Fall Travel 2010: Geneva
Not far from Chicago, an old-fashioned town filled with home design shops anchors an afternoon along the Fox River Trail
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Fall Travel 2010
A HARVEST OF COLOR: Six destinations for the Midwest’s most glorious season: autumn
Mississippi River Steamboat Cruise Aboard the Twilight Evokes Mark Twain Era
THE ESCAPE ARTIST: Take the slow lane from LeClaire to Dubuque, Iowa, on a steamboat cruise up the Mississippi River
Where to Go This Week: Globe Trotting in Bloomington, Indiana
As stiltwalkers go, the Dragon Knights are in a class—nay, a world—unto themselves. Erase any preconceived notion you may have of clowns tottering about pointlessly on sticks: The Dragon Knights create graceful flights of fancy using slender pole stilts to shape shift into gigantic, leaping crickets and mischievous griffins (head of an eagle, body of a lion), among other fabulous creatures…
Where to Go This Weekend: St. Louis, Missouri
If you’ve read this magazine’s fall fashion preview (and if you haven’t, you’re missing out on a feast of gorgeous photography as well as crucial anti-aging product information), perhaps you’re ready to start shopping…
Summer’s Last Fling: What To Do Labor Day Weekend
Want to walk on water? Sort of? Head for St. Ignace, Michigan for the 53rd Annual Mackinac Bridge Walk. Labor Day (Monday, September 6th) is the only day of the year when you can walk the scenic span high above the Straits of Mackinac…
Where To Go This Weekend: South Bend, Indiana
As summer’s last hurrah approaches, consider a quick and easy last-minute excursion to South Bend’s Art Beat, where hundreds of visual, performing, and culinary artists will be plying their wares al fresco throughout the downtown area from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 28th…
Where To Go This Weekend: Spring Green, Wisconsin on the Cheap
Back in ye olden days, the notion of “open-air Shakespeare” was redundant: In Elizabethan England, all theater was performed outdoors. Al fresco Shakespeare endures, and few places take it outside more skillfully than the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. At APT’s theatre on the hill
Five Burning Questions About the MSI's Month at the Museum Contest
When I first heard about the Museum of Science and Industry’s Month at the Museum contest—the winner of which will live in the MSI round-the-clock from October 20th to November 18th, blogging and tweeting about his or her experiences all the while for a stipend of $10,000 and a package of tech gadgetry, including a laptop and a camera—two things came to mind…
Golf Greats in Kohler, Wisconsin
If you’re a golfer, you probably already know that the 92nd Annual PGA Championship runs August 9th through 15th on the Whistling Straits course at the Kohler Resort in Kohler, Wisconsin. Got $79,000 to burn? You might be able to still get a skybox overlooking the breathtaking 18th hole…