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From Sea to Shining Sea

DIRECTED BY Evan Mather PRODUCED BY Will Campbell, the American Society of Landscape Architects CAMERA BY Matthew Clayfield, John DeFraites, Evan Mather, Martin Stark SOUND BY Matthew Clayfield, Evan Mather ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE BY Juuso Auvinen REMIXES BY Victor Bortas

History on a plate

It is Saturday night in Madrid and Plaza Mayor is thronged with people despite the chill breeze of mid­winter. We weave through the bodies in their winter coats past the statue of Philip III in his brocaded one and duck

Bullfighting without matadors in northern Spain

Angus “The Scottish Rocket” Ritchie is giving me advice. “If I’m behind you when you look back, that’s good. If you see me ahead of you, that’s very bad.” We are standing on Calle Madrid in Ciudad Rodrigo, looking down

Driving America’s big roads

We depart Kiptopeke State Park, on the eastern bank of Chesapeake Bay, a little after dawn, the sun a burning penny behind us. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel sends us below and above the waterline intermittently, our hired car descending into

Hauling Ass: A Drive Across America

There are different kinds of American road trip: there’s the classic Greyhound adventure, the Simon & Garfunkel looking-for-America-type journey, the stuff of sweaty overnighters and long, dull days sandwiched between obnoxious Floridian evangelicals and stoic young men from the so-called

Beyond the bull in Pamplona

When Australians think of Pamplona—and especially of other Australians in Pamplona—they are liable to conjure up mental images of drunken backpackers drenched pink with sangria, running down a street in terror as several tonnes of irate beef comes tearing down

Walking the streets of Hebron, a city cleaved in two

I meet Shehada at his home early in the morning and we set off with his friend and neighbour, Isa, in the direction of Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city. It should by rights be a half-hour drive: Hebron is

Visit Fabulous, Bloody Grozny

The first-time visitor to Grozny has to be reminded that, until recently, the Chechen capital was often called “the most destroyed city on Earth.” Today, Grozny rises out of the plain like the Emerald City of Oz. The famous Associated