Managua, Nicaragua – Tuesday, 4:07 p.m. local time, which in this city means the sun is already staging its daily coup against any concept of punctuality. From the cracked balcony of the Crowne Plaza, you can watch the volcano Momotombo smolder like a chain-smoker who’s read too many climate reports and decided to keep puffing…
DALLAS — City of Perpetual Sunburn and Global Metaphor By Our Man in the Departure Lounge (still tasting barbecue in his dreams) Let us begin, dear international reader, with a confession: nobody outside Texas is entirely sure whether Dallas is a city, a television franchise, or a cautionary tale that escaped its cage. From the…
LOS ANGELES—Seen from 35,000 feet, the city unfurls like a radioactive circuit board that someone spilled glitter on: a vast, humming grid of lights, smog, and the occasional brushfire giving the whole thing a festive orange halo. To the rest of the planet, Los Angeles is less a municipality than a planetary mood ring—when it…
The Weather in New York: A Global Spectacle of Snow, Stocks, and Existential Dread By Dave’s Locker International Desk If you ever want to watch the planet’s collective anxiety crystallize into a single snowflake, just wait for a forecast in New York. A city that already believes it is the center of the universe suddenly…
