I have been looking for a building suitable for hosting photography and art workshops, a place that people can come a stay as a holiday while developing their particular talents and skills aided by professional photographers and artists. With the tuition designed for each individuals wants and needs....

Smoke lingering after the thunder of canons, swords clashing, wood chips flying, fire blazing, lances splintering, belly dancers swirling, rumble of the motorcycle, minstrels singing... an eclectic mix of things but they all have one thing in common – Ironfest Fusion 2008 in Lithgow, NSW, Australia.

Just wanting to know if any of my fellow Matadorians will being attending this years Coachella Festival?! The line ups for Fri, Sat, and Sun are all looking impressive and the sun is suppose to be shinning down in typical Indio/Palm Springs style...

So if you planning on rocking out there for one or...

Following a run-in with some barbed wire, a friend once told me, “Chicks dig scars.”

A few months ago, during an interview with Ben Schumaker for the Matador piece "Portrait of Hope: Lessons from The Memory Project", I expressed a personal interest in participating in the...

Appenzell Innerrhoden (also known in English as Appenzell Inner Rhodes) is a half canton in Switzerland. I won’t go into history here, but Switzerland consists of 26 cantons of which six are half cantons (they are divided mostly for historical and religious reasons). Half cantons have their own state...

Combining travel with art is always high on my list. Especially when I have the opportunity to visit an artist’s home country or even the city he was born in.

In Switzerland, I made it a point to explore the Paul Klee Center in Bern. The building itself is very modern and its silver, rolling shape...

In July 2007, I accompanied my boyfriend, Su'a Sulu'ape Freewind, to the Second Borneo International Tattoo Convention in Sibu, where he was an invited guest artist. The convention was organized by our friend Ernesto of Borneoheadhunters Tattoo Studio in Kuching to bring together native tattooists and...

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Getting lost is usually a bad thing, especially when I'm driving with my wife in the passenger seat. But in certain situations I have to say getting lost can be the best antidote in a GPS obsessed world.  When I was a kid  I found and even invented ways to...

MUSEUMS

Tel Aviv
is home to three of Israel's
largest museums, which draw a total of 1.1 million visitors a year. Among them
are:

Tel Aviv
Museum...