Up to Speed

Follows tour guide, historian and flâneur Timothy Speed Levitch as he visits the monumentally ignored monuments of Americas cities, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

2012 HD 24min TV-14 United States English

Timothy "Speed" Levitch

Biography Comedy

S1E1 - San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes 2012-08-09

Speed takes us on a tour of renowned objects in San Francisco – a city shaped by earthquakes that makes a point of attacking the status quo and appreciating the beauty in the unexpected.

S1E2 - Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood 2012-08-16

Speed spends a day steeped in the history of working class Chicago – a city of blue collar labor constantly fighting back against the status quo of their corporate overlords.

S1E3 - Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest 2012-08-23

Speed explores the idea of borders and boundaries in Lawrence, Kansas – a city straddling the line between opposing sides during the American Civil War.

S1E4 - Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson 2012-08-30

Speed sifts through the many flavors of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello and the University of Virginia – two historic landmarks representing the many sides of America’s most complicated founding father.

S1E5 - New York City: The Beauty of Randomness 2012-09-05

Speed wanders through the chaos of New York City – a metropolitan hub teeming with simultaneous bouts of randomness and synchronicity.

S1E6 - The Tour Guide Convention 2012-09-13

Speed goes on adventures with other tour guides across the country.