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The Weekend Getaway is surely one of the great inventions of our time. A chance to bolt from the office a little early on Friday, grab your significant other, throw the bags in the car or grab a quick flight and (depending on where you live) in a few hours you can have yourself a little 3 day 2 night stay in a completely new city and possibly a different country.  BUT, sometimes it feels like packing for these smaller trips can actually be more of a challenge due to the fact that, if you are flying, you feel like...

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I think the answer is yes, at least for many people. To be honest,  I resisted the idea of diving too deep into Instagram for a long time.  I saw people getting sucked into their technology and missing the world around them.  It does seem like the documenting of an experience has become so important to us that we are willing to sacrifice having the actual experience as long as we are able to get the documentation of what the experience "could have been".  On its face this feels somehow icky. My (soon to be wife) Courtney and I try to spend...

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Now that we are moving out of them, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on just what the dog days of summer even are! It's a term that seems to start getting thrown around every summer somewhere in the middle of July when the weight of the sweltering air can be felt sagging onto your skin, when people are in a constant state of perspiration and in a seemingly non-stop pursuit of beverages cold enough to form sweat beads, all amid the round-the-clock soundtrack of whirring fans and AC units. It's probably not you or even your friends...

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How to Stay Cool in the Southern Californian Heat

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  Looking sharp in a suit is one of the great pleasures of male fashion. Unfortunately there are not many events where a man gets to dress to impress, that is unless you attend horse racing events. No other sport requires men to look their best quite as much as going to the races. In this article we will look at a few pointers on how men should dress for the races to stand out. The races are a chance for men to show their individualism and experiment with fashion choices. Australian menswear company Executive Style spoke to designers about what men...

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