Tagged With: museum
Overlooked New York: Louis Armstrong’s House
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photo: wallyg (via Flickr, under a Creative Commons license) ** Corona, the neighborhood where Louis Armstrong lived, is like a lot of harder-to-reach, just-far-enough-out-of-the-way outer-boro neighborhoods, which is to say: a bit down on its heels. The benefit? There are actual homes here, unlike the more densely constructed neighborhoods where people … Continue reading
New York City Police Museum/Museo de la Policia de Nueva York
Text & Photos: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] ** “Every time we go out, you act like you’ve just gotten off the boat like a refugee,” my wife jokes. But really, I think she’s right. It’s hard to go out in New York City without finding something … Continue reading
Museo de Chocolate de La Habana/Havana’s Chocolate Museum
Text: Martin Pei de la Paz Photos: Brayan Collazo; Indrani Soemardjan Translated by: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] * Every day, millions of people around the world consume chocolate in some form. Chocolate can be found in candies, drinks, and toiletries; it’s even been used in clothing designs and in … Continue reading
Mexico City by Metro: Bellas Artes
Installment 2 in our occasional series, Mexico City by Metro. This week, we surfaced at the Bellas Artes Metro stop. Bellas Artes, as its name promises, leaves you gape-jawed at the unexpected beauty of the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Museum of Fine Arts). It also leaves you gape-jawed and with an itchy photog finger in … Continue reading
