A Cuban-American NYer goes in search of Spain one weekend and finds flamenco and Seville.
Rue de Belleville is teeming with Tunisian, Algerian, and Moroccan restaurants, interspersed with Vietnamese, Chinese and Ethopian cuisines. Its certainly feels like the heart of Paris’ melting pot.
One of the oldest, original and intact bars in Detroit.
"A hotel for me is a movie. I imagine why people will come, why people will come back. What they will live, what they will feel. I hope for them to feel more creative, more intelligent, more elegant, more sparkling, more poetic, more foolish, more in love." - Philippe Starck
Two NYC-based websites with a daily dose of Untapped music finds: the LivingtheDream.org Music Tournament and the threesixfive project.
Like a stereotypical architecture person, I visited the Rodin Museum and remembered nothing except how beautiful the building was. But for those more interested in Rodin, the gardens contain all of his most famous works: The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Kiss, Monument to Victor Hugo, Balzac and The Burghers of Calais.
Political activist and lawyer Janos Marton documents his movements through his upliftingly-named website, LivingtheDream.org. As a long-standing friend of Untapped, Janos has kindly shared with us his experience inside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York's mayors.
Some Uptown Halloween love - State Street between Freret and St. Charles gets blocked off every year for trick-or-treaters.
Untapped visited the hidden “backlot” facility of the Musées de Paris, located far from the tangle of tourists. In Ivry-sur-Seine, an industrial suburb southeast of Paris, a nineteenth-century industrial building now serves as storage and workshop for the fifteen museums operated by the Ville de Paris.
Far from the western seashores of France, on a street near the Montparnasse train station looms a lighthouse atop a craggy rock!