«Turandot» in Preveza
From the Metropolitan Opera of New York Transmitted live on Saturday October 12, 2019 at 20:00 Thrilling dramatic soprano Christine...
Breeze through the forest canopy on a spiraled bike path in Belgium
This summer, a new elevated circular bike path was built that winds through the Belgian forest about an hour outside of Brussels...
9 Trends Shaping Travel in 2019
This is a pivotal year for tourism, one that will challenge the travel industry to step up and lead, to reach across the lines that...
20,000 Artworks Available for Free Download on LACMA’s Robust Digital Archive
Odalisque by Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1830 By Sara Barnes You don’t have to travel the world to see great art. As museums continue...
Chaos, Time, and the Origin of Everything: Stephen Fry on How Ancient Greek Mythology and Modern Science Meet to Illuminate the Cradle of Being
Inside the “grand cosmic yawn” that gave us everything we’ve ever known (including the word “cosmos” itself). by Maria Popova “Time is...
Southern Ionian Regatta 2019
Thursday September 19 Open to all yachts, rating system will be the RYA NHC. Entry fee in advance 25 €, late entries on the day of the...
Why Lafcadio Hearn’s ghost stories still haunt us
The author’s rendering of Japanese folktales made him famous around the globe, but, a century later, Hearn remains the wildest character...
Stunning vertical forest brings city dwellers closer to nature
By Jessica Stewart Belgian ecological architect Vincent Callebaut won the public vote of the “Imagine Angers” international design...
10 famous female painters every art lover should know
By Jessica Stewart The history of art is littered with the names of great men—Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, etc...
Why wouldn’t you travel more when there are so many benefits of traveling?!
Everyone keeps saying how important it is to travel. So what’s all this fuss about? The benefits of traveling are not just a...
Cultural tourism on the rise in the Greek islands
While the sun and sea remain the primary draws of the Greek islands, a number of blossoming cultural events are adding to their...
How to find your artistic voice: Ben Folds on empathy, creativity, and the courage to know yourself
“What an artist has to offer is obvious to just about anyone else but the artist him- or herself.” by Maria Popova “The best that can be...
How nature works, in stunning psychedelic illustrations of scientific processes and phenomena from a 19th-century French physics textbook
A scrumptious quest “to satisfy that invincible tendency of our minds, which urges us on to understand the reason of things”. by Maria...
Earth’s rotation visualized in a timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy by Aryeh Nirenberg
by Katie Sierzputowski Although the Earth rotates below the sky, aerial time-lapse videos often have the perspective of a celestial...
Eating the Sun: A lovely illustrated celebration of wonder, the science of how the universe works, and the existential mystery of being human
“When one is considering the universe, unseen matter, our small backyard of the stuff, I think it is important, sensible even, to try...
The 57th Lefkada International Folklore Festival begins this Sunday
The International Folk Festival, the most popular cultural event of Lefkada and the oldest of its kind in Greece, invites you to combine...