Joseph Alexiou

Last week Amsterdam's historic museum of modern and contemporary art reopened in a ceremony officiated by none other than Queen Beatrix.

Today is a momentous occasion: the 27th anniversary of the debut of Golden Girls, that fantastic legend of a TV show starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty.

Starting tomorrow, the Israeli branch of Wikimedia is participating in a month-long the international photo contest.

Since those of us here at Out are still pumped from the recent trip to Israel (and excited about our November travel issue featuring the aforementioned Middle Eastern country), we feel it obligatory to bring you more of our newest obsession, Idan Matalon.

This past year a group of 20-something gay American Jews went to Hilton Beach, Tel Aviv and made a music video to Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me, Maybe."

In the Turkish capital's profusion of kebab stalls and shops selling powdery, pistachio-strewn Turkish delights, tourists may develop the impression that Turkish cuisine is dominated by hulks of meat and the sweet. This metropolis, however, is a center of haute cuisine — which is not only proof of Turkey's cultural dominance in the region, but Istanbul's firm identity as an sophisticated international city.

Just in time for Fashion Week, tomorrow night is the first ever "Lower East Side Opening Night: Art + Fashion", a mass fiesta of the opening receptions of more than 25 art galleries located in that unmistakably hip quarter of downtown New York.

Last Sunday the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted the first-ever Chop It Up!, The Ultimate Food Fight contest, the finale of one of NYC's latest restaurant weeks, called New York City Gets Fresh.

There are precious few occasions in which a group of grown men, all total strangers, will shed their street clothes, don a set of foreign pajamas, and bro out together in silence for, let’s say, seven or eight hours straight.

Montrealers sure know how to have a gay old time: In partnership with Montréal Pride, Tourisme Montréal is celebrating its third annual "Queer of the Year" contest.