Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments, making it the world's largest merchant acceptance network. This scale reflects how quickly businesses are embracing digital transactions to meet...
Dispatches
Term insurance is one of the most talked about financial products in India. Yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. This article clears up the most common misconceptions. It also shows how a term life insurance calculator helps cut through...
Dispatches
A diamond bracelet is one accessory that always makes you look better when you dress up for a night out or a special event. A nice bracelet can make your outfit look more expensive and classy, whether you're going to a formal gala, a cocktail party,...