Event: The Festival on Ponce

 At this festival, there is something for everyone: Artist’s Market featuring arts and handmade crafts, a Children’s Park, local food and beverage concessions and live acoustic entertainment. Visitors are encouraged to stroll the festival and enjoy the historic gardens.

Jelsomino: Miami’s High-Class Karaoke

[Chadner Navarro / Modern Luxury Magazine]

No one would ever call karaoke a classy affair. In fact, there’s very little glamour involved in an activity rarely performed sober. But if Tatiana Brunetti has her way, kitschy karaoke will soon be a thing of the past. She’s already made it happen in Moscow and Manhattan. And this summer it’s Miami’s turn when Jelsomino opens its doors (and turns up the volume) in South Beach.

The Best Boston Guide: Get Out There!

Michele Orecklin / Time Magazine

There are a few prerequisites when considering a trip to Boston. First, don’t go in February. This may seem obvious, but it bears repeating, not only because the winters are indeed so miserable, but because the other seasons are so immensely enjoyable. Spring and Fall are gloriously verdant and the summers are breezy and temperate.

Second, plan to visit at least some of the same sites you would if you were chaperoning an 8th-grade civics class. You are, after all, in Boston, the City on the Hill, the Cradle of Liberty, and so on and so forth, thus there’s no point or pride in avoiding historic landmarks.

10 Things to Do in Miami

[Carolina Miranda / Time Magazine]

Miami is a place of many guises. There is the hyperreal Miami of Miami Vice, of alligator attacks and Elián González. There are splashy art galleries and celebrity hotels. There are also lots and lots of strip malls. But this collective weirdness happens to sit on one terrific piece of real estate. Miami has turquoise waters and white-sand beaches. It also has gleaming Modernist architecture and impossibly beautiful people. Joan Didion once described the city as having a “kind of perilous attraction.” And it does. You can lose yourself here, among supermodels, nostalgic Cubans and the countless figures who live on the fringes — and remind us that until a few decades ago, this was all still frontier.

What’s New in New York For the Frequent Traveler?

Brandon Presser / LonelyPlanet

Come here often? The pace of change in New York City is so whiplash-inducing that even frequent visitors will be excused from not knowing the latest and greatest things to hit the Big Apple. Anything that happened more than 15 minutes ago is old news to New Yorkers (so locals should look away – or better yet, chime in), but for those that only visit New York City occasionally, here are some of the new sights, tastes and experiences to look out for if you’re visiting in 2012.