Word: touristed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tourism: go out the front door and explore the neighborhood and nearby towns, get to know the locals instead of slavishly following guidebook itineraries. Kenny and her husband Steve Cohen, 59, were in a Munich art gallery filled with Rubenses when it struck her that seeing all the standard tourist highlights was exhausting and there must be a better way to get to know a foreign city. "I hit the wall--I couldn't look at one more painting," she says. To make their travels more manageable and enjoyable, Kenny and Cohen now focus their vacations on one subject...
...that the flat was above a noisy carpet shop, the patio looked out on a large parking lot, and the master-bedroom window had a too-close-for-comfort view of the bathroom in a neighboring bicycle-repair shop. "And this apartment was rated four stars by the English tourist board," says Kenny. "The location was good, but the setting was horrible...
...Droves of people made pilgrimages to the site, which has ironically become New York's most visited tourist attraction in the five years since the attacks. There was no end to the amount of cameras and camcorders documenting the anniversary, and there was also no end to the outpouring of emotion that would undoubtedly come with such a milestone...
...headed. People are determined to grow here." And dance. Always dance. Music is the heart of Maputo, and every night of the week there's somewhere to shake your booty - regardless of how much money you have. On Thursday nights the Africa Bar does Afro-jazz for a tourist crowd; on Fridays Xima blasts out marrabenta, Mozambican fusion dance music, to the locals; le weekend is marked by live gigs at the Centro Cultural Francês and nearby Gil Vicente; while Coconuts blasts house music for those who were too young or busy warring to enjoy it the first...
...Those community groups that kept the flame alive, the social aid and pleasure clubs, the Mardi Gras Indian bands and brass bands that played at jazz funerals, have been scattered. Even before Katrina, New Orleans music was in danger as venerable nightspots in the French Quarter were replaced by tourist bars. Music was touted, "Disneyfied," Butler said, but not supported, and Katrina blew apart the social fabric that kept the traditions alive. Michael White, a clarinetist and musical historian at Xavier University, said it was shameful that so many valuable musical collections, like his own, were in private homes...