​ If the Nazis hadn't taken over the Bauhaus school, Black Mountain College probably would not have developed the gravitas it now has in our collective Western Art-oriented memories... ​Your tour of Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center begins with a mention of its ex-pat and one-time Tarheel founder, Mary Holden Thompson. Thompson realized...

​ Feel history in Appalachia -- in the very center of this 11th largest city in the Southeastern US state of North Carolina, Asheville, is a hotel that you will find in the registry of Historic Hotels of America—- Haywood Park Hotel... ​Following in famed artists Josef and Anni Albers' steps… Finding the "home" of Thomas Wolfe's LOOK HOME...

Off-Broadway New York Show Find-- for politically minded... ​Do tourists ever get the local jokes? Does Trump Comedy Make TransAtlantic Sense? Backtracking, does ANY comedy register when a geographic and cultural divide is at work? Talk to a stand up comic long enough about their challenges and they will likely tell you about the time they tried to...

​ If you are planning a trip to New York City any time soon, make note of the newly opened Broadway spectacle of Water for Elephants. ​From a quick google you can learn that Sara Gruen's novel, Water for Elephants, has already been translated into 43 languages.This suggests that the archetypical childhood dreams of running away to join the circus a...

​ It's a Petula Clark Inspired Boomer Magnet… ​Visitors to New York City who once wore the 60's uniform of bell bottoms and a pea coat will likely find much to enjoy in A Sign of the Times. The title song by Petula Clark tells you what to expect— dozens of songs from that decade re-packaged in service of a story that does a musical theater style sa...

​... put Public Theater on the short list of New York's Off-Broadway theaters making cultural history every day. Heard of the Broadway musical Hamilton?Hair? A Chorus Line? Or have you possibly queued up for Shakespeare in the Park? If yes, you already know of New York City's Public Theater and its founder Joseph Papp, even though you might not kno...