This is an amazing time for music, where you can hear virtually every song ever recorded with a click. But with 30 million tracks uploaded to Spotify every year,  it…

Like many before me and since, I spent summer weekends on Fire Island Pines—a feverish, salt-air season that glows in my memory like a sun-faded photograph. Every Friday, I joined…

Ever the star of her own show, Woodstock, NY’s, resident burlesque madame, Tryst La Noir, knows how to get your attention. She grew up in Queens and spent her teenage…

Winter in the mountains is perhaps the most glamorous time to stay indoors for dinner and a live show. On cold, holiday nights, there’s nothing better than world-class entertainment, up…

The wood and the curtains, the intricate Art Deco plaster, the smell of fresh popcorn and, perhaps, a long sip of a cool cocktail. It all melds together in a…

During visits to my sister and her family in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, we’d sometimes slip away to the Arnold Arboretum, a ten-minute walk from their backyard. No matter the…

Here’s the thing about Patricia Clarkson: She makes people happy. To wit, when our team at The Mountains was mulling over possible cover options for this issue, we were hoping…

Olana, the former home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Church in Greenport, NY, is a New York State Historic Site and public park. Set on a breathtaking 250-acre estate,…

Managing the moment—that’s what I’ve always called it. The moment, you know, is when the circumstances in front of you teeter on the overwhelming and the stress meter is careening…

I’ve always marveled at talented people who elevate their craft into something from another world. I’ve been so fortunate to be in the presence of sheer masters who far exceed…