Archive for the 'Arts & Culture' Category
The Shakespeare Garden of New York City
0 Comments Published by admin February 20th, 2010 in Arts & Culture, Travel.Central Park is huge. Unless one takes the time to wonder through slowly, or unless one is lucky enough to have a knowledgeable guide, there are many smaller sections of the park that may get missed. One such section of the garden is the Shakespeare Garden, known to be one of the best spots in [...]
Santa Rosa Symphony Inspires Violinist
0 Comments Published by admin February 17th, 2010 in Arts & Culture, Employment, Travel.Okay, I’m only 21 but I think after last summer I have much of the rest of my life planned out. No one takes me seriously when I tell them this so I’m confiding it to you though I express my plans to manifest these elements in a more relaxed fashion. It all started when [...]
Karen Finley Presented New Work in New York
0 Comments Published by admin November 9th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.New York City is known for a lot of great cultural landmarks and elements and its theatre and performance scene are one of, if not the most prominent. Guests who may have stayed in one of the top New York hotels in September and/or October may have been lucky enough to attend the limited run [...]
Singapore Hiphop Buskers
0 Comments Published by admin October 5th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Restaurant, Travel.It’s always interesting to come to know a place through its food, and in Singapore the cuisine can tell many stories from its many histories. As a major port for centuries, there have been many cultural influences here that have worked their way in through the food. In Singapore, restaurant living is an illustration of [...]
Alvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Hong Kong’s New Curator
0 Comments Published by admin September 3rd, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.For all the necessary considerations for your travel arrangements in Hong Kong, hotel accommodations are perhaps the most important. The hotel is the center of the journey, the place where you lay your hat and your head. Hong Kong is a beautiful place to be spending any amount of time. It’s one of the most [...]
Excited to be going to the Met
0 Comments Published by admin September 2nd, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.I first head opera in the Loony Tunes cartoons I watched as a child growing up. Not knowing the songs were just tiny pieces from giant works and not really caring. The tunes would stick in my head and run through my brain over and over again. I would hum them as i played and [...]
If you are looking for a vacation centered in five-star hotels, Spain is one of Europe’s more splendid and interesting countries. With an enormously complicated and fascinating history, Spain has been at the center of some of the world’s greatest turning points. Our hotel accommodations puts you in the heart of Spain’s great cities, where [...]
Buddhist Temples Thailand
0 Comments Published by admin August 21st, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.There are hundreds of Buddhist temples in Thailand. Every town, every village and every city has temples. They sit on hillsides over looking the valleys below. The temples are an important part of Thai life. In the mornings the monks leave the temples doing their rounds for alms. People come out to give the monk [...]
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
0 Comments Published by admin August 11th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.Pitlochry, Scotland is situated along the River Tummel in the heart of the country. The town if full of beautiful scenery and old brick Victorian houses. It is a small town, with an estimated population of three thousand three hundred people. And though it may be small it has the largest theatre ensemble in the [...]
The Chinese Garden of Singapore
0 Comments Published by admin July 14th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Travel.Located close to many of the downtown Singapore hotels is the Chinese Garden. This garden has been open to the public since 1975, and along with the plants, and the beautiful array of colors, there are many monuments and works of architectural and sculptural art, a common thread in traditional gardens of China. From the [...]
The Sydney Opera House is more than the city’s premiere multi-venue performing arts complex. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007 and stands as a major cultural icon. It is one of the most famous performance arts venues in the world, and also is distinctive in its design of 20th Century architecture. It [...]
Mauritius is Inspiration to Writers
0 Comments Published by admin May 11th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.The island of Mauritius is well known for its beautiful beaches and scenery, and it has an extremely interesting cultural history and social dynamic. While it has many interesting natural heritage aspects, its association to literature and the arts is representative of its great and wondrous beauty. The writer Mark Twain refers to the island [...]
A Busy Year for the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra
0 Comments Published by admin April 26th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.The three maestros of the Cape Town Symphony are all talented and accomplished violinists, and they are all women. Concert master, Alla Shubinsky has recently become the part-time master. Instead of finding someone to completely replace her, the Symphony added two more part-time masters, Suzanne Martens andFarida Bacharova. Both women are professors [...]
Outdoor Cinema at Singapore’s Fort Canning Green
0 Comments Published by admin April 20th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Entertainment.Starlight Cinema is Singapore’s only outdoor cinema festival. It is held at the Fort Canning Green and is more than an experience in movie watching. The festival offers the opportunity to see new cinema, and it allows the audience to experience the beauty of the diverse weather evenings of Singapore. Because it is outdoors, it [...]
A grand occasion every year for the community of Chinese living in Singapore is the Lantern Festival, the traditional fall festival that runs from the beginning of September through the beginning of October. Many travel to the region each season for a taste and the experience of five star Singapore at its best. [...]
Singapore Artist, Cheong Soo Pieng
0 Comments Published by admin March 30th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.Cheong Soo Pieng was another Singaporean artist that had been born in China. He was born, the last of seven children, in 1917 and began his study at the Xiamen Academy when he was only sixteen. His family was not against his pursuit of art, though they also did not encourage it. However, he was [...]
Cape Town Now a Top Jazz Festival
0 Comments Published by admin March 27th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.The Cape Town International Jazz Festival, which is about to celebrate it’s 10th Anniversary, received a wonderful present: Melodytrip, a website devoted to musical festivals all over the world, has ranked the Cape Town event above both the Montreaux Festival in Switzerland and the North Sea Jazz Festival which is held in Holland.
Event organizers credit [...]
From the Perspective of Local Artists
0 Comments Published by admin March 22nd, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Travel.The city-state of Singapore has long desired to been seen as a viable participate in the world of art. The organizers of various shows and festivals have looked towards other cities in hopes of discovering ‘the way’ they achieved such acclaim and the reputations that cities such as Manhattan, or Paris, or Florence. [...]
The Attraction to the Balearic Islands
0 Comments Published by admin March 4th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Travel.The Balearic Islands offer much more than other destinations around the world. In the Mediterranean Sea and just of the coast of Spain, four main islands have become popular locations for travelers. There is a rich culture history in this region, that continues to grow and expand. From the excellent and varied [...]
Raj Ghat Memorial in Delhi
0 Comments Published by admin January 18th, 2009 in Arts & Culture, History, Travel.One of the jewels of India is the city of Delhi which is the country’s capital and its second largest metropolis by population. The city is famous for its incredible spiritual and historical sites as well as its amazing food and spectacular architecture. Every year, visitors ponder the contrast of this city that possesses [...]