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Post by Owen on May 30, 2020 20:15:37 GMT
1 ~~~ Virtual Culture Trip: San Francisco ~~~ 86 We’re all about inspiring travel here at Hemispheres, and since most everyone is stuck at home these days, our goal is to help you pick the first place you’re going to go once the global situation improves. I’m doing my part by creating virtual culture trips to different cities—books you should read, songs you should listen to, and movies you should watch to put you in the mind-set of a certain city. First up is San Francisco, where I grew up, where most of my family still lives, and where I really wish I were sitting (on the dock of the Bay) right now. Don’t think of this as a “definitive” or “best of” list; it’s just a few works from the City by the Bay that always take me back there. I hope they transport you as well. www.hemispheresmag.com/virtualculturetrip-sanfrancisco/ ~ 6 April 2020 ~ |
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Post by Owen on May 30, 2020 20:23:52 GMT
2 ~~~ Virtual Culture Trip: Los Angeles ~~~ I started this series of Virtual Cultural Trips with the city I grew up in, San Francisco, and for Chapter Two we’re moving down the coast to Los Angeles. As someone with Bay Area pride, I’m supposed to hate LA, but the truth is the City of Angels has kinda grown on me over the years, and as the home of America’s entertainment industry, it’s certainly a place that produces a lot of great art. (Think how hard it was for me to pick five films from all the movies Hollywood has made about itself.) Same caveat applies as last time: This isn’t a definitive list; rather, it’s a collection of books, movies, and songs that take my mind to Tinseltown. I hope they do the same for you. www.hemispheresmag.com/virtualculturetrip-losangeles/ ~ 30 April 2020 ~ |
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Post by Owen on May 30, 2020 20:28:09 GMT
3 ~~~ Virtual Culture Trip: Chicago ~~~ For the first two installments of this Virtual Culture Trip series, we sat on the dock of the Bay in San Francisco and got welcomed to the jungle in Los Angeles. Today, let’s ditch the West Coast for the Gold Coast, and drop onto the shore of Lake Michigan and into “Sweet Home Chicago.” The Second City’s stories grow from the immigrants and migrants who came to work in the slaughterhouses and stockyards and factories near the ocean-wide lake, and the amazing architecture has created a scenic backdrop that filmmakers return to again and again. As the great actress Sarah Bernhardt said, “I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.”
The standard caveat applies: This isn’t a definitive list; rather, it’s a collection of books, movies, and songs that take my mind to the Windy City. I hope they do the same for you.
www.hemispheresmag.com/virtualculturetrip-chicago/ ~ 30 April 2020 ~ |
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