Tag: What We Loved This Week
What We Loved This Week: ‘Up in the Air,’ Mariachi and ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’
by World Hum | 11.06.09 | 5:20 PM ET
Eva Holland
I loved buying my first car. I’ve been plotting a trans-Canada road trip/relocation, from Ontario up to the Yukon, and now—with my tentative start date just 10 days away—I’ve got the wheels to make it happen.
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Yahoo! BuzzWhat We Loved This Week: Calexico, Toronto FC in Coach and more
by World Hum | 10.30.09 | 5:25 PM ET
Eva Holland
After years of listening to other people’s celebrity-on-a-plane stories, I finally had my own in-flight star-spotting: I shared my flight home from New York City last weekend with the coaches and players from Toronto FC. Who knew pro athletes sometimes fly coach with the masses?
What We Loved This Week: Discarded Neon, Hemingway in Idaho and ‘The Places in Between’
by World Hum | 10.23.09 | 4:43 PM ET
Pam Mandel
The Neon Boneyard: Two fenced lots north of the Las Vegas strip hold an amazing collection of decaying giant typography. The Neon Museum has big plans to restore a Googie-style clamshell building as their visitor’s center, but for now, the signs sit gathering dust and frustrating camera happy modernists for whom the one hour tour is way too short.
What We Loved This Week: The High Line, Kogi Tacos and a Ball of Twine
by World Hum | 10.16.09 | 4:43 PM ET
Photo by Frank Bures Eva Holland
I finally checked out the High Line, New York’s new(ish) elevated park, and I loved it. The creative-by-necessity use of space in this city, and the effort to sneak some greenery into any available corner, is one of my favorite things about it.
What We Loved This Week: Porter Airlines, Dave Eggers and More
by World Hum | 10.09.09 | 4:22 PM ET
Photo by Jenna Schnuer Eva Holland
I loved flying Porter Airlines and, before take-off, relaxing in Porter’s free passenger lounge at Toronto City Centre Airport. A smooth operation, friendly staff, and free snacks—it was a pleasant reminder that air travel doesn’t have to be a succession of minor inconveniences and discomforts.
What We Loved This Week: Chicago, Ken Burns and Sundarbans National Park
by World Hum | 10.02.09 | 5:57 PM ET
Photo by Joanna Kakissis Michael Yessis
Chicago. I’m here through the weekend, and I can feel the sadness in the air about the city losing its bid for the 2016 Olympics. But just remember, Chicagoans, you’ve got plenty to get you through the disappointment. Just one reminder: a classic video I loved this week.
What We Loved This Week: Kira Salak, ‘The Perfect Baja Road Trip’ and a Postcard from Argentina
by World Hum | 09.25.09 | 5:37 PM ET
Eva Holland
Finding some Banks beer in an Ontario liquor store. The Barbados brewery has started exporting to select areas in Canada, and while it’s certainly not the greatest beer I’ve ever tasted, coming across the familiar label—and then bringing a few home and cracking one open—did bring me back to my last trip to the island.
What We Loved This Week: Old Souvenirs, ‘Moon Belize’ and Granta’s Chicago Issue
by World Hum | 09.18.09 | 10:24 PM ET
Michael Yessis
Granta’s Chicago issue. I got my hands on a copy last weekend at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and loved what I’ve been able read so far, including stories by Don DeLillo and Aleksander Hemon, and Roger Ebert’s online-only piece A Bar on North Avenue. Also pretty great: Chris Ware’s cover:
What We Loved This Week: Son Jarocho, the Ottawa Public Library and the BBC’s ‘World of Business’
by World Hum | 09.11.09 | 4:33 PM ET
Photo by Terry Ward
Terry Ward
Learning to love sharks in Palau. I spent four days aboard the Ocean Hunter III liveaboard, diving Palau’s outer reefs. On every dive, we spotted multiple sharks—grey reefs, white tips and black tips. Unlike at some Caribbean spots, there’s no feeding needed to get the guys to gather here. The water was literally clouded with reef fish and schooling pelagics. Clipped with a reef hook to the edge of the drop offs, swaying in the current and watching the sharks materialize from the blue to skirt the coral walls, gave me a new admiration for the ocean’s top predator.
What We Loved This Week: Palau, the O.C. and the National Aquarium Through a Child’s Eyes
by World Hum | 09.04.09 | 4:26 PM ET
Photo by Michael Yessis Eva Holland
I came home to Ottawa this week just in time to discover a new brewpub, Les Brasseurs du Temps, across the river in Gatineau, Quebec. The new spot is in a resurrected 1821 brewery building, and the house-brewed ales are delicious. I’m already plotting a second visit.
