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Feasting in Batumi: Caucasian home of super supras
Tom Teicholz heads to Georgia’s second city, where he finds familiarity and wonderful hospitality—topped by the extravagant supra feastT From Lucire.com/ The global fashion magazine December 31, 2023 https://lucire.com/2023/1230vo0.shtml Feasting in Batumi: Caucasian home of super supras Volante Tom Teicholz heads to Georgia’s second city, where he finds familiarity and wonderful hospitality—topped by the extravagant supra feast PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR Above, from top: Downtown Batumi. Batumi’s changing skyline. Historical façades preserved in the city. The White House, a large synagogue in this multicultural city. We’ve… -
Astana Days: Kazakhstan's Excellent Financial Adventure
During the first week of July, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, celebrated its 20th Anniversary and officially launched the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), a bold plan to make this city of 1 Million people in a landlocked country of some 18 million citizens, the financial hub of Central Asia and a destination for European, Arab, and Asian investment. And here's the thing... they just might succeed View Original Article -
Lusting for Leicas
In one version of our lives, childhood is a series of deprivations and desires whereby we want things we can"t... View Original Article -
CES 2016 was a Behemoth
CES 2016 was a Behemoth View Original Article -
The future is now: Highlights from CES 2015
Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, ...... View Original Article -
The Future in Our Hands in Our Homes and Before
CES made clear how much our whole notion of what a computer does is changing. Only a few short years ago, we used computers only at our desks. Now there are laptops, netbooks, the Mac Air, Ultrabooks and tablets of all sizes. View Original Article -
The Gateway Arch is a Tourist Must-do
There are some tourist experiences that need doing, such as walking the Sydney Harbour Bridge or going up the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building. And when in St, Louis, you"ve got to go up in the Arch, America's tallest man-made monument, a catenary curve 630 feet up in the air, as wide as it is high.Truth to tell, I"d gone to the top of the Gateway arch almost thirty years ago. All I really recall is being seated… -
CES 2017: 50 Years of seeing the Future
CES, the beast with 200,000 attendees and more than 30,000 exhibitors that sprawls across Las Vegas, taking over the entire North Center and South Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center and spills over to the Westgate, the Sands Expo halls, and the Venetian Hotel, as well as the Aria’s conference center, continues even in this digital age to make a potent case for attending to see first-hand new products and innovations abounding that touch every aspect of our increasingly… -
Ebikes: I Sing the Ride Electric
Let me make a prediction: You will buy an E-Bike, and like me, you will love having one. 2016-12-26-1482782513-3355061-WallerangM02Xpreview.png Wallerang Ebike Over the last six months, I’ve been testing a wide variety of E-bikes and have come to believe strongly that E-bikes are in the future for many of us, specifically those over 50, but in time, for everyone. I’ve tested bikes from brands you know such as Trek, Specialized and Raleigh, and ones you haven’t such as Swedish Ebike… -
Lust for Leica
The new Leica store and gallery in West Hollywood. In one version of our lives, childhood is a series of deprivations and desires whereby we want things we can’t have, some of which we grow out of or just forget. In my case, I was seized with heartache when I entered the newly opened 8,000-square-foot Leica store on Beverly Boulevard at Robertson in West Hollywood. Until then, I had forgotten how much I wanted to own a Leica. Leica… -
Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now
I listen to music all day, in my car, in my office, at the gym, while walking the dog or taking a hike. Most of what I listen to I don't have to pay for; some of it I do. There are so many ways to discover new music or find old favorites that I thought it might be useful to create a guide to the various offerings - on the cloud, the Net or on the air - these… -
Tom is.... (facebook and my generation)
Tommywood is ... Tom is ... on Facebook. Aren't you? If you read this column online and are not on Facebook, you will soon be. The Facebook wave has now washed over my generation, the "late baby boomers." In the last two months, the number of people in my crowd who have just joined or who joined a while ago but are now suddenly really using the social network is exploding exponentially. Why? Why now? And what, exactly, is it…