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Turkey Flanerie

The Flâneur & The City: Historic Core

Urban historian Richard Schave's site-specific discussion series "The Flâneur & The City" is an ongoing attempt to explore some of the more important issues revealed by the constantly changing heart of the metropolis.

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada

After Sunday's USA/Canada hockey game the web swelled with patriotic strutting, one-upmanship and friendly chiding. Americans find a unique pleasure in defeating Canadians in hockey, and our neighbors to the north are uncharacteristically proud and sensitive when it comes to their national sport. Amidst the post game chatter I'm drawn to the underlying dialogue, the familiar and yet surprisingly unfamiliar relationship that exists between us. Tom Brokaw's mini-expose which aired on NBC before the opening ceremonies is an intriguing fragment of this dialogue.

Around the World in 80 Poems

Rhyming Reasons to Travel the Globe... Or Not!

Whether you have the wanderlust or you’re wander ’lost’, have the travel bug or are just travel sick, whether you’re on top of the world or feel six feet under, Graham Relton takes you ‘Around the World in 80 Poems’.

“I’m going travelling whether you come with me or not!”

Ethiopia Opens Its Doors, Slowly #2

 

Photographed by Jehad Nga for The New York Times. Click HERE for the original.

Ethiopia Opens Its Doors, Slowly #2

Ethiopia Opens Its Doors, Slowly #1

Photographed by Jehad Nga for The New York Times. Click HERE for the original.

Ethiopia Opens Its Doors, Slowly #1

In Transit

“Turbulence is normal,” I said, feigning more assurance than I felt as the plane banked and shuddered across the sky between Dhaka and Calcutta.
Jen-Pei and I had met while travelling across Asia and had fallen into a relationship, a result of the joy of discovery, loneliness and the forced intimacy of budget travel.

Haida Tales

On the southern tip of a windswept archipelago sixty miles off the coast of mainland British Columbia, lie the remains of a great civilization.

Tucked into a sheltered cove on the East Side of Anthony Island, the once thriving village of Ninstints (or Skuun Gwaii, or Sung Gwaii; there are many local spellings) is guarded by the last standing giants of the Haida Nation. Twenty-six totem poles carved by Haida masters stand in silent watch over the land.

In Search of the Holistic Vasectomy

Lake Lugu, in China’s Northern Yunan Province; home of the aboriginal Mosuo tribe, the last purely matriarchal people left in China. The Mosuo are best known for their practice of walking marriage, a form of poly-amoury in which the women – masters of the household – chose their lovers for the evening from among the men of the tribe. Children are raised semi-communally, taking the mother’s name and living in the mother’s home.

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