Travel & Visitors Guide - Aug. 6, 2007
The Bike Writer: Great Barrington to Arcade, N.Y.
Got into a bit of a fix on Wednesday. Hot weather and hills sapped my strength quickly and I bummed a ride over the final mountain of Massachusetts.
Tags: biking, mass, new york, steffes

Travel & Visitors Guide - May 21, 2007
A pilgrimage to Ellis Island
The sun is shining and New York’s glass wall of towers is glistening. The harbor is alive with activity: Coast Guard boats with machine guns mounted, police helicopters, the Staten Island Ferry has just left Manhattan. Here in Battery Park, there is a long line waiting to get to Liberty Island and Ellis Island.
Tags: Ellis Island, Piedmont, emigration, immigration, Hmong, Mexican, Italian, Liberty Island, Battery Park, New York, NYC

Travel & Visitors Guide - May 21, 2007
Kopp's Bar 89 is an Elsa's for the SoHo set
Milwaukeeans know Kopp’s for the custard and the butter burgers and when we think Elsa’s we think martinis with a touch of class. But New Yorkers, it seems, know Bar 89 -- Karl Kopp’s SoHo bar and restaurant at 89 Mercer Street – for its bathrooms.
Tags: Bar 89, Karl Kopp, Mercer Street, Elsa's on the Park, Kopp's, Scottsdale, SoHo, New York, Manhattan, Ferrante, AZ88

Milwaukee Buzz - May 13, 2007
Beer and big apples
If you're ever wondering what New York and Milwaukee (and Wisconsin) have in common, remember that Wisconsin's most legendary football figure probably ice skated in Coney Island, played in the surf at Brighton Beach and kicked cans along East 14th Street.
Tags: Lombardi, Brooklyn, Packers, New York

Movies - April 2, 2007
"Namesake" portrays generational differences
In Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake," now a film directed by Mira Nair, protagonist Gogol Ganguli (Kal Penn) has allowed his namesake to have quite an affect on him.
Tags: namesake, jhumpa lahiri, mira nair, kal penn, india, new york, gogol