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| August 2007 |
Vol. 3, Issue 32 |
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 LUXE City Guides have long steered the hip, modern traveler—don’t you dare say tourist!—towards the latest and best hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, spas, and shopping locales in a plethora of cities spanning the globe. For the jet-setter with the most discerning of tastes, LUXE’s signature collection of stunning box sets is now offering two new collections: the World Grand Tour Box ($99) and the Asian Grand Tour Box ($99); each with twelve titles nestled inside beautifully hand-crafted boxes. Specific destinations in mind? Take advantage of the Bespoke Boxes to create your own combination of 5 or 12 titles. Go to www.luxecityguides.com |
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| Ah, the innocent childhood pleasures of LEGO. Brick by tiny modular brick, we whiled away hours building all manner of rectilinear toys, only to break them down and begin all over again. Now that your innocence has fled along with your youth, perhaps it's time to experiment with the dark side of Denmark's favorite toy with the new book, Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against. Disregarding the official rules of LEGO (rules? who knew?) and some of the basic tenants of safety, authors and confirmed LEGO master builders Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley present an unholy do-it-yourself guide of taboo techniques (i.e. glue, brick modification, non-standard parts) for creating blocky abominations, including less-than-lethal weapons that fire candy, ping-pong balls (above), and even other LEGOs. Advance order your edition and start stockpiling your illegal arms cache. $25. Go to www.nostarch.com |
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 What's your favorite restaurant in your home city? Not the fanciest or the most expensive or the hardest to get a reservation at, but simply your favorite? What's the spot where you're guaranteed a great meal on every visit? Those are the questions CITY asked when compiling our list of 101 favorite restaurants across the country, as featured in our new Summer Food & Entertaining Issue, on newsstands this week. From Boston to Boulder, New York to New Orleans, we hit 55 different American cities and just about every cuisine on the map. Check out the full list in the new issue or online and tell us about your favorite restaurants at www.city-magazine.com/restaurants
The new issue also features an in-depth look at what may be one of the most serious threats to our food chain: the decline of our honeybee population. As scientists race all summer to discover the culprit for this phenomenon, CITY asks if one of the alternatives — the outsourcing of America's farms and agriculture — is an option we really want to choose. We also turn to one of the country's top sommeliers to find out how to avoid buying counterfeit wine, and we ask a celebrated chef to give us a guide to navigating your local green market. And for all you baseball fans bemoaning Barry Bonds' breaking of Hank Aaron's home run record last night, sportswriter Jeff Pearlman takes a seat in the stands and puts America's pastime into perspective. |
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Longtime CITY contributor Greg Lindsay is spending the new few months on the road reporting for his forthcoming book, Aerotropolis (John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay; Farrar, Straus and Giroux). In his new exclusive CITY Magazine blog, IN TRANSIT, he's filing dispatches along the way, covering the best hotels, restaurants, gear, and airlines the world's "airport cities" have to offer.
Check out his latest entries at www.city-magazine.com/intransit |
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