All eyes are on Central Asia as the World Triathlon Championship Series gets underway for 2026 with 12 British athletes on the start line in Uzbekistan.

Samarkand is the same age as Ancient Rome, and has been destroyed several times. The city has witnessed the invading forces of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. But, like the Phoenix rising from ...

It would seem that the area around Rego Park and Forest Hills that we like to call Rego Parkistan could scarcely support another kosher kebab joint given how ubiquitous these restaurants specializing ...

From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war, Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world ...

Even Uzbekistan has faster trains than we do, but don’t expect too much from the coffee.

Actually, Samarkand Retirement Community on Treasure Drive has undergone two metamorphoses. It was first an innovative and ultimately controversial boarding school called Boyland. It was then ...

You won’t see it from the street. Samarkand Uzbek Café has an El Cajon Boulevard address (4201 B, El Cajon Boulevard, City Heights), but when we pulled up for dinner, the building was dark. We took a ...