What We Loved This Week: Entropa, Everest Rocks and More
Travel Blog • World Hum • 04.03.09 | 6:33 PM ET
Photo of Entropa by Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days:
Joanna Kakissis
I was doing some vicarious traveling by clicking through someone’s Facebook photos of Prague and spotted some ominous and intriguing sculptures, which I didn’t immediately recognize as the crawling barcode babies by Czech artist David Cerny. Then I was reminded of Cerny’s Pièce de résistance, Entropa, which managed to piss off most of the European Union. Bulgaria as a toilet? Greece as a burnt forest? Romania as a Dracula theme park? Oh yeah.
Jim Benning
Everest Rocks, a show that just aired on the Palladia HD network. Cancer surivivors and ’80s rock stars—including Mike Peters of the Alarm and Cy Curnin of the Fixx—spent a couple of weeks hiking to Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas in 2007 to play a concert and raise money for a cancer-treatment hospital in Nepal. Great music, great cause, great setting.
Michael Yessis
I never paid Doug Glanville much attention when he played Major League baseball. I wish I had. I’ve learned a lot about him in the last few months through his Op-Extra gig at the New York Times, where he compellingly writes about his life and the lives of professional athletes. His latest effort is particularly lovable—he writes about experiencing the shrinking planet through the diversity of baseball.
Eva Holland
I’ve generally avoided New York’s most popular/typical tourist activities, but this week I decided to plunge right in: dinner at a tacky Times Square chain restaurant (Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., complete with “Forrest Gump” playing on an endless loop) and then overpriced drinks at a discounted comedy hypnosis show nearby. And you know what? I had a great time. My shrimp po’boy wasn’t half-bad, either.
Rob Verger
I loved watching the fantastic space show, narrated by Robert Redford, at the Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. My only complaint? The show was too short.
Valerie Conners
This video of scores of people breaking into choreographed dance in Amsterdam’s Antwerp’s Central Station made me unspeakably happy. And, I might add, the Julie Andrews club remix is seriously hot.