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Boston’s Fenway and Blues

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Jun 19 2010

Boston has a long list of historical places to visit and Fenway Park is one of them. This is a ball park that will take you back to what it was like in the beginning of baseball. One of the reasons that fans love to see a game from the stands and not their living room. The Boston Red Sox have call this home since 1912. While other major league ball teams have moved to new facilities, the Red Sox continue to call this classic park their home. This makes it the oldest major league baseball field to be in continued use in the country. Only the Boston Red Sox, as an organization, has been around longer. Whether one is coming out to see the Red Sox play or their rival for the day, serious baseball fans find a way to get to this park before they die. Today, the best boston hotel couldn’t keep a baseball fan in.

While in Fenway Park area fans can spend a little time enjoying the businesses and establishments that are around the park. There are always some good sports bars outside of the park were fans can come before and after the game to talk about current sports events over a few beers and listen to some great bands. There is a House of Blues across the way from the park ready to rock the city. They have some solid local acts and many national and international acts hitting the stage. In fact, many people find themselves here even on a non game night. This is a good place to get a steak or a burger and a beverage from their loaded bar. From Ted Nugent to Cindy Lauper there is a night for everyone to have a great time at the House of Blues.

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Air Supplies Indianapolis Airheads

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Jan 27 2010

This is going to be a great year for Indianapolis.  The city that has a midwestern heart and a cosmopolitan outlook always has something interesting and new going on.  There’s always something very exciting for the locals as well as travelers wondering what’s happening in this city.  Tourists often come to Indianapolis and find that the luxury hotels are truly world-class, and all the hospitality and style of the city are displayed here in the lodgings.  There’s a lot to enjoy in a fine hotel, but in Indianapolis, there’s a lot going on in the city as well.

This February promises to be even more exciting that normal, when Air Supply comes to Muncie.  In a time of so much 70s and 80s retro, this group often gets lost in the shuffle, being in between the decades and steadfastly refusing to belong to any.  They still record and play together, too, which means there’s never a big pr campaign for a reunion tour.  They’ve played a lot of places outside the U.S., including a show in Cuba a few years ago that drew a stunning crowd, but it didn’t necessarily make the new here.  But despite all these reasons, the long time fans from here know that we’ve been all out of Air Supply for awhile, and we really are so, so lost without you.

Thirty-five years is a long time for any band to be together, and Air Supply coming, this will be a great chance for fans from here to give Graham and Russell another listen.  They gave us some tremendous moments when we were growing up, and it was the perfect thing to hear after your love life went sour, and you found yourself thinking out loud and falling out of touch.  We’re eager to see them be exactly what we always wanted.

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Cellist Zoe Keating in San Francisco

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Dec 01 2009

San Francisco is full of amazing cultural elements and city landmarks. It is absolutely beautiful and one of the major cities in the United States. In addition, there are many great artists, actors and musicians that are based there and also a number of iconic performance establishments and museums. Cellist Zoe Keating is just one of many performers that is based in this great American city. Tourists who stay in a San Francisco hotel may have the opportunity to see her perform live while they are visiting.

Keating was born in Ontario Canada to an American father and an English Mother. She began playing the cello at the age of eight and while she almost immediately loved the instrument and knew she would spend a lifetime playing it, she was not particularly interested in pursuing a career in the classical music field, such as playing for a symphony orchestra. She does appreciate and even play classical music, but has always seemed to have her own agenda and performance orientation. She studied cello at Sarah Lawrence College before moving to San Francisco. She is well known for playing onstage while recording herself and playing it back in loops. This gives the audio quality of sounding like up to 16 cellos are playing at once when it is all Keating.

She is also a composer and has written the score for films. Keating collaborates with other artists and has performed with Rasputina, the all female cello based rock band. On more than one occasion Keating has toured with musician Imogen Heap. In fact, Heap is one of her standard contemporary tour partners. In addition she has worked with Amanda Palmer and performed on the album Who Killed Amanda Palmer. Keating has been featured on television programs and frequently performs in the San Francisco area.

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The Opera House in Sydney

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Nov 24 2009

If you were to ask, who won the highest honor in architecture, the Pritzker Prize, for the year 2003, you probably wouldn’t be able to provide an answer; however, if you were asked to describe that large building constructed like a series of billowing sails in Sydney, Australia, you’d probably do much better.  The answer to the first question is Jorn Utzon, a Danish architect, and, of course, the answer to the second question is the Sydney Opera House, which he desgined.   Only a few years ago, in 2007, the building was declared an UNESCO World Heritage site.

Utzon’s designs for the building were chosen in 1957; however, the construction would not be complete until 1973, sixteen years later.  Since then, the Sydney Opera House has become synonymous not only with Sydney, but all of Australia, and a major destination point for tourists everywhere, from those traveling on the cheap to those staying at the fine luxury hotels Sydney has to offer.  The building itself is 605 feet long and about 388 feet wide, covering nearly 5 acres of land, with an expressionist design of shells made from concrete, covered with tiles of in a pattern of chevrons numbering one million fifty six hundred thousand and six!

There are five venues contained in the building, so the name Sydney Opera House is a bit of a misnomer.  The structure contains The Concert Hall (on the West side), and the Opera Theater (on the East side).  Other smaller venues beneath the Concert Hall include The Studio, the Drama Theatre, and the Playhouse).

The Concert Hall seats 2,678, and provides a home for the Sydney Symphony.   It also contains one of the world’s largest organs (10,000 pipes!).  The smaller Opera Theatre seats 1,507 and provides a venue for the The Australian Ballet, as well as Opera Australia.  The Drama Theatre contains 544 seats, which the Sydney Theatre Company utilizes, as well as the Playhouse, which holds room for 398 patrons.  The Studio is changeable, and depending on the configuration of the room, can hold as many as 400.  One of the many famous spots in Australia, the Opera House is well worth your time to be one of the theater goers in those seats!

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DJ JDEE Goa

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Oct 13 2009

Travel in India is always a fascinating experience.  The multiple cultures and languages, and the heartbeats of the different cities, are simply amazing to behold.  Goa has a particularly interesting and complicated history, where the Portuguese occupation left its marks in the architecture and styles, to add another layer of complexity to the place.  It also has some of the most stunning beaches, and natural spaces, in the world.  The city is lively and the night life is particularly fun, and it’s a perfect place for 5 star hotels.  Goa has many layers of mystery, that can’t even begin to unfold, with just one visit.  But one visit can be the experience of a lifetime.

Whether you are looking for a beach to get away from it all, or the city to immerse yourself in another culture, there are many choices for fantastic things to do here.  It’s not required that you pull yourself away from the hotel, which will have many splendid amenities to keep you refreshed and delighted, but it’s a lovely experience if you can get into the local scene here.  One perfect point of entry is the clubs.  There will certainly be many tourists like yourself, and plenty of opportunities to swap travel stories, but you’ll also get a glimpse into India at night.  You’ll no doubt hear plenty about Goa trance, the techno form that was developed here, and is heard in clubs all over the world, and there are plenty of chances to hear the musical stylings that made the beach city famous on the international dance scene.

But if you want to hear some new local stylings, keep an eye and an ear out for DJ JDEE.  This Bangalore native spins in some of the hottest parties in all of India, and currently makes his home in Goa.  He’s had an interesting road to get here, having pursued a future in engineering until the muses of sound grabbed his attention.  He left that all behind to pursue this path, and we’re certainly glad he made the move.  He spins for hot local events like I Love Music, and is stacking up an impressive number of gigs all over the country, as his reputation and legend continues to grow.  Catch him here in Goa.

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