The Russian and Turkish Baths, 5445 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach, has been closed since last summer after an engineer noted concrete issues in the garage under the spa. The owner is fighting to reopen ...
Rosanna Cooney explored our obsession with saunas in her book, Sweathouse. As part of her research, she discovered its origins go back to the 19th century, and a Cork GP who introduced Turkish baths ...
Richard Barter never really got his due. The Cork-born GP’s invention played a role in the diverse realms of the RMS Titanic, James Joyce’s Ulysses, and the Irish Civil War — yet his name is largely ...