What We Loved This Week: CupcakeCampEast, ‘How She Move’ and ‘In Transit’
Travel Blog • World Hum • 11.21.08 | 4:13 PM ET
World Hum contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Michael Yessis
The one-two punch of Albert Hammond and Albert Hammond, Jr. My iPod played the father’s It Never Rains in Southern California and the son’s “In Transit” almost in succession on a chilly night this week. Two songs with a restlessness that left me itching to go somewhere warm. Plus, I love the uke here:
Valerie Conners
CupcakeCampEast. Modeled after the trendy community-driven tech conferences known as BarCamps, CupcakeCamp was born in San Francisco, but the concept is catching on, and the event made its way east to Philadelphia. The concept: everyone attending brings a batch, tastings ensue and recipes are shared. My favorite: cornbread topped with mac and cheese.
Eva Holland
“How She Move.” It’s a pretty typical “urban-dance-as-life-changing-force” type flick, except that it’s completely homegrown: it’s a Canadian-made movie about Toronto’s step-dancing community, filmed on location and starring mostly local talent. Toronto’s Caribbean-Canadian community has seen a lot of negative headlines in recent years, so it was great to see some positive stories showcased on the big screen. Here’s the trailer:
Jim Benning
I loved waking at the venerable Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel earlier this week—I was there attending the nearby PhoCusWright conference—and finding the morning’s New York Times hanging from my door knob. Nothing wrong with a USA Today at your door, of course. You see them everywhere. But The Times? In Hollywood? That’s classy, Roosevelt.
Joanna Kakissis
In Athens, I fought automobiles for my space on the sidewalks. In Boulder, I share bike lanes with galloping deer. I followed this one (pictured) to a North Boulder cul-de-sac, where his posse of does awaited.
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