Epcot isn't the only Disney property that loves its food and booze, as Disney California Adventure's Food & Wine Festival returns March 1 and runs through April 23.

Disneyland guests of all ages will be able to celebrate the bounty of California through cuisine, beverages and entertainment at the culinary festival. Daily events will feature ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- San Diego County welcomed a record 35.8 million visitors last year, and it hopes to attract even more this year following the launch of a $19 million advertising campaign that includes all new TV commercials.

Last year's visitation numbers, which are still a preliminary estimate, mark the eighth consecutive year of growth for the ...Read more

Behind a discreet one-story, white textured house in Biscayne Park sits the most popular Airbnb rental in all of Florida.

Paola Ugolini has lived in the 1920s house with her family for 17 years. Originally she imagined her backyard cottage as a place for her relatives from Europe to stay when they visited Miami. But the family visits were ...Read more

With Disneyland expecting a surge in attendance when it opens its Star Wars land this summer, the Anaheim park is relying on a plan to ease congestion by eliminating visitor chokepoints, rather than putting strict limits on attendance.

Dubbed "Project Stardust," the magical-sounding but actually pedestrian project was quietly launched two years...Read more

I used to think my neighborhood of Five Points in Denver was unique. Of course, years after I left the Five Points I grew up in, I discovered that not only were there many other neighborhoods across the U.S. called Five Points, but there were also thousands of communities that were like mine in more than name.

My Five Points was a small, mostly...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Continental Club on South Congress Avenue is a dim, snug, loud room that barely holds 200 people, a pool table and a stage.

If you drop by late on a Thursday, Mike Barfield will probably be here, and you might catch one of those moments when Barfield, a.k.a. the Tyrant of Texas Funk, stops singing and starts scowling like ...Read more

Planning a trip to New York? Get ready for new attractions such as Vessel, a climbable structure that could become Manhattan's answer to the Eiffel Tower; events such as WorldPride; and exhibits celebrating Leonard Cohen and Frida Kahlo.

So much is happening that the city tourism agency, NYCGo, has dubbed 2019 "a monumental year."

Vessel opens...Read more

Few positives sprout from a bout with breast cancer. The first time I lay prone at the center of the "Star Wars"-like machine that would blast me with radiation, I made a conscious decision to banish fear from my brain and focus on my travel bucket list, which had come to a standstill in the rush of work, raising children as a single mom and, ...Read more

SALT LAKE CITY -- There's nothing particularly Mormon, or American, about "Ubi Caritas." It's a Gregorian chant at least 11 centuries old, was rearranged by French composer Maurice Durufle in 1960 and has been sung by church choral groups around the world.

But I can tell you that when it is performed by a certain famous choir in a certain ...Read more

The lighting was low, indirect. The perfectly arranged displays were backlit, so all I saw when I stepped into the old-fashioned storefront was ornaments -- hundreds and hundreds of them, gleaming and sparkling in cascades of colors.

White segued to silver, gold to red. Ornate blown-glass Santas rubbed elbows with glitter-cheeked snowmen; ...Read more

Dean Klinkenberg stopped counting the miles he's cruised on the Great River Road when he hit 120,000. "I wore out one car, and I'm working on wearing out another," said the author of the recently released "Road Tripping Along the Great River Road."

For this former Minnesotan, every drive along the Mississippi feeds his love for the river -- and...Read more

CLEVELAND -- Above, the ceiling was done up in silver, beige and blue like frosting on a wedding cake. Below, at the lip of the stage, a tall man in a black suit and white bow tie leaned forward with a tip.

"This is going to be something," said Mark Jackobs, one of the Cleveland Orchestra's viola players. "This is a freight train."

Jackobs, ...Read more