Merry’s makes your world a little bit smaller

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Thumbing the price tags at Merry’s (“Fashion With Passion”) is a lot like playing with a globe—eyes closed, index on the surface as it spins, as your seven-year-old self used to do—only here, your finger never stops on Paris, Pittsburgh or Perth. Instead, you land [...]

Is the Queen Mary doomed? The Titanic’s reincarnated engineer thinks so

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
It doesn’t take long for Bill Barnes to heat up. Standing in front of about 30 people aboard the Queen Mary, he rails about the Titanic, talking up the ship’s alternate history with dead-set conviction. In between points he jokes and has [...]