This feature originally appeared on the cover of Extra Newspaper. ——- Brewer Randy Mosher is a partner at the new 5 Rabbit Cerveceria but he has been known in homebrewing and “Beer Nerd” circles for years. Mostly because Mosher wrote and designed the eye-catching and popular home brewing guide “Radical Brewing” and “The Brewer’s Companion.” [...]
It’s amazing what can be communicated just through facial expressions and gestures. Often a simple transaction, like a purchase, doesn’t need any words at all. It is more difficult to communicate through gestures if you’re trying to explain to a doctor that you have an allergy to penicillin or need direction on the metro. Learning [...]
Aside from writing a travel column for Extra I have also written some features. This one was on the cover of the August 18th issue ——- Congratulations on your matriculation! You have made it to college, and while it’s likely many of your friends didn’t get this far you have, and this is your chance [...]
Food from afar can seem strange. Meats and spices from different countries sometimes appear to come from different worlds. Some flavors and dishes, however, reach beyond the boundaries of the country or culture that spawned them. These treats are too popular to remain provincial delicacies. Among these are licorice-tasting, anise-flavored liquors. Whether because of cultural [...]
What can you eat anywhere? When you’re traveling there are many questions that continually plague a person in a new country. Where to stay, what the currency conversion is, whether to bow, kiss, or shake hands when introduced. But there is nothing as universal as food. Business or pleasure, short trip or long, seeing family or [...]
In a recent article in the New York Times Frugal Traveler blogger Seth Kugel offered the advice that “Galleries are frugal travelers’ museums: not only are they nearly always free and nearly never musty, but they also provide insight into the local arts scene that would otherwise require a lot of trendy-cafe eavesdropping.” When I [...]
It’s easy to find something to do in downtown Chicago. In the summer cultural events, compete with world class museums and historic sites to attract the attention of out of town visitors. But as my grandmother often said, “all the world can’t be London and Paris.” Travelers often find themselves a little farther of the [...]
On the high dry Jalisco lands two hours outside of Guadalajara, there is a little town called Tequila. Not the drink, but the drink’s hometown. This tiny village is about a third the population of Evanston, on rolling hills. It’s a half mile above sea level and only a short distance from the Pacific. It [...]
The City Museum of St Louis is not a museum in the traditional sense of the word and it has almost nothing to do with cities in general or St. Louis in specific. What it is, is a huge junkyard play-house. When you first enter it, the building looks like the home of an eccentric [...]
Over the past month, since beginning work as a reporter for Extra Newspaper I have written a number of travel articles. These articles are in a section called Vámonos (“Let’s go” in English) and I am currently the only writer for that section. So far, I have written an article every week for the last [...]
