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For those of you who don’t know, I grew up a hardcore metalhead (a lover of heavy metal music, not a metallurgist). The early 80s (when I was a teenager) brought on the dawn of thrash metal acts Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax and so many others. It was a good time to be a metalhead […]
Back in November, my daughter and I were in Puerto Rico for a memorial service for my wife (her mother) who passed away back in September. We found ourselves with a free day so we decided to drive from Rincón down to San Germán to spend a few hours visiting the Porta Coeli Church (El […]
The Hallowed Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (In Pictures)
The last stop in our eight-city tour of Spain back in December was the historic city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain – the land where my mother was born. It is there that my daughter and I decided to spend our first Christmas after my wife passed away back in September. Looking back, […]
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. The first Record Store Day took place on April […]
Earlier this week, I shared some photographs I snapped of the historic Old Town of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain. Now before I get to the photographs from the Cathedral (which was consecrated back in 1211!), I wanted to share with you the second most visited location in this hallowed city. It isn’t another […]
It’s been a work in progress since I started this series of photographs from my trip to Spain this past December but I’ve finally reached the end. Well, almost. If you’re just joining us, my daughter and I decided to embark on an eight-city driving tour of Spain that started in Madrid and commenced south […]
Had my mother visiting me from the Bronx a few weeks ago and the day before she was to return home, I kept my schedule free for a day out with her and my daughter. Turned out that after weeks of lovely weather, it started to rain (that heavy South Florida rain) just as we […]
The 15th Annual Coral Springs Festival of the Arts (In Pictures)
When most people think of the city of Coral Springs, I’d hazard a guess that what first comes to mind is the excellent public schools, its low crime rate, and its overall family-friendly livability. The city, officially chartered on July 10, 1963, is where my family settled when we arrived here from NYC over 15 […]
Oh, Salamanca – how I misjudged you. This ancient university town was only supposed to be a layover city on our drive from Seville to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. I was not expecting it to be as lovely and dynamic a city as I (we) found it to be. Alas. Well, if you’ve been […]
Hello, again. I’m back with another series of images from my recent eight-city trip to Spain with my daughter (if you’re just joining us, you can catch up on things at the bottom of this post). We’re staying in Seville where in my last post, we visited the Seville Cathedral. For this final post in […]
