Proof that you can find fun things to do almost where you travel: On a recent trip to Iowa to visit my husband’s parents, we discovered Madison County, which not only has the famed bridges from the Robert James Waller book/Meryl Streep-Clint Eastwood movie, it also contains Winterset, the town...

 By Andy Hayes, Contributing Writer You’ve probably seen the town of Fillmore, California many times – you just didn’t know it.  The small city in the Ojai Valley is home to the Fillmore & Western Railway, whcih has been featured in hundreds of train scenes and backdrops in...

I finally saw Eat Pray Love, the travel it-movie of the year based on the best-selling memoir from Elizabeth Gilbert, last weekend. For the few people out there who aren’t familiar with the plot, Gilbert spends a year recovering from a failed marriage and relationship by eating pasta in Italy,...

  Way before Twilight, way before Buffy, vampire fans had The Lost Boys. The 1987 movie starred Corey Haim, the troubled teen star who was found dead today, apparently of a drug overdose, as well as Kiefer Sutherland and Haim’s frequent co-star/sometime nemesis/mistaken identity twin , Corey...

  Do you know your ORD from your MSP from your MIA? Then Up in the Air – a movie starring George Clooney as the ultimate frequent flier – is for you. Actually Up in the Air, directed by Jason Reitman of Juno and Thank You for Not Smoking,will appeal to more than the Platinum Elite set....

Travel has always been my love. But fashion – well, that has always been a more covert passion. In my ‘tween years, I used to collect all the glossies – Seventeen, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Elle and la creme de la creme, Vogue. Looking back, I’m not sure that my main interest was...

Takeaway message from Julie & Julia: If you are any sort of creative type in a relationship, it really helps to have a supportive significant other who puts up with your quirks and meltdowns. Oh, and Meryl Streep could conquer the world, if she wanted to (let’s not make her angry). Trackback:...