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A Look at The Look Book

Yes, yes, I am obsessed with Amy Larocca's weekly New York magazine fashion popsicle, in which she interviews one or more crazily dressed urbanite and explains why they are loathsome, amazing, weird, terrible, or the coolest just by asking them, like...

Fun with the Police State

Thanks to winter weather closing half the airports in the America, we headed out of South Station for Baltimore by Amtrak a few weekends ago. Train travel, in case you’d forgotten, is wonderful. Slower than planes sure, but from your total travel time...

Daily Street Art: The NYT covers Berlin graffiti

Yesterday's New York Times travel section had an interesting piece about graffiti and street art in Berlin. From the article: "Nearly everywhere you go, from the cafe-lined streets of Kreuzberg to the leafy schoolyards in Grunewald, hastily drawn...

Daily Street Art: Back from Paris and Iansanity

Daily street art posts have been minimal lately, due to my recent absence from the office/country, but I'm back and voilà ! I've brought street art pics back pour vous . From the fifth arrondissement of Paris, Hemingway's old stomping grounds...

Flashbacks: adventures in smuggling, all-star alternatives, and yet another person who's been threatened by Dapper O’Neil

CONFESSIONS OF A SMUGGLER 20 years ago February 5, 1988 | Nancy Roosa wrote of her experience as a smuggler in Asia. “The offers were almost too good to pass up. For simply carrying items from Hong Kong into Thailand or Taiwan, as we did, handwritten...

Searching for Hidden Treasure in Gloucester

This past Saturday, I visited Gloucester , Massachusetts . While there, I didn’t duck into the Cape Ann Historical museum, didn’t check out the docks where the fishermen hang or any quant little art galleries. Instead, I searched with my friend for about...