Author: Rick McGinnis
Looks Great, Sounds Amazing: Buffalo’s Silo City
BUFFALO’S SILO CITY HAS BEEN ON MY LIST OF “MUST SEE” DESTINATIONS FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. Several miles of concrete grain silos planted by the banks of the Buffalo River as it twists and turns along its final stretch, …
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Peru 2003: Machu Picchu, Cusco, Lima and the Bench of Gold
I PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE GONE TO PERU. We had a new baby at home and my wife was on maternity leave when my editor at the daily newspaper where I worked asked if I’d be willing to go to Peru …
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Instagramable: Stratford Offstage – the Town and the Festival
STRATFORD, ONTARIO IS HARDLY A SECRET. The town has hosted a Shakespearean theatre festival since 1953, which singlehandedly revived the fortunes of the area, though you still know you’re in the heart of southwest Ontario’s farming heartland by the smell …
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Toys, Civil Rights, History, Art, Vinyl, Beer, Bowling and Booze: A Rochester Primer
FIRST OF ALL, I DID NOT TRY THE “GARBAGE PLATE.” Of all the things I saw in Rochester, my hosts did not see fit to put the famous Garbage Plate on my itinerary. I don’t know why – frankly, it …
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A Photographer’s Pilgrimage to the George Eastman Museum
THE GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM IS MECCA FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. There are plenty of must-see photography museums in the world – the ICP in New York City, the Fondation Cartier-Bresson in Paris, Antwerp’s FoMu, Foam in Amsterdam – but Eastman House, as …
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