01/18/2010 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
Awards season is upon us: both the broadcast critics and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. held their annual events in the past few days
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12/23/2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
Deborah Caulfield Rybak explores one of the West's treasures.
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12/02/2009 by Jane Di Leo
I never envisioned myself traveling to Arkansas and coming away thinking, "Wow, this place is beautiful." You can imagine my surprise, then, when I arrived in Little Rock and saw the surrounding mountains, craggy peaks and a river flowing through it all.
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10/06/2009 by Liz Doyle
I’ve been to restaurant openings before, but I have never been to a Disney restaurant opening. That is until I was invited to the “Opa”ning of Cat Cora’s new restaurant Kouzzina, and I'm pretty sure that I am ruined for all other lackluster openings. OK, perhaps I am being a bit dramatic. But there is something about the Disney magic that ignites everything it touches, a 27-year-old magazine editor not to be excluded.
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09/23/2009 by Sarah Elbert
Weeks ago, I wrote about my training for a half-marathon. Well, I did it, and I didn’t collapse in a puddle of sweat and banana peels. I may have slightly embarrassed myself, in fact, by sprinting across the finish line as if any of the spectators were paying the least bit of attention to me and my triumphant two-hour journey through the streets of Montreal.
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09/18/2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
The problem: I’m off to Morocco for three weeks, a country where the predominant languages are French and Arabic. I needed somehow to relocate my high school French, which had faded significantly after several decades and about a million trips to Mexico. What to do? I bought a cheapie CD kit at a bookstore, but the course what it offered had nothing to do with travel—it was great if you wanted to recite a recipe for tomato soup. I’m not kidding.
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09/15/2009 by Jane Di Leo
Our deputy editor, Sarah Elbert, just got back from running her first half marathon (she killed it, by the way), which was in Montreal this past weekend. Her adventure reminded me of what I love to do most when landing in a new city: run.
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09/08/2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
Season Five of Tyra Banks’ talk show kicked off this week on the CW, and her online magazine, Tyra, also debuted this week, though she was already hard at it when I visited with her in New York in July. If past shows have been any indication, we can expect to see her interview more big-name “gets” this year, although, surprisingly, she confessed to not being particularly fierce when it comes to stalking celebrity interviews.
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08/25/2009 by Deborah Caulfield Rybak
AMC’s critical smash Mad Men glided smoothly into its third season over a week ago with its suave noir look at the early ‘60s through the smokey lens of a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Last year, the show took the Emmy for best drama, becoming the first basic cable show ever to do so. This year it’s nominated for another 16 Emmys, including best drama and best actress for Elisabeth Moss, who plays the ambitious Peggy Olson, who has bravely scaled the employment wall separating the men from the secretaries.
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08/13/2009 by Liz Doyle
I'll admit it: Professional athletes have always fascinated me. Whether tennis stars, swimmers or marathon runners, they are all finely tuned machines designed for optimum performance. So what goes into getting these athletes to the highest level? Is it all in the training, or is it just part of their DNA?
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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.