You know those thought-provoking theater companies that offer probing post-performance discussions? Well, that’s so not Chan. How about a post-show disco party instead? Right. I thought so. Save that “Long Day’s Journey” ticket for a [...]
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Brusselicious – It’s Yummy Year in Brussels
May 17, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Brusselicious: There, you’ve said it. And that’s the hard part. The eating is easy. The year 2012 has been declared the Gourmet Year in Belgium’s capital, with a menu of special activities to showcase what [...]
Pueblo Inglese – Talking Your Way to Spain
April 19, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
“I am exciting to meet you. Please to sit with me,” pronounced Antonio in his very best English as we boarded the bus in Madrid. He was one of 20 brave, determined Spaniards who’d signed [...]
Tapa-Dancing Through Madrid
April 19, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
The reign in Spain is over. Ferran Adria, renowned as the world’s best chef, has closed his frontier-pushing restaurant (just as equally iconic Charlie Trotter has called it quits in Chicago). Adria’s molecular gastronomy—devised as [...]
Million Dollar Memphis
March 8, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Memphis is the city of the Three Kings—no, not those guys on camels, but three 20th-century fellas with miraculous stories of their own: B.B. King, Martin Luther King, Jr.—and Elvis. The city’s identity is carved [...]
Minnesota Orchestra 101
March 8, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Think that the Minnesota Orchestra is just for blue bloods, all duded up in white tie and pearls? That you have to have had decades of music lessons under your belt to tell one dead [...]
Travel: It’s Greater at the Equator
February 23, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
I’m standing at the Middle of the World. To clarify, I’m straddling the equator, just 20 miles from Quito, Ecuador, at the so-named museum of phenomena unique to this global belt. At 0 degrees, 0’ [...]
Travel: Québec City, Québec
January 26, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
Manger pour vivre ou vivre pour manger? Bon appétit! Would you rather live to eat, or eat to live? Yeah, me too. That’s why we pinnacles of the evolved palate love French food, while Neanderthals [...]
Travel: Columbia, the Gem of the Prairie
January 12, 2012 by Carla Waldemar
The deputy warden pinned me with his gaze as the barred gate thumped shut with a despairing clang. I’m incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary—maximum security division—and, unlike its former lifers, I’m having the time [...]
Travel: City of Brotherly Love
December 1, 2011 by Carla Waldemar
I’m standing spellbound in one of our great national parks, listening to a ranger. No, not Yellowstone; not Glacier, but just as heart-stopping. Instead of the wind in my hair, it’s taxi fumes. Wildlife is [...]
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