Adam Skolnick

We’re sure that it’s happened to you: You’ve managed to angle in on a stunning woman at a dark bar. You break away to order two drinks and return to find some other dude heading your way—her way—also with two drinks. You, sir, have a sword fight on your hands. What you do in the next [...]

Oakland Raiders rookie Darren McFadden had a simple goal: to be the fastest and strongest running back in the NFL. So he put on 15 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks. Here’s how…

Hip-hop culture may be coming to a yoga studio near you. Take Bala Yoga in Los Angeles. On the first Friday of every month a DJ is invited into the expansive loft space on La Brea to spin during a two-hour yoga class, the proceeds of which are donated to a local non-profit. Intriguing concept, and it works.

When I attended, I was a bundle of tension and nerves. Work and love drama had me beneath the wheel. At first I was distracted and found it hard to focus, then the music cracked me open.

Evocative sounds filtered through the open-air yoga pavilion as I completed a sun salutation at Bali’s Como Shambhala Estate at Begawan Giri: the sunset song of tropical birds, the rolling thunder of the Ayung River, the faintest chant originating from a Hindu temple…