Monthly Archives: December 2017

3 Things About Bern, Switzerland

aerial view of Bern showing the Aare river

The world-famous Toblerone was invented in Bern in 1908. The triangular chocolate bar made from milk-chocolate, almonds, honey and nougat is sold all over the world and a major factor in establishing Switzerland’s image as a chocolate-producing country. To this day, every single bar sold in the world is produced in Bern.

If…. – A Look Back

If... movie poster

"This Sporting Life," Anderson’s first, had large virtues (powerful acting, assured technique, excellent sense of locale) and equally strong defects (pasting Resnais fragmentation on a naturalistic story, jarring symbolism, a whole considerably less than the sum of its parts). If…. shows his two sides even more sharply divided; it is less good, ending in confusion.

Fairy Tale Street Artist

There are a lot of clever people out there. David Zinn is one of them. Give him a box of colored chalks and let his imagination run wild. The child in him will let out the child in you.   Here’s another collection from Raoul’s emails. Thanks to Don of Kelowna, B.C. who sent these adorable photos. Traveling Boy does …

The White Pass & Yukon Route: A Journey Back to the Klondike Gold Rush

view from a train on the White Pass and Yukon Route

“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!” headlined the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on July of 1897. “Sixty Eight Rich Men on Steamer Portland arrived in Seattle with ‘Stacks of Yellow Metal.”‘ The news spread like California wildfire, and the Klondike Gold Rush began. In the first ten days over 1,500 people left for the Klondike. Within the next six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers steamed …

George Lucas’ THX 1138 – A Look Back

THX1138 movie poster

In 1967 George Lucas, a student at the University of Southern California, made Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB, a 15-minute short about a computerized society; it won a National Student Film Award and Warner Bros. financed its expansion into this feature. (EB stood for Earth Born.) THX 1138 has problems but it establishes Lucas, at 25, as someone to follow.

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