“I’m from Long Beach — beach city, beach city, that’s my claim to fame,” rapped Snoop Dogg in 2015. And now, Long Beach is about to get its first-ever large-scale waterfront music venue — and it’s kicking things off in true LBC style with its favorite hometown hero. The Long Beach Amphitheater, an 11,000-capacity outdoor … Read more
The City of Angels is getting a major waterfront glow-up just in time for summer — and music lovers (and FIFA World Cup fans) are about to reap the rewards. The crown jewel of the long-awaited $500 million West Harbor mega-project, located in the Los Angeles South Bay neighborhood of San Pedro, is its new … Read more
The Catalan city famed for its modernist architecture boasts a new monument to design: SLS Barcelona. Virtually every part of the waterfront hotel is Instagram-worthy. Guests enter the lobby via a pink neon tunnel that looks like an immersive art installation. The lobby itself is decorated in SLS’s signature “playful” style, with inventive decor like … Read more
While Miami and Palm Beach gobble up the best hotel brands, benefiting from a seemingly never-ceasing bevy of five-star openings, Fort Lauderdale often felt like an afterthought. Yes, there’s already a Ritz-Carlton and a W Hotel, and in 2022 an oceanfront Four Season debuted. But for the so-called “yachting capital of the world” these were … Read more
Holt McCallany is the king of playing difficult fathers. Fresh off starring as the Von Erich family patriarch opposite Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White in the 2023 wrestling drama “The Iron Claw,” McCallany, 61, now plays a boozy philandering dad in “The Waterfront.” “It’s funny because [‘The Iron Claw’] was one of my performances that … Read more
He’s back to his roots. Kevin Williamson, who first rose to fame creating “Dawson’s Creek,” is heading back to a waterside small town community with his new Netflix drama, “The Waterfront.” “It was sort of loosely inspired by my own family and my dad – and growing up in the ‘80s as the son of … Read more
The luxe Miami waterfront mansion of future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady is nearing completion. The recently retired and newly divorced athlete is in the final stages of completing his posh bachelor pad in the exclusive Indian Creek Island, famously known as “Billionaire Bunker.” The sprawling estate, located in the exclusive and gated Indian … Read more
Who says it’s nobody’s business but the Turks? Despite a catastrophic earthquake and the hotly contested reelection of President Tayyip Erdoğan, Istanbul is booming this year with some of the best new luxury hotel and tourist offerings in the world. Straddling Europe and Asia along the 20-mile-long Bosphorus Strait that connects the Black Sea to the … Read more