Don’t have time to get to the Armory Show? Browse through the best of it with this slideshow tour. (World’s Best Ever) For those of you who are more familiar with “The Legend of Zelda” than New York geography, this 8-bit map of the five boroughs should be fairly straightforward. (Gothamist) All those frequent-flier miles you’ve racked ... Read More »
If you’ve ever thumbed through an edition of our “Music + Travel: Worldwide” guidebook to musical scenes from around the globe, you’d know that we have a soft spot in our hearts for the bouncing Afro-Pop beats that flowed out of the Africa starting in the 1970s. Specifically, we’ve dedicated an entire chapter to “Ethiopop”, the heady mix of ... Read More »
We’re just a few days away from the official release of our next volume of globetrotting goodness—our “Art + Travel Europe: Step Into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”. We’re so excited about the launch of this title, which walks you through the lives of artists like Goya, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Caravaggio, and Munch through walking tours of the ... Read More »
Japan Airlines’ stewardess uniforms are a big hit with the public, but for all the wrong reasons. (BoingBoing) A member of the Queen’s Guard, famous to tourists for being as stoic and steady as statues, proves his mettle by vomiting mid-march and not missing a single step. (HuffPo) Architect Frank Gehry got fed up working on designs ... Read More »
For his new, effects-heavy “Alice in Wonderland”, Tim Burton spent a relatively short time filming real-world locations, sticking to the beautiful Antony House in Torpoint, Cornwall and the nearby Charlestown Harbour for the movie’s early scenes. Once Alice falls down the rabbit hole again it is, as you can imagine, mostly CGI-created environments and Hollywood stage sets from there ... Read More »
Long the king of Manhattan-based comedy movies, Woody Allen returned to his native island for last year’s “Whatever Works” after a five-film, five-year stand shooting films in England and Spain. Alas few of the New Yorkers who usually turn out for the Brooklyn-born director’s real-estate-porn and upper-class-ennui smirkfests bought tickets to the critically panned “Whatever Works”, leaving it with ... Read More »
You can keep your art critics, museum audio tours, and thick history textbooks detailing the techniques and influences of the world’s great artists. As you can tell by a look at our upcoming title, “Art + Travel Europe: Step into the Lives of Five Famous Painters”, we think getting out there and seeing the works and homes of great ... Read More »
Three cheers for manual labor in film! (Guardian UK) Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director of the 2006 festival hit “Offside”, has been imprisoned by his government for supporting that country’s progressive Green Movement. (BBC) Despite being the “It Country” of the 20th Century, the U.S.A. has never had a national tourism board, something a recently passed bill ... Read More »
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