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		<title>The Perpetual Traveler: Q&amp;A with Lonely Planet Founder Tony Wheeler</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Berry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Tony Wheeler and his wife Maureen founded Lonely Planet in 1973, guidebooks for the traveler on a shoestring were an unheard-of concept. The couple’s first overland trip through Europe and Asia to Australia prompted them to fill this niche and now, 100 million+ Lonely Planet books later, adventurous budget travel is more popular than ever. Though the Wheelers sold their final stake in the travel empire in 2011, they remain involved as veritable brand ambassadors. As the company celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, Tony Wheeler chats with TIME about wanderlust, visiting over 150 countries and why “there’s always some new thing to investigate.” How did you come up with the title Lonely Planet? It was a mistake. It came out of a song, from Joe Cocker and Leon Russell when they were [touring] on the road. There’s a line in the song called “Space Captain” where [Cocker] sings, ‘Once while traveling across the sky, this lonely planet caught my eye.’ And I said, that sounds nice, why don’t we call the business Lonely Planet. And my wife Maureen said, really nice idea except actually he’s singing ‘lovely planet.’  So it was a mistake all these years. We’ve never corrected it. (MORE: Beachfront Dining in Tel Aviv? Cassis Changes the Game) How do you feel that the travel industry has changed since you started Lonely Planet in the &#8217;70s? We all point to the obvious things—the fact that it’s cheaper, there are more airlines, more flights, all the Internet things that have come up. But I think one of the things that has changed the most has been the places that either were open and now are closed, or were closed and now open. I went to Ethiopia about four or five years ago; it’s a really fascinating place. But for 20-odd years, Ethiopia was totally closed off. Now it’s back on the tourist map again. All of China, completely closed off for so many years, and now it’s the biggest destination going. And the reverse happens as well.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2369178&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beachfront Dining in Tel Aviv? Cassis Changes the Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a city that hugs the beach, Tel Aviv has been weirdly short on places to enjoy a beachfront meal. For the longest time the only attractive option was Manta Ray, a lively, welcoming bistro serving a Mediterranean menu. But with the addition of Cassis, the options both double and expand: The new restaurant stands not only on the beach but feels entirely of it. While Manta Ray is a bustling, indoor haven with killer views Cassis exists mostly out of doors, on a stone plaza a couple of feet above the city’s only natural bay. When the shore breeze rises and the mid-afternoon sun explodes off the waves – turquoise down that way &#8212; it’s hard not to feel you’re somehow in the sky yourself. “I’m trying to do the right thing for the right place,” says Ayalet Perry, the chef proprietor. “It’s very … light. But light ‘upgraded’.’’ She opened the restaurant with her husband, Nir, last summer, taking the southern corner of the complex at Givat Aliyah Beach, as Israelis call the neighborhood that was Jabaliya when Jaffa (which the Israelis call Yafo and attached to Tel Aviv) was still Arab. The feeling is of a wild coast, yet it&#8217;s only 12 minutes from downtown. (LIST: 10 Things to Do in Tel Aviv) The shore bends into a bay here –  rare in Tel Aviv, where breakwaters and geography keep the beaches straight.  Coral shoals gird the waves on both ends of the public beach, but at its center the rollers crash just below the steps of Cassis, anchoring a stone arcade where, in a sadder world, the authorities would have seen fit to install a falafel stand.  Instead, there’s shrimp pastis, grilled artichoke salad, branzino fillet and paella. The menu follows the motto etched in the glass over the open kitchen: “Taste the Sea.” The first sign you’ve come upon a find is the fried calamari, coated in grated Arborio rice and tender as the sun. The small plates, at the shekel equivalent of $6 to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2368744&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Day In Mexico City</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kaufman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Diego Rivera to Gabriel Orozco, Mexico City has long led Latin America’s contemporary art arena. But over the past 15 years, North America’s largest metropolis has also evolved into a center of art consumption. Thanks to world-class private museums such as the Museo Soumaya—owned by billionaire Carlos Slim—and cutting-edge independent galleries, Mexico City is where far-sighted collectors are discovering the next generation of art world up-and-comers.  