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Outfitting Yourself for a Pirate's Life in San Francisco
OK, stop tickling, I confess! The Pirate Shop at 826 Valencia Street, in SF's wicked-eclectic Mission District is nothing but a cover for a clandestine operation. Behind the vaults of glass eyes, peg legs,…
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Eating a Highwayman's Feast at an Historic Pub in Hampstead, London
Once you’ve traversed the sprawling wilderness of north London’s Hampstead Heath, climbed to the summit of Parliament Hill (for views of St Pauls, Canary Wharf, and the London Eye), and navigated past the picknicking…
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Composing Your Own Ode on a Grecian Urn in the Kerameikos of Athens
At the gates of the ancient city, a ten-minute walk from the throng at the Athenian Agora, is a peaceful garden rich in history and emanating a quiet beauty. Here, a cemetery dating from…
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Channelling Martin Luther King in Newtown, Sydney, Australia
Proudly proclaiming its simple message, the "I Have a Dream" wall in King Street, Newtown is a focal point in Sydney’s indie heartland. Designed and painted by local artists in 1991 using a cherry…
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Lighting a Taize Candle at Trinity Church in San Francisco, CA
If going to church doesn’t sound like your idea of a good time, you haven’t been to Trinity’s Wednesday evening Taize Service. This mid-week tradition has its roots in France and is marketed as…
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Reaching for Robert Frost’s Roots in Derry, New Hampshire
The Robert Frost Farm may be in better shape today than it was when the poet lived here in the early 1900s. He wasn’t much of a farmer in the usual sense, but he…
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Feeling Poetic Inspiration in Valparaiso, Chile
As any Chilean will proudly remind you, Pablo Neruda was a poetic powerhouse, the passionate soul behind some of the most melancholy, love-struck verses ever written. But you don't need to be a scholar…
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Walking With Rilke in Trieste, Italy
Many are familiar with Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, but few have the chance to survey the landscape where they were written. Sentiero Rilke is a path that begins a short bus ride up…
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Vibing the Creative at Firehouse No. 13 in Providence, Rhode Island
What is this place you ask? Well, check your labels at the door because Firehouse No. 13 is at once an art space, spoken-word cafe, and lively music venue. A welcome phoenix rising from…
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Partying With Hipster-Intellectuals at Latitude in Suffolk, England
The producers of the massive Reading and Leeds Festivals also put on the more intimate Latitude Festival on the Suffolk coast. With a film tent, a cabaret section, and headliners known for cryptic lyrics—Interpol,…
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Rediscovering Poetry & Each Other in San Francisco, CA
Nestled just beyond the two dozen, nondescript steps of a triangular North Beach storefront dwells the crowning enclave of San Francisco’s reigning literary landmark: the City Lights Booksellers Poetry Room. Haunting the stacks, iconic…
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Getting an Earful of Slam Poetry in Berkeley, California
Every Wednesday night in the crowded Starry Plough Pub , you can experience some of Bay's best performance art. Sitting below a poster of Che on the grungy wall and surrounded by Berkeley hipsters…
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Conversing With Coffee in Redondo Beach, CA
Tucked away in a quaint little nook of Redondo Beach, Coffee Cartel offers the perfect scene for intellects, cultural enthusiasts, and modern-day hippies. This charming coffee house, laden with books and cozy couches, is…
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Aching with caffeinated delight and cheap kicks in Madrid, Spain
The Café Barbieri is a time capsule of tiled floor, marble table tops, ratty, red velour benches, dim lighting, and narrow glass doors that swing open onto the streets of Lavapiés, Madrid's old Jewish…
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Pausing on the Rocks Between the City and the Lake in Chicago
Some moments stick with you, and make you think of Matthew Arnold poetry as you remember them, years later. Chicago's Berger Park, at the very east end of Granville Avenue, is the kind of…
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