Stories tagged Arts & Culture

Quirky Portland. Creative Portland. Yummy Portland. All are very apt descriptions of this young-spirited, upstart of a city in Oregon.

It is Tuesday August 23rd, 2016 and I have been excitedly driving westward toward Nevada for two days.  I parked for the night just off I-80 in “somewhere” Nebraska.

“I Madonnari” is a Festival of Art that Brings People Together.

For more than 800 years, Innsbruck, has been the hub of the area known as Tirol, the most mountainous province of Austria.

In the Davids of Donatello and Michelangelo lie the stories of the public and the private Florence. This was true in the 16th century, and it is still true more than 500 years later. 

How chic is this……..a French film festival right in the heart of Hollywood.

  uam offers an exciting, warm, vibrant island paradise experience, with great scuba diving and snorkeling, golf, beach-combing, wonderful shopping with better prices (especially with its duty free status and local markets) and spectacular sight-seeing and landmarks. It’s exotic in its own way, yet American.   It’s “where America’s day begins!” as they say. Morning begins…

e’d heard about the cultural delights of Northern Louisiana—engaging art, accessible artistic communities, great food and elemental American music--but we’d never taken time to visit. So when New Orleans’ restaurants and hotel rooms were jammed and priced beyond our means during the first few days of our scheduled vacation, we decided to fly into the…