by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 22, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
In remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 Attacks, Los Angeles Times reporter Geraldine Baum has shared her writings with the world as she walked New York City in the minutes following the plane crashes: I had no notebook with me when my husband and I...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 22, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Detours due to road construction is simply a pain but one Salt Lake City resident in the US has a more ‘colorful’ description: “It’s been like a war zone,” Darren Menlove said about confusing detours caused by bridge and road construction....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 22, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Bristol, UK is hosting a street graffiti exhibition/party to market the city to the world: Nelson Street has been transformed during the last week, with some of the world’s best graffiti artists creating huge artworks on the buildings lining the street. Some 13,400...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 21, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Probably one of the least expected places to find the “looks like Beirut” phrase used: review of the 2011 Camaro convertible: Truly, this convertible is one stiff car. In the end, none of the suspension components from the coupe needed to be changed for...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 20, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Fires that look like Beirut are nothing new but how a scene of people lying on the ground on the streets of Winnipeg, Canada after being rescued by firefighters resembles Beirut is completely beyond me: [District fire chief Bruce] Duncan said the firefighters battling...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 20, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
I received an email from a lady named Bernadette earlier in the month on the first time she saw the phrase “looks like Beirut” being used: I recall after the ‘Sydney Hilton Hotel Bombing’ way back on 13 February, 1978, a Sydney newspaper...