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Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

With Lockdown Libraries, Clemmie Jackson-Stops Asks Readers to Think Beyond Genre and Taste

lithub

How Sharing Books with My Dad in Prison Made Life Bearable for Both of Us

Tyler Wetherall on Why All in Prison Should Have the Right to Read

Crime Reads

LETTERS FROM MY FATHER
IN PRISON

An Author Returns for the First Time to a Painful Record

Brooklyn Magazine

The Music Man Saving Brooklyn’s Soul

The piano-playing, whiskey-swilling Reverend Vince Anderson has the longest running show in Brooklyn, and calls his music "dirty gospel" in reference to its more human and "muddy roots."

New York times

Modern love: He Couldn’t Remember That We Broke Up

When my ex injured his brain in a fall and thought we were still together, I had to fill in the gaps.

 Condé Nast Traveler

A Childhood on the Run Made Me the Traveler I Am Today

A writer reflects on how a peripatetic childhood shaped the way she navigates the world.

Marie Claire

My Dad, the Drug Kingpin

Tyler Wetherall had no idea her dad was a drug-smuggling kingpin until the police eventually tracked him down.

Brooklyn Magazine

Sunny Balzano’s Widow is the One-Woman Force Keeping Sunny’s Alive

Amongst Brooklyn’s famed bars, Sunny’s has achieved almost mythic status: a magical den of bluegrass and whisky, hidden down by the harbor in Red Hook, where long nights roll into pink-hued mornings.

Quintessentially

Can I have a word please?

Tyler Wetherall points out the good in ‘bad’ language.

vice

Meeting the Fugitive Kids of International Drug Smugglers

The writer—who was forced to move around the world as a child because of her weed-smuggling father—speaks to others who have lived similar lives.

narratively

My Childhood on the Run From the FBI

I didn't think twice about the fact that we moved a lot, or that Dad always traveled separately. Then one day in middle school, Mom finally explained that we were fugitives.

ES Magazine

On the run

Author Tyler Wetherall on growing up with a dad constantly running from the FBI

The Last Magazine

Aldous Harding

When performing “Horizon,” the first single from her latest album, Party, Aldous Harding first stalks the stage glowering across the audience, as if they stand accused, the object of her deep sorrow and rage.

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National Geographic Traveller

Is the ocean the latest platform for the climate change conversation?

Meet the creative collectives taking their message to the seas

The Guardian

Summer nights: the US drive-in cinemas still packing ‘em in

Grab a soda and a pizza, and watch under the stars. After decades of decline, this slice of quintessential Americana is making a minor comeback

atlas

Why Hudson is a draw for New York’s artists

It’s known as “Brooklyn in the country” and is just a two-hour train ride from New York City, but why has this small, upstate town become such a lure for the city’s creatives?

Condé Nast Traveler

Solo Female Travelers Shouldn't Have to Choose Between Being Adventurous and Being Afraid

I thought being a fearless female traveler meant I couldn't show fear.

The Guardian

The world on a plate: the diverse kitchens of Queens, New York

A food tour of New York’s most multicultural borough revels in Latin American and Asian cuisine, but also highlights how gentrification threatens to end this riot of flavours

Fodors

12 Eerily Beautiful Abandoned Buildings and Parks

These deserted spaces around the world each offer a glimpse into the past and a story of their own.

the guardian

Roadside revival: 10 of the best motels in the US

These revamped US motels combine modern style with retro touches and new features, such as DJ sets and yoga classes

Condé Nast Traveler

Kent Is Poised to Be the U.K.'s Napa Valley

How to make the most of southeast England's flourishing wine country

Condé Nast Traveler

In Quito, a New Wave of Creatives Are Transforming the City Into a Design Capital

The oft-overlooked Ecuadorean capital is in the midst of a design transformation, thanks to star architects redefining the skyline and local brands and entrepreneurs fostering homegrown talent

Condé Nast Traveler

How the Climbing Community Became an Inclusive Space for Women

Platforms like Flash Foxy are providing greater visibility—and opportunity—for female climbers around the world.

The telegraph

The hottest hotel openings for a winter holiday in the USA

A host of cool hotels have opened in America – so now we can actually pack our bags and go, here's where to stay in 2021 and beyond

The Telegraph

The insider’s guide to affordable America

These 25 money-saving secrets mean your next US holiday won’t set you back a fistful of dollars

Fodors

Try Living Off the Grid in These 12 Communities

If you want a taste of off-grid living without making a full-time commitment, these are the communities that will welcome you with open arms.

i-D

Out of this World | A Wellness Experience in Joshua Tree

Tuning into California's Integratron: a spiritual space craft and mid-century masterpiece of geomagnetism, relaxation and time travel

Brooklyn Based

A tour of Wing’s Castle, where Tim Burton meets Gaudí

We can’t find the entrance to the castle. We try an ancient red door strewn with chains at the base of a crumbling tower, but it’s bolted. I feel like Snow White

The Irish Independent

The Lost City

Cocaine factories, paramilitary-infested jungle and a history of kidnappings have kept Colombia’s answer to Machu Picchu an undiscovered secret, says Tyler Wetherall

The Telegraph

Find a slice of the Big Apple that’s right for you

Look beyond the classic sights and discover the authentic side of New York’s five boroughs

FODORS

A Surprising Thing Is Helping to Save Elephants From Poaching: Their Dung

This community-led project in Uganda is turning elephant dung into paper crafts, using the funds to change the lives of women and protect its elephant population

Condé Nast traveler

The All-Women Sailing Crew Trying to Save the Ocean of Plastic

Founded by two women, eXXpedition strives to become an agent of change.

