Tag: boston
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The Mapparium
by Lily Bui / @dangerbui It’s 1935. Franklin D. Roosevelt is president. The U.S. population is approximately 127 million. A family’s annual income is about $1,500. Babe Ruth retires from baseball. And the Mapparium opens to the public. The Mapparium is a three-story map of the world housed in the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston and…
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Unique New York
I’ve been to New York City before. But just because you’ve gone once, twice, or even twenty times, it doesn’t mean you’ve been to New York City. Every single trip I’ve taken has been entirely different from the last, and that’s because this urban jungle lends itself to everything from serendipitous encounters to the inexplicably bizarre–the kind of…
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In medias res
Sometimes, you don’t fully process things until you’ve let yourself go through them. I find myself writing this in medias res, but I can’t help jotting something down. Something in me needs to speak. Yesterday was our last show on the east coast tour. We made our last stop Chloe’s Coffee in Gaithersburg for a…
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On crossroads
I stand by what I said before: “home” is as much a physical place as it is a feeling, a relationship with things and people around you. I’ve found that my definition of home evolves through time. It’s fickle, sometimes stubborn. Malleable. This east coast tour is quite special to me on a personal level…
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boston uncommons
Boston, you came at a good time. Just when I was lamenting the fact that I might not experience a “real” winter (first world problem, I know), this Boston trip comes along and brings temperatures in the 30s, Dunkin Donuts, cannolis, bare trees, and New England clam chowder (in New England). Ah, chilly bliss. The…