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...Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art, right off la Plaza de San Pedro) to the Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile-filled penultimate scene in Romancing the Stone...
...unsustainable fiction about the rate of economic growth stands between the validity of the entire program to right the American economy. And, the authors of this grand plan are not likely to change it no matter how much evidence is available to disprove it. The creators of this budget seem to believe that the American citizen is incapable of understanding that the financial prospects of the next year have worsened considerably since the budget was formulated...
Country Weekend. Nashville's newly opened Hutton Hotel claims to be the city's first green hotel. To entice you to stay at the eco-friendly digs, located near the Vanderbilt University campus, the Hutton is offering a grand-opening two-night weekend package, "With Love from Nashville," which includes champagne upon arrival, a candlelit dinner for two at the hotel's restaurant, plus a complimentary martini, breakfast and a $5 gift card from Amazon.com - use it to download any country western song you hear around town, the home of the Grand Ol' Opry. Rates start...
...Commerce. Twelve New York City hotels - including Le Parker Méridien, SoHo Grand, and W - are offering Armory Arts Week packages March 4 to 9. The promotion includes tickets to the Armory Show, March 5 to 8 at Pier 94, the yearly art fair during which hundreds of galleries gather from around the world to show their 20th and 21st century works. The hotel packages also include discounts at museums and a 15% all-day savings pass at Bloomingdale's, with private make-up consultations, a customized SK-II facial and a deluxe travel-size item from Dior...
...thought winter was over? Yeah, that's what we thought when we saw the Dunster igloo—for a while the grand fixture of the courtyard—reduced to this pathetic little mess two days...