How to Enjoy Venice in Winter
Venice in the summer is charming — you get long days to wander the streets, dine al fresco, and while away the hours out on a plaza nursing an Aperol […]
Tag Archives: Music
Horseheads: A Mayberry Kind of Town
I’ve just been to visit the Village of Horseheads, New York (where the population barely reaches 20,000). This is a tiny place, a blink of an eye with a disturbing […]
The City of Music and Dreams
Music abounds nearly everywhere in Vienna’s center city — even if you can’t hear it, someone in a fancy fake Renaissance outfit will step out and try to sell you […]
The Vienna of God and the Emperors
After visiting universities in Holland, I took a short flight to Austria for a conference. If the Netherlands is cozy, Vienna is stately — it’s clear that the Austrian Habsburgs […]
Singing for the Gods
On our way to the wet market at Beauty World last week, Prescott and I stumbled upon yet another mysterious giant tent in the middle of a field. My querying […]
Light to Night
Singapore continues its love affair with projecting art onto the side of its public buildings. They call these projections “light skins,” and the latest bunch are coming to us courtesy […]
Evenings Out
Not surprisingly for a densely-packed island with well over five million people, there’s a lot to do at night in Singapore. Unless Prescott is out at improv practice, our weeknights […]
From Palestrina to Hula
Yesterday I got up at 6:00 (on a Saturday), walked through the absolutely pouring rain to the MRT, and went to the Esplanade Theaters to see a group of six […]
(En)countering Colonial Legacies
The title of this post isn’t mine — I’ve borrowed it from the exhibit I went to see yesterday, “Artist and Empire,” at the National Gallery of Singapore. It’s an […]
Running Errands
I know, I know — everyone wants to read about people running errands. It’s almost as fun as running the errands themselves. But today’s chores had to happen sometime, and we […]
