Richard Newton
Leisure Lifestyle 2022
Jun 21, 2022Travel-Themed Movies and TV Series Take us on Journeys Real or Imagined
The Namib Desert, 1992. After hours of driving across parched African emptiness, we reached an oasis of trees and shade surrounded by giant red dunes. Two dozen trucks arrived there before us, along with RVs, tents and tables. Power lines webbed the whole makeshift encampment. Generators and air-conditioners hummed. People bustled around. Attention seemed to focus on a particular tree in the middle distance. I aimed my binoculars and saw more people, a line of empty directors’ chairs, a movie camera, reflectors, a sound boom ... and Reese Witherspoon.
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April/May 2022
May 10, 2022Baseball Fans Around the World Root for Their Home Team
The largest baseball stadium in the world is Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, with a capacity of 56,000. But what of the second- and third-largest? They’re also Major League ballparks, right?