Ham Yard Hotel, London

Colorful and carefree, this Soho design paradise includes a hidden bowling alley and movie theater

Something’s in the air as soon as you arrive at London’s Ham Yard Hotel. It’s perhaps the immediate juxtaposition of calm after the walk through Piccadilly Circus, a block away. Situated in a private-like courtyard (where pedestrians can also take a shortcut), the hotel is surrounded by lovely independent boutiques, large oak trees, a gigantic bronze sculpture by English artist Tony Cragg, and rare for …

Smooth Travels: Away’s Carry-On Suitcase

Reviewing luggage dreamt up by Warby Parker alums

Planning a trip is fun, but hell breaks loose the night before departure when you try to jam a week’s worth of clothing into your decade-old suitcase, kicking yourself for spending hours online looking at new bars instead of realizing one of your zippers is stuck. And when fancier luggage costs the same amount as a plane ticket to the Caribbean, something’s got to be …

Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.

Two weeks after his jaw-dropping, incendiary Grammys performance that called on viewers to open their eyes to injustice, Kendrick Lamar releases—with just one Tweet—the eight-track album untitled unmastered. (streamable on Spotify and Apple Music). As the title indicates, each track is simply numbered, accompanied by the date it was recorded (track 7, labeled 2014-2016, was a two-year process). The album’s already been quickly devoured, with …