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...want to use the cold as an excuse to get close, Michigan's Grand Traverse Resort and Spa has a "2 Night Carefree Getaway" package. That package includes breakfast and a dinner on one night of your stay. And on Valentine's Day weekend, the Cherry Capital Winter Wonderfest has film festivals, live music and sleigh rides. Package rates start at $444 per person. 100 Grand Traverse Village Boulevard, Acme, Mich...
Staying Put. W Hotel's "Baby It's Cold Outside" package encourages staying in bed, with pancakes and cranberry chutney for two delivered to your room. Shower up with a jar of Bliss Hot Salt Scrub and adjourn to the bar for two winter cocktails. Rates vary depending on location. Through April...
...Mellstock Band, Casterbridge Children, and Village Quire, musical groups that play and dress as musicians would centuries ago and who come together to preserve tradition and create a spectacle of Christmas cheer. The show ties together 33 theatrical, song, and dance numbers celebrating Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the Winter Solstice with a common plot line: the townspeople must use their acts to convince the village pastor to stop meddling with tradition. For anyone with Scroogelike tendencies, this show will be sure to dispel all negative thinking. “Revels” is bursting at the seams with Yuletide...
...Games, a collection of extreme sports competitions whose winter event takes place January 22-25, did not exist until ESPN (and its hipper offshoot, ESPN2) realized in the early 1990s that there was a huge, demographically desirable slice of America that wasn't watching SportsCenter. ESPN executives, aware they were missing out on ad dollars that could be coaxed from finicky flannel-wearing Gen Xers, launched the X Games in 1995. (See TIME's Top 10 Fringe World Titles...
...franchise had become successful enough that ESPN launched the Winter X Games, featuring skiers and snowboarders. The winter event eventually got substantially more "extreme" with the inclusion of sports like snowmobile freestyle and ice climbing - a strenuously athletic yet visually uninspiring sport that didn't prove popular enough to stay on the docket. But in one respect, USA Today wasn't far off: the X Games, both winter and summer, have become a proving ground of sorts, with organizers unafraid to experiment with burgeoning sports, some of which have stuck around and some which have fallen by the wayside after...