City Guides – Flung

A Prodigal Daughter’s Guide to Lexington, KY

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 20:51:01 +0000

When I was growing up there in the eighties and nineties, Lexington, Kentucky couldn’t have been called a destination. When people did come there, it was for the horse country, the races at Keeneland perhaps, or maybe a basketball game at Rupp Arena. They certainly didn’t come for the food–or the drink, for that matter, despite Lexington’s surrounding countryside holding nearly all of the world’s bourbon distilleries. Before the aughts, in fact, the bourbon industry struggled with the prospect that […]

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Choice New Orleans: A Guide To Bright Nights and Blue Notes

Flung — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 14:59:55 +0000

At a time when the downtowns of cities across the United States, one after the other, are coming back to life in the image of Brooklyn, New Orleans has accomplished what would seem impossible—forging ahead with its own identity, its own aesthetic, its own cuisine, its own music. Turn one corner and run straight into a brass band, turn another and take in a streetscape of cascading flowers and wrought-iron balconies. Walk inside a restaurant for increasingly contemporary takes on […]

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Choice Singapore: A Guide to the Offhand and Unexpected

Flung — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:00:41 +0000

Singapore’s global reputation generally lies on three pillars—an all-in embrace of the free market, government-imposed orderliness, and a sweltering climate. This reputation informed my expectations as I prepared to spend a few weeks there this past fall. I certainly wasn’t anticipating the swirl of Malay and Peranakan (aka Chinese) traditions, the pockets of history around one corner and space-age newness around the next. I happily discovered an emergent creative and arts scene alongside the capitalism–elements that are reflected in this […]

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LA Guide: Flung x Almanac of Style

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:33:58 +0000

After years of wrongly dismissing Los Angeles as a temple of narcissism with a tragic lack of public transportation, I’ve recently been romanced by the place in a big way. Newer highlights like the Broad Museum, the Arts District, and even a subway system have given the city some deeper, sharper edges, remaking it as a mecca not only of the entertainment industry, but for the arts, design, fashion, and increasingly, literature. [vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Los Angeles: Readings and Recommendations After years […]

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Choice New York City

Flung — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:52:51 +0000

New York City fascinates, stimulates and infuriates, often in the span of a couple minutes. It can be beautiful and it can be appalling. It can appeal to your best instincts and it can confirm your deepest cynicism. For these and other reasons, it has a tendency to overwhelm. But unlike some other major cities, you can hit the ground running here and even without a plan bump into something worth your while. That said, we probably don’t have to […]

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