Typically, massage students are taught a sample of styles in their basic massage training and then enhance their skills and learn other styles through continuing education workshops.
There are incredible blogs out there, many of which are already in our Outposts section on The Global Design Post, but we wanted to honor the ones who captured our imaginations right now! From different regions across the world, each was chosen for their insight, taste, or originality, giving you, dear reader, a broad sampling of styles and countries.
Featured are a sampling of international musical styles (salsa, Scottish pipe players, Gypsy klezmer bands) as well as homegrown folk, blues and rock (Michelle Shocked, Floyd Dixon, Dave Alvin).
A sampler of Osaka-style sushi called delakaruto is $21.70.
A history teacher in Shanghai or a biology teacher in Rio can tape their lessons, upload the video and share a sample of their style.
To hear a sample of his style, rich with percussion and a smooth, relaxed flow, click here.
The resulting book, "Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism" (Seal Press, 2009), gives a sampling of her intelligent and personable writing style.
An angular, efficiently aphoristic vocal setting by Milton Babbitt represented the severe end of the contemporary American spectrum, and a pop-tinged song cycle by Gabriel Kahane was its polar opposite, a sample of the hybrid style currently in vogue.
(A sample of her acerbic style: She has described some homes here as "multimillion-dollar penis extensions" that will make a buyer feel as if "he has never left northern New Jersey").
10 P.M. (Travel) SLICE OF BROOKLYN A Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour travels four days a week from one end of the borough to the other, with stops at Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge for a sample of a Neapolitan-style pie to L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst, a famous Sicilian joint.
