Help! Tiny Pretty Things Is Reviving My Delusions of Center Stage Grandeur

RELATED STORIES Recently, a friend asked me what Tiny Pretty Things — the new series I’ve been mainlining for reasons we’ll get into in a moment — was all about. “Ballet, bitches and butts,” I said, with zero shame. (Note to Netflix, which streams the show: Feel free to use that as a blurb!) My friend knew […]

Welcome to Miami: Wonderful wildlife, sunshine and old-fashioned grandeur

I was staying at the historic Biltmore hotel, a nostalgia-filled gem situated 12 miles from Miami’s raucous South Beach in the serene neighbourhood of Coral Gables. Built in 1926, it’s renowned for its famous guests, from Judy Garland to Bing Crosby, Kim Kardashian to President Obama. Notorious gangster Al Capone even committed one of his […]