A walk in the park turns extraordinary in Chicago. Visit Congress Boulevard and Michigan Avenue to see more. —Lori Tripoli
Casual Foodie: Beer and Pretzels Chicago
For good people- watching in Chi-Town, check out the sidewalk tables at State and Lake restaurant at 201 N. State Street, Chicago. Wash some pretzels down with a beer and enjoy the view. —Lori Tripoli
Street Art, Chicago: Bright Lights
Yes, the Art Institute is fantastic, wiggling my toes in the sand on the shore of Lake Michigan is delightful, that architecture boat tour is enlightening, but what I really like about Chicago is the street art. —Lori Tripoli
Mississippi Queen in Hamburg
Add to the list of things I do not expect to see floating on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany: a steamboat named Mississippi Queen. U.S. culture is found in the most unlikely places. —Lori Tripoli Seeking other unusual sites in Hamburg? Consider these: Reason to Visit Hamburg: WWII Bunker Transformed to Green Energy Plant…
Street Art: Denver
An image says it all: love and guns in Denver. —Lori Tripoli
Street Art Bears: Denver, Berlin
Apparently, bears are the spirit animal for more than one town. I see a blue bear in Denver and some very colorful ones in Berlin. —Lori Tripoli
Flashback Friday: World Trade What?
As a New Yorker, seeing this sign in Denver causes a pause. In my mind, the real World Trade Center is the one that’s gone. —Lori Tripoli
Soaring Street Art: Vancouver
I don’t know how far I’ve gone on my walk from my hotel to the Vancouver Convention Centre, through rush-hour traffic, through nervousness that I’m late for an interview, I’m late for conference registration, I’m not 100-percent entirely sure I’m even walking in the right direction, when I start to notice the eagles. New York…
Manhattan Hobbyhorse
I’m not sure that Jeff Koons’s Split-Rocker at Rockefeller Center in New York City works quite as well as Puppy did, but it’s fun to contemplate the more recent work over watermelon and tomato salad at Rock Center Café. I look forward to seeing Play-Doh at the Whitney (through Oct. 19, 2014). —Lori Tripoli
7/11/1779: Feeling Bedford Burn
It’s hard to envision bucolic Bedford, N.Y. as a war zone, but it was one during the Revolutionary War. British forces traveled up Guard Hill Road and then burned all but one of the houses in the village 235 years ago today. How often I drive on Guard Hill and think only fleetingly about its…