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Blue skies, stellar mountain views, sunshine, music and plenty of swag. Welcome to spring festival season at mountain resorts. At Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado, about 75 miles from Denver, on a recent Saturday, everyone was smiling, grooving to the music of the Lil Smokies — the adults, the kids...Read more

I learned to respect the power of nature in the shadow of the Switzerland's towering Jungfrau, just south of Interlaken in the Lauterbrunnen Valley.

Avalanches are a part of life here – where humble yet tough mountain huts are built on the downhill side of giant and protective boulders. Hikers, hearing rivers of falling snow rumble in the ...Read more

For “Quantum Leap” star Raymond Lee, acting came about in a circuitous way. “I dropped out of high school, I landed at a community college and I haphazardly took an acting course and I liked it,” Lee said in a Zoom interview from his Los Angeles home. “Then I graduated from a community college, went to a state university and I somehow ...Read more

Maybe you need a break from the beach … or the slopes. Maybe you’ve seen enough historic monuments for one trip. Wherever you are going this spring, add a museum or two to the itinerary. Of course, you want to hit the biggies – the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C., t he American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum ...Read more

Voiceover actress Debi Derryberry is best known for voicing the cartoon character Jimmy Neutron. But she is also a musician. Her latest children’s album, “Gotta Go Green,” will be released on March 8. “’Gotta Go Green’ is a collection of songs specifically targeted to caring for our environment, climate change, carbon footprint … ...Read more

Prague is one of Europe’s best-preserved cities, having been spared from last century’s bombs. Nowhere is this more evident than in the hilltop Castle Quarter, which looms above the city and dominates the skyline. Filled with high art and grand buildings from the past 1,200 years, this area is packed with history. Even today, you feel like ...Read more

Maybe this is the year to go on a family cruise.

Maybe it’s finally time that you gather the extended family for a multigenerational adventure, even if cruising is something you never thought you’d do.

That was the case of an Ohio grandmother who told me on a ...Read more

On a recent Tuesday morning, a family of three packed up their duffel bags outside a migrant shelter on the Lower West Side en route to El Paso, Texas, where they said they had relatives waiting. They had been in Chicago for four months.

Moises Sanchez, 24, had been a barber in his home state of La Guaira, Venezuela. He had the word “family�...Read more

A delegation of U.S. lawmakers led by Republican Mike Gallagher arrived in Taiwan, a visit that may exacerbate an already fraught relationship between the island and China.

The group will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, Vice President and president-elect Lai Ching-te and the incoming No. 2 Hsiao Bi-khim during their three-day trip, the ...Read more

After spending most of 2023 and this past January on a world tour that took them across five continents, P1Harmony leader Keeho said he is already looking forward to hitting the road again. “When we first started touring, I was a little scared that I would get tired of it,” the bilingual Korean- Canadian singer said in a Zoom interview from ...Read more

Whenever I travel to Berlin I can’t help remembering my spooky Cold War visit back in 1971. I vividly recall how, after we’d toured East Berlin, our tour bus was stopped and emptied at the border so mirrors could be rolled under the bus before we returned to West Berlin. They wanted to see if anyone was trying to hitch a ride to freedom with...Read more

We all know that traveling with kids (and grandkids) can be messy, aggravating, expensive and, of course, wonderful. Lots of memories are a big bonus.

Planning a trip that will please everyone can be just as difficult. It’s important to realize — and remind everyone — that everyone will need to compromise, that no one will get their pick ...Read more

Bratislava, capital of Slovakia and just an hour by train from Vienna, is the comeback kid among European capitals. A generation ago, the city was virtually a ghost town. Today, Bratislava is not only thriving – bursting with colorfully restored facades, lively outdoor cafés, and swanky boutiques – but it’s also growing at an incredible ...Read more

Some people love filming on location so much that they return there for a vacation. Actress Aliyah Turner took it one step further. “I traveled to New York to work on ‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ and I enjoyed the city so much that I made it my new home,” Turner said. “The vibration of the city provides a fun and refreshing contrast...Read more

So much pressure … too much money. Why not skip Valentine’s Day entirely and celebrate romance whenever it is convenient? That also means you can define romance any way you like — self-love perhaps; the romance of long friendships; of sharing a passion, an adventure, or a new experience with those you love most.

In case you were wondering...Read more

Veteran actress Susan Gallagher’s credits include “Loki” and “The Karate Kid” spinoff “Cobra Kai.” She will next be seen in the Hallmark Channel’s original movie, “A Taste of Love,” on Feb. 19. “It was mostly filmed in the charming beach town of Dunedin, Florida, which is near Tampa,” Gallagher said. “It is the perfect ...Read more

I have a little ritual every time I step off the train in big, bold Amsterdam: I look over my shoulder to the lions of the city seal atop Amsterdam Centraal train station. They seem to roar, "Just do it."

One side of the station faces the harbor. From there, buses come and go, the free shuttle ferries are jammed with bikers, and the Amsterdam-...Read more

Art is so much more than paintings or sculptures. “We look forward to taking time in February to explore art as a platform for understanding history, struggle, social justice and triumph,” said Kevin Young, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Andrew W. Mellon ...Read more

The Bahamas government says the island nation remains safe for United States tourists despite two alarming travel warnings posted last week.

“The Government of The Bahamas is alert, attentive, and proactive to ensure that the Bahamas remains a safe and welcoming destination,” insists a statement dated Tuesday from the Office of the Prime ...Read more

After living in Iowa, New Jersey, Wyoming and New York, musician Victoria Park moved to Illinois – Chicago to be exact. The bass-playing singer-songwriter said it wasn’t always easy living in cities where she and her family were visible minorities. “I think part of why moving to Wyoming was so scary was that we were going to be some of the...Read more