I’m just watching the world go ‘round. I’m just watching the people roll. Tonight the stars will replace them. ‘Til then I watch the flow. Kenny repeated these lines that grew from his original motto for the day, which in turn grew from his original intention of existing only as an observer for twenty-four hours. [...]
I don’t think I’ll ever remember the first time I heard a mambo, because they were part of everything I heard from a very young age. It was always in the air, the neighborhood blasted it, and my mother always had it playing on the radio. I remember she had a small photo of Perez [...]
Edward had been born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He loved his home town and honestly hated to leave it even though the reason was that he was going to school in Southern California. He had always considered it to be one of his dreams to live and go to school in San Diego, [...]
The best part of that year wasn’t spent in any fancy restaurants, and no one had to spend hundreds of dollars on a new dress. It was one of those absurdly simple evenings right after a rain, and the rain was the single most important factor in all of this. If it weren’t raining, there [...]
For those visiting or living in the city of Boston this springtime, a wonderful world of dance will be available. The Boston Ballet will be performing “Coppélia“ each weekend during the first two weeks of April. Their schedule continues with two different works in May. The first half of the month the company will perform [...]
Fritz was a huge Monty Python fan and he knew every film and almost every episode of the Flying Circus by heart. He was also extremely funny and always made his friends and family laugh and almost had an in instinctive knack for balancing borrowed material with his original humor. Last summer his father was [...]
Throw a stone and you’re likely to hit an art gallery or a performance art space in Austin, Texas. Long known for its music scene, over time, the city has contained about fifty theatrical companies and over thirty art galleries. While I’ve been to this city several times, staying at one of the hotels Austin [...]
It’s impossible to spend even a moment in Singapore without picking up at least a small taste of its magic. It has a magnificently contemporary cultural scene, and is one of the most cosmopolitan places in the world. There is a kind of fascination with pop culture here that is coupled with a splendid sense [...]
If you want to go to a spa and spend time in a region that has a history dating literally back to the Stone Age, then you might try one of the Montecatini Terme hotels. Today, Montecatini Terme is known for its tourism and its spa, although this Medieval town can record its history from [...]
We received our confirmation call at 7am telling us to be at our friends Hong Kong hotel lobby by 9am. We had a huge international buffet breakfast and then caught the MTR train to the Hong Kong hotel. Whilst waiting, we looked at the genuine named brand shops, like Chanel and Gucci. This hotel was [...]