The hookah and its use as a calming, recreational tool goes back at least to the 17th century, but Reza Bavar’s love of the pipe goes back to 2001. It’s a love that drove Bavar to found Kaloud, a ...

There’s a block in New York City’s Nomad neighborhood that, for me, serves as a portal to other places and times. Sometimes I’m transported to a Boston apartment I inhabited in my 20s; on other ...

Every Thursday afternoon, for at least a few months in 2008, Stevie Luther ’11 lit up to smoke hookah with his friends on ...