The most fertile scouting takes place during the annual contemporary art show Zona Maco (zonamaco.com). Running until Apr. 14, the four-day fete will present dozens of global galleries dedicated to the full spectrum of visual arts—from paintings and sculpture to industrial design and video installations. What to do when you’re not checking out the art? Let four Mexico City experts describe their perfect day on the town. Carmen Cuenca, director, Museo Tamayo I like to begin my day with exercise and Mexico City has some great areas for a jog. One of my favorites is in El Sope. The run is followed by a glass of juice from the street vendors. I’ll then take a walk through the Bosque de Chapultepec—an upscale, wooded neighborhood. I love El Carcamo de Dolores, a stunning hydraulic structure were Diego Rivera created the underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida.  Or I’ll visit the Tlaloc Fountain, another Rivera creation designed in the 1950s to depict the Aztec god of rain and water.  My own Museo Tamayo (museotamayo.com) is another stop. Our singular collection of Mexican and Latin American contemporary art is now displayed in a completely renovated building.  I’d follow it up with a look at the National Museum of Anthropology (mna.inah.gob.mx), important for its pre-Columbian displays, followed by a stroll up to the Castillo de Chapultepec (castillodechapultepec.inah.gob.mx), a neo-Gothic castle built in the 1860s. You can continue on down to Avenida Reforma, the most beautiful street in town, laden with jacarandas and an interesting mix of architecture. It’s one of the longest streets in the world and if you walk far enough, you’ll reach Avenida<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2368645&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rebuilding Warsaw: Five Ways to See A Resurrected City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Wismayer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter takes no prisoners in Warsaw. Prevailing winds tug freezing air down from Siberia and the city shivers. Archipelagoes of ice float on the Vistula. Pallid pedestrians shuffle along rimy pavements hoping that the next chunk of snow to shear off a tenement roof doesn’t have their name on it. It’s perhaps no surprise then, that the city’s inhabitants celebrate the arrival of spring with particular enthusiasm. On March 21, people throughout the Polish capital marked the Vernal Equinox with the ritual ‘Drowning of Marzanna’, in which the effigy of a Slavic goddess – the pagan embodiment of winter, death and all things funereal – is flung into the local river. The symbolism holds a special resonance in Warsaw, for few cities have overcome death quite so eloquently. Razed by the Nazis in 1944, the bricks that make up today’s Warsaw were all laid within the last 70 years. Reborn after the Second World War, in places meticulously restored, its near-annihilation spawned a capacity for reinvention that continues to this day. Here are some of the Phoenix City’s greatest acts of resurgence. Razed: Warsaw Rising Museum (www.1944.pl): Not only is this widely regarded to be Warsaw’s best museum, its subject – the Polish resistance movement’s valiant but doomed attempt to retake their capital from the Nazis in the summer of 1944 – is central to the modern city’s story. Housed in the atmospheric bowels of a former tramway power-station, a series of multimedia displays immerse you in the hope, fear and desperation that lay behind this collective act of defiance. Walls brim with archive photos, films and televised eyewitness testimonies; a printing-press reels off propaganda pamphlets; the cavernous central atrium resounds with the thunder of exploding bombs. It’s a powerful tribute to an episode that remains a keen source of pride for Varsovians, but the outcome was defeat, and near-apocalypse. After 63 days of fighting, with the Poles finally routed, an enraged Hitler ordered SS demolition squads to dynamite Warsaw to the ground. In a side-room of the museum, The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2368471&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Place I Know: 24 of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<title>Four Literary Festivals You Won&#8217;t Want to Miss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missed out on the events held on World Book Day on Mar. 7? No problem. Here are four other literary celebrations to satisfy your bookish cravings. Jaipur Literary Festival, January What makes a dusty provincial capital, known more for pink palaces than literary cafes, a perfect setting for what has arguably become the world’s most electric meeting of literary minds? The infinite Rolodex of co-founder and lordly Indiaphile author William Dalrymple, who seems able to lure half of London back to the Raj each late January — including the likes of Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Hanif Kureishi, Danny Boyle, plus international laureates J.W. Coetzee, Orhan Pahmuk, even the Queen of Bhutan and the Dalai Lama. Combine that with the boundless enthusiasm of an emerging country where writers, and reading, are still held in high honor. Heading toward its seventh year, Jaipur’s panels and discussions are heavily political and sometimes overly Anglo-Indian, but all feel privileged to mingle freely with the famed and the furious beneathflowing orange tents sets on the lawns of a funky, fanciful 19th-century mansion usually catering to backpackers. Only the overcrowding brought by success — alongside the ongoing jealousies between literary