Jeff Heilman

1 week ago | passportmagazine.com | Jeff Heilman

4 Vivid as Kodachrome slides, my earliest food memories, from late 1960’s Los Angeles, include backyard barbecues, Bob’s Big Boy burgers, and regular outings to the 1934 landmark Original Farmers Market (6333 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles. Tel. 323-933-9211. farmersmarketla.com) with my late mother Leila and her sister Libby.

2 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Jeff Heilman

After four name changes and five expansions, the Chelsea Hotel, which opened in Toronto in October 1975 as a mixed residential and university housing building with 808 rooms, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year as the largest hotel in Canada, with 1,590 keys. With a prime downtown location, the independently owned upper mid-scale affiliate of the prestigious global Langham Hospitality Group is all-welcoming, from flight crews and meeting attendees to families and couples.

2 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Jeff Heilman

My first-ever Texas adventure, in March 2005, began with a wrong turn. Driving from New York to Los Angeles with a friend, we departed Oklahoma City for Amarillo, Texas. Misreading the paper map, we headed 45 minutes south on I-44 instead of west on I-40 before realizing the mistake. Chasing remote Oklahoma roads under ominous skies, we reached the Texas Panhandle at midnight. The all-consuming darkness was amplified by a storm that dropped 13 inches of snow on the region by morning.

2 weeks ago | meetingstoday.com | Jeff Heilman

From Maryland, where Melonie Johnson is president and COO of MGM National Harbor, to Atlantic City, where Borgata’s Deborah Pellegrino is the first female executive chef at a resort-casino, to Massachusetts, where Encore Boston Harbor President Jenny Holaday is the first woman to run a Bay State casino, women are in charge throughout the East Coast gaming industry.

3 weeks ago | passportmagazine.com | Jeff Heilman

33 Andalusia’s eight provinces pulse with the vibes and vestiges of past civilizations while embodying the best of modern day Spain. Spain has forever summoned conquerors, explorers, artists, adventurers, lovers, and other seekers to its shores. In Iberia, his bestselling 1968 non-fiction account of his travels to Spain, late literary great James A. Michener captures the essence of the country’s eternal siren call appeal.