December 6, 2024
Once an expanse of abandoned warehouses, Miami's Wynwood Walls has become, since opening in 2009, what the artist RISK has described as the "Olympics of street art." Developer Tony Goldman (who had previously helped transform New York City's SoHo and Philadelphia's 13th Street) had the idea of inviting the world's preeminent graffiti…
For decades, the small town of Carpinteria, California, situated along the state’s Central Coast northwest of Los Angeles, has advertised itself as having “the world’s safest beach,” thanks to its southern aspect, wide sands, and lack of riptide. The designation encompasses not only Carpinteria’s small, 500-yard-long City Beach, found at the end of main drag…