superstars — can bring Jaipur’s intellectual adventurism back down to earth. High-so types fly in to mingle with wandering hippie poets-in-waiting at rollicking outdoor parties — happily hybrid as the festival itself -— where the wit and whiskey flow nearly as feverishly as the whirling Rajasthani drummers and dancers. —John Krich Irrawaddy Literary Festival, February Burma’s sweeping political and social reforms have made many things possible and for writers the big boon was February’s Irrawaddy Literary Festival. The idea seemed little more than wishful thinking when festival director Jane Heyn — the wife of the British ambassador— first suggested it to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011, but the changes came fast and the event took place amid much fanfare at Rangoon’s Inya Lake Hotel. Heyn and her husband will leave Rangoon this summer, so it’s uncertain whether the festival will be held again<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2367892&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Going to San Francisco: Six Musical Venues Worth Checking Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brittany Shoot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-one years ago, Kevin Arnold decided to marry two of his favorite things about San Francisco: its vibrant music scene and its entrepreneurial spirit. He booked a modest evening of his favorite bands, then lucked out on marketing it. “The first Noise Pop was really conceived of as nothing more than a single night with five bands playing for five bucks,” he admits. “I called it a ‘festival’ more or less as a marketing ploy to make it seem more exciting.” Turned out Arnold knows how to put together a rocking roster. Fans begged for an encore the following year, and an annual event was born. Today, the Noise Pop Festival draws top names in music, art and performance, from Yoko Ono and Frank Black to comedian-actor David Cross. If you’re in San Francisco from Feb. 26 to March 3, then don’t miss this year’s event. Visiting at another time? No matter. San Francisco rocks year round, as these six venues attest. 1. GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL Built as a symbol of hope and rebirth after the 1906 earthquake flattened most of San Francisco, the Great American Music Hall (gamh.com) has served time as a brothel and jazz club and survives today as an indie-rock venue. The club, which is the city’s oldest, features wraparound rococo balconies, ceiling frescoes and marble columns that are more opera house than music hall, but the period fittings add a classy intimacy to the midsize space. Go for the show, but don’t miss the hearty menu of updated bar classics like a pulled-pork sandwich with vanilla-ginger coleslaw, and falafel with tzatziki and grilled flatbread. Buy the $25 prix fixe dinner and you get early admission, which means you can linger over a local Lagunitas pale ale during sound check. Acts coming up in March include Mika and Billy Bragg. (MORE: Grammys 2013: The Complete List of Winners) 2. THE INDEPENDENT After scarfing down some delicious fare along Divisadero Street—famed for its multicultural eats—head into this affordably priced club (theindependentsf.com) where bands and fans are electrified by<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2367197&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun in the Sun: Brisbane Has Plenty of Both</title>
		<link>http://style.time.com/2013/02/14/fun-in-the-sun-brisbane-has-plenty-of-both/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, Australians disparagingly referred to Brisbane as &#8220;a big country town.&#8221; No longer. Queensland&#8217;s capital is now a rapidly growing, culturally polished metropolis. The sunshine and easygoing locals make it simple to have a good time anytime in Brisbane (or BrisVegas, as the locals love to call it). But the pursuit of fun gets even easier during the Comedy Festival (briscomfest.com), on from Feb. 26 until March 24. Now in its fifth year, the event features a top roster of local and international comics performing at the Brisbane Powerhouse. If you&#8217;re not able to make the festival, or just want to fill time between sets, here are five other lighthearted ways to enjoy Brisbane. (MORE: Five Reasons to Visit the Central Coast) 1. PLAY GAMES AT MANA BAR Brisbane is home to a vast number of cafés and lounges, but Mana Bar (manabar.com.au) is the city&#8217;s first and only video-game cocktail bar. Established in 2010 in Fortitude Valley (Brisbane&#8217;s hopping nightlife district, known to locals simply as the Valley), the bar offers a novel space where you can drink and indulge your inner gamer. With eight screens dotted around the room, customers are able to play on the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles for free. In between drinks — the bar serves craft ales and game-themed cocktails — customers are encouraged to mingle and challenge one another to a game of Mario Kart or Halo 3. Fridays and Saturdays are reliably the busiest nights, but be on the lookout for special events, such as &#8220;geek trivia&#8221; or Guitar Hero competitions, to get the most out of the evening. (LIST: All-TIME 100 Video Games) 2. CLIMB THE STORY BRIDGE Built during the Great Depression through a public-works program, this cantilever bridge, in the very heart of the city, is one of Brisbane&#8217;s most iconic landmarks, spanning the river between Kangaroo Point and Fortitude Valley. Since 2005 adventurous locals and visitors have been able to scale this 74-m-high structure (storybridgeadventureclimb.com.au) and use it to take in views of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2366730&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Reasons to Visit Reykjavík</title>
