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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 119 weeks 2 days 6 hours 53 minutes ago
The Bay Area is a great place to live in on Halloween. What other major metropolitan area has so many decrepit mansions, Wonka-size candy factories and neighborhoods that take the trick-or-treater haunted-house thing to insane degrees - plus an entire city that seems to be filled...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth 182 weeks 3 days 6 hours 9 minutes ago
Your town got you down? We’ve got your escape plan. These 20 stars of America’s 21st-century Renaissance are riding a wave of civic reinvention and fresh ideas.
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written by Matt C. 239 weeks 2 days 9 hours 39 minutes ago
I live in Decatur, GA - here are some of the things I love about it.
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submitted by Grace 227 weeks 15 hours 51 minutes ago
The nation's top planning organization has confirmed what Bay Area residents and smitten tourists already feel in their gut: San Francisco's North Beach is one of the greatest neighborhoods in America.
The district - which was once an Italian enclave leavened by a sprinkling of bohemians, now...(more)
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written by Kurt Schteck 238 weeks 5 days 10 hours 38 minutes ago
Everyone tells you that New York has the best pizza in the country. I took it upon myself to ferret out the best pies the Big Apple has to offer.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright for team Batboy's revenge! 160 weeks 5 days 4 hours 15 minutes ago
What's in a name? A lot, clearly. Veterinary Pet Insurance, the country's largest and oldest provider, tallied to the top 10 most popular dog and cat names from its database of over 466,000 insured pets. Granted, there are tons of animals out there that are uninsured,...(more)
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submitted by Suzy for team Outdoor news 154 weeks 2 days 17 hours 33 minutes ago
If 20,000 gray whales can swim 5,000 miles in icy Pacific waters from Mexico to Alaska, you can rouse yourself out of hibernation for a day or two ... especially with some of California's best whale-spotting vantage points staging festivals to hail this epic migration. Here...(more)
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written by Oscar Contreras 238 weeks 5 days 12 hours 26 minutes ago
OK, so I'm from LA and we've got.... the world's worst pizza out here. However, when I go to New York, I always try one pizza place or another. So, excuse a left coaster for entering this discussion...
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 72 weeks 3 days 12 hours 45 minutes ago
Like many successful businesses, Oakland-based Blue Bottle Coffee started small. Owner James Freeman, a classically trained clarinetist, began by roasting coffee beans on a baking sheet in his own oven. His first coffee stand behind Dona Tomas in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland was "the smallest...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 191 weeks 4 days 20 hours 27 minutes ago
Glenda, a 3-year-old gorilla at the Los Angeles Zoo, sniffs some of the vegetarian fare served today by top chefs from 10 popular Los Angeles restaurants as part of a promotion for the zoo's Beastly Ball fund-raiser.
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written by Grace 239 weeks 4 days 4 hours 43 minutes ago
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submitted by Grace for team Outdoor news 186 weeks 2 days 10 hours 30 minutes ago
Even when much of California looks like nuclear winter and feels like a hellhole, there are ways to find your own private escape.
Some are obvious: For adventures with clean air and cool temperatures, you can get fast relief by heading to the coast, anywhere from San...(more)
