by Janet Siroto | Jan 4, 2024
If you’re like me, your idea of a perfect urban vacation involves a couple of key components: fascinating streets, full of character and history; opportunities to shop (and shop some more) for items you never see the likes of back home; an assortment of eating...
by Janet Siroto | Dec 7, 2023
Sure, you’ve seen the image of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre about a bazillion times. And you may think that seeing those icons is what a trip to Paris is all about. And it can be…but if that’s all you see, you’d be missing the secret life of this dazzling city...
by Janet Siroto | Jul 26, 2023
Editor’s Note: Upon the news of Sinead O’Connor’s passing at the age of 56, we are re-publishing this story written in 2018, in which writer Janet Siroto worried about the singer. O’Connor’s family announced her death in a statement...
by Janet Siroto | Jul 13, 2023
It was the first chilly fall night after a hellishly hot summer, and I was crossing one of New York City’s grandest intersections, 59th and 5th, with Central Park spread out before me, a wedding cake of a fountain to my left, and the grand dame, the Plaza Hotel,...
by Janet Siroto | Apr 4, 2023
Back in Paleozoic times, when I was in college, my friend Antonia and I would regularly stop at a diner (one made famous on Seinfeld) for some post-class fries. It would be around 5 PM and invariably, as we slid into our vinyl booth, we’d have a table full of elderly...
