The Chinese Year of the Dragon kicked off on January 23rd, 2012. Here’s how began in Beijing: Can’t make it to Mainland China? Not a problem. In this MSNBC.com story, travel writer Harriet Baskas covers the fifteen-day Chinese New Year celebrations in these U.S. cities: Las Vegas New York San Francisco Seattle Washington, D.C. [...]
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Whether you are a “local” or visitor to San Francisco, a “foodie” or just a hungry diner, you can eat for less in The City By The Bay during the last half of January. Dining Out For Less Dollars “Dine About Town San Francisco” lets you satisfy your palate for about twenty-five percent less than [...]
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I’ve been to the Louvre in Paris, the Uffizi in Florence, and countless other museums dedicated to the works of artists living and dead. But I don’t often go to art museums. Too much stuff on the walls, too little time to view it, too many people trying to get “up close and personal” with [...]
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Grace Cathedral sits atop Nob Hill, high above downtown San Francisco. It is the site of year-round concerts, but I like to attend ones during the Christmas holiday season when the nearby luxury hotels, The Fairmont and Mark Hopkins, and the trees surrounding Huntington Park across the street from the cathedral, are festooned with lights. [...]
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Scheduling lunch at a hotel that was about burn to the ground probably sounds like a bad idea. After the meal, my companion would have been escorted along with the other ladies to the “Fainting Room” where they could loosen their corsets and be able to breathe, free from the clouds of smoke emanating from [...]
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Anne Frank’s pre-war apartment to open to public (via AFP)
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Oscar Wilde’s Paris tomb made safe from admirers’ kisses (via AFP)
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Never before in the four decades that I have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area had I seen snow fall at sea level. But in this age of global warming, the weather patterns near my home have changed. In fact, I can confidently predict that it will snow not just once between now and [...]
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