AMSTERDAM -- Driving by farms with their brick barns and red tile roofs as opera played on the car radio was like being on a movie set. Was I really seeing windmills both modern and old, and a landscape dotted with cathedrals, and colorful wash on ...

(CNN) -- The sleaze, drugs and desperation allowed to fester in the heart of New York City in the 1970s and '80s may not have done much to foster civic pride, but it sure proved fertile ground for the movies, from the relative respectability of "Taxi ...

The Western Welcome Club of Arizona’s annual Holiday Boutique is showcasing a craft and bake sale this weekend. The club currently consists of about 210 members. There are 25 crafters in the group who begin creating holiday crafts in February of ...

SAUCIER, Miss. - It's a six-mile winding drive through a corridor of pines and birches of the De Soto National Forest to Grand Bear Golf Course . Although just 40 minutes from Biloxi, it's worlds away from the glitz and ching-ching of casino slots ...

Makers of unique crafts and artwork were in abundance at the Christkindl Markt on Sunday afternoon. Among those selling handmade items were Terry L. Frank, owner of Kinder Kloset. She was stationed at a sewing machine. Frank worked on a child’s ...

Heather Bailey gave up. After a year spent pursuing tickets to February's Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics through official sources, the Expedia employee from Federal Way will put her dreams of attending a rare close-to-home Olympics in the hands of ...

Ed and Mary Dooley, of Sequim, have struggled with the CoSport ticket system for months. They finally got seats for two preliminary hockey games. Their collection of Olympic memorabilia includes this jersey from the 1980 gold-medal U.S. hockey team ...

Jim Jeffreys got lucky — sort of. The Seattle school administrator landed $2,100 worth of Olympic tickets, then struggled to find a way to use them in a city where basic hotels are charging more than $1,000 a night. Ed Dooley got mad. After scoring ...

The high-ticket steakhouses just keep coming in this town, as if they are falling out of some beef-addled clown car. The past two months alone have seen the birth of Tesar's Modern Steaks and Seafood in The Woodlands and Dallas-based III Forks in ...