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Grand Rapids' craft beer scene: Touring 8 top breweries
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - With Grand Rapids' craft beer scene getting barrel-fulls of national and international attention, several of my pals and I decided to put the city's breweries to the test.
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Craft-brewing boom changes Grand Rapids' culture, economy
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Greg Brown "can't claim to be a super connoisseur" of craft beers, but he does like to think he knows more than a little about the subject, and he has been a fan of Michigan brewers such as Founders Brewing and New Holland Brewing for a while now.
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A week's worth of South Florida summer fun
MIAMI - Summer is when the stream of tourists to South Florida slows, deterred by hot, wet weather and the threat of hurricanes. It's when rates at beachfront hotels plummet, spas and restaurants offer special deals, traffic eases and locals can enjoy discount staycations.
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New hotels adding to South Beach scene
MIAMI - You know your backyard has really arrived when the new Philippe Starck-designed hotel and the hostel about 10 blocks north get serious national ink.
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Create a battle plan to visit Gettysburg during 150th anniversary weeks
GETTYSBURG, Pa. - In July 1863, the 2,400 residents of Gettysburg had little time to prepare for 170,000 Confederate and Union soldiers who advanced on the town. The soldiers clashed in a three-day battle that would paint its streets and pastoral farmlands crimson in the bloodiest encounter of the...
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Liverpool makes the most of its claims on Beatles' fame
LIVERPOOL, England — When one thinks of momentous meetings that altered the course of history — Caesar and Cleopatra, Bonnie and Clyde, Hitler and Mussolini — one usually imagines them taking place in grandiose settings.
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Montana's sweet spot in the Western experience
BIG SKY, Mont. - This place is absurdly misnamed. That's not a complaint, but it does require an asterisk.
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Desert epiphany: Springtime blooms in the Arizona desert
TUCSON, Ariz. - For the past decade, I've headed to Arizona in midwinter to visit family and catch a respite from cold weather. Each year, as I leave its warm, dry air to return to my snowy home, I'm told, "You really should come when the desert is in bloom. It's spectacular."
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Gary A. Warner: What's new and notable in Hawaii
The traffic on H-1, a Hawaiian interstate that connects with no other state, is still horrendous.
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Woody Guthrie's great American voice gets a new home in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. - The woman in the wheelchair and headphones is watching pictures go by and hearing a narrator speak about a place and a moment long ago.
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Louisville distillery joins Kentucky Bourbon Trail
LOUISVILLE — The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, a $10 million tourism center for bourbon maker Heaven Hill, will become the eighth distillery on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.


