I stayed in the Meridiano Sur, Petit Hotel for two nights last week in Santiago. Located in Providencia, the heart of a cool section of the city with plenty of street life and restaurants. It is only two blocks from the Manuel Montt metro stop. The Meridiano has 7 rooms […]
Norton Juster Keeps Writing By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser Photography by Paul Shoul The Phantom Tollbooth is considered part and parcel of childhood for so many kids. Reaching its fiftieth anniversary in 2011, both an annotated edition and a new one containing added material and essays are being released. Its author, […]
I have always loved the wines of Lapostolle and now that I have had the chance to visit their vineyard in Chile I am even more of a fan. They are 100% organic, have built a gravity fed winery unique to Chile to cut down on energy costs and all […]
Santiago is a city I hate to leave. I grabbed this shot yesterday while walking to the Mercado central for lunch. The poor guy carrying the mannequins down the street kept dropping them on the ground to the general amusement of everyone. If you look closely, you can see my […]
Santiago Chile has a dynamic street theater community. There are jugglers and acrobats that perform at traffic lights and in the public squares of the city you never know what you will you find. This performer at the Plaza de Armas gradually transformed himself into a character that befuddled the […]
Chile,10/20/10. It is a fantastic time to be in Chile, the entire country is glowing with a sense of national pride after the amazing rescue of the miners and along with surviving a major earthquake it has given Chileans a sense of rebirth. You can feel it everywhere and every […]
I photographed Jeff Bridges at the Zen peacemakers in Montague MA during the “Western Socially Engaged Buddhism Symposium”. The “Dude” is cool. Along with Jeff on the Arts for Social Change panel were: Beat poet Anne Waldman; author Peter Matthiessen; and an old friend of mine, local performance artist, Court […]
