If you've been to a drugstore, chances are you are rudely reminded that Valentine's Day is almost here. Your eyes are assaulted by the color red, which just makes the brokenhearted, the lonely, and the unsatisfied want to attack the displays of frilly he

No said it yesterday, but the culprit in the death of the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel is Marriott. The hotel chain took over the legendary New York hotel a few months ago and imnmediately announced a six month shut down for renovations. Their first a

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The Algonquin Hotel’s famed Oak Room is closing its doors — and New York’s biggest names in cabaret and jazz yesterday sang sad songs of farewell. “My New York career started at the Oak Room, and I can’t imagine the city without it,” singer/pianist Micha

Toronto in winter is a battleship grey. Or is it donkey grey or gunmetal or murk? This morning when I looked in the mirror I had skin the colour of. I’m trudging through Toronto’s mouse-coloured subway stations past people with faces like t

The Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel is no more. I once wrote a tribute to that legendary night spot in which I tried to sum up how I felt about one of the places that used to make New York New York. Here's part of it. Eighty well-dressed people sit silen