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EVEN for Los Angeles, it has been a strange season: Heavier than normal rains, an economy in need of a strategically placed pair of jumper cables and...
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THERE are certain things we take for granted when it comes to Florida. It’s flat. There are palm trees and beaches. Sometimes, our aunts live there....
THE cruise lines’ business models have turned upside-down. Fares are dropping, yet bigger, ever more expensive ships are being launched. Lines know...
SOMETHING ain't right. It's like in one of those sci-fi flicks when the little green men hack into our brains and take control of our bodies. Normal...
I ADMIT it — much of my knowledge of Rome has been shaped by the movies. Romance, love, sex: They go hand in hand with the atmospheric streets of the...
PUT down that pathetic, heart-shaped box of stale chocolates, gentlemen, and step away from the drugstore candy aisle. This V-Day, show her you mean...
"YOU gotta feel the mountain . . . Visualize yourself gliding down on your board, havin’ a good time, no worries, everything’s bueno." My...
WHEN a Category 5 Hurricane Wilma macheted her way through Cancun’s legendary white-powder beaches in 2005, the Mexican resort suddenly found...
HOW long are you going to stand around here applying balm to those chapped lips before you give up and go somewhere warm? Here are 10 (dare we say...
PLATTERS of fried pigs ears, consumed in the dimly-lit front room of an old, single-family home. Innovative cocktails served in a smart tire shop...
SO, here at the Travel desk, we’re spending the week obsessing over food. Truthfully, this week is not all that different from other weeks; this time...
LOOK — so it wasn’t the greatest decade. From 2000 to 2009, New York definitely took its lumps. It wasn't all bad news, though; when you compare how...
IT HAS always been pretty good eating in Daleytown. When I moved back east in the late 1990s after nearly four years on the shores of Michigan, I was...
IN today’s Las Vegas, if you’re not blown away by the food, you just need to stop going to the wrong places. Like here in New York, it’s easy to...
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AT THIS point, talking about Strip versus off-Strip in Las Vegas seems unfair — it’s like saying Times Square versus not-Times Square when offering...
EVEN the most hardcore junkies need variety in their lives. Not every ski resort — no matter how worthy its slopes — is able (or willing) to provide...
ROAD trips can be a good thing, but rarely are they all that civilized. After a week’s worth of driving through a part of the country where a vodka...
HAPPY belated 40th birthday, Internet. It’s true — the most revolutionary invention since the automobile is now officially on the brink of its...
AS the old year rolls into the new, you've probably seen story after story talking about what’s going to be hot during the coming twelve months....
THIS country of ours, it's a handful. From Alaska to Florida, Maine to Hawaii, there's way too much ground to cover easily. Fifty, after all, is a...
AFTER an extended orgy of real-estate speculation, Miami is nursing one hell of a hangover. Where once it seemed like every last plot of land was...
INTRODUCTION Rome is one of the world’s greatest cities, but on first glance, you might not notice. It’s grimy; noisy and traffic choked; the...
FIRST there was the printed word — newspapers, magazines, books. Then radio, then television. Of course, we all know about the Internet, with it’s...
HAD you asked a typical Irishman about “the Troubles” a few years ago, they might have mentioned their opinion of the IRA. Or launched into a screed...
IF heart-shaped Antigua is the ticker of the Caribbean (as it likes to remind everyone), then St. Lucia is most definitely its ample bosom. Just...
IT is a sunny fall afternoon, and inside a Carroll Gardens pizzeria, two happy people are eating a white clam pie, flecked with chunks of bacon....
IMAGINE a spacious, Spanish-style four-star resort surrounded by a beautiful golf course, with rooms starting as low as $91 a night. Imagine crisp,...
After more than a decade of serious change, it’s time to say it: Washington, DC, is quickly becoming unrecognizable as the place we may remember from...
IF you really want to understand Detroit, you should probably go to Buddy's. The city's most famous pizzeria is located at the corner of Conant...