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Busch Gardens Tampa has changed quite a bit over the years, and not for the better … Back when I first began coming here, in 1997 when I moved to Tampa Bay from Pennsylvania, this park was owned by the Annheuser-Busch brewing company. It was a rather odd combination of a...

A regular round-up of culinary news from around the Americas, and beyond. If you have any tips about restaurant or hotel openings, new culinary books, food media worth reading, plus events and happenings of every sort, drop me a line [email protected] view of flooded rice plantations in Eldorado do Sul,...

The Town of Lucban set again another crowd drawing colorful spectacle with its renowned Pahiyas Festival. Made iconic with its iconic decorated houses from Kiping, a colorful rice wafer, and other harvest bounties and a festival event graced our primary school textbooks, the festival is poised to receive about 4-5...

Jessica Saurwein set off on a pretty difficult mission a few years ago… to try and conquer Pinot Noir in the Cape winelands and produce some noteworthy examples. She of course was not expecting an easy ride from this heart break cultivar. But these are not just wines with pretty...

A regular round-up of culinary news from around the Americas, and beyond. If you have any tips about restaurant or hotel openings, new culinary books, food media worth reading, plus events and happenings of every sort, drop me a line [email protected] view of flooded rice plantations in Eldorado do Sul,...

V Rising is a hybrid ARPG with survival-crafting elements, sorta like Diablo meets Age of Conan. The approach is pretty novel, but there are some awkward elements that diminish the experience a little bit. You can never escape punching trees. To start, I am playing solo on a “private server,”...