Hip new restaurants. Gentrification everywhere. Even its own Fashion Week. The South African seaside city is newly appealing.

A summer-weekend road trip for the arts-inclined.

A summer-weekend road trip for the arts-inclined.

Hurricane Fabian might have been the best thing to hit the island’s shores in years.

Cannes is over, but the stars are sticking around—for a change.

The south-of-the-border capital is booming.

Your mother-in-law is coming, and she wants to stay at your place. She didn’t buy your lack-of-space or potentially- lethal-mold arguments. You need a weekend escape plan.

You’re sending the kids to summer camp in the Adirondacks. Remember summer camp? Color war, capture the flag, the girls across the lake . . . But wait, if you’re dropping off the kids, that means you and your wife are on your own. In the Adirondacks!

You’re having an affair. You can convince your husband it’s a business trip, but you’d better be damn sure that you and your other significant other don’t run into anyone you know.

You’re single—and looking. But you don’t want to go on some sleazy pickup trip.