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That Time of Year
Strawberry nachos in Oxnard? Playing dress-up in your finest big-band-era garb for a weekend of music in Ventura? Toasting Mother Nature at an Earth Day festival in Santa Barbara? Take your pick. The Central Coast is ripe with plenty of escapes this...
Tags: Los Angeles Hotels, Passenger Cars, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Watery wonder in Turks and Caicos
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — Sixty feet below the surface of the aquamarine western Atlantic, my 12-year-old daughter, Maddie, glided gently along the reef, her arms crossed in Buddha-like meditation. To the left, where the sea...
Tags: Scuba Diving, Beaches, Sports, Mark Parrish, Travel
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Head in the clouds in the Southland's Mountains
Where is the John Muir of the San Gabriel Mountains? The Ansel Adams of the San Bernardinos? The Donner Party of the San Jacintos? All right, maybe one Donner Party was enough. But Muir, Adams and company are among the reasons the inland mountains of...
Tags: Los Angeles Hotels, Animal, Snowboarding, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Taking her daughters to remote Australia to sleep on the ground
NORTHERN TERRITORY, Australia — It was a terrible thing to admit to myself, but my teenage daughters are a bit spoiled. My own youth involved riding public transportation, taking bug-infested hikes, sailing competitively in thunderstorms and...
Tags: International Travel, Oysters, National Parks, Swimming, Vitamin C
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Planning your trip to the Northern Territory, Australia
THE BEST WAY TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA From LAX, Qantas and Virgin Australia offer connecting service (change of plane) to Darwin, the jumping-off point for this trip. Restricted-round-trip fares begin at $2,008, including all taxes and fees....Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Virgin Group, Ltd., Sports, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Huell Howser's 'Gold' archives preserved by Chapman University
L.A. NOWYears' worth of Huell Howser's work has been digitized and made available to be viewed for free online, which he asked for when he donated his "California Gold" archive to Chapman University in Orange.... -
More than 1,000 kayak down L.A. River in summer program
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Conservation Corps celebrated the second season of its “Paddle the L.A. River” program this week, with a kayaking trip led by its executive director and a local Assemblyman.... -
‘The Flying Kayak’ by Chris Burden
FrameworkChris Burden in his "participation piece" art work entitled "Flying Kayak," on display at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery.... -
Thrills, chills and a few spills on the Rogue River
MERLIN, Ore. — Before my 23-year-old son, Matt, entered high school nine years ago, his mother and I signed him up for an Outward Bound sailing course in the Gulf Islands west of Vancouver, Canada. It was rugged, but he still talks about the good...
Tags: Sports, Travel, Zane Grey, Hotels and Accommodations, Trips and Vacations
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Seattle, beyond the usual tourist haunts
SEATTLE — Pike Place Market. The Space Needle. Pioneer Square. Check, check and check. If you've hit these obvious Seattle destinations, you're not a newbie. But maybe you're not an insider either. So, this 21-stop Seattle checklist is for you. It...
Tags: Music, Whole Foods Market, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Richard Serra, Water
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River kayaking: L.A.'s best-kept secret?
I've always liked slow-moving rivers — mirrors to moonlight and literature, our first and best interstates, running over rocks, as Norman Maclean so deftly put it, "from the basement of time." So what am I doing in the San Fernando Valley, a mile...
Tags: Tetanus, Sports, Jiffy Lube International, Inc., Science and Technology
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Demolition of Nigerian shantytown leaves thousands homeless
World NowDemolition of Lagos lagoon shantytown, Makoko, leaves thousands homeless: Nigerian human rights activists and Amnesty International condemn the demolition of shantytown Makoko in Lagos, as residents left homeless sleep in canoes...
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