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What We Loved This Week: ‘Crazy Heart,’ Spring and the Photos of the Year
by World Hum | 03.19.10 | 4:18 PM ET
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Yahoo! BuzzWhat We Loved This Week: Moose Spareribs, ‘America’s Worst Driver’ and Rick Steves in Iran
by World Hum | 03.12.10 | 5:56 PM ET
Photo by Wayne Curtis Eva Holland
I loved having moose spareribs for dinner last night. I ate some muskox from a few hundred miles north over the holidays, but this was my first taste of the local wild game. Delicious!
Why You Should Care More About Signs Than You Do
by Michael Yessis | 03.12.10 | 11:16 AM ET
Slate’s Julia Turner just concluded a terrific series about signs—Penn Station’s horrible ones, London’s plans for better ones, efforts to standardize exit signs, what GPS technology means for the future of signs and why signs are “the most useful thing you pay no attention to.”
For an example of the consequences of what happens when you don’t pay attention to signs while you’re traveling, just watch—shameless self promotion alert—America’s Worst Driver on the Travel Channel this Sunday.
What We Loved This Week: Pacific Northwest Road Tripping, Manno Charlemagne and Hollywood Homes
by World Hum | 03.05.10 | 6:01 PM ET
Eva Holland
I loved driving from Vancouver to Seattle on Monday, and from Seattle around the northern portion of the Olympic Peninsula on Wednesday. It’s my first visit to Washington, and it’s a tribute to the state’s scenery that I’ve found myself dropping uncharacteristically below the speed limit at times to try to take it all in. Here’s a shot I took not far southwest of Port Angeles:
2010 Solas Awards Winners Announced
by Eva Holland | 03.01.10 | 1:07 PM ET
World Hum contributors Darrin DuFord, Catherine Watson, Lola Akinmade and Joshua Berman are among the winners and honorable mentions. Here’s the full list—congratulations all around.
What We Loved This Week: Indie Asia, the Olympics and ‘99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die’
by World Hum | 02.26.10 | 4:51 PM ET
Jim Benning
I loved 99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die by the always compelling and intrepid Jonathan Gold. And I loved the cartoon we published by Tom Swick poking fun at such lists.
What We Loved This Week: VQR, ‘The Reporter’ and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum
by World Hum | 02.19.10 | 6:11 PM ET
Frank Bures
I loved the new issue of VQR, with great stories from across North Africa. So far, I loved Joe Sacco’s graphic piece on immigration in Malta, Nicholas Schmidle’s story on the Somali community in Minneapolis, and Marco Vernaschi’s amazing story and photos about the coup last year in Guinea-Bissau. Brilliant photography, fiction, and lots of other stuff I haven’t gotten to yet.
What We Loved This Week: Bill Murray and Bourdain, the Saints Victory Parade and ‘Finding Farley’
by World Hum | 02.12.10 | 5:25 PM ET
Frank Bures
I loved this story about Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” and “Karaoke-related killings” in the Philippines.
What We Loved This Week: ‘Point Omega,’ Vicarious Ramen and the Canadian Rockies
by World Hum | 02.05.10 | 5:21 PM ET
Photo by Kevin Fay Michael Yessis
Matt Gross’ story about eating his way through Tokyo’s “sprawling ramen ecosystem.” Made me long for a bowl of noodles—and another trip to Japan.
What We Loved This Week: Winter Carnival, El Cajon and ‘Bags Fly Free’
by World Hum | 01.29.10 | 5:55 PM ET
Douglas Mack
The Saint Paul Winter Carnival, which is one of my favorite things about living in the Twin Cities and a brilliantly counterintuitive celebration of one of Minnesota’s most infamous attributes. It supposedly began as a rebuttal to a New York reporter’s claim that Minnesota was “another Siberia, unfit for human habitation in the winter”—a view still held by plenty of people from warmer climes. But as I walked through Rice Park, marveling at the intricate ice sculptures and watching bundled-up kids (and adults) toss snowballs at each other, I couldn’t imagine why I’d want to be in some warmer, more boring place.
