07/02/2012 by Sarah Elbert
You go to New Orleans in the summer, and it’s going to be hot and humid—and if you’re wandering around the French Quarter, chances are good that the odor of stale beer will occasionally waft your way. But we lucked out.
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05/25/2012 by Sarah Elbert
Gateway, Colorado, isn’t in the most accessible location. After flying into Grand Junction (via a connecting flight from Salt Lake City), you drive about an hour west to Gateway, which is just shy of the Utah border. But while it’s somewhat isolated (for the U.S.), this is an invigorating isolation.
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05/03/2012 by Liz Doyle
Two weeks ago, I went trapezing. Yep, you heard me right. I said trapezing, like flying through the air, with the greatest of ease kind of trapezing. Except that my level of ease was at more of a mediocre level, but I certainly flew.
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04/04/2012 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
I’ve had a longtime love affair with humpback whales since I first came eye-to-eye with one in 1988 during a whale-watching excursion on a tiny Zodiac raft. I wanted my husband to share that magnificent experience, which is what led us to meet marine researchers Mark and Debbie Ferrari at Whale Tales, an extraordinary annual event.
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03/19/2012 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
After a 17-month hiatus, AMC’s hit series Mad Men is returning for its fifth season this Sunday with a two-hour premiere. The mania started for me in January, when I jumped through the usual hoops to interview the show’s brilliant costume designer Katherine “Janie” Bryant for this month’s Sky.
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03/01/2012 by Sarah Elbert
I just didn’t know. Until you have planned a trip to Disney World (or, presumably, Disneyland), you can’t fully appreciate the cult of the mouse.
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02/01/2012 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
This month’s issue of Sky is dedicated to Los Angeles, my hometown. In the magazine you’ll find tons of information on fabulous places to stay, eat and shop. But, another big reason why the city is such a fantastic place to live: the green spaces. Sure, there are the beautiful beaches—lots of them, but what many people forget is the amazing array of wilderness that’s available within city boundaries.
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01/03/2012 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
How do you break the ice during a phone interview with the one-time leader of the free world? That was the question I chewed on as I prepared for my interview with former President Bill Clinton, who is featured this month in Sky’s “Ambassadors of Good” article.
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12/01/2011 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
You’ll be hearing a lot this month about We Bought a Zoo, a film based on the true story of a family restoring a dilapidated zoo. The film stars Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, but one of the main reasons it has cinephiles salivating is it marks the return of writer/director Cameron Crowe to the big screen after a six-year absence.
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10/21/2011 by Sarah Elbert
In the fourth installment of his Great Drives series, guest blogger Nick Kurczewski stops at Hearst Castle with the Porsche Travel Club.
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About Sarah Elbert
As executive editor of Delta Sky, Sarah Elbert lassos the best writers she can find to cover the world—as well as contributing some prose of her own. Before coming to Sky, Sarah was editorial director of magazines including Northwest WorldTraveler and Carlson Wagonlit Travel's Postcards. She has been a newspaper editor, a freelance writer and an Associated Press reporter, riding with the White House travel pool (back in the Clinton days) and covering everything from natural disasters to a cat kidney transplant. Sarah has written for The New York Times, the New York Post, the New York Sun—but not the NY Daily News. She now lives in Minneapolis, which she finds lovely and underrated, but does occasionally miss Manhattan and the Staten Island Ferry. Sarah would like to think she could again go backpacking across Europe, and she still loves to travel, but she knows that train has left the station. It's just so much quicker to fly.
About Deborah Caulfield Rybak
Senior editor Deborah Caulfield Rybak interviewed the Who’s Who of Hollywood during her years as an entertainment industry reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She still prefers writing about the arts to almost any other journalistic activity, so it’s a good thing we’ve got her on that beat at Sky. She’s pocketed numerous journalism awards and co-written three books.
But that’s just her journalistic cred: she’s also worked as an FM deejay in Aspen, a speechwriter in Washington and an environmental film festival director in Colorado. She considers herself happiest when she’s out of town—and out of cellphone range. She’s hitchhiked across Kenya, spent the night atop a pyramid in Central America, hovered face-to-mandible with giant manta rays during a night dive in Hawaii and hiked the High Atlas mountains in Morocco. Still left on her to do list: Bhutan and marlin fishing.
About Liz Doyle
After a few years navigating the trenches of New York's fashion scene as a stylist assistant at Harpers Bazaar, fashion editor Liz Doyle is excited to be back in her childhood hometown of Minneapolis. When she isn't scouting the latest trends in fashion and travel, she moonlights at a local Parisian brasserie where she says "welcome" and "enjoy" a lot and occasionally tries to improve her French. Though her foray to the editorial side of the magazine industry is a new one, she welcomes the challenge and can't wait to see what this new adventure holds.
About Amanda Welshons
Associate online editor Amanda Welshons maintains the web and social media presence of Delta Sky. She enjoys using new media and exploring how different platforms enhance the reader experience. Based in Minneapolis, Amanda has several destinations on her bucket list including London, Paris and Sydney. She just spent a blissful week in St. Lucia for her honeymoon, and can't wait for upcoming trips to Chicago, Seattle, Vancouver and New York. When she’s not in the office, she's a pop culture junkie, soaking up as many movies, television shows and magazines as possible.