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...hotel designed around a western theme "sounded like a dude ranch," he says. Instead, the marketing manager from San Jose, Calif., found rooms decorated with authentic baskets and pottery from the Pima and Maricopa tribes; an upscale spa that offered such Indian-inspired treatments as tashogith, a clarification bath using juniper and cypress; and the Kai restaurant, which features dishes like lobster with fry bread, a Native American staple. Says Stonecipher: "It turned out to be anything but hokey...
...devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with grape-seed bubble bath and rose petals, then emerge for a massage with grape-seed body lotion. It's the seeds that purportedly contain the most powerful antioxidant properties, but for those aching to splash around in alcohol, next month New York City's Just Calm Down day spa will begin to offer...
When Berry comes out of the water, her teeth are chattering. The locals say April was never this frigid, this windy--"Nunca," they insist, never--until the week she had to pretend the icy Atlantic was the bath-warm Gulf of Mexico and shoot Scene 102, her big entrance as Jinx, the mysterious assassin in the new Bond film Die Another...
...with attractive cookware, kitchen tools and appliances alongside seasonal recipes. Both sites have a quick-shop feature so you can plug in item numbers from a print catalog to jump to specific products. Price-conscious shoppers should check out OVERSTOCK.COM, a clearance site for excess inventory (bed and bath, appliances, furniture) from brand-name manufacturers. Overstock sells lamps too, but you will find many more options at LIGHTINGUNIVERSE.COM, which organizes its wares by type (table lamps, pendants) and then subdivides by style (Art Deco/Retro, Craftsman/Mission).For gizmos, try TECHNO SCOUT.COM or BROOKSTONE.COM. Too much hardware? Make a softer statement with...
...more thing separates the Kanaya from other onsen: mixed-gender bathing, a custom Townsend Harris found "indelicate" for "a people so generally correct." A separate ladies' bath exists, but the main room is available for both sexes to come and go as they please. Generally prohibited by the American authorities in post-war Japan, these old-style onsen are a rare find. If you get the chance, give it a try. Just don't stare...