What We Loved This Week: Bill Murray and Bourdain, the Saints Victory Parade and ‘Finding Farley’

Travel Blog  •  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.

Michael Yessis
Bill Murray’s appearance with Anthony Bourdain on “No Reservations.” Bourdain’s blog has the backstory—and a story about the host written by the daughter of one of his cameramen. It’s called “The Man That Kidnaps My Father.” A look at the Murray/Bourdain summit:

Jim Benning
Ever since I spent six weeks in China, including a week in Beijing, one of my favorite foods has been boiled fish dumplings, dipped in a mix of soy sauce, white vinegar and hot pepper paste with sesame oil. So I loved this L.A. Times story celebrating Beijing-style dumplings. It made me very hungry.

Dario DiBattista
I loved watching the New Orleans Saints victory parade on T.V. I also loved the fact that the city really didn’t have to do anything to prepare for the celebration. New Orleans is always partying anyway. They planned to party win or lose.

Eva Holland
The annual Available Light Film Festival has just kicked off here in Whitehorse, and I made sure to catch “Finding Farley” on opening day. It’s a documentary about a young family’s 5000 kilometer journey to visit Canadian literary legend Farley Mowat, covering the terrain—southern Saskatchewan, far northern Manitoba, and southwestern Newfoundland, for a start—that he made famous in his books. Here’s the trailer:

Joshua Berman
I went snow-camping with a group of middle-school students last weekend. We constructed and slept in quinzee huts at 10,000 feet on the Continental Divide (I love having the Brainard Lake Recreation Area in my backyard!). I also love that the people of Costa Rica elected their first woman president.

Photo by Craig Rubens
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1 Comment for What We Loved This Week: Bill Murray and Bourdain, the Saints Victory Parade and ‘Finding Farley’

Terry Ward 02.13.10 | 11:01 AM ET

Lillian Chou’s story about dumplings in China was great! Thanks for linking to it. Made me hungry, too. I know Ms. Chou personally and had the pleasure of walking around Beijing on an impromptu food cart tour with her last year, during which we noshed everything from yogurt in little glass jars to Portuguese-inspired Chinese custard. And dumplings, too. She kept saying, “We need two stomachs!” That day was my favorite memory of my short visit to China.

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