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Who knew Missouri even had a wine country? A few fun events are happening this month in celebration of libations from this part of America’s heartland.
Stone Hill Winery has three locations in Missouri but special fun is scheduled for their Hermann site on March 20. For $20, registered participants for the Grapes to Glass event [...]

Moving to a new city can be an exciting adventure. Not only will the city be a new, but from the moment you get there, everything will become new again. Whether it will be a new favorite coffee shop to hang out in, a new job or an entirely new set of friendships, this will [...]

Cape Girardeau is one of the historic cities of Missouri that continues to represent a great deal of its history not only in its cultural traditions but also in many of the local buildings. The downtown area retains many of its early buildings and it has the charm of an early American town. The town [...]

Ever since we purchased our house in 2008 I have become obsessed with design. In fact I have become quite a DIY fanatic with everything from decorating the windows to installing a new sprinkler system. If there is one thing that I have learned in the past year it is this: fancy design stores [...]

Two of the things I love to do when I visit a new city or town, is to one:  see that town from air.  And two:  if the city has a local winery, I like to take a tour and enjoy the tastings.  The “seeing the city from the air” thing, I think has to [...]

Well now that you have check into that amazing room of one of those luxurious Malibu hotels you must be starved. You could go down to the restaurant at the hotel and I am sure it will be great but how about a local hang out. Maybe you could see some cool famous actors or [...]

My cousin Ron, who grew up in Denver, Colorado, has always bragged that Colorado has the most beautiful countryside in the entire country. I thought that was a pretty big claim and thought about all of the diverse geography across the nation and started to consider possibilities to argue against him. It’s not that I [...]

This part of the trip is always the strangest.  Getting somewhere is always hard, because there are all the impossible things that have to happen before.  You leave a place, and it is almost like closing up the little shop that is your life.  It takes a lot of effort to keep that life going, [...]

Also known as a cash advance, a check advance, a deferred check loan or a post dated loan, payday loans are short term loans which help out in a time of need, such as an emergency or an unforeseen situation such as a car breaking down or the plumbing in one’s house springing a [...]

There are many people who are taking all sorts of meats, poultry and fish out of their diets and eating only vegetables. These people are now looking for a good vegetarian style restaurants in there own neighborhoods and in the cities and countries that they visit. People come to the decision to not eat meat [...]

Twitter is a big deal and it seems that everyone is on it these days. Everyone from the average American, to the pop stars, even companies are jumping on the band wagon. It is a very interesting evolution to watch. For me the most interesting is watching what companies are doing with twitter. Some of [...]

Dennis had to tell his family and friends that he was going to move back to New York. He was born and raised in a small town in Oklahoma and grew up with the ambition of being an actor. He demonstrated an early talent for the stage and everyone in his town knew that he [...]

Joshua Bell is one of the most famous violinists in the world and achieved this status at a relatively young age. He certainly achieved critical acclaim and fame at a young age and has played with some of the top musicians and orchestras in the world. He had an interesting introduction to the violin and [...]

With its cosmopolitan outlook, and a very lively and thriving urban culture, Dallas has come into an identity for itself as a major player in contemporary global culture.  While it has always maintained a level of visibility as a capital city with a large population, changes in world arts and culture have been gradually but [...]

What’s the top place for families to visit in New York City?  It might not surprise you to learn it’s the American Museum of Natural History, but it may surprise you to know that by going inside this building, you’ll find out more than you ever thought possible about what’s going on outside the building…  [...]

After our previous tries to visit the Brooklyn Bridge, we decided to give it one more try, because today the sun was out and the forecast was showing that the it would stay sunny for the entire day. Before we took the subway, we wanted to see if there were any interesting restaurants in New [...]

I have always been drawn to the style of Art Deco.  The art and the architecture seems somewhat contradictory to me, in that it looks modern while retaining a vintage feel.  I don’t know if that makes sense, but when I found myself standing in the middle of the Art Deco District in South Beach [...]

Are you going to Huntsville? Need a great room at one of the elegant hotels located in Huntsville? www.hotelshuntsville.com  There are plenty of nice places to stay and there are some fun things to do while you are visiting. There are plenty of things to see when it comes to the NASA space program. There [...]

I got a friend with all sorts of superstitions about cars. She believes in the whole Saint Christopher thing and keeps a plastic stature of him on her dashboard glued with this uber version of super glue. She claimed it came from NASA where her father worked, but she claimed a lot of things. [...]

On my visits to New York, I have noticed that everything tastes better.  The coffee is better.  The spaghetti and ravioli is better.  The Chinese food is better, and the pizza?  Well there is a reason that every other city in the country, has “New York Pizza” shops.  Okay, there was for a while the [...]

In 1956, Paolo Soleri settled on the eastern side of the greater Phoenix area, in the city of Scottsdale.  Soleri was born and grew up in Turin, Italy, and upon completing his degree in Architecture at the Torino Polytechnico, he moved to the Arizona desert to study at Taliesin West with Frank Loyld Wright.  He [...]

The city of Los Angeles is a sprawling metropolis.  To fly into the city at night, you will find a sea of street lights and buildings just outside your airplane window, that never seems to end.  I moved to LA in the summer of 1999, just one week before my birthday and as luck would [...]

It’s been years since I was last in San Antonio, but I remember distinctly two things about it: The Alamo and The River Walk.  Known at first as the Mision San Antonio de Valero, The Alamo has existed on its current site since 1724 or two hundred and eighty-six years.  Sixty-nine years after its inception, [...]

My last days in New York have been a busy last few days. Naturally, I went to another house party thrown by one of my dozens of cousins from Med. school. There were board games with alcohol as the gain or win, a live band and all-in-all a great night and morning. We didn’t get [...]

Austin, Texas is also the state’s capital. In addition, many people would call it the country’s musical capital. The city itself goes so far as to refer to itself as the live music capital of the world. That’s a pretty big claim and Austin has the goods to back it up. Live music is played [...]

Tennis players, with their speed and agility, also have the ability to work out what their opponent might be doing five moves from theirs and the other possible moves to their countermoves.  Tennis players are amazing sportsmen and sportswomen.  However, the clinical mindset it takes to dissect the moves of your opponent has room as [...]

Perhaps nothing is more important to a company than the internet, especially in terms branding.  An irate customer might take down a company with just a few blog posts, or some well placed forum discussions.  At the very least, a customer, or an angry employee for that matter, can make a pretty large dint in [...]

After arriving later in the afternoon in San Francisco, we wasted no time heading out to explore. Our first stop was walking down Polk Street, we heard it’s full of spas, cafes and a few neighbourhood grocery stores, but what’s even better, is that is ends at Fisherman’s Wharf. There’s enough seafood restaurants that could [...]

There are so many fabulous things about travel in Asia today, and it’s one of the great cultural experiences of a lifetime to visit any part.  There is an immense diversity in any of the cities and countries, and probably too much to see in one lifetime.  But one place that offers a wonderful introduction [...]

Sentosa is becoming an extremely popular and attractive island as well as one of the major cultural centers of Singapore. There are many things to do and tourists are continually increasing their population there every summer. The island has two golf courses, which is a popular stress relieving activity for people who visit Singapore and [...]