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In the days following the burning of the famous Oloffson Hotel in Port-au-Prince by gangs from the « Viv Ansamn » coalition, ...
The Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince has nurtured generations of Haitian artists and exhibited the country’s most important ...
In the wake of Haiti’s apocalyptic earthquake in 2010, my colleague Kathie Klarreich wrote a much needed dispatch of hope ...
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti's Violence. Haiti's famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control ...
Haiti's once-illustrious Grand Hotel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until ...
The Grand Canyon Lodge is the only hotel on the park's North Rim, which is closed for the rest of the season due to wildfire risk. The hotel was already rebuilt once, after a kitchen fire in 1932.
Haitians and friends of Haiti share vivid memories of the Hotel Oloffson—a cultural hub where music, history and community intertwined—now lost to fire. The burning down of the Oloffson is ...
Over nearly 100 years, the hotel survived political upheaval, military occupation, and earthquakes, the steadfast cultural hub of Port-au-Prince — until last weekend, when armed men burned it to the g ...
An interactive timeline tracing Hotel Oloffson’s journey from mansion to cultural hub to its tragic end amid gang violence.
The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Harold Isaac, a reporter based in Port-au-Prince, about the iconic Hotel Oloffson ...
The Hotel Oloffson in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied past, has been destroyed by ...