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Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Curators decry parody souvenirs, claim quasi-copyright

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D 'n' me at the Accademia in June. RJ Peltz-Steele CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 David's genitals are all the rage in Florentine touristic fas...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Trademark feud centers on unsolved double murder

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Lizzie Borden House, left; Miss Lizzie's Coffee, right. A museum and a coffee shop are locked in trademark litigation over the name of a...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Greenland celebrates 'National Day,' ever growing autonomy, but dependence on Danish aid persists

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Greenland flags celebrate National Day, Qaqortoq. Yesterday I was in Qaqortoq, Greenland, for Greenland National Day, June 21. (All photos b...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Entrepreneur Jones develops one-stop tour site

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A new website, Flaming Travel aims to fill a market gap in tour and adventure searching, giving world travelers a one-stop shop to search m...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Bahamian development, identity stall between Columbus, Atlantis; tourist dollars seem not to land

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Columbus is absent from Government House, Nassau. Bowen Yang's amusing portrayal of Christopher Columbus on the Saturday Night Live &qu...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

'1,000 Places to Fall to Your Death,' Utah edition, means American tort law hasn't undermined pioneer spirit

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I can't help but check out the tortscape when I travel.  As mentioned last week, I have been traveling recently in Utah.  The sights ar...
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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Library podcast sights bike path highs in Rhode Island

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Today is World Bicycle Day . In tandem with National Bicycle Month in May, podcast Rhody Radio published a poignant episode featuring the...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Smart graffiti graces Warren, R.I.

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Caught some local art in the Clet Abraham tradition on my late-night homeward commute Monday. Warren, Rhode Island, on Main Street oppos...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Social-science saucebox opines on bike-bridge closures

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A reporter stopped me on a run last week to obtain my critical policy analysis of the bridge-replacement situation on the East Bay Bike ...