For 76 years, the annual Progressive® Insurance Miami International Boat Show® has been the city’s crown jewel. For the past two years the show has taken place in the historic Virginia Key, a mini isle linked by the Rickenbacker Causeway, a road that connects downtown Miami to Key Biscayne, passing through VK. (Click here to […]

  The Bahamas are an archipelago of 700 islands, situated 186 miles east of Miami. New Providence Island is home to the Bahamas’ capital city, Nassau. In Nassau, gorgeous beaches are just the beginning. Rent a car, explore the surrounding island and you’ll meet some of the 275,000 locals (of African, American and British descent) […]

There are film festivals all over the world. Few however, take over an entire city and engage locals and visitors on the level of the Toronto International Film Festival. An estimated 480,000 filmgoers attend screenings, eyeball celebrities and scout out the up-and-coming filmmakers at TIFF.   As participants take in the festivities, they tour the […]

On a hot mid-August summer weekend in Richmond, Virginia, thousands of music lovers gathered for the seventh annual Richmond Jazz Festival. They picnicked, socialized and strolled around the verdant lawns of the vast, 100-acre Maymont estate, splitting their time between three concert stages that were filled with world-class musicians: Herbie Hancock, Stephanie Mills, Arrested Development, […]

  For years San Francisco has been the West Coast playground and refuge of jazz musicians. Since 2013, those artists have had a permanent home at the SFJAZZ Center, the first-ever standalone structure in the country dedicated to jazz. Think of it as a cool opera house, where the beats get funky, the music is […]