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The Elephant in the Room It’s the thing no one likes to talk about - the elephant in the room: Travel and terror. Click here to read the entire article Dear President Obama: As a frequent traveler, I was pleased to see you included nearly $50 billion for transportation infrastructure projects in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill you recently signed. -- Click here to read the entire article You Guys Still Working on That? I don’t know where or when it started, but I hope it stops somewhere soon – that’s the habit of servers in restaurants asking customers if they have finished their meal. Or are “are you guys still working.’’ -- Click here to read the entire article
Cool Colonists I was in Singapore recently, and while I was there a guy – a Western guy, presumably a modern guy – said in his opinion Singapore has gone way downhill as a travel destination since he first started going there as a traveler some 40 years ago. -- Click here to read the entire article
Argentina’s Museo Evita: Beyond Lloyd-Weber and Madonna BUENOS AIRES - The eyes have it, and so do the hands, at the Museo Evita, the museum wholly dedicated to Eva Peron, the one-time first lady of Argentina and political diva who inspired the musical “Evita'’ of stage and screen. Tickets of admission to the museum feature a close-up photograph of Eva’s dark eyes. Inside the handsome edifice - a converted century-old mansion in this capital city’s trendy Palermo district - vintage documentary film footage and a wall-mounted cluster of photographs focus on her hands: beseeching hands, join-with-me hands, pray-for-me hands. Dramatic, expressive hands. Also printed on the ticket are Evita’s self-dramatizing words: “Mi vida, mi mission, mi destino.'’ |
