Tag: culture
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The Flip: Chicago’s playable pinball museum
Tucked into the basement of Block37, opposite the Starbucks, is a small storefront packed with pinball machines old and new. It’s not an arcade but a museum showing all variety of machines that launch steel balls onto a tilted field filled with point-scoring obstacles. It’s called The Flip, and all the machines (inside the museum)…
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Memorial Day Weekend 2021: Porcupine Mountains and Madeline Island
After nearly a year of abstention from all non-essential travel, with vaccinations in our immune systems, and receipts to prove it, we ventured out into the wilderness of northern Michigan and Wisconsin to take in the stunning coastline of the world’s largest body of freshwater (by surface area): Gichigami, or Lake Superior. Our adventure began…
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Boseong’s Green Tea Plantations
Traveling from place to place, I often marvel at the luckiness of creatures who call some of the best places the world has to offer their humble homes. A mere human couldn’t scrounge up enough of anything to land themselves the right to set up shop in Spain’s Alhambra. Yet a number of pigeons air…
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A Home-brewer’s Guide to Makgeolli (막걸리)
We took our first sip of makgeolli back in late September on the first night of our farming adventure with Wooriwa, pouring from enormous drums like the kind my Grandpa once used to fill up the pontoon with gas at the cabin. Since then, we have become enamored with the beverage, and perplexed by its composition.…
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Closer Than We Think
Do you ever wake up in the morning, pour some milk into a bowl of cereal, and think, “Hmm, I wonder what on Earth children in South Korea eat for breakfast?” Find the responses to this query and plenty of other questions about the daily life of a student in South Korea in this video.