The shows to see this fall, and nearby spots for after.
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Fall Culture Travel :: Jousting In Texas
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Hear ye, hear ye! Gather up thy lances and purchase thy turkey legs for the Texas Renaissance Festival, which began a week and a half ago and continues through Thanksgiving in the town of Plantersville, northwest of Houston.
Maybe Ren Fests are more of a summer thing in temperate regions, but would you really want to wear a corset in 95-degree heat? The festival runs every weekend with fireworks at night, jousts daily and special performances by groups like Sound and Fury--a "Fakespearean" acting troupe--and the bell ensemble Cast in Bronze.
Go back in time for the weekend, then head back to Houston for amazing Mexican food or a turn around the ice-skating rink at the Galleria to jolt you back into the 21st century.
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· Texas Renaissance Festival [Official Site]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Stuttgart's Art and Bonnie & Clyde
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best culture travel. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the upcoming shows to see.
The middle of Europe is always a good place to gaze at art, mostly because it's often raining outside. And because plenty of the world's best painters and sculptors are from around these regions, the galleries are pretty well stocked. In Stuttgart the Staatsgalerie (state gallery) is no exception, although many visitors come especially to see the outside of it with its pastel-painted modern architecture. As well as a stunning regular collection, rolling exhibitions feature greats like Monet, Gauguin and Matisse.
When you need food and drinks (and, according to their slogan, also rock'n'roll) then it must be time to head for Bonnie & Clyde near the Stöckach subway station. As well as being a hang-out for local students, it seems to attract a mixed crowd of Germans and foreigners, and the staff speak good English so you'll be able to get exactly the beer you're after--important when there are so many good German beers to choose from.
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· Staatsgalerie Stuttgart [Official Site]
· Bonnie & Clyde [Official Site]
· Fall Culture Travel Map [Jaunted]
· Fall Culture Travel Map Coverage [Jaunted]
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Fall Culture Travel :: A Paler Shade Of Blue in SF
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Take your jazz with a side of fog this year at the 25th Anniversary San Francisco Jazz Festival, which runs October 17 through November 30. Yes, even the Bay Area can have the blues, but with artists like Cuban swingster Issac Delgado and sitar master Ravi Shankar, there's way more to it than just the 12-bar.
Pick up your tickets now for sure-to-sell-out acts like Dr. John's night of zydeco and the genre-crossing Kronos Quartet. Since the festival runs for weeks, it's happening at venues all over the city. Places like the Herbst Theatre and the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre are worth seeing in their own right--all the better if top-notch jazz is part of the program.
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· San Francisco Jazz Festival [Official Site]
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[Photo of last year's festival: Scott Chernis]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Iraq in NYC
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
It's easy to hate on 20-something hedge fund dudes for their career successes, but we can't extend the same pessimism to Ashley Gilbertson, the 29-year-old photojournalist whose book chronicling the war in Iraq, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, will hit shelves in just a few weeks.
In honor of the book's release, from Thursday, October 18 to November 29, 10 life-sized photos and selected excerpts will hang on the walls of the hip Lower East Side space, GalleryBar. Selected images of the 2004 battle for Falluja, the early occupation and Iraq's recent national elections are examples of what you can expect.
After absorbing the realities of the world, grab one (or two, or three) of 39 beers at the newly-opened Spitzer's Corner at Ludlow and Rivington to ruminate on foreign policy and ponder how excited you are for the next presidential election.
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· GalleryBar [Official Site]
· Fall Culture Travel Map [Jaunted]
· Fall Culture Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Ashley Gilbertson]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Alice In Chicago
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
Linda Warren Gallery in downtown Chicago's West Fulton Market opened its Fall 2007 art season with the work of Heather Marshall. The exhibition, called "Olio Tableaux," is her first time presenting solo. Her small, rich paintings demand a careful and close eye, and the longer you look the more you seem to see. In a separate gallery space, Kathy Ruttenberg's ceramics, with their creepy Alice in Wonderland feel, are on view. The dual exhibitions are the perfect preface for dinner at Sunday Dinner Chicago.
Go down the rabbit hole and enter the magical hidden garden of the private outdoor restaurant run by three friends who met in culinary school, including a cook at Chicago's trendy NAHA restaurant. The trio runs a monthly supper club, and for $55, you can join the group for dinner.
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· Linda Warren Gallery [Official Site]
· Sunday Dinner Chicago [Official Site]
· Fall Culture Travel Map [Jaunted]
· Fall Culture Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Linda Warren Gallery]
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Fall Culture Travel: Get Thirsty in New York
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
Remember when California tried to ship fresh water from the Great Lakes to the West Coast after a lengthy draught in the early '90s? We don't really either, but you can learn more about it, and the finite resource's past and future at the upcoming exhibit, Water: H20 = Life, at New York's American Museum of Natural History. This compelling show opens November 3 and will run until May 26, 2008. It explains that less than 1 percent of the Earth's water is readily available for human consumption and examines just what we can do to protect this natural resource.
