Andre West-Harrison gets "cooking" at Bathing Bad.

AMC's breakout hit Breaking Bad, which follows a struggling high school chemistry teacher and his unlikely midlife career change to meth cook to pay for his cancer treatment, has definitely caused a tourism spike in Albuquerque,...

I'll be the first to admit -- When it comes to Orlando, Disney is the first, and other than Universal, pretty much the only, thing that pops into my head. So if spinning teacups and a haunted mansion are not what's on my mind, then Orlando is certainly not what...

Val Kilmer was not at all what I expected. Come to think of it, I wasn't sure what I expected when I arrived at the Wyly Theatre in Dallas, TX to interview Kilmer. He's in town workshopping the one-man show he is currently developing, Citizen Twain. He recently performed the...

I tend to think of bourbon as one of the last bastions of the old boys' club. I mean, I've had my share. Although I'm a writer now, I went to law school in Virginia for a few years after undergraduate school. Back then, I ordered whatever the boys were...

An article titled "Lindsey & Tiger: Why Strong Women Date Weak Men" is getting a lot of play this week. But I think it's missing the point.

I don't think Tiger Woods is a "scummy guy." And I don't think Lindsey Vonn is failing to slalom around...

It was only a week. And I was only the dance teacher. But it forever changed me. I'm talking about Camp Starlight, a camp for kids infected with and affected by HIV.

My little sister is on the committee that organizes it. She has been for years. One day, quite...

Where is it? That was the first question 99 percent of the people I told I was going to Palau asked me. It's a reasonable question, considering how many different flights and how many hours on those flights it takes to get there. Booming metropolis it is not.

Palau...

I love the sound of that headline.

You know, when the New Year begins, I am always torn about how much from the previous year I should allow into the new one. It's tempting to want to leave the tragedies behind. But to forget is to risk the past...

This morning, people in CT handed their kids their lunches and reminded them to focus and double-check their answers on their science test. Some parents squabbled with their children about uneaten eggs and unreported project due dates. People said "I love you" and waved as their children raced to the...

I don't remember the last time I felt truly ashamed, but now I feel ashamed. My shame is two-fold. It is deeply personally and profoundly universal.

Recently I watched the documentary Raid of the Rainbow Lounge. Robert L. Camina's film takes viewers from the night of the...

As much as my 13-year-old daughter drives me crazy, she also amazes me. I was pulling out our winter gear this morning and thinking about our ski trip last April. I had just learned to ski (and I use that term loosely) in 2011. But I didn't want my daughter...

The election has so polarized us as a nation, I'm finding myself looking for things -- anything, really -- that still binds us together as human beings rather than members of political parties. I...

A magical garden of glass

They say it's easier to hate someone whose story you don't know. I'm starting to wonder if that's at least part of the issue when it comes to the lack of understanding of the work of Dale Chihuly --...

I passed out at the airport last Thursday. I'm still not 100% sure what happened. One minute I was talking to the gate agents and fellow passengers about the best options for getting to Vail as weather had caused our flight to be cancelled. And the next minute I had...

This summer, as I flew a kite along the shores of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, I couldn't remember the last time I had done that. Last night, as I watched Cirque du Soleil's Kooza at the edge of my seat, I couldn't remember the last time I had...

As someone who grew up on the East Coast and who now lives in Texas, California has basically meant two things, Los Angeles and San Francisco proper. But I recently had reason to visit two lesser-known destinations, which turned out to offer far more than I ever expected.

The first...

Aside from the fear of never seeing my luggage again, the other reason I don't check bags is because I loathe waiting for them when I finally arrive at my destination. So I was really interested to hear that American Airlines is now offering baggage delivery to its passengers. They...

Apparently dreams of the spotlight run in the Fuhrman family. You likely know Isabelle Fuhrman of The Orphan and Hunger Games fame. But now her sister, Madeline Fuhrman, is hoping to make her way to the big leagues in...

The Boathouse is Dale Chihuly's world in a single building. It is all of his creation and all from his imagination. Everything there emanates from Chihuly. Once a boat factory where racing shells were made, and now a dream factory, the boathouse pulses with energy that is palpable from the...

Michael Jackson would have loved this show. It's big and bright and outrageous. Some of it doesn't even seem possible. The music is all his, but it is made up of recordings, mixes, and live performers.

Most of the music is familiar, although you could hear murmurs in the...