Vita Sackville-West once wrote "...there is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong." Canadian vagrant Taras Grescoe recently followed some "travel bores" around the world in search of the soul of tourism (including to Hong Kong).
Bloomberg's Bermuda Triangle
Michael Tomasky, columnist for the "City Politic" of New York Magazine, on why the mayor's ratings are so low
You Make Me Wanna SHOUT!
Jonathan Dee, contributor to the New York Times magazine and author of Palladio (Vintage, 2003), explains the appeal of screamo music
Hong Kong, Done Wrong
Christine Loh, CEO of an independent Hong Kong think tank Civic Exchange and a former member of Hong Kong's Legislative and Bruce Gilley, doctoral student in politics at Princeton University, former Hong Kong correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and author of China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files ...
The Last Resort
Taras Grescoe, author of The End of Elsewhere (McClelland & Stewart, 2003), on his travels to the most tourist-infested locations on earth
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