Who is the mastermind behind all the plywood cartoons invading Portland?

Ramadan feasts, extraordinary cheese, and the cenotaphs of Orchha. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. June 06, 2019 Giant Cartoons For the past few months, Mike Bennett has been busy with plywood, paint, and power tools, speckling his front yard and Portland streets with playful, oversized figures from popular cartoons. A nod to Portland’s quirky culture, the cutouts have started a citywide scavenger hunt for Bennett’s next creation. Read More → Ramadan Feasts Instead of fasting or praying five times a day, the Baye Fall, members of a Senegalese-Muslim sect, enact their faith through hard work and service to others–most notably by cooking and delivering food to fellow Muslims breaking their fast. Read more → China Trip Giveaway We're giving away two spots on our sold out China culinary trip! Join us—for free—as we harvest lotus roots and river crabs on Weishan Lake, tour Guangzhou's bustling market with a local chef, and learn how to make dumplings from an expert in Qingdao. Enter Now → I had minimal expectations for Antelope Island, but drove out there on a sunny late afternoon and I was truly enchanted by the place… —Jaguarfeather Join the conversation → Remote Britain For centuries, England's Riggs Moor has been considered a quiet escape from the outside world. But a new report shows that even the most "remote" places in England really aren't. Riggs Moor, for one, is now only 2.4 miles from the nearest road. Read more → Extraordinary Cheese Whether it’s the intricately stretched tendrils of tenili in southwestern Georgia or the beautiful designs on each spindle of Polish oscypek, every cheese tells the unique story of its home. Here are 20 of the world’s most extraordinary examples of these dairy delicacies. Read more → ORCHHA, INDIA Cenotaphs of Orchha The cenotaphs of the Bundela Rajput kings of Orchha stand like silent sentinels of history on the banks of the river Betwa. Fourteen in total, these funeral monuments were built to immortalize the rulers of the Bundelkhand dynasty. Read more → Sponsored by Go Rving Gulf Coast Road Trip The terrain along the Gulf of Mexico is sometimes called the “Third Coast,” but for an offbeat road trip, it’s second to none. Starting in Houston and ending in Pensacola Bay, this journey takes you through some of America’s most diverse landscapes. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222