		<link>http://style.time.com/2013/01/31/five-reasons-to-visit-reykjavik/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tina Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people of Reykjavík are used to hunkering down for the winter, when each day brings with it barely a few snatches of sunlight. Come February, they’re more than ready to wriggle out of hibernation and welcome the first, if tentative, signs of spring. The local authorities decided this was a good time of year to try to raise people’s spirits, and in 2002 they set up the Winter Lights Festival (Feb. 7 to 10). Starting out as Museum Night, when museums waived their fees and stayed open until midnight, the festival has grown to incorporate events that mark both winter and the imminent return of daylight. For a few days, the city comes alive with dazzling light installations, street performances, theater, dance and live music. Shops, cafés, outdoor thermal pools and the aforementioned museums stay open until 12 a.m. and it’s all free of charge, with complimentary shuttle-bus services thrown in. Here are another five things about Reykjavík that will help you celebrate the coming end of winter: 1. THE BLUE LAGOON The Blue Lagoon (bluelagoon.com) is Iceland’s most visited tourist attraction but don’t let that put you off—it’s popular for good reason. An extraordinary place at any time of day, this 5,000-sq-m spa located on a lava field is magical at dusk, when the steamy, ice blue waters shimmer in the glow of dozens of floodlights. Little wooden bridges and walkways connect smaller pools with a larger pool. Between them, they contain 6 million L of geothermal seawater heated to 37°C to 39°C. If you fancy a tipple, there’s a swim-up bar, or you can opt for a massage while floating in the pool and slather yourself in the silica mud that gives the water its blue sheen. The Lava Restaurant has great views over the illuminated waters. Basic entrance to the lagoon costs $44. (PHOTOS: Iceland: Living with Volcanoes) 2. HARPA Opened in May 2011, the striking Harpa (harpa.is) concert hall is situated in the city’s up-and-coming harbor district and was designed in collaboration with the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2366022&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Sips of Jerez: There&#8217;s More to this Spanish Town than Sherry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Krich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If New Year&#8217;s fireworks and lunar New Year&#8217;s firecrackers weren&#8217;t noisy enough, Spain offers one more grand opportunity to kick up a fuss and kick out old demons. Stomping away from Feb. 22 to March 9, the 2013 edition of the annual Festival de Jerez (festivaldejerez.es) offers a nonstop celebration of flamenco in all its rhythmically ritualized forms. More than a mere chance to see some incredible singers, dancers and guitarists perform, the core of the festival is its 44 courses (many filled early) that give global aficionados a chance to enter into the deafening action. And while Jerez de la Frontera is known first and foremost for giving its originally Arabic name to the fortified wine anglicized as sherry, this town ever at the frontier between naughty and nice, piety and passion lies at the very center of Andalucia&#8217;s Gypsy culture. Flamenco infuses the local squares and many events all year round. The town also stages some of Spain&#8217;s most intensely medieval processionals during Semana Santa (Holy Easter Week) and shows off its world-renowned equestrian training and breeding during May&#8217;s colorful Horse Fair. It&#8217;s hard to think of another city of 200,000 that could produce such a cultural wallop or pack the calendar with so much frolic. (PHOTOS: Semana Santa) Never mind that Spain is mired in economic crisis or Jerez itself rejoices in the distinction of being the country&#8217;s most indebted city. There&#8217;s enough in the coffers to mount a dozen major performances in theaters around town, along with many less formal flamenco jam sessions, during the two-week run of the festival. And the best show of all may be the dance devotees drawn from Japan, Sweden or Argentina, who crowd the charming old city center and its many venues for night strolling and trolling. Somehow, Jerez remains an ocher-colored oasis of the good life, where landed aristocrats as well as itinerant scroungers seem to fit comfortably within walled confines readily circumnavigated by horse-drawn carriages. Here are a few ways to while away those empty moments between smoky<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=style.time.com&#038;blog=39651711&#038;post=2365779&#038;subd=timestylelife&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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