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5/29/2013
Prepped to attend a wedding in Santa Rosa, I anticipated a third of my weekend to be a round-trip L.A./I-5 fast-food drive and an abbreviated sequester with local wine. But a bit of research revealed Sonoma County to be the land of too much to do in too little time. And Santa Rosa was the hub of drivable options for the most manic of needs. A half-hour in any direction unfurled rolling Tuscan landscapes, rugged ...
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5/24/2013
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For Angelenos, the entire city of San Francisco is a veritable playground, and if you hit the city when the weather is just right, you’re guaranteed a getaway of potentially epic proportions. The Bay Area’s close proximity to SoCal—a little over an hour by plane—has many L.A. residents heading up to San Fransisco three or four times per year. Upon your first few times visiting the city, you’ll no doubt want to take in the ...
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5/24/2013
48 Hours on San Diego's Treasure Island
Fantastical sunsets. Gondola rides along spectacular canals. Picture-perfect beaches. Old-fashioned ice cream parlors. Bacon Bloody Marys. No, I’m not musing about the offerings of some far-off, exotic location, but instead about a few of the treasures I discovered just a little over two hours south of Los Angeles on the island of Coronado.
There is a reason this idyllic town located just across that famously long bridge from San Diego is referred to as the “Crown City,” and ...
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5/24/2013
Berlin's Remarkable Renaissance
The knock comes a few moments after the wake-up call. A light rapping on the door, followed by the ringing of the buzzer. The evening before, you'd landed in Berlin at the brand-new Waldorf Astoria Berlin; you cinch your robe and open the door.
"Guten morgen," murmurs a willowy young woman attired in a skin-tight, dove gray ensemble, her dark hair in a chignon. She's bearing a silver tray and pitcher—and the cloth bag with ...
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POSTCARDS FROM THE U.K.
The BBC aired a documentary this week about a British straight man who, after suffering a stroke, "woke up gay." Torsten Højer takes a look.In a country that’s battling to drum into the right-wing public that some people are born gay—and therefore not a valid target for discrimination—it’s not helpful when a straight man comes out to proclaim that one morning, he woke up gay. But that’s what happened in the UK this month, as 26-year-old Welsh guy Chris Birch starred in a BBC documentary to announce that he’s left his days as an overweight rugby-playing skirt chaser behind ...
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