Uncovering Lima, Peru’s Latest Treasure
“More dry than the Sahara,” that’s what our Lima Tours guide kept repeating to us as we followed her intrepid lead as she happily urged us higher and higher up the Huaca Pucllana. A pre-Incan pyramid of adobe bricks, Huaca Pucllana is located…
Lima, Peru
As the second largest desert city on the planet (after Cairo, Egypt), Lima has a subtropical climate but is mild and comfortable, thanks to its proximity to the ocean.
Restaurant Malabar: Lima, Peru
Many people believe that Malabar is the best restaurant in Lima – and we wouldn’t argue, not at all. The room itself is simple, with a bar-lounge at the restaurant’s front, and artwork on the walls – but you’re not here for the decor. You’re…
Philly’s Peek-A-Boo Revue Undresses the Moulin Rouge
While W.C. Fields might find it hard to fathom, Philadelphia has been the hotbed for a burgeoning neo-burlesque scene – thanks in large part to the long-running, shimmying shenanigans of the Peek-A-Boo Revue. Born in the Five Spot nightclub in…
Renew Your Life on Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island)
Islands generate interiority – and so perhaps it’s not surprising that once-remote isles have been discovered through literature. Published in 1947, James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific turned the Solomon Islands into a Rodgers and…
explora Rapa Nui
During the Seventies, when there were very few international travelers wandering through Chile, Pedro Ibanez roamed his native country, traveling to destinations that were both remote and beautiful. These early explorations inculcated in Ibanez an…
Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island)
Located more than two thousand miles from the American continent, Rapa Nui (created three million years ago from three volcanoes) is the easternmost point of the so-called Polynesian triangle, formed with New Zealand and Hawaii.
Lady Duff, aka Lucile, the Unknown Mother of Ballroom Culture
Before there was Alexander McQueen, there was Lucile, the first British fashion designer to achieve international renown. It was Lucile who introduced the “mannequin parade,” which is what we call a fashion show – or else ballroom…