Cigar Aficionado
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Start your engines and fire up your favorite cigar at an upscale car show
2 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Drive A Tank
At more than 3,000 pounds, a Chevy Malibu is a formidable vehicle with a crash-safety test rating of five-stars. But against a 60-ton Chieftain tank, it’s a mere speed bump. That is, if speed bumps came with the sound of crunched steel and shattered glass. Driving a tank that’s the weight of 20 Cadillac Escalades over a junked auto is the “Crush a Car” option of Drive A Tank, the Minnesota facility that offers customers maximal military sensations you’d otherwise have to enlist to experience.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Salvatore Calabrese • BARTENDER • Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2
To become a world-famous bartender it helps to start early. That’s what Salvatore “the Maestro” Calabrese did. He was 11 when he first worked behind a bar in Maiori, Italy. His career would eventually take him across the globe, opening many illustrious watering holes, creating renowned cocktails and earning a knighthood. His Savoy bar opened in Florence in April.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
The Custom Shirt
One look at a beach in the summer is all it takes to understand that humans have considerably different builds, with only a few blessed with bodies that resemble models or mannequins.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Colibri Heritage Series
The Rubik’s Cube has captured the fascination—and ire—of many curious minds across the world in the past 50 years.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Mark Cho • CLOTHIER AND ENTREPRENEUR • Davidoff No. 2
A tailor at the top of his profession is a true craftsman. But to do what Mark Cho does requires one to be an artist, an entrepreneur and an impresario of sorts, especially in the evolving world of menswear. The London-raised 42-year-old is cofounder of The Armoury, a bespoke haberdashery with locations in New York and Hong Kong. His talents extend to sourcing the world’s finest fabrics, enlisting the industry’s top tailors and bringing them together for discerning customers in search of sartorial greatness.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
PERENNIALLY PINEHURST
America’s largest golf resort continues to grow and improve as it upholds its standards for fine layouts and cigar-friendliness
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Winnetu Oceanside Resort, Martha's Vineyard
History is never far away on this fabled island off the coast of Massachusetts—from the colorful Victorian gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs to the stately 19thcentury homes of whaling captains in Edgartown to the quaint lighthouses to its antique carousel.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Fashionably Lit
The Met Gala theme inspired cigars and prompted the question “Who smoked it best?”
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
DRINKING AToast
American whiskey makers have discovered barrel toasting, a new, subtler approach to a beverage born of fire
6 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Russell Dickerson • MUSICIAN • My Father The Judge Grand Robusto
Russell Dickerson remembers his dad introducing him to cigars. “For my 18th birthday—right around graduation—my dad took me and my best friend out for our first legal cigar ride. It’s a memory I’ll never forget.”
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
A CONVERSATION WITH Litto Gomez
The maker of La Flor Dominicana cigars reflects on 30 years of business
10 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Cohiba vs. Cohiba
A new decision in the decades-long battle between Cubatabaco and General Cigar over the cigar world’s most precious brand
6 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
My Favorite Cigar
Cigar aficionados describe their smoke of choice
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Sony Bravia 8 II OLED Television
For the last two years, Sony’s A95L was the reigning monarch of OLED televisions and pretty much the accepted gold-standard in picture quality.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Ceramic Watches
Durable, lightweight, soft-to-the-touch, highly scratch-resistant and ever popular, high-tech ceramic is alluring to watchmakers, yet a challenge to work with.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Ferrari Roma Spider
A cursory peek at Ferrari’s newest convertible may belie its country of origin. Without a yellow logo with the rearing horse on its flanks, the Roma Spider’s long, sloped hood and short, tapered tail might evoke a body language that is very British. That rising pair of muscled rear fenders and a driving position behind the car’s centerline may appear like the sultry GTs that Aston Martin, Bentley and Jaguar have made since the 1960s. What is a Ferrari doing with these curves?
1 min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
Quinine Water
Next time you squash a mosquito also remember to thank it. After all, the annoying bloodsuckers played a part in the creation of one of summer’s greatest libations: the tart, bracing, yet always refreshing Gin & Tonic.
1 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Draw STRAWS
Gary Shteyngart by the seashore, Kate Broad at the club. It's a pool party in your beach bag with some of the summer's best books
1 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Godfather Presidency
Forget the comparisons to fascists and autocrats. The most accurate model for understanding Donald Trump is the Mob-adjacent, politically connected underbelly of 1970s and '80s New York real estate
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Stereophile
Kimber Kable Carbon Series
SPEAKER CABLE AND INTERCONNECT
6 min |
August 2025
Vanity Fair US
STAR WITNESS
NEARLY A DECADE AFTER KIM KARDASHIAN WAS ROBBED AT GUNPOINT, HER EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY IN A PARIS COURTROOM HELPED CONVICT HER ATTACKERS
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Stereophile
Treehaus Audiolab "The Preamplifier"
Imagine navigating the hectic rooms of an audio show at which a sea of similar-looking, similar-sounding gear blends into a predictable thrum, drawing a chorus of familiar nods.
9 min |
August 2025
Architectural Digest US
Rooting Interest
Jorge Penadés puts timber castoffs from the olive-oil trade to refined use
1 min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Out of the park
Mistaken identities, separated twins, catfishing, cross-dressing: After an $80 million renovation, Central Park's Delacorte Theater returns this summer with a star-studded Twelfth Night
7 min |
July/August 2025
Stereophile
Eversolo AMP-F10
A century ago, pioneering psychiatrist Carl Jung had a wild encounter with the power of sound.
10+ min |
August 2025
Vanity Fair US
Estate of Mind
A sprawling palazzo in the Eternal City has been both home and office to Giancarlo Giammetti for decades, during and after his romance to his lifelong business partner, Valentino Garavani. The business half of the iconic house opens his doors to VF
9 min |
July/August 2025
Stereophile
Rollin' with Leo
Horn players were always the show ponies of bebop.
3 min |
August 2025
Stereophile
Magico S5 2024
I have lost track of how many loudspeakers I have measured with DRA Labs' MLSSA system since Stereophile started accompanying its reviews with measurements in the late 1980s, but it must be close to 1000.
10+ min |
August 2025
Stereophile
Munich, Je t'aime
During the past decade and a half, the trips I've taken have tended to be for magazine stories.
10+ min |