This Week - Your Own Travel Partners - An Interior Designer, a Writer/Event Planner, and a Pharmacist

Your Own Travel Partners - An Interior Designer, a Writer/Event Planner, and a Pharmacist

This week, Let's Travel! picks out some travel partners for our listeners. Thinking of purchasing antiques, furniture, etc., whether at home or abroad? Let Shelley Azapian pave the way. Published writer/event planner and avid traveler, Wanda Mann, talks about re-discovering your hometown and discovering new places. And pharmacist, Lou Flacks, tells us what medications, including health and beauty aids, you need to take on your next trip.

Guests

Shelley Azapian, Interior Designer and Principal
Shelley Azapian Fine Arts

Wanda Mann, Published Writer/Event Planner
Founder of Mann About Town

Wanda Mann is a native New Yorker who never tires of discovering new things about her hometown. Armed with little more than a Metrocard and an appetite for adventure, Wanda loves to explore the City in search of great food, unique personalities, and special events.

A professional events planner, Wanda's network of contacts includes musicians, chefs, politicians, designers, and authors. Personal highlights for Wanda during her travels about town include going into the inner sanctum of haute cuisine, the kitchen of restaurant Daniel and meeting Chef Daniel Boulud, interviewing New York Mets legend Keith Hernandez and getting career advice from everyone's favorite weatherman Al Roker!

As a freelance TV Reporter, Wanda was a contributor to Manhattan Magazine on Time Warner Cable. As an events planner, Wanda has organized events featuring many high profile personalities including Venus Williams, Keith Hernandez, Dave Winfield, Rusty Staub, Diahann Carroll, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Chertoff (Director of Homeland Security), Hank Aaron, Maureen O'Hara, Madeleine Albright, George Foreman, Moby, Ben Stein, Barbara Corcoran, Jessye Norman, Danny Glover, Paul Krugman, and many others. Wanda is a member of the Board of Directors of New York Women in Film and Television.

Wanda has a weekly column in Harlem News, Queens News, Brooklyn News, and Bronx News community newspapers. Her writing has also appeared in New York SportScene Magazine, New York Woman Online and Swing Uptown.

An avid traveler, Wanda lived in Spain for two years and is always in search of the best tapas in town. Although her heart belongs to New York, Wanda's other favorite cities include Barcelona, Chicago, Dublin, and Vancouver.

Lou Flacks, Clinical Pharmacist, Educator, and Board Member
Alpha Zeta Omega, a Pharmaceutical Fraternity

Antiques

Below are two antiques that Shelley Azapian is going to talk about on our show. The first piece is a 19th Century, carved wood bench from England, and the second piece is 18th Century Chinnoiserie Doors from France.

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