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Review: Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Eighty-five-year-old Jiro, with his unchanging expression and bald pate, resembles a wizened turtle. Leaving home at age 9 and forced to fend for himself, he would become the world's greatest sushi chef.
A quest to sushi chefdom
By BRETT MICHEL  |  April 06, 2012
Short Take: The Adventures of Tintin

Review: The Adventures of Tintin(1)

I don't know how fans of the title hero are going to take this adaptation, since I'm not familiar with the classic Hergé comic strip on which it's based, but followers of Steven Spielberg might regard it as a second-rate, animated Indiana Jones.
Spielberg's second-rate animated Indiana Jones
By PETER KEOUGH  |  December 23, 2011
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Review: Littlerock(1)

Two young Japanese tourists, siblings Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), get stranded when their car breaks down in the California backwater of the title.
Altogether original
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 07, 2011
We Like Bikes - a lot.

We Like Bikes

I Love My Bike, a book of street photography by Matthew Finkle, with text by Brittain Sullivan, has captured the imaginations of people in far-flung lands.
There has never been a better time or place to be a cyclist
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON  |  June 17, 2011
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Catapulter wants you to travel smarter

You’re headed to New York and you need to keep the trip as cheap as possible, but also want WiFi, so you can work. Or perhaps you’re due in Boston’s Back Bay area, ASAP, and you need the ride to be quick and direct, even if it costs a little extra.
Point A to Point B
By MARION DAVIS  |  February 25, 2011
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Don't be an idiot

We're all idiots when we're 18. We're all idiots for the first half of our 20s, and longer, for some. By saying so, we're not trying to insult anyone.
What we wish someone had told us about making the best of the college experience
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 28, 2011
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Airport upgrades

Air travel choices have evolved.
Hoopleville
By DAVID KISH  |  December 03, 2010
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Remain in light

In the late 1970s, Linda Connor began photographing sacred sites.
Linda Connor's sacred 'Odyssey' at the RISD Museum
By GREG COOK  |  July 23, 2010
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Worth the gamble?

Just three years after Rhode Island voters killed plans for a full-scale, Vegas-style casino, big-time gambling is in the cards again.
A push for full-scale Vegas-style casinos is in the cards again. Can poker and craps save a state in freefall?
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  December 18, 2009
National Lighthouse Day

National Lighthouse Day


If you have a coastline, you have some lighthouses. Rhode Island is rich with the protective outposts and, today being National Lighthouse Day, it might...
By webteam  |  August 04, 2009
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East meets West

The paintings in "Shôwa Sophistication" at the Museum of Fine Arts are like the dreamiest travel posters you've ever seen.
'Shôwa' at the MFA, and Mrs. Gardner's Asian tour
By GREG COOK  |  March 24, 2009
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The holly and the miser

Let the current financial tsunami be a lesson to you, arrogant plebeian consumer: greed cometh before a fall.
You're suddenly poor; suck it up and be cheap
By KARA BASKIN  |  December 08, 2008
A Look at The Look Book

A Look at The Look Book


Yes, yes, I am obsessed with Amy Larocca's weekly New York magazine fashion popsicle, in which she interviews one or more crazily dressed urbanite and...
By Sharon Steel  |  March 17, 2008

Fun with the Police State


    Thanks to winter weather closing half the airports in the America, we headed out of South Station for Baltimore by Amtrak a few weekends...
By Clif Garboden  |  March 16, 2008
Daily Street Art: The NYT covers Berlin graffiti

Daily Street Art: The NYT covers Berlin graffiti


Yesterday's New York Times travel section had an interesting piece about graffiti and street art in Berlin. From the article:"Nearly everywhere you go, from the...
By Caitlin E. Curran  |  March 03, 2008
Daily Street Art: Back from Paris and Iansanity

Daily Street Art: Back from Paris and Iansanity


Daily street art posts have been minimal lately, due to my recent absence from the office/country, but I'm back and voilà! I've brought street art...
By Caitlin E. Curran  |  February 29, 2008

Flashbacks: adventures in smuggling, all-star alternatives, and yet another person who's been threatened by Dapper O’Neil


CONFESSIONS OF A SMUGGLER20 years agoFebruary 5, 1988 | Nancy Roosa wrote of her experience as a smuggler in Asia.“The offers were almost too good...
By Ian Sands  |  February 07, 2008

Searching for Hidden Treasure in Gloucester


This past Saturday, I visited Gloucester, Massachusetts. While there, I didn’t duck into the Cape Ann Historical museum, didn’t check out the docks where the...
By Ian Sands  |  November 13, 2007