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5 Matador Members to Meet Right Now: The Farmers’ Edition

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Matador member Carina Port with ducks. If you need to know about the best fertilizer, the ideal time to plant crops, or how to wrangle a gaggle of b  More »

California Apologizes to Chinese Americans

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California apologizes for past treatment of Chinese Americans.   More »

Middle Eastern Women Redefining Politics and Public Space

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From Tehran to Cairo, Arabic women are redefining politics and society.   More »

Kuwaiti Women Make Political Gains

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and in so doing, pose some challenges to Western feminism.   More »

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…

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...stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." So goes the inscription chiseled into the stone of New York City's main   More »

“Sorry, Officer…”

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“…I didn’t realize we were hauling ass.” Photo taken in Bogota, Colombia on March 1, 2009 by Brian Requarth.   More »

Culinary Corps Issues Call for Volunteers


More than five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans continues to need help rebuilding. Enter the Culinary Corps. Photo: Julie Schwietert Fo  More »

Matador up for 2 Lonely Planet Travel Blogger Awards!


Photo: Pot Noodle We don’t want to toot our own horn–well, not too much– but thanks to our supportive community of readers and c  More »

What’s Going on in… Guadeloupe?

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Plenty, it seems. Photo: manuel l mc A five-island archipelago, Guadeloupe is home to just under half a million people. It’s also one of the C  More »

Finally, a scholarship for travel podcasters!

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There are scholarships for travel writers. There are scholarships for travel photographers. And finally, thanks in part to Matador member Craig Mart  More »

America’s Most Literate Cities… Really?

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I’m slightly suspicious of superlatives– you know, the best of this or the worst of that– so I tend to approach them with some skep  More »

NYC for New Year’s Eve?


If you’re one of those brave or crazy folks planning on ringing in 2009 in New York City’s Times Square, this post’s for you. One  More »

Mumbai Calls for Peace

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At last count, there were 250,000 people on the streets of Mumbai on December 3, the one week mark of the terrorist attack on Mumbai City. Civilia  More »

5 Best Election Night Tweets


Amidst a group of bloggers writing live from NPR’s headquarters, up above the streets of Washington, D.C., I was glued to Twitter. There’  More »

5 Things You Should Know About Guantanamo

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There are dozens of stories that I want to share from my experiences at Guantanamo’s US Naval Base this week. But there are also facts–bo  More »

Words to Give You the Willies


In the US and looking for something offbeat to do for Halloween? The New York Public Library’s “LIVE from the NYPL” Program has sc  More »

The Real Problem in America: Too Many People Like This

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So what’s the biggest threat to the United States of America these days? Is it terrorism? The economy, or the lack of affordable health care? W  More »

7 Things Americans Abroad Can Do for Obama

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Obama supporters abroad, unite! Just because you’re living or traveling abroad doesn’t mean that you can’t contribute to ObamaR  More »

Ms. Palin, Can We See Your Passport, Please?

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Sure, the Matador editors have been a little bit obsessed with Sarah Palin over the past couple of days. We’ve poked fun at Palin’s patri  More »

10 Constants of Air Travel

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As someone who spends lots of time in airports and airplanes, I got a good laugh out of Matador writer Liv Hambrett’s “10 Constants of A  More »

Tips for Foodie Travelers

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No matter where you travel, you’re sure to come across McDonald’s and KFC. But you don’t REALLY want to eat there, do you? The   More »

Freebie of the Week: Stoke from Global Oneness

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There’s lots of bad news in the world. War. Poverty. Threats to the environment. But amidst all the doomsday forecasts, there’s lots  More »

Room for You… in Space

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So, if you haven’t been following news from outer space lately, here’s an update. Last year, Galactic Suite Limited established itself a  More »

Engrish Spoken Here

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Some of our favorite Engrish signs found at home and abroad… Photo: Augapfel (creative commons) Photo: Shamam (creative commons) Photo: Stard  More »

Paul Theroux on ‘Ghost Train to the Eastern Star’


Would it be too dramatic if I said that ‘Ghost Train to the Eastern Star‘ is the most anticipated travel book of the year? Maybe. But fo  More »

Voluntourism: Changing the World, One Rich Kid at a Time?

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That’s the theory put forward in this provocative opinion piece by Globe and Mail columnist Judith Timson. “Let’s face it,”   More »

Hello, Dolly!: Latest Hurricane News

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Hurricane Dolly made landfall earlier today in the coastal region of Texas and northern Mexico. While locals brace for gale-force rains and winds, a   More »

What’s your favorite travel gadget?


A Matador member’s home in Baja Do you have a favorite travel gadget or must-have piece of travel gear? Maybe it’s a perfect pack or a t  More »

New York City’s New Go-To Guide


Citysearch. Zagat. Time Out. Village Voice. Wallpaper City Guides. There are hundreds of printed and online guides to New York City, but one of the  More »

You can bet your bottom dollar…


that I’ll be avoiding all these new bag charges that US airlines are imposing. After the April announcement that they’d be charging a &  More »

Palimpsest City

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One of my perpetual interests and preoccupations is the loss and capture of great stories. Who used to live in my apartment? What was the corner sto  More »

Consumerism with a Conscience

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I’m recently back from a trip to New Orleans, and what impressed me as much as anything was the level of local entrepreneurial spirit and robus  More »

Gitmo, PA

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A few months back, I applied for a press pass to visit the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay outpost in Cuba. Though the application has yet to be  More »

I’ll take that to go, please: Best Travel Podcasts. Period.

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I’m a relative newcomer to podcasts, but after receiving a link from Matador member Steven Jay Weinberg (who has some pretty great podcasts hi  More »

“Oh give me a home…”

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If you’re a writer, you don’t need me to tell you about that creeping feeling of anxiety that swells up at the end of each month when yo  More »

What We Hate About Travel… & Love to Complain About

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Matador members love travel, and because they’re on the road, in the skies, and on the seas so much, they have a lot to say about how the trave  More »

I heart Maradona

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Pulse Picks of the Week: Know Your Host(elier)


The Matador community is full of people with interesting businesses, and it’s not surprising that a handful of members are travel industry entr  More »

Can Cell Phones End Poverty?


That’s the question Sara Corbett asked in a recent New York Times Magazine article about the varied uses of cell phones around the world. Corb  More »

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