My roommate and her boyfriend and I all took a trip up to West Springfield, Mass. for the day yesterday and headed on over to The Big E. Probably the most legit carnival I’ve ever been to, and...
My two favorite men on television on one show?? How can it be possible?? (Full episode) http://www.colbertnat ion.com/full-episodes/thu-augu st-4-2011-anthony-bourdain
The road to gender equality is a bumpy one in many countries. When we initially think of gender inequality, The Middle East is an area that faces much criticism, but what many people are unaware of ...
The Casa Azul (“Blue House”) is where my most favorite artist, Frida Kahlo, grew up. The house in Coyoacan, Mexico was home to the Kahlo family and also served as a home to Leon Trotsky ...
Besides the fact that my main man Ernest Hemingway spent some time in Istanbul in 1922, there are a few reasons I want to hit up the largest city in Turkey. Once a basilica, later a mosque after the ...
Check out my article on the Ethos Press Corps website about the conflict between Unionism and Nationalism within the European Union!
Alright, so I just back from Dublin in June and I’m dying to go back. The one thing I never really got a chance to see when I was there was the Wheel of Dublin. Okay, listen, it may just seem...
A long time ago, I made a list of countries that I was dying to see. Since then, the list has grown to not only include countries, but specific places in those countries and various places I’v...
Belfast and much of the rest of Northern Ireland has become somewhat famous for their murals painted all across the country. They depict the history and political views of both the Catholics and the...
Howth (pronounced like “Hote”) is one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, and one of the most gorgeous parts of the world I’ve ever seen. Located in Fingal County near Dublin,...
So, this is the completed mural that we worked on last May (2010). Nicaraguan artist, Lester Arostegui, planed both this mural and the ones you’ll see in the slideshow below of the second mura...
It's cool to respect women The culture of machismo has become a global issue, particularly in Nicaragua. Machismo is the idea that men are superior to women and has become somewhat of a cultura...
So besides my somewhat strange fascination with little bugs that can carry other enormous dead bugs, there were a thousand other little things about my last trip to Nicaragua that were amazing. I wa...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or in a cave or maybe an estate in Pakistan?), you may have heard by now, late on Sunday May 2, President Obama formally announced the death of al-Qaida ...
Peace and anger and protest Why do people think it’s strange? John Mayer isn’t the only one waiting on the world to change. So go and fix the statistics on the pages of Wikipedia to reflect the posit...
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