I spoke to the most hated guy on the internet and something funny happened. By the end of our two-hour conversation, I didn’t hate him. FYI, this is Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old dude who changed the price of an AIDS drug from $13.50 to $750 and is now under investigation by a senate committee and the U.S.
The Greek port of Piraeus never intended to become home to thousands of Afghan and Syrian refugees. Breena Kerr visited the camps to find out how the city's inhabitants old and new are digesting dramatic urban growth. Most visitors arrive in the port city of Piraeus after a week in the islands. They stand at the rails of cruise ships that rise like tankers over the glassy blue water.
The first Pride Parade in San Francisco was held in June 1970. 46 years later, Breena Kerr considers how the changing demographic of the city has changed an iconic celebration. In 1964, a Life Magazine article called ‘Homosexuality in America’ proclaimed San Francisco, the “Gay Capital of the U.S.”.
Jeff Greenwald, a respected travel writer, lives by one line from Kurt Vonnegut’s book, “Cat’s Cradle.”
“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.”
Greenwald has published hundreds of travel articles and five books. He’s interviewed greats
Ric O'Barry used to capture dolphins and train them for the TV show Flipper, but on one disturbing day in 1970 he renounced his work and launched a campaign against keeping dolphins in captivity. The show had finished filming in Florida when he got a call that something was wrong with Kathy, one of the dolphins who played Flipper.
A lot of people claimed they’d leave the country if Donald Trump were elected president, back when that seemed like just a far-fetched possibility. Now that it’s happened, Amee Enna, who’s lived in Oakland and on the island of Oahu, is one of those Americans who’s actually following through. She sold her stuff and gave up her house in Kailua to move to Costa Rica.
As we considered the future of public art in White City, we wondered about unknown works in other cities and how they came to be forgotten. Join Breena Kerr as she visits three frescoes that San Francisco’s tour guides won't take you to. It was a sunny March day when I found myself virtually alone in the stairwell of a private social club, looking at one of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera’s most beautiful frescoes.