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May 21, 2016
More Secrets of Florence: Naked Debtors And Michelangelo's Graffiti
Would you like to know more about Florence than many Florentines?
Allow me to share with you my second installation ofThe Secrets of Florence.
The first, Finding the Hidden Secrets of Florence: 8 You Don't Want to Miss,was so fun, I had to go hunting for more!
In Part Two, you will find that Michelangelo was a graffiti artist, Cellini a self-absorbed sculptor, and if you had debts in Renaissance Florence, you may have just ended up beaten and naked...
May 18, 2016
#StudyAbroadBecause I didn’t learn it, I lived it
Cassidy Davis is a recent graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, where she received two degrees, one in Communication and one in Digital Media. She also graduated with a Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies certificate and a minor in Theater. She has spent all three of her summers in college interning in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. She first interned for Susie Farris Casting, and then worked for CBS for two summers. The first tim...
Postcard From Plitvice Lakes National Park
As Croatian folk music blasts in the background, my family makes our way through windy mountain roads in our tiny rental car. We drive quickly by tiny villages and rolling green hills, dotted with trees, where happy sheep graze. The mountains are very beautiful, but only a preview of the spectacular place we are soon enter. Before long, the drive is over, the music turned off, the tickets bought, and we are entering the park.
Plitvice Lakes is a fa...
May 17, 2016
Opportunity for US Teachers: Travel to Ghana for Professional Development
ACCRA AND KUMAWU, GHANA. August 17 - August 24th, 2016. Want to go?
US Schoolteachers will have the opportunity to travel to Ghana to participate in the 3rd J Rêve International Global Educator Program. Previous programs have been conducted in Dakar, Senegal and Paris, France. J Rêve International’s Global Educator program is a professional development experience that equips teachers with global competencies necessary to bring arts...
May 16, 2016
Alison Brown: Song of the Banjo
Growing up in Connecticut, eight year old Alison Brown was learning to play guitar when she heard a recording by bluegrass musicians Flatt and Scruggs. She fell in love with the banjo. "I knew I wanted to make *that* sound," she recalls.
So she has, playing and writing award winning bluegrass music and taking her instrument into jazz, Celtic, Americana, folk, rock, and pop - and into music which mixes of all these genres where s...
Florida Culture for the Week of May 16, 2016 by Josh Garrick
Florida Culture for the Week of May 16, 2016 by Josh Garrick
Some very special things happened in the past week for some very special people. It is my great pleasure to begin this week’s column with CONGRATULATIONS to …
Congratulations to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer – the greatest Mayor in the World -- as he receives the Harvey Milk Diversity Award’s much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award for “his constant efforts to create an inclusive government th...
May 15, 2016
The Intercultural Being
Today we live in a globalized world where we constantly engage in cross-cultural dialogue on a daily basis. As a result of our participation in this growing multicultural environment, our culturalidentities are being redefined, as we transcend borders, and broaden our connections to various communities, at home and abroad. While we have achieved new levels of peace and unity, it is evident that discrimination, prejudice, and bias sti...
Photographer of the Month: Courtney Quirin
Courtney Quirin is a wildlife biologist turned environmental journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has reported for Al Jazeera America in San Francisco and for The Associated Press in Johannesburg, South Africa. Courtney's first documentary, which was her thesis at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, won the 2015 CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best Student Documentary and the Margaret & William Hearst Award for Exce...
May 13, 2016
How to Eat Well at Disney World: The New Skipper Canteen
All Walt Disney World fans will understand the excitement of a new opening in the parks. While projects are still underway in Hollywood Studios and the Animal Kingdom, one new location, at least, is open for business. The Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen is as much an attraction as a dining experience. This new eatery will be a nostalgia-fest for all Disney park fans who remember the S.E.A., or Society of Explorers a...
May 12, 2016
The Secret to Big Fun in Santa Barbara for Very Little Money
Santa Barbara, California occupies some of the state's prime coastal real estate. The city has even trade-marked the tagline The American Riviera - that should tell you something. It's a popular destination for its natural beauty, beaches, Spanish colonial architecture, restaurants, and outdoor activities. Located just two hours north of Los Angeles, it's also a hotspot for celebrities of all types to escape the city for a relaxing weekend. If all o...
