Maslenitsa (Ma-sla-nee-tsa) – Russia’s finest winter time event. A week full of non-stop eating, face punching, bears performing weird acts, sledding in the snow and burning shit up! Maslentisa is more commonly known as butter week, or pancake week, so lets start with the food…everyone loves pancakes.  Everyone loves crepes.  Now imagine if you can perfectly combine the two to make a pancake-like crepe.  The Russians created this food miracle, called it “blini”, and devour them all throughout Maslenitsa.  For serious! To be completely sure that the information you read here fully covers this bonanza, we …

The American dream, rags to riches, is an alluring thought. Our society has constructed a fool-proof plan to get you from American dream to American reality: college. Get your degree and you will always have enough to pay your mortgage, take family vacations and finance that spacious, yet stylish, minivan you’ve always wanted. How about a bachelor’s in business? Sounds respectable; will most likely make your parents proud. But is a college degree really a guarantee to financial success (or even stability)?
Flat out truth is currently, a college degree is approaching …

Futbol (as in soccer-not to be confused with sweaty, 350 plus pound player, American tackle handball), is one of the only sports that still holds world competitions (Canada playing in the World Series doesn’t count). We are talking about the World Cup of course. This year’s competition takes place between June 11th and July 11th in Cape Town, South Africa and is bound to be a spectacle for those lucky enough to attend. But what if you’re broke and your country is in civil unrest? Let’s talk about Honduras:
This year, …

Zwarte Piet, directly translated from Dutch means “Black Pete”.  Although his exact function and portrayal is highly and tensely debated, he accompanies Sinterklass (Dutch Santa, sort of.  Their Santa is actually called Kertsman, or Christmas-man) during a Christmas-like tradition in the Netherlands and gives out gifts to kids.  So why all the tension?  Well, Black Pete is, how do we put this?…Black (at least visually).  Every year, in early December, Sinterklass is rumored to roll in from Spain on a steamship (watch out P. Diddy)  with his sidekick Black Pete, …

Meet Rodrigo y Gabriela
They are the new definition of world music (or music from around the world). A girl and guy combo that play dueling acoustic guitars so fast it will make your head spin. Press play below, and read on…

Their story:
They met in Mexico and were both in separate metal bands. When they realized they could make better music together, they quit and formed Rodrigo y Grabriela. The duo then packed up and moved to Dublin, Ireland, and re-started their careers as street performers. Knowing only a few words …

If any of you missed Halloween this year, let us break down what likely happened: the girls walked around in no more than a bra and panties and pretended they were cops, sailors, nurses or some sort of pre-packaged ho-in-a-bag (maybe the origin of the expression “ho-bag”). Now the guys, well they thought they were clever by dressing as something related to balls and dicks (some just got lazy and went as balls and dicks). Everyone got drunk, took pictures and had random sex with other costumed individuals.
The …

After the backpacking trip of a lifetime last fall, I went through major post-travel withdrawal anxiety. The experience had changed my perspective of the world and re-positioned my values so much that I knew I could never return to the same old routine. With so much on my mind, I went for a long walk one sunny Los Angeles day from my house in the San Fernando Valley, over the Hollywood Hills, and into Century City (totaling 15 miles). The walk was an adventure in itself that made me realize …