Globe-trotting

Champagne and chocolate

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:55 -0500

Portland�s Dean�sSweets is celebrating its one-year anniversary by giving visitors to its 82 Middle St. store between now and Dec. 12, a free champagne truffle. No purchase is necessary, but wouldn�t truffles be the perfect ending to a Thanksgiving meal?...

Heads up: Camden Conference

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:40:08 -0500

Want to get the low down on what's up in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India? That challenging region is the focus of Crossroads of Conflict, the 2010 Camden Conference, slated Feb. 19-21, in Camden, Maine, and streamlined to venues in Rockland...

Faneuil Hall Lights Up

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:48:06 -0500

Faneuil Hall lights it's Christmas tree Saturday

For every sweet tooth

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:43:18 -0500

Festival of Sweets this weekend in Burlinton, VT

A Quahog Thanksgiving

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:23:31 -0500

Plymouth holds Food Fest during Thanksgiving Celebration

Maine's got artful gifts

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:26:58 -0500

Artful Gift Show in maine this weekend

'Bring me a seal!'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:40:45 -0500

Running late after a break, one student rushes into Ataguttaaluk High School, while two other students are unconcerned about being late. It's mid-afternoon at Ataguttaaluk High School in Igloolik. Michele and I have parked ourselves by the desk of...

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:40:45 -0500

"Holiday Train" rolls again

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:33:17 -0500

It wouldn�t be Christmas without a trip to the New York Botanical Garden�s magical �Holiday Train Show� in the Bronx. The �Big Apple� tradition that began 18 years ago features garden-gauge trains rolling past an array of more than 100...

Pork as a show stopper

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:47:46 -0500

It�s a wonderful feeling to know you�ll need to come back to a place before you sit down. Eyes wide and fresh from the plane, we head to Bar Juanito in Jerez De La Frontera, Spain, for a crash...

Artful decision time

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:08 -0500

Belle Brooke Barer�s bracelet. The tough part about attending this weekend�s Paradise City Arts Festival in Marlborough, Mass. is deciding what to buy because the 175 exhibitors from around the country create enticing and original work in clay, glass,...

'Did you say a circus?'

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:26:19 -0500

Artcirq rehearses for the Olympics The other day, on a bitterly cold morning in Igloolik, Michele and I suited up in four or five layers and started walking to the airport to meet up with Artcirq, the Arctic circus....

Deal: Miami in January

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:21:22 -0500

Hotel Urbano at Brickell, Miami�s first boutique �art hotel,� is celebrating its January grand opening, offering guests their first night for $20.10 when booking two nights or more Jan. 1-29, 2010. Guests who book this offer will receive a...

A greenhouse grows in Dallas

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:12:36 -0500

I�ve done my fair share of articles on the increasingly popular trend of placing green roofs on buildings, used to absorb rainwater and cool the structure, thus saving on energy costs. But I knew something was up last night when...

Into the Glades

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:11:17 -0500

On my slog into Florida�s Big Cypress Swamp for Ways to the Glades NPR producer Greg Allen walked a few feet ahead with a microphone -- carefully � as the Glades photographer Clyde Butcher shared his world and art. Listen...

Halloween -- Northern style

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:12:14 -0500

Painted faces and warm clothing were the trend for Halloween in Igloolik, Nunavut, this year with temperature at about 30 below zero Fahrenheit, with wind chill factored in. You couldn't have asked for a better Igloolik Halloween: Bright moonlight,...

A culture cries

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:13:34 -0500

A view of Iqaluit, Nunavat's capital, taken Thursday Oct. 29 in late afternoon (3:46 p.m.) IGLOOLIK, NUNAVUT � I'm here, near the top of the world, to write about Artcirq, an Inuit circus in the high Arctic region of...

The jewel in the crown of craft shows

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:27:29 -0500

Paradise City is redHot this weekend

In Barcelona's food market stick with Pinotxo

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:36:00 -0500

When I die, I�m sending friends to scatter my ashes in a couple of my favorite places around the world. Barcelona�s La Boqueria food market will be one of those spots. I�ve said it before: I�d trade a meal...

Vermont gets crafty this weekend

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:06:43 -0500

2 Vermont Shows offer arts and crafts

Hip Spanish hotel chain makes NYC affordable

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:20:06 -0500

We were really impressed with the Spanish Room Mate hotel chain when we were researching our Spain guidebooks, so we were delighted to get word of the chain�s winter promotion at Room Mate Grace just off Times Square. Rooms start...

Stable home

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:48:48 -0500

I thought my horseback days were done when I took my last pony ride at the age of 8. But my friend, Patti Nickell, a devotee of all things equine, had other ideas. A few years ago her enthusiasm...

A Tribute to Louis

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:39:32 -0500

Tribute to Louis Armstrong this weekend in Portland

All about Wolves

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:31:10 -0500

Wolf Night this Friday in Hartford

Did somebody say cookies?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:56:44 -0500

Every December, the Country Inns in the White Mountains, hosts an Inn to Inn Christmas Cookie Tour, and trust me, it's a delicious event. Fueled by butter and sugar and cider and tea, you can nibble your way through the...

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:56:44 -0500

No party like Dixie's!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:30:34 -0500

Dixie's selling Tupperware like no other

A historic Thanksgiving

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:36:59 -0500

Thanksgiving like it was meant

The proof is you know where

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:35:08 -0500

National Indian Pudding Day this Friday

French cut meal tax, get job bump

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:31:42 -0500

Back in July the French government decreed a whopping tax cut for diners. The country�s menu prices always include a 15% service charge (what we call a �tip�) as well as all the government taxes. The Sarkozy government proposed a...

January sunshine

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:38 -0500

Come January, you're going to be pining for warmth and sunshine. Here's a sweet deal that makes it possible, but given these rates for this property, act quickly. The Silver Anniversary Package at the Boulders Resort, in appropriately named Carefree,...

Tasting for charity

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:37:26 -0500

Taste of Newport on Sunday