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LEARNING TO LOVE CEZANNE Paul Cezanne’s artistic muse had sweeping shoulders, an enigmatic face and majestic beauty that loomed over his life’s work. Read more LAS VEGAS ADVISOR: $700M


CASINO PROPOSED AT HISTORIC WESTSIDE SITE With announcements of new projects in Las Vegas having been sparse of late, a $700 million, 22-story hotel-casino has been proposed for a 2-acre


site in the Historic Westside district north of downtown. Read more SIGNS OF HAWAIIAN LIFE – MAY 25, 2025 * May 25, 2025 Check out photos from readers who captured reminders of home while on


the road. Read more CREATE YOUR OWN COOKING COURSE IN MEXICO CITY Over the blitz of a whirring blender, Emilio Perez, a chef and partner at Casa Jacaranda cooking school in Mexico City,


yelled, “Check this out guys, come here.” Read more RICK STEVES’ EUROPE: ISTANBUL CONTINUES TO BE A CROSSROAD OF HUMANITY * By Rick Steves * May 18, 2025 Some of my most vivid memories from


my first visit to Istanbul in the 1970s are of the colorful locals. Read more SIGNS OF HAWAIIAN LIFE – MAY 18, 2025 * May 18, 2025 Check out photos from readers who captured reminders of


home while on the road. Read more DON'T MISS OUT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING! Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It's FREE! LAS VEGAS


ADVISOR: WORK FINALLY BEGINS ON MLB STADIUM Questions about whether or not Las Vegas’ Major League Baseball stadium would ever be built have now been definitively answered. Read more A


LITTLE-KNOWN CORNER OF IRELAND BECKONS Less than an hour from Cork Airport, but tucked away off the main tourist trails, Ireland’s Blackwater Valley is steeped in natural splendor and Old


World romance. Read more LAS VEGAS ADVISOR: POKER ROOMS MAKING A RETURN TO 2 CASINOS After several years of poker rooms disappearing, two Strip casinos that had seemingly closed theirs for


good are bringing them back. Read more SIGNS OF HAWAIIAN LIFE – MAY 11, 2025 * May 11, 2025 Check out photos from readers who captured reminders of home while on the road. Read more


DISCOVERING AMAZING WILDLIFE ALONG THE PANAMA CANAL Follow me,” Nando said. “I know where it lives.” Read more RICK STEVES’ EUROPE: TREBON AND TREBIC ARE CZECH COUNTRYSIDE GEMS * By Rick


Steves * May 4, 2025 If you’re traveling in the Czech Republic south of Prague, you may have the famously cute town of Cesky Krumlov on your itinerary. Read more LAS VEGAS ADVISOR: LAS


VEGAS’ RESORT POOLS ARE OPEN FOR THE SEASON With the Vegas party machine revving up for summer, the action at the pools takes center stage Read more SIGNS OF HAWAIIAN LIFE – MAY 4, 2025 *


May 4, 2025 Check out photos from readers who captured reminders of home while on the road. Read more WHERE BRUCE LEE PRACTICED ON THE ROOF, A SHRINE TO OLD HONG KONG RISES In its heyday in


the 1950s and ’60s, the Lung Wah Hotel, a converted Spanish revival villa, offered a leafy refuge from the bustle of city life, near a cove and surrounded by parks in Hong Kong’s northern


New Territories. Read more LAS VEGAS ADVISOR: HARD ROCK OPENING PUSHED TO LATE 2027 Originally announced for early 2027, the completion of the transformation of the Mirage to the Hard Rock


at center Strip is gonna take a little longer. Read more SIGNS OF HAWAIIAN LIFE – APRIL 27, 2025 * April 27, 2025 Check out photos from readers who captured reminders of home while on the


road. Read more WORLD’S MOST ANTICIPATED MUSEUM IS FINALLY OPEN IN EGYPT No, I’m not referring to Giza’s famous pyramids. I came to see the Grand Egyptian Museum. Read more