Jeff Greif

Taiwan

The Lantern Festival and So Much More   It was a warm and balmy February 28, sunny and 80 degrees when I arrived at Taipei’s International Airport, and I had just escaped the blizzard of the century back in New York.  I was here in Taiwan for the country’s annual … Read more

Austin Texas is Booming

If bombed-out Detroit is post-apocalyptic America, then booming Austin, Texas, is the happier version of the future. Austin, population 700,000, has a thriving D.I.Y. creative class and thanks to high-rise condominium development an increasingly dense urban center. This is no small feat in Texas, the third largest state, where sprawl … Read more