Features
A Star Returns
He doesn't look like Magnum anymore. Tom Selleck, 50 years old, emerges from the breakfast room at the elegant Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, right …
Le Grand V'efour, Paris
It is perhaps the most beautiful restaurant in Paris; it is also one of the oldest. Napoleon dined there with his Josephine, Jean-Paul Sartre with Simone de Beauvoir. Other …
Locke-Ober, Boston
You travel back in time when you walk into Locke-Ober. This venerable Boston landmark has maintained a reputation for elegant continental cuisine and old world service since its …
The Capital Grille, Washington, D.C.
When The Capital Grille opened its thick, bevel-edged glass doors last November, the Republicans were reclaiming Congress for the first time in decades. With its politically …
Samuel Clemens and His Cigars
Samuel Clemens, known to the world as Mark Twain,was the legendary author of such iconic works as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was also one of the world's most famous cigar …
In the Trenches
It's another 40-play morning in training camp "prison," and as the relentless Miami heat takes a toll on young players, Mean Joe Greene prowls the sidelines, barking out …
The Grand Old Man of Poker
If you were to encounter Johnny Moss outside his natural element, away from the milieu in which he normally operates, he might strike you as a harmless, slightly dotty old man. …
Painting the Town
He gets off the elevator on the wrong floor. Wearing paint-splattered orange cotton shorts, a spotless white shirt--collar up and top three buttons open--slouchy gray gym socks …
Fairmont Hotel, Chicago
Good hotels convey a distinctive character to their guests. Some have Old World charm. Some are homey. Some project a twenty-first century, hi-tech efficiency. Some are just …
Hotel Bela Vista, Macau
For the two centuries before the British set foot in Asia, the Portuguese colony of Macau was Europe's gateway to China. But with the establishment of Hong Kong a short distance …
The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida
The Biltmore Hotel rises from the verdant flames of Coral Gables like a mirage, a towering fortress standing firm against the hurrying subtropical sky. Just minutes from …
The Way We Were
Think back. Try to remember a birthday back in your childhood. Try to remember wanting a particular toy with a passion that burned like the sun-baked chrome of your Schwinn. You …
A Captain's Berth
One man wants to replace his "old lady." The other was simply looking for more power. For Prince Charles and his coterie of advisers, a drama affecting the entire British …
Bordeaux's Finest
My tongue feels like old cotton balls. My teeth are stained black from the wine's deep purple essence. My senses are slightly numbed by a day-long assault of alcohol and young …
Speakeasies for Cigar Smokers
The great inventor, Thomas A. Edison, smoked 20 cigars a day. The Prussian statesman, Prince Otto von Bismarck, creator of the German empire, smoked more than 100,000 cigars in …
High Speed Dreams
Everybody dreams of spending his fortune differently. Some people fantasize about building collections of art or wine or miniature soldiers. Some plan to acquire acres of land on …
Golfing in Paradise
If golf is a game that at its best celebrates sport in a natural environment, then the Jack Nicklaus-designed Cabo del Sol course at the southernmost end of Baja California is a …
The Partagas Family
Ernesto Lopez, the manager of the Partagas factory in Havana, gazed across the smoke-filled ballroom of the Meliá Cohiba hotel and grinned contentedly. The room was filled with …
Heavenly Strings
To evoke the wonders of what transpires when a bow touches the strings of a Stradivari violin, musicians speak of the sound and tone in terms of light and dark; of color, texture, …
Tailors in the Office
"When it comes to the fittings, I usually end up standing on the coffee table," he said. Perhaps I should explain. When you are a busy executive, and don't have the …
Diamonds in the Rough
It was the end of the workday at the diamond sorting house in Kimberley, South Africa. The sorters, weary from a day of peering at piles of rough diamonds, made their way out …
The Treasure Hunters
Clyde Hensley planes through the mangrove shallows, the stern of his open-air Pursuit weighed down by two sleek 200-horsepower outboards gunned full throttle. "You're going to be …
Cigars
Nights to Remember: A Hollywood Celebration
The stars came out in Hollywood on Monday, October 16, to honor Marvin R. Shanken, the editor and publisher of Cigar Aficionado magazine. The event, "Hollywood Salutes Marvin R. …
Cigar Furniture
When Your Cigar Collection Outgrows Your Tabletop Humidor's Capacity, It May Be Time for the Next Level
Young Aficionados
Cigar Smoking Is Hot with the Twentysomething Crowd, Which Agrees: It Is More Than a Fad
Cigars, Cutthroats and Cycles
The seven men formed a shadowy circle amid the dense pine trees in the Idaho high country, faces profiled by the campfire, minds lulled by the rushing waters of nearby Moose …
Cigar Kings
The Rolando Reyes family relies on time and traditional techniques to make Cuba Aliados cigars in Honduras.
Pedro Perez—Former President, Tabacalera
A talk with the man behind Tabacalera, Spain's $7 billion tobacco company.
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
Opening the Door to Cuba
The Clinton administration did a courageous thing in early October. It took advantage of a clause in the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 that calls for more people-to-people contact …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, I am writing to thank you for the wonderful time that I had at the New York Big Smoke held on May 25th at the Marriott Marquis. Being a veteran of the U.S. …