There are two ways to enjoy Puerto Vallarta: to spend a few days picking and choosing the culinary, artistic and sensory pleasures the town offers, which are considerable, and to use it as a jumping-off point for the untrammeled beaches an hour or more away.
Decay takes many forms, but in Guerilla Science's recent experimental multisensory installation, Decadent Decay, audiences encountered disintegration and rot through culinary, artistic, and scientific experiences.
Now, the neighborhood is generating buzz again -- as a cradle of culinary and artistic innovation and as a symbol of gentrification, with a more racially mixed population.
Together they form a downtown area that provides the metropolis with an underground commercial, culinary, and artistic answer to New York City's Rockefeller Center.
Beyond the conservative conformity of Santiago Centro and the soulless towers of Las Condes, the financial district, there are thriving culinary and artistic enclaves that are a joy to uncover.
Copper, lithium and other mineral exports have turned Chile into the most stable and prosperous nation in Latin America, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, while an influx of fresh cash from foreign investment has both enlivened Santiago's cultural output and emboldened its culinary and artistic enclaves like Bellavista, Lastarria and Barrio Italia.
In fact, you might have to make an inconvenient trek in order to support certain culinary or artistic endeavors.
The inaugural StreetFood Artistry Festival combines Chicago's culinary and artistic circles for a celebration of Chicago's eclectic street food scene.
This elaborate display is the brainchild of Bompass and Parr, a company that makes artistic culinary delights.
With the advent of colonialism and global trade, France reached a worldwide market, and French artistic, culinary, and sartorial styles influenced the high and popular cultures of nations around the globe.
Instead, I'd like to see a chain of shops in every major American city -- and why not in the big retailers like Target and Walmart -- offering us a blend of culinary, sartorial, musical, artistic and home design selections from around Brazil.