Afterwards, you're bound to be thirsty, so head down to Prohibition. This trendy watering hole is dressed up like a 1920s speakeasy, with exposed brick walls and wooden booths. Order up one of the eight beers on tap, a house mojito or the Ciroc white grape martini. But skip the water--we hear it's a precious resource.
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· Water: H20 = Life [American Museum of Natural History]
· Prohibition [Official Site]
· Fall Cultural Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Writers Fest Vancouver
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
The The Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival in Vancouver is a week-long celebration of the joy of reading (with a bit of French Canadian joie de lire thrown in, too). The festival is celebrating 20 years of presenting authors to their loyal followers. This year, more than 12,000 people are expected to attend. The event takes place on Granville Island, the high rise-filled plot of land located along False Creek across from downtown Vancouver's peninsula. In addition to the festival, organizers put together regular reading events. In November, they will bring in former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to the Granville Island Stage to talk about his (painfully titled) new memoir, A Passion for Politics.
After learning all about Chrétien's passions, you can cool down by grabbing a drink and maybe a bite along the waterfront at Bridges Seafood Restaurant. Until the Canadian cold makes it too unbearable, diners pack onto the deck at tables covered by bright yellow umbrellas. The most popular item on the outdoor bistro menu is the chilled seafood platter, a shareable plate that includes prawns (that's British for shrimp), crab, smoked salmon, tuna tartare, ceviche, oysters, pepper crusted tuna and mussels.
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· Vancouver Writers Festival [Official Site]
· Bridges Seafood Restaurant [Official Site]
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· Vancouver Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Fall Culture Travel :: All Roads in LA
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
The All Roads Film Festival will be held this weekend at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. The event includes film, a photography exhibition, a live music concert, panels and workshops.
While Beverly Hills is known for its famous zip code and mass-market films, for one weekend, the town strips off its consumerism when National Geographic gives a forum to the voices of indigenous people and the underprivileged. Directors and their subjects in this NG-hosted event do the talking. The nationalities represented in this year's festival include many tribes of native Canadians and Americans, as well as Finnish, Aboriginal Australian, Iranian, Kurdish, Ethiopian, Indian, Mexican and Maori people.
High on newly-broadened horizons and wishing you weren't on Team Oppressor, head over to Uzbekistan (the restaurant, not the country). It's down Sunset Boulevard on the corner of La Brea underneath a big purple sign. It has authentic Uzbek cuisine, including vegetable salad with dill, lagman (a homemade noodle and stir fry dish with lamb or chicken) and potato dumplings in a tomato sauce. Live bands perform on weekend nights. Even better: In the afternoons you can watch Russian soap operas while you eat.
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· All Roads Festival [Official Site]
· Los Angeles Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Darfur in Brooklyn
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
Some of the most interesting exhibits often come to the smallest of places, which is definitely the case with Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan at The Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn. This exhibit for social justice features heartbreaking and tragic images of the 2.5 million people who have been displaced by violence in Sudan. Powerhouse may not be the nation's premier art venue, but with exhibit backers like Media for Social Justice, Amnesty International, and the Holocaust Museum of Houston, it's definitely worth a look before it closes this weekend.
Since this photographic display will probably leave you and your friends with a lot to ponder, head over to nearby Rebar, at 68 Jay St., which opened its doors late last year. Fans of the coffee house and wine bar say it feels intimate, but never cramped, which makes it perfect for post-Powerhouse chats.
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· Powerhouse Arena [Official Site]
· Fall Culture Travel Map [Jaunted]
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[Photo: Powerhouse Arena]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Hopper in DC
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
What better place to catch an art show in the US capital than the National Gallery of Art? Until early next year, the museum has a show featuring a load of paintings from iconic American artist Edward Hopper. And, yes, one of the paintings is Nighthawks, that scene you totally had a poster of in your dorm room. It's worth seeing the show just to check out the real thing.
To make like the lonely man in the painting--only, we hope, with a little less lonely--head to the Waffle Shop, near the gallery at 522 10th St., NW. This old-school diner has a nice little counter and a big menu of greasy-spoon options. But get there fast: neighborhood development plans have the diner, like Hopper's paintings, set to fade into history.
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· National Gallery [Official Site]
· Fall Culture Travel Map [Jaunted]
· Fall Culture Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago]
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Fall Culture Travel :: Photography in Chicago
Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we're mapping the latest shows worth seeing--and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.
The Art Institute of Chicago has plenty to see on any given day, but for the next month or so, the photography of Richard Misrach is the thing to check out. His massive aerial photos of beach scenes are at first glance peaceful and pretty. But these digital prints of couples on the sand and cerulean seas aren't meant to be glamour shots; Misrach is going for something else. The longer you look the more you get that unsettled feeling--like when you hum the Jaws theme while swimming.
If you still have the jitters, we'd suggest a decaf--rather than regular--coffee at nearby Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea. With roasts from around the world, the shop is renowned for having some of the sharpest baristas in town. And given the name, you should be able to find some smart people to talk art with.
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· The Art Institute of Chicago [Official Site]
· Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea [Official Site]
· Museums coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Marc Selwyn Fine Art]
