Travel
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On the road: St. Louis Oktoberfest adding carnival to festivitiesSep 27, 2014 6:00 am - Chicago Tastefully done Taste Talks is a three-day food festival in Chicago featuring panel discussions, underground dinners and an all-star barbecue starring some of th...
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NYC photo show looks back at Debbie Harry's careerSep 26, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Forty-one years after Blondie hit the music scene, frontwoman Debbie Harry is looking back - but not through her music. Instead, band co-founder Chris Stein ...
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Leaf peeping, festivals top free W.Va. eventsSep 26, 2014 6:00 am - CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Autumn's arrival in West Virginia means the leaves and the weather will be changing - and the fun is just getting started. Celebrations of parachute...
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Go for the food: Santa Fe twist on a roadside dinerSep 26, 2014 5:45 am - SANTA FE, N.M. - There is no shortage of good food in this northern New Mexico town, where the many casual and gourmet takes on the state's trademark chile dishes are al...
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Sculpture of end-of-WWII kiss lands in NormandySep 24, 2014 6:00 am - CAEN, France - A sculpture honoring a photograph of a kiss in Times Square that captured New York's celebration as World War II ended has gone up in Normandy for a one-y...
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Get into the bourbon spirit with Kentucky distilleries tourSep 21, 2014 6:15 am - BARDSTOWN, Ky. — “Welcome to Heaven.” Lynne Grant opens her arms as she greets our group seated in the barrel-shaped tasting room at Heaven Hill Distillery. A native of ...
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The Roosevelt trail, from Maine to North DakotaSep 20, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Ken Burns' documentary about the Roosevelts - presidents Theodore and Franklin, and Franklin's wife, Eleanor - that just finished airing on PBS is bound to s...
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On the road: Catch a groove at Hyde Park Jazz FestSep 20, 2014 6:00 am - Chicago Dig it, Daddy-O The South Side neighborhood plays host to two days and nights of dazzling grooves and improvised tunes during the eighth annual Hyde Pa...
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Street art, not beaches, in Honolulu's KakaakoSep 19, 2014 5:30 am - HONOLULU - Honolulu is famous for golden sand beaches and big waves. But the city's warehouse district, called Kakaako, is famous for a different sort of attraction. You...
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Autumn on the Connecticut River with the swallowsSep 18, 2014 5:45 am - ON THE LOWER CONNECTICUT RIVER, Conn. - The first swallows appear at sunset, inky flecks in a dusky pink sky. A cloud of birds forms, then another and another. Soon the ...