Tonight is the Lantern Festival, 21 days (I think) after the New Year and the official end of the holidays. It’s just unbelievable what is going on outside. Fireworks have been booming for hours and will , I think, continue until midnight . The air is thick with smoke, and nothing is being set off […]
Becky’s reporter Shai Oster won a Polk Award for his great work exposing problems at the three gorges Dam. This became a news story followed b everyone else and widely reported and written about after Shai and company wrote about it. The Polks are number two in the journalism awards world. So kudos again to […]
It’s hard for me to believe there will be casinos in Pittsburgh next year. Considering the aging population of Allegheny County, maybe one of them will feature a Dixieland theme and need a house band. Then some familial good will come from this crazy situation. In the meantime, my man Danny Rosen and his friends […]
Fishermen around Phan Thiet, Vietnam go out in these baskets and net fish. You see them bobbing around the rather intense surf all day. It looks really nutty. when I saw them pulling into shore early on the Tet (Chinese New Year) afternoon, I sprinted down the beach with my camera. The bottom shots are […]
We are in Hanoi now, last stop. Angkor Wat and surrounding temples were pretty much up t the hype, though incredibly, disgustingly crowded with people. Tons of tour buses of Japanese and Korean tourists. But worth the slog. There are incredible sites anywhere you turn your head so capturing them is hard. This is the […]