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Today, the Rickshaw dumpling truck was parked outside Columbia University so I gave it a try. It gets an A for marketing and I LOL'd reading the line, "Who's your Edamame?"
New York City's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) looks like N.A.S.A.!
Fall is my favorite season in Paris. Photographers love to shoot Paris at night or in the springtime so it's pretty rare to find pictures of Paris in the fall but Untapped gives you a glimpse of fall in Paris.
Well, one of the best views in Paris at least--there are so many! The outdoor seating area is under the north wing of the museum, overlooking the Louvre Courtyard and the Pyramid, with a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower.
Walking by the catacombs in the 14th arrondisement, I discovered Madame Rana--a fortune teller operating out of a happily painted palm-tree decorated trailer.
Untapped checked out Takara, the oldest Japanese restaurant in Paris as a followup to the popular post on Rue Saint-Anne, the current nucleus of Little Tokyo.
Over the past five years, the word “footprint” has taken on negative connotations in New Orleans. More recently, the footprint of the new LSU/VA hospital complex has threatened to crush many historic buildings in the Mid-City area, including the Deutsches Haus at 200 South Galvez.
Untapped was invited to check out Electra in a One-Piece, the inaugural production of theater group, Good Company, before the show's opening night. The play is a hilarious romp, a modern-day adaptation of the Greek tragedy Electra but with a twist.
This development is bound to make urban designers a little uncomfortable. "Betaville" is a new tool that lets you do anything to New York City--move buildings around, add structures, change the coastline.
Along the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, not too far from the Jamaica train station, stands a mosque clearly converted from an old factory. A painted turquoise dome rises above the drab factory exterior as well as a simple minaret. The building has been the New York headquarters of the Imam Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation.