Travel Smart in Beijing: Protecting Your Money Abroad
Planning a trip to Beijing? Discover practical money and payment tips, from using credit cards and cash to the benefits of travelers cheques and emergency travel services.
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Thoughts on Colorado Springs’ Broadmoor Resort!
Golf, mega-spa, tennis, dogs, kids, pools, water slides, work retreats… The Broadmoor is where my fam reunion was at! I am not a big Colorado person. It’s too high, and too crunchy, and too outdoorsy and altogether healthy for me, but since the rest of the fam was going, I tagged along. My skin was…
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Treat Yourself to a Madcap Evening at Teatro Zinzanni :: Seattle (and San Francisco)
If you’re looking for some serious theater, seriously good gourmet food, or serious opera, then Teatro Zinzanni isn’t for you…oops-I just remembered, they actually do include a little opera, as well as most everything else in the entertainment field. Teatro ZinZanni is a CRAZY evening of FOOD, FUN and FESTIVITIES, a three-hour extravaganza of international…
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Memorable In-Town Getaway :: El Gaucho’s, Seattle, Wa.
I’ve been in Seattle the last few weeks, trying to cope with all the mayhem of moving my mother out of her home, (surrounded by movers, painters, and realtors) and into a condo we’re remodeling, (surrounded by movers, painters and handymen) when her refrigerator chose this highly inopportune moment to gasp out it’s last dying…
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Celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music
New Frontiers Of Taste Celebration : San Francisco Your taste buds will really get down and party at this special event, the New Frontiers of Taste, celebrating the 100th year anniversary of Dr. Kikunae Ikeda’s discovery of *Umami, the 5th taste. This major event is timed to coincide with the International Symposium on Olfaction and…
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Clear Pass – Giving Divas a Leg Up Through Airport Security!
A timely tale of the totally true way that you, yes YOU, can jump the kill-me-now airport security lines with your very own Clear Pass! It’s easy to apply online, and once the TSA clears ya (Clear Pass takes care of all that beaurocratic nonsense), you’ll get a Clear card that clearly says, “Fudge You!”…
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Visionaries: Annie Leibovitz: On a Personal Note
by Stephanie Block Of course you know Annie Leibovitz. Those celebrity magazine covers–Brad and Demi and Uma. They lauded her in your art classes and you might even have one of her books on your coffee table. But you’ve never, I’ve never, met Annie like this. Though she likes to insist that it’s impossible to…
