Giant Crab
When I was growing up, my family was really into sasquatch and ufos and ghosts. We dug anything that wasn’t supposed to exist. The tendency...
Cool Corner
Phoenix, Arizona is all suburb and no city. Growing up there accustomed me to a certain architectural homogeneity. On my first trip to Europe, I...
Night Shopping Circus
I think the Atrium City shopping street in Qingdao is meant to be experienced at night. It seemed pretty dead when I visited in midday...
Urban Skyline
China has a well-earned reputation for ugly, industrial cities blanketed in choking smog. But that’s not the whole story. The haze you see here is...
Qingdao’s Tsingtao
The city of Qingdao is home to the only Chinese beer to achieve any popularity in the United States – Tsingtao. The beer is named...