Features
Bourbon Hospitality
The Yankee is smoking a cigar on a park bench in the middle of Bardstown, Kentucky, when a Jaguar sedan pulls up and out pops a mere slip of a Southern belle in sneakers, who …
Suddenly Susan
Susan Lucci looks into the gilded mirror and fluffs her chestnut hair. The soap-opera icon repositions the spaghetti straps atop her low-cut, form-fitting, soft-pink dress and …
A Master By Design: Tom Fazio
In the offices of Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and Arnold Palmer, legendary victories over water, wind and earth are celebrated with mounds of minutely detailed topographic maps, …
Davey's Destiny
The ball was headed for Yankee Stadium's left field seats, and the sight of Yogi Berra racing around first base in the seventh game of the 1955 World Series seemed to signal …
Life's Fine Points
Houdini lives. So do Hemingway, Shakespeare and Michelangelo, their legends celebrated in hand-held works of art in silver and gold, diamonds and platinum. Great explorers, too, …
The Antiquity Of It All
Dan Slott had always loved horses, having grown up with them on his father's farm in Holmdel, New Jersey. So it was no surprise when he decided to saddle up for a ride during a …
Italian Dressing
The duty of the Italian couturier has always been to provide its customers with modest concealment, protection from the elements, higher social standing and a subtle sexual …
JFK and Castro
In February 1996, Robert Kennedy Jr. and his brother, Michael, traveled to Havana to meet with Fidel Castro. As a gesture of goodwill, they brought a file of formerly top secret …
A Taste of Paradise
It all began one morning at Starbucks. "A latte, please." "Grande, venti or tall?" "Uh, grande.""Soy milk or regular?" "Regular." "No-fat, low-fat or whole?" "Whole." …
The Twenty One Club
If you're under the impression that the gambling industry loves all patrons equally, making no distinction between suckers and experts, consider what might happen if the managemen…
The Connaught, London
When London's Coburg Hotel opened in 1897, it promised "fashion, taste and hospitality for the highest, aristocratic classes." Renamed The Connaught Hotel (after the Duke of …
Uncle Jack's New York City
Aside from Peter Luger's in Brooklyn, Manhattanites rarely venture to the outer boroughs for an exceptional steak. Uncle Jack's aims to change that. Uncle Jack's is …
Cigars
Great Moments—A Personal Perspective on Heroism and Sacrifice
On a pleasant, breezy Saturday evening on October 2, 1993, I sat smoking a cigar with my good friend, Tim Wilkinson, contemplating the growing darkness and the constellations as …
Prices of Rare Cigars Skyrocket at a Christie's Auction in London
Just after Thomas Bohrer bought the last lot in the May 20 cigar auction at Christie's in London--a box of 50 Cuban Diplomatic Trinidads for $8,000--he turned and said to a …
Normalcy in the Dominican Republic
The gold rush days of the cigar boom are gone, and so are most of the quick-buck artists who flocked to the Dominican Republic
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
The Thought Police
The Thought Police Has George Orwell's Ministry of Truth sprung to life in New Zealand? That nation's public health director, Gillian Durham, informed the country's Cigar …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, The Casa de Cuba in Tampa, Florida, an institution of Cuban exiles, lovers of freedom and zealous defenders of human rights, are responding from a high moral …
