Anne McCarthy

Start typing a reply in Google’s Gmail and it might feel like it is reading your mind. Tap out the letters “tha” and up pops the rest of a sentence in greyed out letters. Press tab and your sentence completes itself.

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness..."

Italy is currently experiencing a major political crisis...

This week’s question: With 2019 almost half-over, what is the best movie performance of the year so far? I’ve turned over Kaitlyn Dever’s performance...

Fall is coming: the leaves are turning, the flowers are dying, and Christmas decorations will soon fill stores prematurely. But in Fashionland – a world which constantly swivels its head to the future – next year’s flowers and styles are just coming into bloom, as the Spring-Summer 2020 shows took over Paris the last week in September...

When it comes to having fun, Munich has much to boast about. After all, it’s where over 6 million people travel annually with the sole purpose in mind of having fun at Oktoberfest.
But if you’re not in the area for Oktoberfest...

The Berlin Marathon is one of the six “World Majors” in the marathoning world. Along with Berlin, cities like London, Tokyo, New York, Boston, and Chicago lay claim to being the best and biggest when it comes to marathons around the globe...

The world feels increasingly connected through globalization, yet also, fractured beyond repair by politics and climate. Great art tends to soothe and smooth over those fractures and create more unity and connection. Paris Fashion Week’s Spring-Summer 2020 shows in ...

Anyone who survived it remembers it well. In December 1999, a vicious and violent storm, Cyclones Lothar and Martin, swept across western and central Europe over the course of 36 hours. The storm hit France and Belgium, and left...

After your London bike tour or walking tour, why not pop into one of London’s many terrific bookshops that pepper the city...

Denzel Washington is untouchable in so many ways, and his turn in 1999’s “The Hurricane,” in which he played real-life boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, was one of them – his performance was magnificent...

From indies like "The Farewell" to blockbusters like "Toy Story 4," these are the eight movies that critics selected as the summer's best...

New Orleans. It’s one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in the U.S. And for good reason, too...

Fall is around the corner, and there’s never a shortage of festive fall fare to sate the adventurer’s appetite. And that is especially true in the bustling and exciting Barcelona, where autumn festivals reign supreme...

Travel doesn’t have to be expensive. Like, ever. If you save your money and budget properly, and travel to locations that are as near as an hour away, you can make it happen, whether you’re operating on a shoestring budget or even a nonexistent income...