port fonda

Cool Mexican eatery in Kansas City, MO. 






 *Photo credit/New York Times/photographer: Nathan Eaton/Port Fonda restaurant in Kansas City, MO.

british library

Visit the British Library's online gallery and the thousands of historic images in online exhibitions.

variations on a theme

Beans, beans. and more beans.


*Photo credit/New York Times/photographer: Ryan Conaty/"Bean hole baked beans."

sixties explosion

Via museumstudiesmacquarie, a photo stream of "Sixties Explosion," the 2012 exhibit from Macquarie University Art Gallery in Sydney, Australia.  Curated by Rhonda Davis, Kate Hargraves and Leonard Janiszewski.

the cameraman's revenge

L'hôtel d'amour and beetle sin from director Ladislaw Starewicz in his 1912 The Cameraman's Revenge.  As mentioned in an earlier post, the director also worked for a Lithuanian natural history museum and is known for his charming insect flicks.

saints

With eyes on New Orleans, and from the great Louis Armstrong and friends.  

mardi gras minute

Mardi Gras day on Canal Street in one minute:



And, "Mardi Gras Indians take to the streets in centuries-old spiritual tradition":



More video of the street festivities, costumes, revelry, and Mardi Gras traditions at NOLA.com and The Times Picayune.

In late January, The Frugal Traveler headed to New Orleans for what turned out to be the travel yogi's easiest frugal assignment ever.  Deliberately avoiding spending in the French Quarter and any "ramp-up" to Mardi Gras .. well .. 5 days of transcendent eating and drinking, walking and biking, and .. what else? .. incredible free music.

*Photo credit/New York Times/photographer: Seth Kugel/Big Fisherman Seafood in New Orleans

literary manhattan

Dwight Garner "goes looking for what's left."

richard III

The remains of Richard III have been positively identified via DNA and radiocarbon analysis.  Dug up several months ago beneath a city parking lot in Leicester, England, the skeleton shows a young thirty-ish man, who died around the same time (more than 500 years ago) as said reviled and ruthless monarch, with wounds corresponding to stories of his brutal death on August 22, 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field - which some associate with the end of the Middle Ages.  The skeleton also shows a man with the same form of scoliosis represented in Shakespeare's play - that is, a character with a pronouncedly raised right shoulder.  Now it remains to be seen where the king shall be finally laid to rest.

*Photo credit/wikipedia/"Cover of the 1594 quarto of The True Tragedy of Richard III, which was "printed by Thomas Creede and ... to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market."

intrigue

A project of Tate- an online exhibit to lose yourself in ... The Gallery Of Lost Art, exploring the stories about loss of works of art...

*Photo credit/wikipedia/"This artwork was stolen from Houghton Hall in 1992. This oil painting — The White Duck by Jean-Baptiste Oudry — was valued at ₤5-million; and it has not re-surfaced."

el paso

Hoofing it in El Paso.  Some cool Americana, signs, and places.