Viewing by month: November 2008
In Seattle? Don't miss Teatro ZinZanni.
In 1992, Norman Langill discovered a turn-of-the-century Belgian spiegeltent in Barcelona. With its hand-carved wooded booths, mirrored walls and stained glass, the tent hosted cabarets, circuses, and celebrations across Europe.
Six years later, the charming spiegeltent moved to Seattle and became home to Teatro ZinZanni, an innovative melange of vaudeville, cirque, music, and comedy that played to sold-out crowds for the next 14 months.
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America's best small museums -- Part 2.
With the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the 19 museums of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC has so many must-sees that many visitors miss what in any other city would be a big draw - The Phillips Collection.
Housed in an 1897 Georgian Revival home in Dupont Circle, the museum was opened in 1921 to showcase the collection of art critic Duncan Phillips and his wife, artist Marjorie Acker.
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