The Makeover: From Long Brown Hair to Short Blonde Bob with JF3 Salon

May 18, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

After the four-hour process was finished-—foils, steam, rinse, glaze, rinse again, blow-dry, and style—I couldn’t be more pleased.

Inside the Newport Marriott

May 16, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

A hotel tour of the renovated Marriott in Newport, Rhode Island

Kick-off Your New England Summer at the Newport Oyster Festival

May 9, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

It’s going to be a shucking amazing weekend in Newport The Newport Oyster & Chowder Festival at Bowen’s Wharf will be held Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21: Taste your way around the Ocean State! Sip a refreshing cocktail and enjoy oysters and chowder from local growers and vendors on the waterfront all weekend long. […]

11 Rhode Island Hotels Voted ‘Reader’s Choice’ in Luxury Travel

May 3, 2023.Reading time 11 minutes.

Rhode Island hotels and resorts made several lists in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards (Updated 2023)

Travel Photo Diary: Inside The Breakers Mansion, Decorated for the Holidays

December 28, 2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

A very merry holiday tour of The Breakers, Newport’s most celebrated Gilded Age cottage

Newport, Rhode Island in 64 Photos

August 2, 2017.Reading time 15 minutes.

A selection of my favorite pictures of living in and visiting Newport, Rhode Island #lovewhereyoulive

The Best Places to Eat for Newport Restaurant Week

March 17, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

Start off spring in Newport, Rhode Island with Newport Restaurant Week

Christmas at The Ocean House

December 26, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

A few snapshots of Christmas cheer in Watch Hill I’ve always heard that the Ocean House is beautiful year-round—especially in the summer—but it was such a surreal experience enjoying the hotel and beautiful beach views with the family for Christmas. My cousin and her family hosted Christmas day in the Narragansett Suite. Only Taylor Swift’s […]

Hermione-Lafayette Makes Voyage from France to U.S.

June 29, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

The French tall ship Hermione-Lafayette has been making her way up the East Coast from Yorktown, PA towards Lunenburg, Nova Scotia—she will be stopping at Fort Adams in Newport, R.I. during July 8-9. The Hermione-Lafayette—an exact replica of the Marquis de Lafayette’s vessel in 1780—is the most authentically built tall ship in the past 150 […]

Newport: Au Courant Fashion Show at Ochre Court

July 1, 2012.Reading time 7 minutes.

Au Courant: An Evening Too Marvelous for Words was a fashion show held in Ochre Court that featured local New England designers and benefited Child and Family’s community programs. When I heard of Au Courant in the beginning of the summer, I was excited to attend, but soon found out tickets were a little outside […]