Travelog | ‘Halal tourism’ emerges as businesses serve Muslim travelers

A rental company in Orlando, Florida, is offering "halal vacation homes" with curtained pool decks and rooms with prayer mats and copies of the Quran. A British company's app lists

The Catalonian Cession

(Continued from “The Catalonian Hinterland” on 25 September 2015) That the Catalan region of Roussillon (Spanish: Rosellón; Catalan: Rosselló) is French but not Spanish and, therefore, that its wine follows the

Food | The artistic craftsman

  Starting his career as an apprentice at Grand Hotel Bragard in Gérardmer, eastern France, in 1983, Chef Buron worked in several well-regarded kitchens before joining Le Chabichou four years later.

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Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ casts a gothic spell

The most pressing threat in Guillermo del Toro's gothic horror "Crimson Peak" isn't the ooze-filled cauldrons of dead souls in the basement of the old Victorian mansion, nor the plotting,

‘See Me’ takes readers on roller-coaster ride of emotions

Colin grew up bouncing from military school to military school with his parents expending little effort to try and understand their son. After being countlessly bullied, he turns to violence

Selena Gomez brings her A-game to ‘Revival’

Sophomore albums are notoriously tricky propositions, but Selena Gomez's second solo venture, "Revival," breezes through to the finish line — the dance floor —with 11 nearly impeccable tracks that skip

Digital Life | Amazon’s gizmos aim to be assistants for your abode

When I brought home review models of Amazon's Echo speaker, a sort of smart, voice- controlled speaker, and two Dash buttons that reorder household products with a single touch, I wasn't

The Mediterranean Heart III

(Continued from “The Mediterranean Heart II” on 17 July 2015) The British penchant for fortified wines may variously be due to the cool climate of the British Isles, recurrent wars with

Food | Creations without boundaries

Tucked away in the most local part of town near the Kiang Wu hospital is a French patisserie, and it is a pastry shop like no other. It is not

Luxury for Health – Cesarean births ‘epidemic’ despite high risks

Cesarean births aren’t typically associated with luxury. But the procedures have become de rigueur among Brazil’s wealthy, with new mothers at some high-end clinics enjoying beauty treatments after the operation

Authentic, moving performances elevate ‘Freeheld’

Few actresses bring the simple authenticity to the screen that Julianne Moore does; it's virtually impossible to imagine this actress sounding a false note. And so it's hardly a surprise

Jazz singer pays tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein

It's easy to imagine Kansas-born Karrin Allyson performing a lead role in "Oklahoma!" or "South Pacific," but she also happens to be a superb jazz singer with Grammy nominations for

Bareilles provides personal insight in ‘Sounds Like Me’

Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is a five-time Grammy nominee. It makes sense that she would approach writing a book about her successful career in the music industry by organizing each chapter

News of the World | Luxury birthing clinics spur cesarean ‘epidemic’ in Brazil

Thais Faria sank into a leather love seat, relaxing under the ministrations first of a masseuse, then a manicurist and finally a hairdresser-cum-makeup artist. Not 24 hours after her daughter

The Golden State

The US is the 4th largest wine-producing country in the world and, by some distance, the largest in the New World. Wine is produced in all 50 states, including the

Food | Autumn romance

While I am still appreciating the exquisite ambiance, Director of Food and Beverages, Gil Santos, comes by and says hello. A Portuguese native who worked in four different continents with

Migrant Crisis | Crooks’ new drug

People smugglers who get rich off desperate migrants span the globe, and their tentacles extend into nooks and crannies like Teteghem, a small town outside Dunkirk. Here the smuggling kingpins

‘Black Flags’ traces the Islamic State group’s rise

Once, during a raid in Ramadi, the GIs rounded up several men from a suspected safe house and forced them to lie facedown on the concrete with their hands behind

Damon charms as stranded astronaut in ‘The Martian’

Without Matt Damon, the solitary fight for survival on Mars would be lonely indeed. Alone on screen for most of his scenes as an astronaut stranded on the red planet,

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