La Cave Cafe, Paris
La Cave cafe is as quintessentially French and as casually chic as the neighborhood around it. It perches on a hill on a corner of a seven street intersection in Montmartre. Several restaurants dot...
View ArticleEating and Reading on College Ave., Berkeley
As a college town, Berkeley overflows with cute shops and cafes offering coffee strong enough to keep you up for a month of finals. It appears calm and quaint in comparison to its past of protests and...
View ArticlePublic Transport: Another Way of Seeing a City
There are several ways of seeing London as a tourist. Many people choose to walk around and experience the sites from ground level. You feel the atmosphere and see the details: each scar, crack and...
View ArticleRasputin Music
Covering half a block on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue, Rasputin Music is dedicated entirely to music and films and all the accessories and collectibles that go with them. The huge warehouse is...
View ArticleTruck Stop on the Grand Trunk Road
One of the best cultural experiences in Pakistan, especially in the province of Punjab, is the food. Lahore, the capital of Punjab, boasts some of the best food in the country with influences from...
View ArticleCadillac Ranch: a tribute to American culture
Driving West on Interstate 40, several miles outside Amarillo, Texas, the unending stretches of field and sky are interrupted by brightly colored, half buried Cadillacs. This extraordinary site sits...
View ArticleBlue Bottle Coffee - for coffee lovers looking for something new
The Blue Bottle Cafe is situated away from the hustle and bustle of Market and Mission streets in the quiet Mint Plaza. A small discrete sign hangs at the corner of a stone building with a blue bottle...
View ArticleFree Day at SFMOMA
On the first Tuesday of every month the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) opens its doors to all of those unable or unwilling to pay the $18 general admission fee to the museum. The SFMOMA...
View ArticleNew York Burlesque
The Slipper Room is candidly bawdy and charming. The cracks and scruffs of years show through the gold and sequined veneer of luxury. It is a place that every New Yorker and visitor should experience...
View ArticleEducated Dress: the Museum at FIT
The museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology is a stronghold of fashion studies. It continually presents exhibitions that highlight elements and moments of fashion history that generally go...
View ArticleAmateur Night at the Apollo
The Apollo Theater in Harlem has launched some of the greatest American performers of all time. It is a cultural hub and was central during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. Its rich...
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