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Auto Rims in History

Being able to drive like you want, in the style that suits you the best, is a perogative that doesn’t need explanation. It’s a peculiarly national obsession that we have with our cars, and it’s one that’s got a pretty spectacular history. Looking at how people have felt about their vehicles over the years, it’s [...]

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Hong Kong Birds

Are you a bird person? Do you like to find areas of the world that have large bird species and the people who know were they are? Hong Kong has lots of birds and the hotel room is not were you will find them. Your going to have to leave that cozy bed and warm [...]

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Singapore, Italian Style

It’s always a pleasure to come to Singapore and see what might be new and interesting in the trends. It’s a radically forward-looking city, or rather city-state, with a unique openness to ideas from the internationally community at large. These ideas can take on many forms, and crop up in many different sectors of life [...]

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Tempe Flour Mill and Other Aspects Old Town Culture

A lot of people associate the main social and cultural scene of Tempe, Arizona with the old town area. This is basically the Mill Avenue region that leads from University Drive north to Tempe Town Lake. This is an incredibly popular tourist area and many locals and ASU students also enjoy spending weekend afternoons down [...]

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The Beauty of Bar Harbor, Maine

The Acadia National Park is located in Bar Harbor, just fifty mile from Bangor, Maine. Many people plan a three to four day stay, however once once in the park, the surrounding villages and towns just beckon to be explored and experienced. So it is best to plan for a bit of a change of [...]

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Major Washington Theatre Hosts Workshop of Wasserstein Play

The Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle Washington was the first theatre company to stage a production of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize winning play The Heidi Chronicles. This 1988 production was produced in a new play workshop format and was directed by Daniel J. Sullivan. The Seattle Rep is one of the quality theatre companies in [...]

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Getting Wet in Albany

It’s our 4th night in Albany, we were going to stay only 3 nights, but when we booked our rooms online, we got this great deal, that if we book one more night, it will be free! We took the offer, I mean after all, it was a free night! Our first couple of days in [...]

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New York Center Unholding

Here you come to me, and come to me singing. This noise, this brush, this extract, named for the three things that we could never forget in a half of a lifetime, falls from my fingers like concrete and porcelain, I love to hold it, but can never understand it. These strange textures come melting [...]

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A Visit to Harrisburg, PA

I was born in 1967, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Just a bit away from Harrisburg in the Western half of the state. All I knew of this city was learned through stories I was told, as just after I was born I moved first to Hollywood, California, then to Seattle, Washington…then to Helena, Montana before finally [...]

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Performance of Self in South Florida

The fluidity of culture, and cultural expression, is a clue to its appeal at the very outset. It is particularly attractive to be able to maintain an identity that is constantly shifting, where there are always possibilities of negotiations for new forms of self, and all of their individual components. It would seem as though [...]

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