By Ariel Johns Nestled on the Yucatán Peninsula and bordering the Caribbean Sea, Cancún, Mexico has long been known for its food, rich history and…
By Roger Allnutt Five mallard ducks almost upstaged Elvis on my recent visit to Memphis About 80 years ago the manager of the fashionable and…
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By Joann Deutch [Read Part I of An Antarctic Adventure series here.] Antarctica, the 7th continent, is a land mass the size of Europe and…
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The m/v Sea Spirit on a voyage to Antarctica Photo courtesy of Poseidon Expeditions
By George Christopher Thomas Just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles is the Auto Speedway in Fontana. Besides hosting Indy Car and NASCAR events, every…
Families Belong Together, an organization calling for the immediate reform of the Trump administration’s family separation policy, has declared this Saturday, June 30 as a…
By Roger Allnutt Stretching about 1,500 miles along the coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef (there are in fact about 2,900 individual reefs, 300…
Pontoon at Agincourt Reef, part of Queensland, Australia's Great Barrier Reef
By Stephen Cooper In mid-July, when summer’s heat sears L.A., Angelenos and savvy outsiders know the best, most refreshing, rejuvenating thing to do is to…
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Main stage at Reggae on the Mountain in Topanga Canyon, California by Stephen A. Cooper
San Francisco Pride will take place this weekend, Saturday, June 24th and Sunday, June 25th. Approximately one million people are expected to head to San…
SF Pride Parade 2017 by RealCereal
By Jon Bogart Palm Springs is in the midst of a major renovation that will transform the city into a cutting-edge capital of shopping, dining,…
By Roger Allnutt In August 1896, prospectors in the northern Yukon region of northwestern Canada, close to the Arctic Circle, discovered large deposits of gold…
A Dawson City, Yukon, streetscape (Photo by Roger Allnutt)
By Joann Deutch It’s been my dream to get to the Antarctic for several years now. I was bowled over by my trip to Tromso,…
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The tiny airport of Ushuaia, Argentina
By Rosemary Jenkins Years ago when I was working with and for the homeless, I learned a lot about a neglected segment of our population. Would it…
