The two-hour drive to Moab, Utah from the Grand Junction Airport is peppered with tumbleweeds, UFO-themed roadside attractions, and a parched desert framed by photogenic red rocks. This is my first time in a state bordered by more than one right angle, and the cartoonish landscape conjures familiar images of Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, Thelma, and Louise. Driving through the town of Moab itself, I’m reminded of Californian areas like Tahoe—environmentally-conscious slogan T-shirts paired with Libertarian contrarianism. Oakleys are unironic. There are Kokopelli stickers on Jeep Wagoneers. I’m officially in the part of the Wild West with Mormon…

When photographer Lenne Chai envisions a royal court, it isn’t white kings or queens that sit on the throne. It’s Arden Cho. Chai befriended the Korean American actress—and her similarly majestic dog Chewy—a few months ago and immediately began conceptualizing a shoot with Cho cast as a Korean monarch. The result is a beautiful subversion of traditional royal portraits (unlike the recent painting of King Charles). There is no ballgown but a hanbok—a traditional Korean dress—that floats like a cloud. Cho’s hair is plaited into a modernized Eon’jeun Meori style where a braided bun rests on the top of the…

When I was invited to TripAdvisor’s top-rated luxury hotel in the U.S., I immediately began wondering which major airport to mentally prepare myself for. JFK? LAX? MIA? I soon found out it was none of these, and was actually clean, pleasant, and easily navigable SAT—the International Airport in San Antonio, Texas. I wasn’t sure what to expect for my first time in San Antonio. I’d never even been to Texas before, outside of the sprawling DFW airport, and have definitely forgotten everything I learned in school about the Alamo. However, Hotel Emma in San Antonio is, and I’m not sure…