There is much to consider: day versus night; hunger versus thirst; playlist versus jukebox; conversational opportunities versus drowning one’s sorrows; polished decor versus rough around the edges, and so on.

Long after the exploration, settlement, and colonization of the New World, American English continues to be a powerful force that alters, modifies and riffs according to the tempo of its own playful measures.

In Tbilisi, Old Silk Road sulfur bathhouses, roadside inns, and ancient wine cellars mingle with Soviet-era brutalism, broken Lego apartments, grand 19th-century Rococo and Moorish Revival-style performance venues and techno clubs.

Investing time and effort in New York City, even for those who have anchored in its waters momentarily, can be defined by the handheld pairing of bloodshed and ambition that have skipped and kicked through the city’s history.

Purefinder New York’s The Psychiatric History of New York walking tour includes a segment that looks at the catastrophic failure of deinstitutionalization.

New Haven Green, once the nerve center of 17th-century Puritan life, was designed to squeeze 144,000 people inside approximately 16 acres.

Superstition was a ubiquitous distraction in the Victorian era. Efforts to communicate with the dead were well-practiced before and after the Civil War, but esoteric pastimes, in a departure from old-fashioned magical beliefs, became elevated by pseudoscientific experimentation.