THE GREAT MIGRATION HAS BEGUN As of March 17, Neena and I no longer live in Brooklyn. We’re spending the next several weeks driving across this great country, eventually settling in Los Angeles. As soon as we find our sea legs, expect updates and proper musings here and on T+L’s excellent blog, Carry On. We’ll [...]
Over at the Travel+Leisure blog, I profile Vikas Khanna, a rising star on the food circuit who’s destined to become the world’s first famous Indian chef.
Over at the Travel+Leisure blog, I report on a study that says bland airline food is unavoidable. And I wonder if India could ever host the Olympics.
Over at the Travel+Leisure blog, I slap Lufthansa for name-checking the despicable ‘Eat, Pray, Love’.
Over at the Travel+Leisure blog, I interview travel writer Jonathan Yevin, who pioneered the art of bag-free travel.
Neena and I loved Curaçao. Just loved it. As of Sunday, Curaçao will become an autonomous country under the Dutch crown. The celebrations will be widespread and ongoing, making this a great time to visit this tiny little island in the southern Caribbean. I’ll have several pieces published in the coming months, but while we wait for the New York Times to hit the presses, here’s a short bit on the Travel + Leisure blog.
Today’s headlines, including the return of Pervez, the wife-beating dance and a dead base-jumper.
For once, weird urinal news is coming out of China — not Japan, the usual land of body fluid obsession. A few days ago, Shaanxi Normal University unveiled a new pilot program aimed at conserving water. By using standing urinals, it’s said, women can save the university an estimated 160 tons of water (annually, I assume). Reactions thus far have been mixed. One student tried for “2 to 3 minutes” but ultimately couldn’t drain her ladysnake. Why so pee shy, Chinawomen?
Though little known in the U.S., Fang Zhouzi is China’s famous “Science Cop.” He goes after high-profile intellectuals, academics and executives, charging them with exaggeration, crackpottery and sometimes even outright fraud. It seems that he may have finally gone too far.
Today’s headlines, including the far right’s rise in Sweden, good news for tigers and a new stupid travel term.
Today’s headlines, including a heavy metal marketing ambassador, hard time for towel thief and taunting pedophiles make George Michael sad.
Dabangg is a feature film starring Bollywood A-lister Salman Khan. Released on September 10, it’s already smashed box office records in India. Though it’s received solid reviews from critics and audiences alike, not everyone’s happy about the film’s huge success. One man, in fact, is roaring mad.
It sounds like an old joke, but according to El Heraldo this really happened. When 300 cops staged a raid on a known drug den, a parrot sounded the alarm by screeching “Run, run or the cat will get you!” At a loss for prosecutable suspects, the police had little choice but to arrest the bird.
Giving a fake name to a reporter is a prank as old as newspapering itself. Pity the poor copy editor who fails to notice a quote from that most famous of pranksters, Heywood Jablomé (whose surname is given with a soft, French-style “j” and silent “e”). Though it seems unlikely, that doesn’t seem to be [...]
Today’s headlines, including a heavy metal marketing ambassador, hard time for towel thief and taunting pedophiles make George Michael sad.
Remember that Facebook hit list in Puerto Asis, Colombia that made headlines a few weeks ago? According to the New World Human Security Observatory, it’s nothing new.
Poor Kazakhstan, still smarting over Sacha Baron Cohen’s bumbling Borat character. Four years later, a Kazakhstani filmmaker is striking back with his own unauthorized sequel, “My Brother Borat.” Erkin Rakishev’s goal is to “show the real Kazakhstan.”
