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The Voodoo Museum
Much credit for the sinister reputation Voodoo (shall we say) enjoys can be attributed to the 1932 Bela Lugosi film White Zombie, which recast the colorful religion as a Hollywood genre. As with most...
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The Garden District
A stroll through New Orleans' Garden District.A streetcar named Charles.This mansion once belonged to Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, now owned by actor John Goodman.The Brevard House, built for a...
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The Old Apothecary Shoppe
Louis Dufilho Jr, whose name you'll likely recognize as America's first licensed pharmacist, opened an apothecary shop on New Orleans' Chartres Street in 1823. For nearly thirty years he led a solid...
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Lafayette Cemetery
Lafayette Cemetery is wedged amid the stately southern mansions of New Orleans' Garden District much like a splinter under a manicured fingernail. It lies across the street from the upscale and...
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Frankenstorm, 2012
Hurricane Sandy may have been reclassified as a "post-tropical cyclone," but that doesn't make the damage it caused any less. A record-high surge level of 13.88 feet was recorded in the Battery,...
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Tallinn
Tallinn, Estonia is a medieval town reluctantly dragged into the 21st century by the occasional tank-sized vehicle squeezing down its narrow cobblestone sideroads, knocking pedestrians out of the way...
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Aarhus
Located on Denmark's Jutland peninsula, Aarhus tends to play second fiddle to Copenhagen in the travel brochures. This could be why over the last century efforts have been made to popularize the slogan...
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Helsinki
Before visiting Helsinki my only mental picture of Finland's capital city was from the Jim Jarmusch film Night on Earth. In other words cold, bleak, slow-paced, and comically tragic. In mid-July,...
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St Petersburg
The city of St Petersburg has done a remarkable job of recovering after a spiteful Hitler did his best to flatten the place when the Russians had the nerve to resist his invading forces. Palaces and...
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Oslo
Oslo, Norway. Death metal capital of the world. Under its former name Kristiania it was the setting for Hunger, Knut Hamsen's tale of artistic madness. Home to playwright Henrik Ibsen. The paintings of...
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark, is a bemusing blend of past and present, of the historic and modern, at once gloomy and colorful. Gothic church spires share the skyline with glass cubes, the...
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In Which Amanda Palmer Plots a Heist (and Nearly Gets Away With It)
One thing I admire about Amanda Palmer is she's not content to throw a by-the-numbers concert. Not when she can stage an EVENT, one big pulsing carnival of joy. Rarely have I been to a concert that...
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The Little Red Lighthouse
On the edge of the Hudson River, in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, sits a modest cast iron lighthouse known as Jeffrey's Hook Light. Though originally built in 1889 to stand sentry over...
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Random photos of Paris
Here are a few stray photographs of Paris that didn't fit into the themes of my other posts."Metal asparagus," as the French originally called it.Along the banks of the Seine.Notre Dame.The "Red...
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Cemeteries of Paris (part 2)
The largest cemetery in Paris is Père Lachaise, which opened in 1804 and imported some of its first residents, such as Molière, from other graveyards as a promotional ploy to make the fairly remote...
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Cemeteries of Paris (part 1)
What to say about cemeteries other than they are peaceful on first glance, but below the surface lie the remnants of those who long before we existed built worlds, set them afire, and built them up...
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Literary Paris
"You are all a lost generation," insisted Gertrude Stein. The importance of this statement is disputable, since what generation is otherwise? But it made for good copy and paved the way for generations...
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Empire of the Dead
In the eighteenth century, as Paris was gradually evolving and expanding into the cosmopolitan society known to us today, one problem was becoming apparent. What to do with its dead. The cemeteries...
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Parisian Street Art
Taken mostly around Montmartre and St Germain.Another end of the world is possible. Do not vote.This is not vandalism.
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Edgar Allan Poe's Cottage
This weekend I dropped in to see Edgar Allan Poe at his cottage in the Bronx. He wasn't in, but a gregarious caretaker gave me a tour of the humble wooden structure incongruously hedged in by 20th...
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