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Monterey, California, Shale Fracking Special Report
As Paula Getzelman and I stroll among her Syrah and Grenache vines, she points out how the freestanding plants were “head-trained,” or cultivated to look like goblets. Head-training can produce less fruit per acre than growing the plants on horizontal trellises, but that’s okay with her. “It al
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Travelers Joural
After Thom Mayne won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the design
worlds answer to the Nobel, I revisited his most recent Los
Angeles work: the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (above).
Across from the towering Los Angeles City Hall, the Caltrans
building sends a direct message: Transportation l
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Art and coffee
Sure, its cold out, but this February theres another reason to stay indoors: A major exhibit of paintings by Maynard Dixon continues at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the University of Utah campus. Combine a museum visit with an exploration of two nearby pocket-size neighborhoods, and you have
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The dirt on Lafayette
Lafayette is an old mining town gone to seed - flower seeds, that is. Located on the northern fringes of metropolitan Denver, this town with a French name was once home to Italian miners working local coalfields. Now it prospers as nearby Boulder grows.During the gardening season in Colorado, t
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Star Chefs Low
6 places to find low-key gourmet food in Los Angeles:1. StreetStar chef: Susan Feniger—Border Grill and Ciudad co-owner, Too Hot Tamales TV star, Top Chef Masters’s best-natured contestant, and all-around culinary guru. Ethnic street food gets a crazy-flavored twist at her newest venture—a stro
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Five great public gardens in the Southwest
ALBUQUERQUE Rio Grande Botanic Garden. Romp through a fantasy garden filled with silicone earthworms, a fiberglass dragon, and 9-foot-tall plants. Relish the Old World among Moorish walled gardens and fountains. 9-5 daily; $7. 2601 Central Ave. N.W.; www.cabq.gov or 505/764-6200.CARLSBAD, NM Li
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Expressions of hope
Although roadside shrines are built for a variety of reasons, in most cases they are places of petition or promise, explains retired Tucson folklorist James Griffith. Particularly during World War II, many Mexican Americans in Arizona made a promise, or a manda, to build a shrine if their loved
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Get your feet purple
A traditional German band is playing, and on a stage built
from an old wine vat, two dancers kick up their heels. As the crowd
cheers wildly, the couple dances faster and faster. Abruptly the
music stops, and the barefooted dancers step from a tub, their feet
stained with grape juice. They hav
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Northern California Day trip Navigate the best of San
Why go in winter: Warm up―and soothe your soul―with steaming tofu soups, pots of tea, and Korean day spas.Main drag: El Camino Real in Santa Clara. Korean population: 25,708 in Santa Clara County, making it one of the country’s largest Korean enclaves.Where the action is: The new Lawrence Plaza
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The best San Francisco bike routes
NORTH BAYRide: Start in San Rafael and zip east to the new car-free Cal Park Hill Tunnel, a converted freight-train track, as it leads you to the Tiburon Loop, one of the most scenic rides in the Bay Area. Try to keep your eyes off Richardson Bay and Angel Island long enough to spot deer, wild
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Take a food lovers holiday
A seafood drive may sound like an irreverent way to spend Thanksgiving weekend, but fall is about appreciating plenty, and on the Northern California coast, that means fresh seafood.My family is no stranger to unconventional holiday celebrations (Ive cooked bouillabaisse for Thanksgiving dinner
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Fort Collins travel
Why go in spring: Bikes, brews, and blooms in this riverfront college town.
Claim to fame: Old Town is said to be the inspiration for Disneyland’s Main Street.
Better claim to fame: Produces over 70% of Colorados craft beer.
Nicknames: Fort Fun and FoCo
Official mascot: Colorado State Unive
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Plan a trip to Torrey and Capitol Reef park, Utah
With the trifecta of superstar parks Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Arches vying for the crown, the competition is fierce in southern Utah’s red rock beauty pageant.Jostled among this lineup, Capitol Reef National Park, whose natural arches, water-carved canyons, and red rock ridges would draw hordes
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Deco Reno
An icon of the art world during the 1920s and 30s, Maxfield Parrish was the Andy Warhol of his day, achieving acclaim both critically and commercially. Calendars and posters with his dreamy landscapes―often showing sylphs poised on rocks―were tacked up in kitchens and shops across America.Now a
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The secret Canyon
Grand Canyon
travel planner
The last leg to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon is a 44-mile
drive on Arizonas State 67 that passes through forests of
ponderosa pine. It runs along rolling meadows that in spring fill
with shallow lakes, where herds of mule deer dissolve into the
morning mists.
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Five Great Historic Front Range Saloons
DENVERBuckhorn Exchange. This 1893 restaurant is part museum, with old firearms and more than 575 mounted critters. Enjoy a game dinner, or belly up to the 1857 bar that served Buffalo Bill and try a Buffalo Bill Cocktail - bourbon and apple juice. $$$$. 1000 Osage St.; 303/534-9505.My Brothers
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Western Wanderings: The new California
We are ascending a high ridge above Bear Trap Canyon on a stormy spring day. Below us are steep green hillsides, leafing-out oaks, a solitary red-tailed hawk. The amount of land were dealing with here is something people drool over, says Reed Holderman, executive director for the Trust for Publ
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Santa Fe bargains
Snowy in Santa FeATTRACTIONSAndrew Smith Gallery. 10-5:30 Mon-Sat, 11-4 Sun. 203 W. San Francisco St.; www.andrewsmithgallery.com or (505) 984-1234.Fred Ray Lopez Tinworks. Closed Sun. 227 Don Gaspar Ave.; (505) 984-2922.Gallery of the North American Indian. 10-6 daily. 114 Don Gaspar; (505)
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Kailua: Oahu, Hawaiis Low
“The minute I come over the mountains and see Kailua down below,” says resident Matt Rosete, “I start to feel relaxed.”Kailua, the town of 38,600 on windward Oahu, has that effect on people. Walled off from Honolulu by the corrugated cliffs of the Koolau Range, Kailua has none of the dazzle of
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