On Tuesday we toured the High Line,the public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues. En route, New York’s...
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White Snake Projects REV 23 by creator-librettist Cerise Jacobs and composer Julian Wachner premieres at Boston’s John Hancock Hall on Friday September 29 – Sunday, October 1, 2017. The new opera is the centerpiece and opening show of the first Boston New Music Festival hosted by Juventas New Music....
They say it’s the journey, not the destination, but in this very particular case, that old trope was eclipsed by the eclipse. According to NASA’s website, throughout virtually every civilization for a millennia, solar eclipses were interpreted as portents of doom and gloom. Through the ages, recorded responses ran the...
In Siem Reap, Cambodia and in Luang Prabang, Laos, we encountered a phenomenon Paul Hawken described in a book of the same name as "blessed unrest.” “Blessed Unrest” is the umbrella Hawken hangs over grassroots movements all over the world, comprised of not-so-ordinary individuals and groups busily working to ensure social justice,...
We had some cloudy mornings in Cambodia and relished the relief from the intense sun when we were out and about. The morning Chhay, our guide, proposed a bike ride among the rice fields dawned cloudy again. Good, so far! But by the time Chhay...
It was our temple away from the bucket-list temples in a temple town. And it comes with a mascot, a bunny named Lily. The difference between our hotel in Siem Reap and other venues in town is best summed up as the difference between Aspen and Telluride. If your scene is seeing...
Though we had spent four wonderful days in Cambodian waters during our Mekong River cruise, our experience the past three days made it clear we were only getting a slice of the bounty of Cambodia. Chhay and Sel our guide and driver had left Siem Reap...
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands. Stomp your feet. Quack like a duck. Do whatever you like – but emote enthusiastically. While smiling from ear to ear like it’s Christmas. “If you’re happy…etc.” appears to be the (unofficial) national anthem of Cambodia. That is the song children sang to...
Note: Once again, it is impossible to load large files while we are on the Jayavarman. We plan to publish photo essays of the trip once we are on dry land. Meanwhile, please draw the images in your mind’s eye. It is a story is written in...
