Insights on Travel & Culture
alley cat: noun 1. a stray cat
2. an adventurous, insatiably curious person
3. verb [intransitive] to explore ~ They love to alley cat around Rome.
Longsheng Rice Terraces (The Dragon’s Backbone), Guangxi Province, China. In this era of women proving time and again that they are very much the equals of the males of our…Continue Reading
Want to know why people, particularly photographers, come from all over the U.S. to this rookery in St. Augustine, Florida? Action. There’s never a dull moment at the Alligator Farm, where thousands of tropical birds arrive every spring to mate,…Continue Reading
The largest retrospective ever of the works of photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) has just opened in April, 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City on the occasion of the photographer’s centennial. Penn is best known for the six decades…Continue Reading
The image is from Vik Muniz’s body of work called Postcards from Nowhere. Using many shredded postcards, he re-assembles the scraps to represent something entirely different, in this case, a panorama of Jerusalem. As Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in Hong…Continue Reading
We attended the grand opening in Miami of RED Digital Cinema’s newest retail store—an exciting party that attracted many filmmakers.
The event occurred in Wynwood — Miami’s high-energy arts district that’s chock full of galleries as well as new restaurants, eclectic bars, antique shops and one of…Continue Reading
We can remember when it cost a mere quarter to see movies. They were shown in one or maybe two theaters in each town, and theaters showed just one movie—except for the occasional “double feature.”
How times have changed! Movies now reach more people than ever, not only in multiplex…Continue Reading
You might not want to rock your baby over a pool of hungry alligators, but more than a few beautiful wading birds—roseate spoonbills, wood storks and several species of egrets and herons—think…Continue Reading