ATLANTIC CITY IS NOT A NORMAL CITY. Built on the seashore for tourists and summer people, it’s easier to understand Atlantic City as a permanent carnival or a year-round festival. When your main drag is a seaside promenade, it’s safe …
Category: Going Places
A Pleasant Case of the Blues by Mexico’s Lake Bacalar
THEY SAY THERE ARE SEVEN SHADES OF BLUE in the water of the Laguna Bacalar – that’s why its Spanish name is Laguna de los Siete Colores. My guess is that there are probably more than seven colours, ranging from …
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Racing Against the Clock to Capture Buffalo’s Urban Revival
I HAVE DEVELOPED A SERIOUS CASE OF BUFFALO ENVY. My visits to this American city just over the border have revealed an architectural wonderland, an urbanite’s playground, and a very friendly town undergoing a revival that’s turning into a renaissance. …
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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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Away We Go! A travel photographer strikes out on his own
LAST YEAR I LOST THE SWEETEST GIG EVER. It’s not a long story – newspapers, cutbacks, editors getting packaged out and freelancers dumped on the desolate shores of the jobless islands. It didn’t take me long to realize that I …
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