Fodors

No Fencing, No Security: I Slept Among Hyenas While Wild Camping in Kenya’s Masai Mara

A self-drive safari can offer an alternative to a luxury safari lodge experience—and some close encounters of the wild kind.

USA Today

London's Hot Clapton Neighborhood Under the Radar

From 'Murder Mile' to 'Hipster Village'

The Guardian

'Anti-Trump hotel' opens in Washington DC

Eaton DC offers platform for campaigners as world’s first ‘activist’ hotel. Clever marketing or genuine attempt to broker change?

Cosmopolitan

The world's your oyster (in Whitstable)

World famous for its oysters, Tyler Wetherall eats her way around the cute and kitsch seaside town of Whitstable

The Guardian

Meet the fashion brand bringing Cuban design to the world

One innovative designer has found a way around both the regime and the US embargo and become the first Cuban clothing company to ship anywhere in the world

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punch

Creating the Closed-Loop Cocktail

If bars, like nose-to-tail restaurants, made the most of their "off-cuts," would we be one step closer to a more sustainable drinking culture? Tyler Wetherall on the efforts some bartenders are making to close the cocktail loop.

Sevenfifty daily

A Case Study in Growing an Emerging Wine State

From investing in education and grape-growing subsidies to galvanizing the winemaking community, New Mexico offers an example of rightsized growth

Times Union

Cargo shipping of yore returns to Hudson River

Sailing vessel Schooner Apollonia delivers on dream of transporting goods by wind power

TIMes union

Medicinal mushrooms are having a moment

'Functional fungi' sales are soaring, and upstate NY purveyors are benefiting from this booming wellness trend

St. George Magazine

Gin Palaces

England’s most beloved drink, celebrated by royalty and prime ministers alike, is experiencing a Renaissance in some of the most stylish bars and innovative distilleries in the capital

punch

The British Are Coming: Will London’s Craft Gins Sell Stateside?

A new wave of British gins is calling on history to break onto American shelves. In an overcrowded market, is Anglophilia enough? Tyler Wetherall on the latest British Invasion.

Punch

Behind the Menu at Norway’s Most Experimental Cocktail Bar

Oslo’s leading bar, HIMKOK, is garnering international attention for melding Norwegian tradition with modern technique. Tyler Wetherall explores their latest drinks, from an aquavit cocktail infused with “brown cheese” to one with truffle seaweed.

Thrillist

The World’s Next Great Cocktail Cities

As the booze industry continues to spread its spirited wings, pockets of cocktail creativity are opening up worldwide.

punch

Can a Menu Map the Experience of a Cocktail?

A handful of bars are turning the concept of the written menu on its head, relying instead on illustrations to narrative prose to explain the experience of a cocktail. Tyler Wetherall on the new wave of alternative menus.

punch

Saturday Night in East London

Bars like Untitled, Nightjar and Scout have transformed this London neighborhood into a hotbed of cocktail experimentation.

USA Today

Korean Food Hits London's Restaurants, Markets and Bars

Fancy some fermented cabbage with that? Kimchi turns London into a K-Town

The Spirits Business

Americas bars to visit in 2019

The Americas has long pioneered the cocktail boom. Tyler Wetherall highlights the bars that will be taking things to the next level in the coming months.

The Guardian

Havana's new restaurant scene

Since Raúl Castro relaxed the laws on private enterprise, a new generation of restaurants is redeeming Cuba’s bad food reputation.

Evening Standard

Have yourself a rumpus

Channel your inner child at this hedonistic club night

Waldorf Magazine

In Good Spirits

The world has long been obsessed with cheating time but now the spirits industry is stepping up to the challenge. As some leading bartenders and distillers ask, can you create the flavor complexity of maturity without the wait?

SevenFifty Daily

Looking for Low-Carbon Wine Shipping? Try Sail Freight

Grain de Sail, the first commercial exporter of wine by sail freight, shows that sail ship transport isn’t always a green gimmick, but can offer a viable—and scalable—alternative to conventional cargo

punch

London’s White Lyan Is Making “Wine” Without a Grapevine in Sight

Pushing their studies in fermentation a step further, the science-savvy bartenders from London's award-winning White Lyan have created a line of remarkably convincing "wines" through a combination of unorthodox ingredients and techniques.

Punch

Inside London’s Growing Crop of Experimental Cocktail Bars

From vaporized Gin & Tonics to a punch bowl big enough to raft across to drinks served in everything from take-out boxes to rain boots, London's bar scene has taken a turn for the experimental. Tyler Wetherall on what's fueling the boom.

The Guardian

Female distillers prove women know their alcohol – and always have

A new generation of distillery trailblazers navigates a checkered history of sexism to stake a claim in the traditionally male-dominated industry

The Spirits Business

Hyper-local bars: ‘A solution to the over-abundance of choice’

Provenance may be hot at the moment but a new wave of leading bars are pushing hyper-locality, concentrating on products made only a stone’s throw away from them. By Tyler Wetherall.

The Spirits Business

The cocktail trends to watch in 2018

2017’s bar world was marked by a focus on sustainability and provenance. But what is in store over the next 12 months? Tyler Wetherall asks industry experts for their predictions.

The Guardian

Banning liquor won't change the binge drinking culture on campus

American colleges are pushing policies that would exacerbate the secrecy surrounding underage drinking. But prohibition doesn’t work

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