The best parts of San Francisco have a way of existing in the mind and in the body at once. The mind holds the history of this remarkable place, making projections toward the future, and experiencing a present. The body is always in the moment, responding to the date being fed into the senses, and they both work together to see a city that is a history and a moving vehicle for an eternal present.

Those who see the city for its complex history of human cycles of evolution, where the trappings of a new way of living were evident just a few decades ago, might be able to see more connections now. Perhaps that cultural moment did die, but perhaps the seeds lay dormant, and the harvesting comes in the form of the LovEvolution . Formerly known as the San Francisco Love Fest, this is a week-long festival of trance music. Guests pay a very reasonably small fee in order to participate in a celebration of life, where the music and the dancer become entwined in consciousness that extends from 120-140 beats per minute .

Travel opens up new horizons, and makes the past become clearer sometimes, having the distance of time, and the recollections in a San Francisco hotel room, where the events of the past might line up just right. It’s a moment that is always present, but also well-traveled by kids with flowers in their hair from another generation.

The theatre and performing arts have been a standard aspect of life for residents of Paris throughout history. The city is well known for its support of and appreciation for the performing arts and the atmosphere itself seems to emanate an artistic quality. Establishments like the Theatre Moliere are major cultural elements and attending a production here and at other companies is popular with tourists. Millions of people visit Paris ever year and stay in an historic hotel . Experiencing some of the traditional performance genres of the city contribute to their overall experience of the city.

The Theatre Moliere is named after one of France’s favorite playwrights, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, popularly known as Moliere . In addition to being one of the popular dramatist for the stage he was also an actor. He is frequently regarded as one of the best writers of comedies and is recognized as having perfected the art of social satire . Some of his most popular works continue to be produced throughout the world and these include The Misenthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, Tartuffe and others. Tourists in a Paris hotel are frequently eager to see one his productions in the original French, which is a rare treat.

Albany is a city with a rather fascinating past, and a place where the present reveals a lovely town with a great sense of identity. It’s an identity that is always changing, too, where the young people are harnessing their restless energy into innovative projects. One of the most interesting of these in recent years is the Albany Sonic Arts Collective . Here, the local musicians who have an ear on other frequencies get to practice their art form, hone their skills, and test the abilities of the collaborators to reach into new directions. The results have been remarkably fruitful and fulfilling to the performers, and have been the source for some exciting evenings for the local audiences.

It’s also something that visitors and tourists can enjoy. Guests in Albany luxury hotels are welcome to spend an evening’s entertainment hearing the latest of their new experiments. This is not typical music, and none of the concerts are ever the same. The kind of music they’re after is based on a constant willingness to experiment, and this experiment runs from the nature of the instruments to the methods of working in live performance. Judging from the way the collective uses a fervent Do It Yourself approach , this means that anything can potentially turn into an object that makes noise. The rest is never silence, although silence may play a part.

Jerusalem’s ancient and turbulent history creates an intense fusion of cultures like no other place in the world. It might not be surprising, then, that in a country so filled with top hotels and great museums, that one museum might devote itself exclusively to the ideas of tolerance, to the goals of understanding each other, and to living in peaceful co-existence.

Museum on the Seam is such a place, a socio-political contemporary art museum which exhibits modern art that addresses specifically the issues of war and conflict resolution. Even the location of this museum works as a kind of metaphor for its objectives: Museum on the Seam lies on Highway One, which was built over the line that separated Israeli Jerusalem from Jordanian Jerusalem between the years 1948 and 1967.

Artists from Israel and across the world respond with their work to the tensions between and inside groups, asking visitors to examine the influence of the social environment on each individual, and the influence of the individual on the social environment.

The museum was established at the turn of the century, in 1999, and, over the years, has held exhibitions that reflect concerns with human rights, that deals with work and slavery, examining life in a world of globalization and migration. Currently, the museum is exhibiting “HomeLessHome,” to consider the relationship between the private home and the state.

In a land filled with antiquities and diverse spiritual beliefs, the museum is an experience that will leave you thinking long after you’ve returned to your room in any number of Jerusalem hotels .

