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Denvers feisty Santa Fe Drive
Priced out of LoDo during the early 90s boom, many art galleries landed along Santa Fe Drive, core of Denvers Latino community.Today the Art District on Santa Fe is an eclectic mix of galleries, a museum, a theater, and restaurants concentrated between Fifth and 10th Avenues, where thousands fl
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Discover Bainbridge Island
If you were going to choose one place in the West where people live to garden, Bainbridge Island would be it. The 32-square-mile island in Puget Sound is just a 35-minute ferry ride from Seattle, but a world away in spirit.Here is an entire community of people who have organized their lives to
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Visiting Disneys Cars Land
Major rollouts: Three Cars-themed rides at California Adventure, plus Disneyland facelifts.
Hot ticket: The $125 one-day Park Hopper pass gets you into Disneyland and next-door California Adventure with Cars Land. Check online for ticket deals.
Before you go: Stroll Downtown Disney (an open-a
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Windy city by the bay
Its easier to touch the sky from certain places in the
West. Standing atop the sand dunes in Marina, with the wind coming
at you from Monterey Bay, you cant help but think that if you open
your arms and flap a bit, youll be carried to the clouds.
Marina, 10 miles north of Monterey, is in a goo
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Leaders of the pack
Jamie Dutcher puts a disc in the CD player, and you freeze. The sound is composed of ice and blood and hot breath, beautiful and terrifying. When you hear a pack of wolves calling, you dont pay attention to anything else.Wolf packs frighten people, Jamie says. They dont realize the pack is just
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Savor summer evenings at Vancouver, B.C.’s night markets
Combine the romance of old Beijing, the sizzle of new Shanghai, and the community spirit of a county fair. Throw in ethnic dancers, maybe a few Tony Bennett wannabes performing amateur karaoke, and martial artists showing off.Welcome to the night market. Chinatown has had one for 10 years, and
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A Reality check
Sunday we had a real Vegas morning. We started with Krispy Kreme doughnuts ($2), then lounged by the hotels small pool with Bloody Marys ($12). Would it redeem us to report that we also swam a few meager laps?We knew we were getting low on funds, so we resolved to partake in only free activitie
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Seaside colors
Inspired by Orange Countys famous Newport Beach and Laguna Beach,
we selected these Ralph Lauren paint hues, which include cool ocean
blues and greens tinged with warm, sandy yellows. The palette is
echoed in the furnishings.
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Metro Denver day trip
Three years of construction, 2,750 tons of steel, and $90.5 million later, the sparkling new Frederic C. Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opens its oversize doors this month, drawing art lovers from near and far.Outside, its a visual symphony of smooth planes and sharp curves, s
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Ferry to Tiburon, California
In the recent childrens book Blackie: The Horse Who Stood Still, a swaybacked horse named Blackie travels around the West before ending up in Marin Countys Tiburon, a town so picturesque Blackie thinks, I simply cant wait just to stand in one spot there, And watch a gull soar, or a tree gently
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Good eats by the sea
When
Blackfish
Café chef-owner Rob Pounding needs huckleberries to sauce
a duck breast for his Lincoln City, Oregon, restaurant, he knows
exactly where to go. Its on the Salmon River, in an old trailer
park, he says. We call it the Secret Spot. Chef-owner Rick
Jackson of
Chives Oceanfront
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San Carlos and the sea
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San Carlos is an Ernest Hemingway kind of town. Brawny and
beautiful, the Mexican village stretche
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Film on the fly
An audience member suggests a title ― lets say,
Processed Cheese ― and bam! Two actors have hit the
streets, cameraperson in tow, improvising and filming a scene. Two
more actors will take snippets of a story from another audience
member and literally run with it. A third pair solicits a prop
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Traveling Nevadas Lonely, Lovely Highway 50
You can drive the 380 miles of Highway 50 from Carson City, Nevada, to Great Basin National Park in seven hours, but theres enough to see along the way to justify breaking the route into three days.Prime season is May and June and late August through September (fall at Great Basin is spectacula
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Palm Springs hideaway
The 400-acre cactus- and citrus tree-studded desert sanctuary at
Smoke Tree Ranch, tucked at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains,
has attracted such movie industry elite as Walt Disney for 50
years. But until spring of 2004, the only way to score one of the
ranchs 56 guest cottages was to mak
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The Quiet Coast
Half Moon Bay is about a 45-minute drive south of San Francisco
via State 1. In downtown Half Moon Bay, Main Street stores stay
open late December 3-4 during the free annual Nights of Light
event. And if youre in town December 18, dont miss the Half Moon
Bay Coastal Flower Market at La Piazza (
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New digs on the beach
Along with all the scenery at San Diegos new Tower23 comes quite a
scene. The hotel, named after a nearby lifeguard tower, adds a
touch of minimalist grace to the fun and funk of the citys Pacific
Beach neighborhood. Think of it as the anti-Del: If the the Hotel
del Coronado celebrates 19th-cen
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Hotels, inns and lodges at Grand Teton and Jackson Hole
Find the lodging right for you when visiting Grand Teton. Heres a list of our favorites both inside and outside the park.RATES: $ inexpensive under $100 $$ moderate $100-$175 $$$ expensive $175-$250 $$$$ splurge--$250 and upINSIDE OR NEAR THE PARKJackson Lake Lodge. An eco-friendly hotel in the
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Dressed to thrill
When Dustin Hoffman won his Academy Award in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer, he famously remarked on Oscars unclad state ― but for the sword the statuette holds. That said, for many viewers, Oscar is still all about clothes, whether its red-carpet fashions or the moment when the award is given for
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Savor San Diegos Little Italy
You still see the great, lined faces of old men sipping espresso at cafes in San Diegos Little Italy ― guys overdressed for the weather who look like extras out of Cinema Paradiso.But theres another crowd too, of professionals who walk to jobs from this neighborhood on the edge of downtown, and
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