Some locals claim that Montreal has only two seasons: winter and festivals. When winter ends, it’s festival season. Months and months of festivals. Festivals all over the city: music festivals and gay festivals, movie festivals and comedy festivals and jazz … Read More
Chances are, you know Vancouver – even if you’ve never been there. Dubbed “Hollywood North,” Vancouver has been a primary film location for nearly a century and is, currently, the third-largest film production town in North America after Los Angeles … Read More
The only state not located in North America, Hawaii is a bit like the one family member who escaped a small hometown and became famous. What other state’s name is uttered like a sigh of pleasure? Go ahead, try saying … Read More
One of the many revelations within Barbara’s Demick’s “Nothing to Envy” (2009), Demick’s award-winning riveting account of quotidian life in North Korea, concerned the 160-mile border between North and South Korea, a narrow demilitarized zone untouched by global changes of … Read More
As anyone who’s visited Tokyo knows, the city is a nocturnal wonderland of neon and color, a kaleidoscopic realization of “The Future: Now Playing.” With a citizenry as colorful and animated as the signage, Tokyo at night is a photographer’s … Read More
Beauty has been, for years, synonymous with Sweden. After all, this is the country that conquered the world with their Nordic models, clothed the globe in H&M fashions, furnished our homes in Ikea – and drowned the world in Absolut. … Read More
Nice and la Côte d’Azur: Ever since F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald landed in the south of France during the Roaring Twenties, the Côte d’Azur has been imbued with romantic visions of a glamorous life along the shores of the Mediterranean. … Read More
Imagine scores of butterflies fluttering around your hands and face. Resplendent butterflies in indigo and orange, and others in red and black, they land on your fingers and forearms, feasting on the salt from your skin as you walk. In … Read More
