Romping through History

Posted: December 4, 2009 | Author: lhasalhady | Filed under: Lotsa Lhasa Info | Leave a comment

A rather interesting book review of Mistress of Modernism, Peggy Guggeheim. According to reviewer Michele C. Cone, Dearborn has portrayed not the dog-hugging old lady that some of us recall, but a young and interesting Peggy, as she appears on the book’s cover in the famous photograph of her by Man Ray from 1925. Here, her face, framed by a turban, softened by dangling earrings, has an affecting pensiveness. In her sleek cloth-of-gold evening dress by Paul Poiret, a long cigarette holder pressed between her fingers, she is the archetypal flapper. But this product of the mores of a society in transition had a singular generosity and an uncanny eye for good art, and her biographer generously pays tribute to those qualities.

Free Tibet TV

Posted: December 3, 2009 | Author: lhasalhady | Filed under: Apso Aficionados | Leave a comment

Check this site out! I have added it as an RSS feed, found in the far right hand column of the website, right above All Things Considered and NPR World News. As a reminder, RSS feeds update automatically which keeps us abreast of the latest and (hopefully) greatest news.

Flying into Paro, Bhutan…

Posted: December 2, 2009 | Author: lhasalhady | Filed under: Apso Aficionados | Leave a comment

Vickie doesn’t think she’ll fly here!

Who Flies There: Druk Air, the national carrier. Why It’s Harrowing: Tucked into a tightly cropped valley and surrounded by 16,000-foot-high serrated Himalayan peaks, this is arguably the world’s most forbidding airport to fly into. It requires specially trained pilots to maneuver into this stomach-dropping aerie by employing visual flying rules and then approaching and landing through a narrow channel of vertiginous tree-covered hillsides. Only eight pilots in the world are qualified to make this landing.