Writing about Bern’s Steakhouse is, more often than not, an exercise in futility. The internationally acclaimed, extravagantly adorned culinary experience is quietly nestled on South Howard Blvd. in Tampa, Fla., and is home to the largest private collection of wine in the world—one must truly see it to believe it.
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In the past, if you wanted to shop for organic food, custom jewelry or home goods in downtown Orlando, you’d have to get in your car and drive across town to several separate locations. These days, downtown residents instead walk to the Orlando Farmers’ Market in Lake Eola Park, a one-of-a-kind open-air bazaar operating every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine.
Life in the Great Depression-era Mississippi was a world apart from typical America; a land of sorrow and suffering but also intensely resilient, even today one of the least understood parts of American history. Here, among levee workers, sharecroppers, and former slaves, the music known as “the blues” lived—blood, sweat, and tears. Without the work of pioneering musicologists John and Alan Lomax, the music and lives of these musicians would have been lost to history, erased for want of attention and interest by a people unable to make themselves heard.
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