For decades, the default setting for corporate retreats in the United States was a predictable mix of hotel ballrooms, boxed lunches, and evening cocktails in the lobby bar. That formula worked well enough in an era when business travel was built around convenience and cost. Today, though, many executives are asking a different set of questions. Where can a team truly connect? How do you create an environment that feels less like another meeting and more like a reset? Increasingly, the answer is not found in a hotel. It’s coming from luxury private estates. Drip Castle Estate Collection, which manages…
Author: Sandra Powell
Walk through any London high street and you’ll see it: the cafés spilling out pastries, the endless grab-and-go lunches, the pubs offering meal deals that tempt even the strongest resolve. Add in long commutes, late nights, and the rising cost of healthy food, and it’s no wonder that waistlines across the capital have been quietly expanding. Health authorities have been warning for years that obesity rates in London and across the UK are climbing. For many people, it isn’t about vanity or chasing a smaller size — it’s about rising risks of diabetes, heart disease, and other conditions that chip…
Christine Lowe doesn’t just make paintings, she builds windows into feeling. From her studio in Cape Breton, this Canadian artist turns memory, resilience, and the randomness of life into bold, tactile canvases that invite you closer. Her pieces are alive with colour — acrylic fields edged in raised lines you can almost feel beneath your fingers. It’s a style that recalls the certainty of stained glass while still leaving space for imagination to roam. As an art critic, it’s rare to encounter work that feels so physically present while still whispering in the language of emotion. Lowe’s paintings have that…
From Cannes film festival to fintech launches, co-founders Tracy Lamourie and Dave Parkinson are building relationships with UK and European clients to connect them with global audiences. For more than a decade, Tracy Lamourie and Dave Parkinson have been at the helm of high-impact public relations campaigns spanning industries and continents. As co-founders of Lamourie Media, the married couple have been profiled in Authority Magazine’s “Power Couples” series, featured in Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Times, NBC, CBC, and numerous other outlets, and have earned a reputation for delivering results in film, entertainment, startups, and social impact. Now, following their relocation…