Threats to history seen in budget cuts, bulldozers

The jammed, noisy streets of New York's Lower East Side and the peaceful parks of California don't have much in common at first glance, but both are endangered by bulldozers or budget cuts.

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Dylan Lauren finds the sweet spots

Dylan Lauren is known as the daughter of famous designer Ralph Lauren, but she’s also a celebrity entrepreneur in her own right as the owner of the growing, increasingly popular Dylan’s Candy Bar franchise, which has six U.S. locations, including the flagship shop in New York City. As a seeker of all things sweet, Lauren has traveled all around the world. We caught up with her just in time for Valentine’s Day to talk about candy and travel and how the two mix.

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When The Saints Go Marching In

I just returned from New Orleans this morning after spending the last six days helping some friends and their families work on the three homes the families are rebuilding.

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"The top ten countries listed on the index are: Norway, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Japan. The United States ranks 13th, down one spot from last year."

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"With all the pressure that comes with starting a band, who has time to labor over a name? The following 11 musical groups decided to keep things simple and named their bands after places."

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Some names describe the area, others tell their stories.

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There's nothing like indulging in a little bit of fantasy to escape the daily grind, even if it is lived out in our heads most of the time. Nevertheless, more travel companies and hotels are offering luxury packages to help you live out your fantasies for real.

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Americans are swapping their expensive lives on the urban coasts and reaching for greener pastures elsewhere. North Carolina and Colorado are a magnet for newcomers, according to the most recent Census population estimates.

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With 200 years of ghostly legends involving Voodoo curses, Spanish moss draped oak encircled duels, cold-blooded murders, Stories of Revolutionary War Pirates and Civil War soldiers, and Jazz.

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Dubai

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Experience in Texas Roadhouse Restaurant, U.S.

Back in 1996 I was in Florida visiting a doctor, friend of mine, and his wife. I was gonna stay in their house for a week and then they would show me around.

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I love to share people, places, websites, etc. I find both in Cyberspace and in real life with others, so I'm making up a list of links that will take you places where you can learn more about what's out there!

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Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis.

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Oculus, #11 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel.

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"Metro -- Friday evening", detail 3 (left to right) (Installed: 23 November 2007). Rautatientorin Metroasema (Central Railway Station) Subway Art, Helsinki, Finland.

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Walking on Water. These crazy people are skiing on the frozen saltwater bay, Saunalahti, western Helsinki, Finland.

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Map of the World, detail 5. Stone and glass floor mosaic at NYC's Park Place entrance, which connects to the WTC (Chambers Street) station via a tunnel; also there are hundreds of stone mosaic eyes on the walls throughout the Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains).

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Map of the World, detail 2. Stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel; also there are hundreds of stone mosaic eyes on the walls throughout the Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains), which is connected via a tunnel.

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This is a gorgeous image of a male Northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, standing against a snowy background in NYC's Central Park.

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Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 4. Artist: Daniel Sinclair.

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Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, right side. Artist: Daniel Sinclair.

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CRAPSTONE, England — When ordering things by telephone, Stewart Pearce tends to take a proactive approach to the inevitable question "What is your address?"

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Photos in Phog

An Ode to my Fog Whether it is by chance or by design, she is majestic and all-consuming, changer of lives, protector, curse or tantric in its scope. Fog.

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---Main Link is Video. Print Story link below.--- Calling all ghosts.

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The Multiverse Network, a developer of virtual world platform software, announced Wednesday that it was unveiling what it calls Places, two related social elements that tie Multiverse users together.

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New York, London and Paris are internationally renowned cities but consultants at Mercer Consulting have picked Zurich, Switzerland, as the best place to live in the company's annual survey.

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