Pro athletes are always striving to stand out for their performances in a good way.  For New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, the 2018 Met Gala was just not one of those moments. The Met Gala is an annual fundraising event that benefits the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City. It marks the grand opening of the institute’s yearly fashion exhibit, and guests are expected to dress according to a specific theme. This year’s theme was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”  Rihanna looked positively pope-ish in Maison Margiela.   Zendaya channeled Joan of Arc in her Versace chainmail and armor-themed gown. Migos stayed true to…

Summer is for steamy romance. Our new series of classic fiction from the 1940s and ’50s features sexy intrigue from the archives for all of your beach reading needs. Read “Gigolo,” from 1958, in which Hank, a young girl from Texas, is visiting France with her parents when she meets Charlie, a generous local who might not be telling the whole truth.   So narrow was the ancient street on the Left Bank, so tinctured with shadow were its tilted buildings even at midday, that Hank slipped her thousand-dollar camera back into its alligator case. Five feet seven and a half inches of blond, gorgeous, appallingly healthy ranch girl, she…

Israeli construction of a wall on the Lebanese border and the growing arsenal of Iran-backed Hezbollah have contributed to the spike in tensions. Metula, Israel in February, 2018. Nir Alon/Press Association. All rights reserved.The joint cruise-missile attack on Syria by forces of the United States, France and the United Kingdom on the night of 13-14 April was a largely symbolic gesture. It warns Bashar al-Assad's regime against further use of chemical weapons, but does little else. Such at least is the conclusion of a new Oxford Research Group analysis of the operation and its context.      From the perspective of Damascus, the use of chemical weapons has a narrow and…

A typical day in the Galápagos islands is anything but typical. As Saturday Evening Post editorial director Steven Slon wrote in The Bleak and Beautiful Galápagos, “the islands actually are extraordinarily beautiful — a beauty that stems in part from being unspoiled by man.” From dancing blue-footed boobies to scuttling Sally Lightfoot crabs, at every turn, Mother Nature seems to be staging a flawless performance. But the best way to get close to the stars of the show, the Galápagos A-listers if you will, is to get below the surface. Sailing with Metropolitan Touring, I spent a large amount of my time in the islands snorkeling with animals that have…

It was not my idea of the way to do this picture. It was an upstairs-office idea, and I tried to block it. For the girl’s sake, though I couldn’t let her know it. Al’s office is one of the most dream like places in America, and it’s better if you’ve had a good solid breakfast. I had one that morning, at a table beside the unearthly blue swimming pool on the hotel grounds. I sat there looking at the fantastically tall palm trees in California morning light, and thinking about snowy afternoons along Broadway. When I drove the sun-drenched miles to the studio and went up to Al’s office, we went…

No time exists on your calendar for lingering in a long airport security line, but if you’re traveling by plane, you can’t avoid security checkpoints. While you’ll be trapped in the line for at least a bit, embrace a few tricks used by veteran travelers to mitigate the waiting.  1. Get to the airport before the sun comes up Security lines tend to be shorter earlier in the morning. If you can manage to get a very early flight, you’ll find that slipping through security lines is a much quicker process. Just as important, leave yourself plenty of time to get through the lines. If you’re in a rush trying…

On numerous fields across the state of Utah this season, more than 300 young girls will gather to participate in a sport that they’ve traditionally not been allowed to play: football. And it all started with Sam Gordon. At just 9 years old, she caught the attention of millions of people when a 2012 video of her playing on a football team with boys went viral. She scored 35 touchdowns, rushed for 1,911 yards, and racked up 65 tackles. Since then, Gordon has used her internet fame to speak at schools to share her story. At a middle school in 2015, she asked a group of girls a simple question: How many…