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  • Rethinking holiday eats
    Destinations | Families & Groups | Food and Dining | Lodging | Weekly Column

    Rethinking holiday eats

    ByEileen Ogintz December 19, 2019July 16, 2021

    Many families, it seems, are forgoing the traditional home-cooked holiday feast for a restaurant or, like Claridge, a different sort of family celebration. It may be the first year after a divorce or death in the family or simply the desire to do something different.

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  • Ski for Free? You bet in Pennsylvania this winter
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    Ski for Free? You bet in Pennsylvania this winter

    ByEileen Ogintz December 18, 2019July 8, 2021

    With the The Snowpass program, The Pennsylvania Ski Areas Association (SkiPA) every fourth and fifth grader has the opportunity to ski or snowboard for free

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  • Sunday brunch at Safta: eclectic Middle-Eastern cuisine in Denver
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    Sunday brunch at Safta: eclectic Middle-Eastern cuisine in Denver

    ByEileen Ogintz December 16, 2019July 10, 2021

    Safta, from James Beard Award-winning Executive Chef / Partner Alon Shaya offers signature modern Israeli cuisine, combining the flavors of Morocco, Lebanon, Palestine, Bulgaria and Turkey

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  • San Antonio has a new kind of “Pearl”
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    San Antonio has a new kind of “Pearl”

    ByEileen Ogintz December 14, 2019July 16, 2021

    Pearl is the new go-to area of San Antonio – a 22 acre mixed use space for housing, shopping, dining, a year-round farmer’s market, riverside amphitheater and the third campus of the Culinary Institute of America

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  • #BestFacialEver: The Lake Austin Spa
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    #BestFacialEver: The Lake Austin Spa

    ByEileen Ogintz December 14, 2019July 9, 2021

    We left husbands, otherwise occupied at a college reunion in Austin, one recent afternoon for a getaway—via water taxi no less—to the Lake Austin Spa Resort,

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  • Fairmont dominates a hip new downtown Austin
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    Fairmont dominates a hip new downtown Austin

    ByEileen Ogintz December 13, 2019July 6, 2021

    We recently stayed at the year-old, 37-story Fairmont Austin, situated by the lush greenery of Palm Park and Waller Creek, with 1,048 rooms and 60 suites.

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  • In Denver: learning to make tamales for the holidays
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    In Denver: learning to make tamales for the holidays

    ByAndy Yemma December 13, 2019November 10, 2025

    Tamales are a traditional holiday treat in a lot of the American Southwest and South of the Border. I’ve loved them since I was a kid growing up in Texas. But I never knew how to make them.

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  • A New Adventure: Re-Learning How to Scuba Dive in Belize
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    A New Adventure: Re-Learning How to Scuba Dive in Belize

    ByEileen Ogintz December 13, 2019June 28, 2023

    I had been to Belize once before on a venture grant from Colorado College six years ago when I last went scuba diving

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  • Morgans Wonderland and Inspiration Island in San Antonio TX
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    Morgan’s Wonderland: An ‘Ultra-Accessible’ facility for people with special challenges

    ByEileen Ogintz December 12, 2019July 9, 2021

    Morgan’s Wonderland is the very first theme park of its kind. The park has welcomed more than 1.6 million guests from all 50 states and 73 countries in its first decade

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  • To a snow resort without busting the budget
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    To a snow resort without busting the budget

    ByEileen Ogintz December 12, 2019July 16, 2021

    Whenever you want to ski or ride this winter you can hit the slopes on a budget — as long as you plan smart. Here’s how

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Michigan transforms into a winter wonderland every December, offering cozy towns and snowy adventures that locals can’t resist visiting again and again. From charming…
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