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Spotlight on Abilene

December 23, 2008 | By Lori Moffatt

I love gifts for special occasions, but I love the experience of travel even more. For a celebration this past October, my husband, Randy, and I headed west from Austin for Abilene, which promised a restored, 100-year-old downtown to explore and a 1930s bungalow to call home for the weekend.

For the Road: January 2009 Top Picks and Places

December 16, 2008 | By

Nature, Re-envisioned
It would be hard to think of a more unforgiving environment for a painting than the Dancing Mascotte, the bar of the smoky Corso Theatre in Zürich, a nightspot frequented in the 1930s by often-raucous Surrealist artists, musicians, dancers, and hangers-on.

TEST – 140 Years Ago, Judge Roy Bean Became the ‘Law West of the Pecos’

January 1, 2000 | By Gene Fowler