Miss Saigon
The Broadway musical blockbuster ‘Miss Saigon’ returns to Boston’s Wang Center for a short run. The show, which was created by the ‘Les Miserables’ team of Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, has been to the Wang twice previously for sold out runs that have made it one of the most financially successful musicals to ever come to Boston. It tells the story of love affair between a young Vietnamese girl and an American soldier around the time of the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Viva
Viva at HQ is reputedly the best Latin club night in town, with the un-crowned queen of Cuban disc-spinning, DJ Claire Moloney, at the decks every Saturday. Salsa, rumba and samba have taken the city by storm, and the Hall of Fame has jumped on the bandwagon with Viva. By all accounts, it’s giving the salsa nights at the Gaiety a run for the money – particularly as it’s a smaller, more intimate venue. Better still is that the promoters promise a Ricky Martin/Jennifer Lopez-free night. Combine it with a pre-club dinner at Bella Cuba and you have the perfectly flavoured South American night out!
Observatory
An embittered astronomer, whose life has been spent dreaming of black holes, quarks and supernovas, clashes with a young female student in ‘Observatory’, the new play by Katherine Snodgrass. The play gets its premiere at Boston University’s Boston Playwrights’ Theater, which is under the artistic direction of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott.
Arzenal
Thai and Japanese food amid designer décor represents a new height for Prague’s culinary world. The striking space-age forms of Borek Sipek (who did over President Havel’s office) are fittingly bold in a place that offers both teppanyaki grill table and a full array of coconut milk and curry wonders. The former is not available Mondays and the Thai food is not available Tuesdays, but otherwise Arzenal looks like an early season hit on any night despite pricey dinners running about 600-1,000 Kc (£11-£18) per person.
Ousmane Sow
The latest free open-air sculpture exhibition organised by the Mairie de Paris groups 68 larger-than-life sculptures by Senegalese artist Sow on the Pont des Arts. Made entirely from recycled material to resemble caked-mud figures, his serene-faced Masai warriors and the 24 men (and 11 horses) in the Little Big Horn tableau are a striking collection.
Rocking out in Helsinki
Helsinki is a great city with a booming nightlife, but Tallin in Estonia, is also not to be missed. The cruise to get there is worth the trip alone and for young people you should have no trouble meeting fellow travellers with similar interests.
A highlight of Croatia
From the Adriatic coastline with the most pristine and clean waters to the rugged peasant villages, you will always find the most friendliest and hospitable people in the world. It’s a small country with a big history. Croatia is a land of hope and sorrow, always in search for a better tomorrow.
Sibenik is one of the major towns on the Dalmatian coast, with its cathedral being unique as it is not known how it was put together – it was built without anything holding the stones together in the manner of a jigsaw puzzle.
