Tag Archives: culture

winter is coming

Winter is coming, as is the new AmericA Magazine. Journeylism.nl contributes three new stories to this issue. Hair the musical is featured in the American Songbook column. Patrick Amiot – or better his art – stars in 24/7 Junk Art and the ‘only in America’ Maryland Renaissance Festival takes you back a few centuries in […]

let the sunshine in

April 29, 1968 Hair, the ‘American tribal love-rock musical’, opened on Broadway. Before its premiere, the brainchild of James Rado and Gerome Ragni was already controversial. Nudity, drugs, draft dodging, Hair was a sign of the times that even ‘made it’ to the United States Supreme Court. Fifty years later, Hair has become a part […]

voodoo child

‘Excuse me while I kiss the sky’ he sings while his fame flies like Icarus towards the sun. Higher and higher his star rises until on September 18, 1970 he falls. Just like Joplin, Morrison and Cobain, Jimi Hendrix is only 27 years old when he becomes a legend for eternity…click here for the full article […]

haunted + bible + trump + hair = america magazine fall 2018 edition

September 27 the new AmericA Magazine hit the stores but for the price of a glass of wine (+ tip) on a Georgetown DC terrace, you can get a subscription with 4 magazines arriving on your doorstep right here. The fall edition features 5 stories by journeylism.nl about Trump the Troll, the scariest forest in […]

ghosts in the desert

“There never was another place where, in proportion to the population, so many murders were committed without the criminals being brought to trial or even apprehended.” This is what a certain John Riggs wrote some 130 years ago about the time and place in which the Techatticup mine seems to be frozen in nowadays. Underneath […]

philadelphi-yeah!

History, art, culture, nature, food, hiking, biking, rafting, city tripping and so, so much more is part of the DNA of Philly and its countryside. From the snow dusted Pocono Mountains to the foodporn of ‘Mushroom Capital of the World’ to the rolling hills that gave birth to the United States army to the streets […]

walter de maria

West Broadway 393 is a thirteen in a dozen building, squeezed in between a New York City gallery and bar. But looks can be deceiving. You’ll find out after you ring the bell and the door opens. Inside #393 you do not only find tranquility and a break away from the pace of SoHo. You’ll […]

50 shades of black

History built a home on Washington’s National Mall where monuments and museums are windows into the United States’ past. It took until september of 2016 to complete this ‘house’. Then an architectural gem openend its doors to tell a dark tale but also show what a centuries long struggle has given a nation that took […]

man of the moon

‘I ride over my beautiful ranch. The air is wine. The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smolders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams […]