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
Acting TOUGH
Liev Schreiber brings a nuanced approach to portraying such hard characters as Ray Donovan, while off-screen his passions include helping the victims of the war in Ukraine
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Cigar Aficionado
BEST IN SHOW
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
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
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
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
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
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
DRINKING AToast
American whiskey makers have discovered barrel toasting, a new, subtler approach to a beverage born of fire
6 min |
July/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 |
August 2025
Stereophile
A whirlwind European hi-fi tour
It was supposed to be so simple, a well-trod path I've followed almost every May for the last decade: A six-day trip to Munich to attend the final Munich High End Show before it decamps to Vienna next year.
10+ 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
Rollin' with Leo
Horn players were always the show ponies of bebop.
3 min |
August 2025
Vanity Fair US
BRAVE HEART
PEDRO PASCAL'S emotional depth onscreen and his exuberance everywhere else have skyrocketed him to the top of the A-list and made him a sex symbol in middle age. A funny, sad, wildly honest talk with a star unlike any other
10+ min |
July/August 2025
Vanity Fair US
The Whole Truth
MARISKA HARGITAY was just three years old when her mother, Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a car accident. In a new documentary, the Law & Order star examines her mother's sex symbol status and reveals a long-held family secret
7 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
Architectural Digest US
Water Mark
A new line of handblown glass fixtures by Ward + Gray takes inspiration from the colors and craft of Venice
1 min |
July/August 2025
Architectural Digest US
THE ROYAL TREATMENT
ACTOR OLIVIA COOKE TAPS ATELIER LK TO HELP TRANSFORM A RUN-OF-THE-MILL EAST LONDON VICTORIAN INTO A HOME FIT FOR A QUEEN
4 min |
July/August 2025
Architectural Digest US
Maui Wowie
Leverone Design and Walker Warner Architects collaborate on a Hawaiian guesthouse with a joyous spirit all its own
4 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 |