January 2011
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Crafty travel: 14 places around the world where...
View Slideshow As all kindergarten teachers know, few activities bring people together in a state of zen-like contentment like sitting in a circle making things with our own two hands. No matter how exotic the locale, when we travel, it is this kind of basic human moment that sticks with us the most. Over the past decade, savvy communities of artisans around the world have discovered that...
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January/February Freelance Assignments
Thank you to all who applied for our January/February round of weekend-getaway freelance writing assignments. There were so many high-quality pitches this time—more than ever before—that it was quite difficult (bordering on agonizing!) to narrow it down to just one person per region. Without further ado, here they are: Northern California (Lake Tahoe) Brigid Fuller Pacific Northwest...
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15 Hotels With a Macabre History
Hotels are places of transgression. While there doesn’t appear to be a medical term for people who suffer from a fear of hotels, there’s something about these transitional spaces, teeming with intimate human moments, that can make us feel a bit uneasy. Hitchcock knew this—his sketchy, rootless characters breezed in and out of hotels and boarding houses. In “Psycho”...
Winner of the Riviera Maya Giveaway
We teamed up with Yucatan Holidays to give away a three-day weekend at luxury Riviera Maya resort. The winning tweet by Adrianne Bee @Trazzlerwriter: “My mayan calendar says I’m free to travel until 12/21/12.” (Writing a Trazzler trip is not a requirement to win.) Try your luck in our next giveaway and win a weekend at any hotel, inn, B&B, or vacation rental in the Trazzler...
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Slideshow: Visionary Recycling
Quirky places where artists and dreamers turn trash into structural works of art View Slideshow Here“Some people say this is sculpture but I didn’t go to no expensive school to get these crazy notions,” observes John Milkovisch, a retired upholsterer for a railroad who saved and collected over 50,000 aluminum receptacles to create his shiny Houston masterpiece, the “Beer Can...
New Writing Contest - Chicago Writer-in-Residence
Whether it’s in art, nature, or society, nothing creates excitement and interest like an unexpected juxtaposition. Think of a quiet corner in the midst of urban chaos, a waterfall tucked into a suburban cul de sac, a modern Frank Lloyd Wright house on a southern plantation, a red-rock canyon desert winding out of a village in Provence, a rollicking Irish pub inserted into a former...
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J.R.R. Tolkien drank here: Literary watering holes
While a visit to the home of a famous literary figure offers a peek at an eerie, lifeless space suspended in time, seeking out the public places where a writer wrote, drank and caroused tends to be a messier proposition. Life marches on in bars and cafes. Regimes fall. Neighborhoods change. New people take over. If you are lucky enough to find the place still in operation, you can never be sure...