Enlarge Image Close Ayush Bhandari Burgundy vineyards of Meursault, France. Most Chardonnay is best drunk young. The large majority of this full-bodied grape variety, which can take on a number of different guises from luscious and buttery to whistle-clean and steely, is made to be consumed within one to three years of its life. Of [...]
1. A glimmer of hope Published: September 12, 2008 It was around 15 years ago, while completing her clinical training at the Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, that Dr Mubina Agboatwalla saw a cruel, unforgiving side to life. Realising that a lot of people were dying due to illnesses, most of which were caused by lack [...]
By BEN PAYNTER Ryan C. Henriksen for The Wall Street Journal Mike Adair, left, and Bob Holt, right, at Briarcliff Elementary School, Kansas City, Mo. The school has served as the background for many of the duo’s e-cards. When brainstorming, Bob Holt and Mike Adair ditch their pens and sketchbooks, grab coffee and retreat to [...]
Story By: by Ian Buckwalter Sarah (Anne Margaret Hollyman), a technologist based in Brooklyn still adjusting to her pregnancy, heads to the Southwest to visit family. Small, Beautifully Moving Parts Not rated With: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Andre Holland, Sarah Rafferty Like the best road movies, Small, Beautifully Moving Parts features a pair of individuals newly [...]
Spend time in this 20,000 square kilometre conservation park (and there’s no better time than now, which is the mild South African winter) and you’ll feel completely enveloped in the natural world. A complete assault on the senses – sitting mere metres from a roaring lion is pretty terrifying – mankind’s earliest ancestors lived here, [...]
By KRISTIN M. JONES We know the story, but as we mark the centennial of April 14, 1912, the fate of the Titanic, equipped with an inadequate number of lifeboats, can still seem too full of tragic irony to be real. One way to commemorate the event is, of course, to watch James Cameron’s 1997 [...]
By JOHN IRVING I begin with endings, with last sentences—usually more than one sentence, often a last paragraph (or two). I compose an ending and write toward it, as if the ending were a piece of music I could hear—no matter how many years ahead of me it is waiting. The ending of my new [...]
The Chocolate Chips A Smokin’ Notion F. Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Chocolate chips from Autumn Martin’s Hot Cakes There’s a nuanced flavor running through Autumn Martin’s s’mores cookies. Is that bacon? Not quite. In order to replicate the char of marshmallows roasted over a campfire, the Seattle-based pastry pro smokes chocolate chips [...]
1. Visit a hipster village made from shipping containers. Container City Container City in Puebla In the San Andrés district of the town of Cholula, in the shadow of Tlachihualtepetl pyramid, a group of young entrepreneurs has been channeling Brooklyn. Their 54,000-square-foot Container City is built from recycled shipping boxes, brightly painted and stacked. The [...]
By ALINA DIZIK When Ted Copeland comes in for his coffee, the barista has his order (black, no sugar) ready. Then he sets up his laptop and lingers for a few hours over the caffeine and free Wi-Fi. Refills are free. Freelancers have taken to hotel lobbies instead of Starbucks. Hotels are courting them with [...]