There are so many Broadway and Off Broadway shows to see as well as some of the best live music in the world when visiting NYC. The entertainment is one of the big perks of spending time in the city. Another way to enjoy some of your favorite celebrities is to be an audience member on the taping of their television show. There are a number of great television shows that are taped in New York and they all want a full audience.  

If you are a morning person and you want to see your favorite morning shows from the audience your in luck. If you are planning well enough in advance you can get some guaranteed tickets. Many of the shows have a waiting list for tickets so making plans a year in advance is best for shows like, Live with Regis and Kelly . This show is very popular and it does take a while to get tickets for the taping so you really want to plan a head to see this one. But if you are a real fan, that should be no problem.  

Another popular morning show is the Today Show. This show is taped live from Rockefeller Center and all you really need to do is get up very very early and head over to 49th and Rockefeller Center before 6 am to get a great spot. By 7 am the area closest to the hosts are filled up.  

If your a night owl than you may be more familiar with the late night shows like Saturday Night Live , Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman. Some of these shows you have to order tickets in advance but most of them you can also find some standby tickets. If it is a last minute idea, you can order tickets from your new york city hotel room and hope that other people will cancel and you get picked to join in.

Coral Springs, Florida is one of the state’s most beautiful cities, and that is a literal descriptive statement. The city was specifically planned to conform to aesthetic standards and it has various regulations that restict the height that buildings can reach and it is also the first city to incorporate a McDonald’s that did not include the distinctive golden arches. It has been recognized as one of Florida’s most liveable cities and it has an extremely low crime rate. It is located about 20 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale, which makes that beach community extremely accessible and attractive to residents as well as the tourists who are enjoying a getaway in one of the hotels Coral Springs .

The community of Coral Springs is extremely friendly and the city has a very welcoming atmosphere. There are various festivals that occur throughout the year and most of the city turns out for. The Our Town Festival is one of the most popular and has occurred annually since 1979. It is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Among the city’s main claims to fame is the fact that it took over the Guinness Book of World Records status of having the largest hamburger and milkshake. This fateful event occurred during the city’s 15th anniversary celebration and the hamburger measured 26 feet and was an impressive 5,063 pounds. That puts a new sense of fear into the phrase you are what you eat. Meanwhile, as impressive as the record was, it only lasted for a little over a year before it was broken by an even larger monster burger.

Much of the city’s features and activities contribute do a small town feeling. This is also represented by the friendly and inviting atmosphere of the city. In addition, the town’s museum is located in a building that used to be the real estate office and one of its main landmarks is the Covered Bridge, which was the first official structure of this new city. It was built in 1964 and remains the only covered bridge in the state that is based on the public right of way structure.

Think of Southern Florida and you might conjure images of palm trees, the Keys, or the Art Deco District, South Beach, and a boutique Miami hotel . But what about cattle ranching? That’s an image we more typically associate with the Old West, with Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It might be hard to picture a cattle drive past marshes and swamps, yet Florida has had five centuries of cattle ranching, beginning with Spanish explorers in the 16th century when they introduced cattle and horses to the area.

If you travel to Miami from September 16th, 2010, to January 23rd, 2011, you’ll be able to learn about cattle ranching in this state from the Historical Museum of Southern Florida , an institution designed to preserve and celebrate the history of Miami through exhibits, tours, education and research. The museum began in 1962, moving to its present location in 1984, in the Miami-Dade Cultural Center, an imposing building designed by internationally known architect, Phillip Johnson, who created a Spanish fortress-like structure to house not only the Historical Museum, but also the Miami-Dade Main Public Library and Miami Art Museum .

The exhibit, “Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition,” will trace this activity from its start in Colonial Florida through contemporary cattle ranching, covering Colonial Florida, Seminole cattle ranching, Cracker cowboys, auctions, cow dogs, rodeos, and oral traditions. There will be artifacts, archival photographs, paintings by cowboy artists, and even cowboy poetry.

Other exhibits you’ll have a chance to explore include “Portraits of the Nicaraguan Caribbean,” on display from September 16th to January 23rd, which follows the work of award-winning documentary photographers, Maria Jose Alvarez and Claudia Gordillo. Over 35 photographs will examine the region of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, taking a look at various cultural practices of Creoles, Garifunas, Miskitos, and Sumos.

