What We Loved This Week: Moose Spareribs, ‘America’s Worst Driver’ and Rick Steves in Iran

Travel Blog  •  World Hum  •  03.12.10 | 5:56 PM ET

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!

Jenny Dunlop
I loved hanging out at Buddhist temples in Myanmar (Burma?), watching the local folk hanging out—sleeping in altars, reading newspapers, praying ... Or just resting against ancient Buddha statues, idly swatting the flies away with sticks of burning incense.

Michael Yessis
America’s Worst Driver. The show debuts Sunday night on the Travel Channel, and I caught a sneak peek at the office. It’s educational. It’s hilarious. It’s filled with travel eye candy. San Francisco hosts the premiere.

Wayne Curtis
Glenn David Andrews at d.b.a. Andrews is a trombone player from the Seventh Ward of New Orleans who plays each Monday night at d.b.a., a bar on Frenchmen Street. I have yet to see him put on a bad show, and last Monday was no exception. Andrews plays the audience like a second instrument, getting everyone to shout and jump and get low and generally submit to his puppetry, all to a greater good. (Plus, when he leaves the stage for an infrequent breather, you get to marvel at the New Orleans spectacle of a crowded room dancing wildly to a tuba sola.) He also plays from time to time at Jackson Square in front of the Cathedral, and tourists give him tight smiles and a dollar or two and don’t have any idea. Spotting him there (like I did a couple of weeks ago) is always like being let in on a great secret.

Photo by Wayne Curtis

Jim Benning
I finally watched Rick Steves’ travel show about Iran—good stuff. I realized that I’d never seen normal, everyday life in Iran depicted on American TV. That’s just ridiculous.

Larry Clark
The Warsaw time-lapse video. On a visual level—can’t explain why—I just like watching it and it really does tell you about Warsaw in the winter. On the other hand, the photo geek in me likes the use of the tilt-shift lenses to create a limited and unique plane of focus for each shot.

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2 Comments for What We Loved This Week: Moose Spareribs, ‘America’s Worst Driver’ and Rick Steves in Iran

Chuck Kirchner 03.12.10 | 10:03 PM ET

Loved the traffic video from Poland - you’re right about the use of the perspective correction lens - almost makes for surreal images - wasn’t always sure what I was looking it which is part of the point - motion, angles, graphics.  Thanks for sharing the link.

Travel Guide 03.29.10 | 10:31 PM ET

amazing! here in Philippines we also have traffic, but i think its normally happened..

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