What We Loved This Week: Stockholm, ‘District 9’ and Bernstorffstraßenfest in Hamburg
by World Hum | 08.28.09 | 5:24 PM ET
Photo by Eva Holland Eva Holland
Stockholm. I was in town for an absurdly brief weekend visit—my first to Scandinavia—and I spent all the hours I could spare just wandering from island to island. Here’s one of my favorite shots:
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What We Loved This Week: The Moth Podcast, David Sedaris and More
by World Hum | 08.21.09 | 3:57 PM ET
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Eva Holland
I love a good summer thunderstorm, and I got caught in a doozy this week in New York City, while on my way to meet a friend on the Upper West Side. It was the best lightning show I’d seen in years.
What We Loved This Week: Sora Lella, Book Passage, ‘Travels in Siberia’ and More
by World Hum | 08.14.09 | 4:35 PM ET
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David Farley
This week I dined at Sora Lella, a famous Roman restaurant on Isola Tiberina, an island between Rome’s Ghetto and Trastevere neighborhoods. But I didn’t go to Rome. I ate at Sora Lella in New York. The NYC outpost, I found, was just as good as the original and took me back to the last time I was living in Italy.
What We Loved This Week: Amadou & Mariam, the Washington Nationals and Iced Coffee in Shanghai
by World Hum | 08.07.09 | 4:01 PM ET
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Kellie Schmitt
This week, I researched an article about Shanghai’s best coffee. In the process, I came across a tiny neighborhood nook that slow-brews its iced coffee—drop by icy drop over the course of eight hours. The Chinese owner said he loves the self-cultivation that comes from taking things slow. I loved the clean flavor with no bitter aftertaste, and the fact that the café is just two blocks from my house. Here’s a shot of the slow-brewing contraption:
What We Loved This Week: TBEX, Corn Season and Sleeping In-Flight
by World Hum | 07.31.09 | 2:31 PM ET
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Alicia Imbody
I loved jamming out at a concert to two great import bands: Swedish newcomers Peter Bjorn and John, and British legends Depeche Mode. It was an eclectic crowd, an incredible show, and it helped keep my mind off all the wanderlust-inducing summer concerts I’m missing. Here’s a shot of Depeche Mode rocking under a psychedelic disco world ... or something:
What We Loved This Week: Bad Roadside Puns, Puppy’s First Roadtrip and ‘The Runaway Jury’
by World Hum | 07.24.09 | 3:26 PM ET
Photo by Alicia Imbody Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Alicia Imbody
I loved setting off with my new pup on our first road trip together. We started out easy—just a weekend trip up the Atlantic coast—but he was such a good travel buddy, I see this as training for future pan-America adventures, a la Steinbeck and Charley.
Here’s a picture of the little guy lounging on the floor under an air conditioning vent. Who would you rather spend thousands of miles in a compact car with?
What We Loved This Week: Cat Cafes, Robert Service and ‘Transsiberian’
by World Hum | 07.17.09 | 4:02 PM ET
Photo by Lisa Gay Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Eva Holland
I visited the Robert Service Cabin in Dawson City, Yukon, last weekend—it’s a two-room log house where Service lived for three years writing poetry, now maintained as part of a National Historic Site—and I loved seeing an enthusiastic performer tell us about the life and work of the “Bard of the Yukon.” Here’s one of the poems I heard during the performance: Goodbye, Little Cabin, a farewell verse Service wrote before leaving Dawson for good in 1912, to serve as a war correspondent in Europe.
What We Loved This Week: Grizzly Bears, ‘Among the Thugs’ and Matisyahu
by World Hum | 07.10.09 | 4:03 PM ET
Photo by Nathan Millar Eli Ellison
Guilty of writing superlative-laden tripe about Disney theme parks (hey, I had to pay the rent), I loved finally reading Carl Hiaasen’s wickedly funny book Team Rodent: How Disney Devours The World.
What We Loved This Week: Turkish Coffee, Tinariwen and ‘Goin’ Places’
by World Hum | 07.02.09 | 2:45 PM ET
Photo by Cory Eldridge Ben Keene
Since seeing Youssou N’Dour with his band at the “Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas” celebration last month, I’ve been unable to stop listening to West African music. Currently in heavy rotation on my iPod: the austere yet entrancing guitar tones of the Touareg collective Tinariwen.
What We Loved This Week: Michael Jackson, Soccer in South Africa and a Taco Smackdown
by World Hum | 06.26.09 | 4:34 PM ET
Photo by Eva Holland Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Pam Mandel
I loved (re-) watching Michael Jackson’s Cecil B. DeMille meets Bollywood meets John Hughes video for Black or White. The exotic dancers, the magic morphing from one ethnic group to another, the ridiculous introduction (is that Macaulay Culkin?!) and the ’round-the-world tour with an unmistakable beat ... Oh, Michael, you were a really weird character, but I loved your music. Rest in peace, Michael, rest in peace.
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