Hemispheres

Sep 19, 2024 | hemispheresmag.com | Ellen Carpenter

By September 19, 2024 The violinists began to bow once the sky was dark and filled with stars. Fifteen thousand of us sat, ready to be swept away by the music and emotion of Aida in the Arena di Verona, an amphitheater built in 30 CE, where Ancient Romans once watched gladiators battle to the death. On this night, people would die—but that fate would last only until curtain call.

Sep 19, 2024 | hemispheresmag.com | Mrigaa Sethi

By September 19, 2024 Influencers struck their poses before the art. Some pretended to look at the work, while others faced away. Regular museumgoers found their openings in the crowd and took quick snaps of a blurry blossom, a blue-green lily pad, a pink reflection. It was very unlikely they would revisit the photos at home.

Sep 19, 2024 | hemispheresmag.com | Justin Goldman

By September 19, 2024 I’ve been an editor at Hemispheres for 11 years, and in that time I’ve been all around the world: I’ve swum in the Bora Bora Lagoon, stood at Ground Zero in Hiroshima, hand-fed wallabies in Australia, and felt the sands of Ipanema Beach between my toes. Yet perhaps the most meaningful trip I’ve taken in the last decade was to a place just an hour’s drive from my parent’s house.

Sep 19, 2024 | hemispheresmag.com | Celia Almeida

By September 19, 2024 I was more than a thousand miles from home but looking at a familiar view: a grassy expanse in a bed of slowly flowing water. As a South Floridian, this landscape reminded me of countless wet hikes and bird walks I’d taken in Everglades National Park—only this time, I was gazing at the Platte River in Nebraska, about two and a half hours west of Omaha.

Aug 30, 2024 | hemispheresmag.com | Lauren Vespoli

By August 30, 2024 There’s something about Chicago, the main hub and corporate headquarters of United Airlines, that makes it feel emblematic of the United States as a whole. Maybe it’s because the city’s 19th-century rise was defined by its prominence in building the nation’s railroads, packing its meat, and making its steel.