The next day began with a stroll down 5th avenue to see all the Christmas lights. We started at our favorite place for Christmas windows: Bergdorf Goodman. The way I describe the fancy department store is that it will be the first place destroyed when the revolution comes. It’s where you can find handbags for […]
Read More Christmas in NYC: Part 2The end of 2014 is approaching! That means its time for lists of the best stuff of the year. Not top ten lists, but lists of indeterminate length. Yay! I’ll be spending this week going over my list of best books, best concerts, best theater shows, and a really short one on movies of 2014. […]
Read More Best Books of 2014Earlier this week, it was another amazing edition of That Belongs in the Museum. It’s Chicago’s newest and coolest live literary event. For those of you who haven’t had a chance to go, I highly recommend it. The idea is that people give a 30 second to 5 minute talk about an object they have […]
Read More That Belongs in a Museum 3The following day, we spent some time in the South Bund Fabric Market. It was a market filled with cloth of all different hues and textures. Per a Time Out Shanghai 2011 recommendation, we found the stall 273 by Jennifer. I have never gotten any clothing made by scratch before so it was quite an […]
Read More Part 2: ShanghaiRight now, I’m reading this wonderfully quirky travelogue named In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwick. It’s basically about this British man’s walking and hitchhiking trek across Patagonia to meet people , many ex-pats, and see fossils. He talks about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and other bandits. It’s wondrous so far but I’m not done with […]
Read More Travel Writers: Norman Lewis
Not Without My Bowler Hat 