• Travel with a Twist

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• 04.Aug
• Soul Travel

• On my first trip to France I was 29 years old. I had dreamt of going to France since the summer between the fifth and sixth grade, right after I had finished my first semester of grade school French. Even more so after I read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens in my [...]

• Food for the Table

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• 24.Feb
• Tarte Tatin

• A classic warm  Tarte Tatin made in my kitchen and served with Vanilla Ice Cream. I haven’t made a Tarte Tatin in ages. Even though making a Tarte Tatin was the whole reason why I bought the 8-inch All-Clad Master Chef Fry Pan on sale, which, by the way, is the perfect size and shape [...]

• Culture

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• 13.May
• May 13, 1882: Georges Braque

• Georges Braque May 13, 1882 in Argenteuil, Val-d’Oise – August 31, 1963 buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. Valery in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy Braque grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during evenings at the [...]

• Photo of the Day

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• 14.Jun
• Photo Of The Day: Pont-Neuf Gargoyles

• I have always been fascinated by gargoyles: those fantastical creatures and figures that adorn so many of the ‘old’ world’s wonderful buildings. Europe in particular, is filled with structures whose façades are embellished with delightful examples of grotesque faces and Gothic monsters, whose purpose is – what? To ward off evil, perhaps? Or to keep [...]

• Arts Beat

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• 09.May
• RERO At BackSlash Gallery

• An Ancient Greek term, Eidolon means apparition and in this exhibition Rero developed his own concept of illusion, powered by an overdose of images of urban environments. The essence of Rero’s work poses the problem of representation through one of his pieces that uses the acronym “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) – [...]

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