Archive for January, 2010
Miami, Florida: The Art Deco District of South Beach
0 Comments Published by admin January 30th, 2010 in Arts & Culture.I have always been drawn to the style of Art Deco. The art and the architecture seems somewhat contradictory to me, in that it looks modern while retaining a vintage feel. I don’t know if that makes sense, but when I found myself standing in the middle of the Art Deco District in South Beach [...]
Are you going to Huntsville? Need a great room at one of the elegant hotels located in Huntsville? www.hotelshuntsville.com There are plenty of nice places to stay and there are some fun things to do while you are visiting. There are plenty of things to see when it comes to the NASA space program. There [...]
I got a friend with all sorts of superstitions about cars. She believes in the whole Saint Christopher thing and keeps a plastic stature of him on her dashboard glued with this uber version of super glue. She claimed it came from NASA where her father worked, but she claimed a lot of things. [...]
On my visits to New York, I have noticed that everything tastes better. The coffee is better. The spaghetti and ravioli is better. The Chinese food is better, and the pizza? Well there is a reason that every other city in the country, has “New York Pizza” shops. Okay, there was for a while the [...]
Life and Living in the Phoenix Desert: Arcosanti
0 Comments Published by admin January 18th, 2010 in Travel.In 1956, Paolo Soleri settled on the eastern side of the greater Phoenix area, in the city of Scottsdale. Soleri was born and grew up in Turin, Italy, and upon completing his degree in Architecture at the Torino Polytechnico, he moved to the Arizona desert to study at Taliesin West with Frank Loyld Wright. He [...]
The city of Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis. To fly into the city at night, you will find a sea of street lights and buildings just outside your airplane window, that never seems to end. I moved to LA in the summer of 1999, just one week before my birthday and as luck would [...]
It’s been years since I was last in San Antonio, but I remember distinctly two things about it: The Alamo and The River Walk. Known at first as the Mision San Antonio de Valero, The Alamo has existed on its current site since 1724 or two hundred and eighty-six years. Sixty-nine years after its inception, [...]
My last days in New York have been a busy last few days. Naturally, I went to another house party thrown by one of my dozens of cousins from Med. school. There were board games with alcohol as the gain or win, a live band and all-in-all a great night and morning. We didn’t get [...]
Austin City Limits Music Festival and PBS Program
0 Comments Published by admin January 8th, 2010 in Music, Travel.Austin, Texas is also the state’s capital. In addition, many people would call it the country’s musical capital. The city itself goes so far as to refer to itself as the live music capital of the world. That’s a pretty big claim and Austin has the goods to back it up. Live music is played [...]
Tennis players, with their speed and agility, also have the ability to work out what their opponent might be doing five moves from theirs and the other possible moves to their countermoves. Tennis players are amazing sportsmen and sportswomen. However, the clinical mindset it takes to dissect the moves of your opponent has room as [...]
SEO Helps Improve Brands with Google Ad Planner
0 Comments Published by admin January 6th, 2010 in Business.Perhaps nothing is more important to a company than the internet, especially in terms branding. An irate customer might take down a company with just a few blog posts, or some well placed forum discussions. At the very least, a customer, or an angry employee for that matter, can make a pretty large dint in [...]
Too Much to Do in San Francisco and So Little Time
0 Comments Published by admin January 6th, 2010 in Travel.After arriving later in the afternoon in San Francisco, we wasted no time heading out to explore. Our first stop was walking down Polk Street, we heard it’s full of spas, cafes and a few neighbourhood grocery stores, but what’s even better, is that is ends at Fisherman’s Wharf. There’s enough seafood restaurants that could [...]