Making the Monsoon Wedding: Arranged Marriages in India
I met this really engaging Indian-American girl in the UK. I’ll call her Rishma. She was a career driven liberal feminist from California, who decided to study abroad for a year in France before her...
View ArticleSarawakian Culture
Lush with Rainforests and exotic wildlife, The state of Sarawak lies at the North-westernmost tip of Malaysian Borneo, third largest island in the world. Kuching, (formerly Sarawak City), is known as...
View ArticleCirque du Soleil goes Saltimbanco!
For someone slowly becoming enamored with living in an American metropolis, it was all too fitting that Saltimbanco should come to Massachusetts. The earliest traveling installment of Circ du Soleil,...
View ArticleBeautiful Memory: Kuching, Malaysia
From the city of cats, comes greatness in all manner of beauty. Cosmopolitan capital of Borneo, home of the amazing Rainforest World Music Festival, and home of an earth-shattering sunset. Ladies and...
View ArticleThe Biggest Baddest Bucket List!
Hi everyone! My friend Jean just made this great video about her home town Kuching, Malaysia! She’s trying to win the ‘Biggest Baddest Bucket-List’ Competition by showcasing Kuching and all its...
View ArticleCaves Ouvertes: Three Kisses on the Cheek and Vin!
“Enjoy Moderately, Love Passionately.” I kicked off my summer with the Geneva Interns Association to celebrate Caves Ouvertes (Open Cellars) Day in the form of wine tasting at several vineyards on the...
View ArticleEl Bloqueo: The Swiss Cuban Cigar Trade
Grand Genève. The Capital of World Peace. “The most boring city in all of Europe.” … and illicit hub for the Habanos cigar trade? The 1962 U.S. embargo on Cuban goods may have seen reinforcement in...
View Article“Up Too Late” – aka BCM’s 100th Birthday Gala
Imagine this premise: free run of all three floors of Boston’s sprawling Children’s Museum with no kids in sight! Might I also mention it was restricted to ages 21+, with music blasting through the...
View ArticleParklets: A Continuation of Coffee shop Culture
In 2012, the city of Boston started a new experiment with urban space by way of the parklet. The size of a mere few former parking spaces on the side of a road or near full sized parks, these phenomena...
View ArticleInstant Coffee: Why China and Colombia Reject the Good Stuff
Instant coffee consumption is on the rise in China and Colombia – but not for the same reasons. A sound marketing strategy mandates that companies adapt to local tastes, à la McDonald’s bringing...
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