Seagulls shriek overhead and waves crash in the background as the normally sober maritime museum takes a light-hearted foray into the marine adventures of Hergé’s hero Tintin, starting with his first encounter with a drunken Capitain Haddock. Follow the route past original drawings, animated films, items that served as Hergé’s sources, models of the boats that appear in different adventures and reconstructions of essential props from a tin of ‘crabe extra’ to spoof portraits and Professeur Tournesol’s grinning shark submarine.
Mille Sabords!
May 25, 2010
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Parsifal
May 19, 2010Placido Domingo takes the title role in the Met’s rendition of Wagner’s final opera, a six-hour tale of redemption. The composer was haunted by the ‘Parsifal’ myth for some 30 years before completing the opera. It’s a monumental work heavily laced with the metaphysical, the mysterious and the redemptive, as always driven by Wagner’s unmatched ability to reveal character through the score itself. James Levine takes the baton to plumb the opera’s musical depths.
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Coco Pazzo Café
May 15, 2010Find creative twists to casual Tuscan-style cuisine under new executive chef David Jahnkeat Coco Pazzo. Of course, favourites remain, such as gnocchi with fresh tomato and basil, hand-cut Tuscan fries tossed with fried zucchini and sweet red onions or trout sautéed with spinach in a lemon herb sauce. Evoking the mood of a Tuscan café, the floor is tiled in hues of sienna and russet and a large table of old, scarred wood is centrally positioned laden with antipasti and showcasing seasonal grains and vegetables.
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
May 6, 20102 E 91st St at Fifth Ave (212-849-8400)
Subway: 4, 5, 6 to 86th St. Tue 10am-9pm; Wed-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun noon-5pm. $5, under 12 free, no admission charge Tue 5-9pm; concessions $1.50. No credit cards.
The Smithsonian’s National Design Museum is worth a visit for both its content and its architecture – the turn-of-the-century building once belonged to Andrew Carnegie. Architects responded to his request for ‘the most modest, plainest and roomy house in New York’ by designing a 64-room mansion in the style of a Georgian country house. This is the only museum in the U.S. devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary design; its changing exhibitions are always interesting. Sign language interpretation is available on request (212-849-8387).
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Dumb Type
April 28, 2010As part of their Performance and Body Art from the ‘East Asia: Translated Acts’ exhibition, the House of World Cultures is presenting a series of performances by the Dumb Type theatre collective from Tokyo. The audience is pushed between two vast video projections of waterfalls on facing screens, further projections and performers crowd the space beyond the semi-transparent screens and sound collages complete the 15-minute ‘storm of the senses’. Dumb Type created a big impact in Berlin with their ‘Memorandum’ performance in 1999 and they continue to push the envelope of multimedia installations.
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Krystal’s
April 25, 201089-25 Merrick Blvd between 89th and Jamaica Aves, Jamaica, Queens (718-523-3662)
Subway: E, J, Z to Jamaica Center. Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat 10pm-4am.
If you don’t mind trekking out to the boroughs, you can get a slightly grittier taste of the city’s musical life. Krystal’s, in the Caribbean section of Queens, is where you’ll hear a hot mix of hip-hop and reggae, played for a boisterous local audience.
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Becoming a Travel Agent
April 18, 2010Does travel to places such as Fiji, Rome, Italy, HK, Bora Bora, Paris, London, and Australia sound a little like something you would like to do? Do you want to ramble on isolated beaches, dine in old fashioned small restaurants , or ramble around in traditional castles? If this is the case changing into a travel agent could be a good choice for you.
But are you able to truly make decent cash being a travel agent? Is there a future in it? According to the U. S. Dept of Work , “Industry consolidation and accelerating usage of the Net to book travel will end in a decline in the use of travel agents.
And wages of travel agents are low. And much more likely you would only be earning $25K or less as a travel agent.
That isn’t a particularly fascinating income for the majority.
The extremely nice thing about VoIP is it is a service you can take with you when you travel. I know of one business person who doesn’t leave home without his VoIP telephone, it is always one of the first things that gets packed. So when he gets to his hotel in Chicago or Manhattan or Denver or perhaps Germany or Hong Kong, he plugs in his VoIP telephone and is back to work. To resolve that issue, what you must do is get a VoIP telephone for you, and have them get a VoIP telephone from the same supplier. Now although they’re living in London or Munich, they’re going to have a Detroit or Houston telephone number. In summing up, VoIP service is a great communications tool for both home and business use.
Actually you’ll hardly have enough to cover daily expenses.
The best way is to become a travel agent is with one of the new travel-based internet marketing associations.
You become a travel agent of one of those travel firms and you get all the advantages of being a travel agent.
You still earn cash on travel commissions, but you also earn cash by helping folks become their own travel agents. This allows you to make far more than you might as a standard travel agent. In reality if you do it properly, you can make as much in a month as many travel agents make in a year. If you’re interested in turning into a travel agent, go to for a free report.
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Masks of Mystery
April 16, 2010Discovered in China in 1986, the bronze figures and masks on display in this exhibition date back to the ancient Shu Kingdom of the Bronze Age. Although their exaggerated features with huge eyes and strongly curled nostrils are human in inspiration, they show an imagination that had never before been found in early Chinese art. These masks indicate a mature and sophisticated society existing away from the heartland of the then ruling force, the Shang dynasty.
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International Races
April 14, 2010The racing world comes out to play in Hong Kong on December 17 as the most exciting racing jurisdiction in the world hosts its International Races Day. The world’s best horses will be on show and there’s more than $40 million in prize money on offer. As an added bonus this year the Hong Kong Cup (2,000 metres) will decide the winner of the lucrative Emirates World Racing Series Championship. Other highlights include the International Sprint (1,000m), International Mile (1,600m) and the International Vase (2,400m).
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Chuckwalla
April 13, 2010
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