What We Loved This Week: Bermuda, ‘The Wire’ and ‘The Way of the World’
by World Hum | 01.22.10 | 4:48 PM ET
Larry Bleiberg
I indulged my inner geography nerd this week, flipping through Mark Stein’s oddly compelling book, How the States Got Their Shapes. So why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? What’s up with New Jersey’s tilted northern border? And isn’t California a little greedy taking up most of the West Coast? In almost every state the explanations range from politics to topography to an occasional surveying error.
What We Loved This Week: ‘The Remains of the Day,’ ‘Viva Las Vegas’ and ‘Telluride on Acid’
by World Hum | 01.15.10 | 6:17 PM ET
Eva Holland
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The subtle, funny and very sad story of an aging butler looking back on his life’s work as he travels around England’s West Country reminded me, among other things, that it’s been far too long since I’ve visited the U.K.
What We Loved This Week: ‘King Creole,’ Road Food and ‘Killing Me Softly’ in Spanish
by World Hum | 01.08.10 | 4:41 PM ET
Eva Holland
I loved watching “King Creole,” one of our great Elvis travel movies. The black-and-white French Quarter footage brought me right back to my own time in New Orleans. Here’s a favorite musical number from the movie:
Catch the Elvis Movie Marathon Tonight
by Eva Holland | 01.08.10 | 12:29 PM ET
Want to follow along with our Elvis travel movie picks? You can watch “Viva Las Vegas” and “Blue Hawaii” today on Turner Classic Movies’ 75th birthday marathon.
World Hum’s 21 Most Read Features of 2009
by World Hum | 12.29.09 | 11:03 AM ET
iStockphoto A recap of the most-clicked feature stories we published during the last year
What We Loved This Week: Zapatista Ornaments, ‘Arctic Dreams’ and More
by World Hum | 12.23.09 | 4:56 PM ET
Jim Benning
I’ve been enjoying my Zapatista rebel Christmas tree ornament—I think it was originally supposed to be a key chain—which I brought back from a trip to Chiapas years ago. When my 3-year-old daughter asked about it, I was more than happy to launch into a discussion about subcomandante Marcos and agrarian reform movements. She shrugged. Yes, another teachable moment brought to us by travel.
What We Loved This Week: Snowmobiling, Angry People in Local Newspapers and Flying Over the Rockies
by World Hum | 12.18.09 | 7:50 PM ET
Photo by Jim Benning Eva Holland
Snowmobiling. I had my first-ever excursion last weekend on a series of frozen lakes about an hour south of Whitehorse, and—carbon footprint be damned—I loved flying over the snow alongside wolf and caribou tracks.
What We Loved This Week: Paprika, San Telmo and Jason Reitman’s Pie Chart
by World Hum | 12.11.09 | 5:33 PM ET
Photo by Eva Holland Cory Eldridge
I loved the smell of paprika my sister sent from Gyula, Hungary, cooked with olive oil and onions, filling my apartment. Sweet, spicy, smoky, sublime. Make shashuka, an easy tomato and egg dish, and experience the glory.
Great Global Thinkers and Top Travel Books
by Eva Holland | 12.11.09 | 11:07 AM ET
Foreign Policy recently named its top 100 global thinkers of 2009—and then followed up by asking those thinkers to name their favorite books. The number one pick on our list of the top 30 travel books—Wilfred Thesiger’s “Arabian Sands”—made the FP list, as did books by travel writers Ryszard Kapuściński and William Dalrymple. Great minds, huh? (Via The Book Bench)
19 Great ‘Up in the Air’ and Airworld Links
by Eva Holland | 12.11.09 | 10:28 AM ET
The movie is hitting theaters worldwide and generating Oscar buzz. Eva Holland rounds up some can't-miss links.
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