Mother’s in the kitchenWashing out the jugs;Sister’s in the pantryBottling the suds;Father’s in the cellarMixing up the hops;Johnny’s on the front porchWatching for the cops. Poem by a New York state Rotary Club member during the Prohibition Bootlegging: a term that first gained popular currency during the Prohibition era in the United States, when individuals […]
Art Basel was founded in 1970 and is known as one of–if not the–leading art fair for contemporary and Modern art globally, with chapters in Miami (established in 2002, US market), Hong Kong (established in 2013, Asian market), outside of its home-site in Basel, Switzerland. From February 5-7, 2026, Art Basel opened its new station […]
While marriage as an age-old institution is facing threats on all global fronts, the charge against a tradition seen by many as ungainly, irrelevant, and perhaps too friction-addled, is facing finer, much more intrinsic tremors in MENA. As we see marriage rates plummet in much of the global north, a trend detected as early as […]