The museum is closed on Mondays, but you’ll be able to see these exhibits and more from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, Tuesday through Friday, and from noon to five p.m., Saturday and Sunday. Every third Thursday of the month, the museum remains open until nine at night.

The crossroads where culture and history meet are difficult to locate, especially in a city with so many streets that already intersect. Add to this the multiple possibilities of crossing thresholds in coming into buildings, and the way ideas cross and merge whenever people meet (even when they are not talking, not listening, not even looking at each other). This is why the challenge for artists in the present day are more furiously interesting than they ever were before, because multiple possibilities also lead to many different answers to the same questions.

From the strain of long nights in the library stacks, to the comfort of a luxury NY hotel , contemplating the bigger questions about the way we are and why we do things is a wonderful thing to do. In a city where the inner life is every bit as essential as the outer one, there is pressure to be thinking deep thoughts, especially in academia, and at NYU the competition is very dense. It’s a breath of fresh air, then, when thinkers like Giana Gonzalez come around, and we get to catch them at the very beginning of their thought, in order to watch the multiple trajectories.

The kind of conception involved in her projects, like Hacking Couture, often leads to various flights of the mind, however, and it’s easy to lose track of the beginnings of any thought. This might be why clothing is such a great center from which to de-center the way that codes and structures function. By putting them in sharp focus, suddenly the threads of other moments start to become untangled, and we are left looking at ways to construct meaning. The ultimate artifacts of contemporary culture just might be found in the shopping malls, and in New York, it’s hard to find malls, but easy to find excuses for shopping, and this means that there is much more work to be done than anyone had ever considered.

The beautiful coastal region of Pattaya, Thailand has grown enormously in its attraction as a tourist destination and there are many reasons for this, in addition to the amazing geography and beauty of the region. As with all areas and cities in Thailand the culture aspects are intriguing to tourists and they are frequently amazed at some of the architecture, monuments and temples as well as other major landmarks and attractions. The beautiful hotels in Pattaya offer more than comfortable accommodations and frequently have great restaurants, nightclubs and other entertainment genres as part of their establishment.

The city is located on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand. It is approximately 165 kilometers south of the city of Bangkok and many of the guests to that major city will travel to Pattaya during their stay. As its own self governing municipality, Pattaya also has some aspects of its culture that are unique to itself and not common to the rest of Thailand.

The Songkran festival is a great example of unique to Pattaya cultural events. This annual festival occurs in April every year and is important to the local culture and extremely popular with tourists. There are a lot of different activities and features to the festival and beauty pageants, fireworks and various performances are among the favorites. There is also a water sports competition, which is growing in popularity and competitors. The spring season is active in Pattaya and another popular festival occurs in March. The International Music Festival takes place in March of every year and includes concerts by musicians from Thailand as well as from around the world. There are several different stages that present the various performances that represent the diverse music genres and styles of the country and also introduce audience members to world music genres .

The Palace of Nations is located in Geneva, Switzerland and is one of the city’s iconic and impressive politically based cultural landmarks. The building was built between 1929 and 1936 to serve as the head of the League of Nations. Since 1926 it served as the United Nations Office in the city after the UN Secretary General signed and agreement with the Swiss government. However, Switzerland did not officially become a member of the United Nations until 2002 and it was perhaps the country’s recognized political neutrality that first drew interest there.

Geneva receives numerous visitors from across the world every year and in addition to all of the amazing entertainment options, cultural landmarks and attractions as well as the great museums that are found throughout the city, the Palace of Nations, or officially the Palais des Nations, remains one of the most popular and intriguing places to visit. Information on this building as well as most of the other cultural attractions in the city can be found at the front desk of most of the fine resorts and hotels in Geneva .

The design and construction of this building was originally established after a competition was held to create its plan and design. This took place in the 1920s and about 377 architects entered the competition. Ultimately there were five architects who were behind the winning design and they were selected to collaborate on the plan that would become this building. The building is located in the Palais Park, which was donated to the city of Geneva by Gustave de Revilliod de la Rive. His 1890 gift came with a few conditions and these guaranteed that the park would always be accessible to the public, and that peacocks should roam freely on the grounds. Beautiful views of the French Alps are available in the park and from the Palace of Nations, which also overlooks Lake Geneva.