After three months of reconstruction works, Technogym Wellness Centre reopened it’s doors for the first guests at the Radisson SAS Daugava Hotel on the May 1, 2006. It offers...

In his NYT review of the exhibition Degas at Harvard, Holland Cotter describes Edgar Degas as “a contrary, difficult man: a sociable misanthrope, a shy egomaniac, a cosmopolitan...

Everybody associates Edgar Degas with Paris, ballet dancers, horse races, etc. Only a few initiated people will associate this artist with Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. However,...

I had the chance to stay at The Milestone again. It is as fabulous a hotel as ever. 2012 is an extremely busy year. I only managed to get into the Studio Room 408, which was rather small,...

The American’s love-hate relationship with Wall Street is over two hundred years old. Steve Fraser’s Every Man A Speculator. A History of Wall Street in American Life...

Since President Bush’s visit to Latvia in the spring of 2005, this tiny Baltic republic of 65,000 square kilometers and...

There are the great and famous artists, there are those that are just famous, and then there are countless little-known artists....

The five-star luxury hotel Claridge’s in Mayfair, London, combines traditional English and Art Deco features with excellent service. In its first edition of 1878,...

The French tea company Mariage Frères in Paris was established in 1854, which makes it France’s oldest importer of tea. Members of the Mariage family where active in the colonial...

The English tradition of afternoon tea is celebrated at its best in some of London’s famous five-star hotels. The exquisite and exclusive experience is very popular and therefore not...

The first purpose built hotel in London, established in 1865 Added on January 17, 2011: I have visited the hotel again, now part of Langham Hotels International and fully refurbished. I...

Based on the catalogue The Sensuous and the Sacred. Order the book from Amazon.com. During the reign of the Chola kings...

The Sensuous and the Sacred. Chola Bronzes from South India is an exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Dallas...

Israeli voters decided at the end of January 2003 that the Likud would become Israel’s leading party with a share of 29.4% of the votes. The Likud doubled its number of seats in the...

Get Birthday Girl on DVD from Amazon.com, Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk. The film is about an ordinary, shy bank clerk, John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), living a rather dull life in St....

Criticism of Hollywood and its studio system remains a subject for filmmakers such as Robert Altman (The Player, 2001), David...

A Beautiful Mind (Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr) received four Oscars at the 74th Academy Awards Ceremony on March 24, 2002: Ron Howard for Best Director, Brian Grazer...

The film Talk To Her (original title: Hable con ella; Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr) by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is a masterpiece: The narration, rhythm and flow...

Although today sees the 25th anniversary of Elvis’ death, “The King’s alive!” more than ever. The remix of Elvis’ A Little Less Conversation by Dutch DJ JXL...

Robert Altman died on November 20, 2006 at the age of 81 at Los Angeles’ Cedar Sinai Medical Center from cancer related complications. His latest film, A Prairie Home Companion, was...