What to Do This Weekend: Embrace the Snow
Fact: Snow has a different personality at night. By day, it’s the sodden, misery-inducing stuff that requires shoveling. By night, it’s winter-wonderlandesque…
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What to Do This Weekend: Eagle Spotting Along the Mississippi
Eagle-watching season is in full swing along the Mississippi River, where a lack of foliage means unobstructed views of the magnificent birds. Here, three ways to see the national symbol soaring free from the confines of common currency and zoo aviaries…
Football, Architecture the Draw in South Bend, Indiana
OFF THE GRIDIRON: Forget football. Gorgeous architecture and fascinating museums are the draw in South Bend, Indiana
Where to Go This Weekend: Holland, Michigan
To mitigate the long winter’s slog, consider a jaunt to Holland, Michigan. The town is perhaps best known for its springtime tulip festival, but this month it celebrates frostier beauty by hosting the National Ice Carving Association’s Invitational Ice Sculpting Competition…
Where to Go for New Year’s Eve: Four celebrations in four states
Friday is, arguably, the most high-pressure party night of the year since conventional wisdom mandates that you must have a spectacularly good time on New Year’s Eve or suffer, knowing that you bungled the chance to enter the rest of your life in proper revelatory fashion. Herein, four festivities that provide all the balloons, Champagne, and after-party suites you could want, be you in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, or Wisconsin…
Where to Go This Weekend: Downtown Chicago
If you’re traveling over the next few days, you probably cemented your plans weeks ago. And if you’re not, odds are you won’t be inclined to start packing this late in the holiday swirl. So in the spirit of playing tourist in your hometown, here’s a roster of nearby treats worth investigating…
Where to Go This Weekend: Frankenmuth, Michigan
Around this time of year, who doesn’t love a good glockenspiel, a frosty mug of Munich Dunkel, and a strapping waiter in lederhosen? Frankenmuth, Michigan celebrates its Teutonic roots year-round—founded, as it was, by 15 Lutheran missionaries intent on converting the Native Americans; when the natives fled west, the area became a German farming village…
Where to Go This Weekend: Fort Wayne, Indiana
If you’re in the mood to merge holiday-centric merriment with the spirit of giving, look to Fort Wayne. Indiana’s second largest city (incidentally, home of the country’s largest public genealogical research library) offers ways of celebrating while simultaneously donating to charitable causes; here are four good ones…
Where to Go This Weekend: Southwestern Michigan
Welcome to the season of potentially fraught consumption. Our shopping goal? Make it to 2011 without darkening the doorway of a big box store…
Where to Go This Weekend: East Peoria, Illinois
If you missed the Magnificent Mile’s Lights Festival celebration last weekend, fret not. East Peoria also hosts an annual electric spectacular with a parade of about 30 floats illuminated by two million lights…