Diane LeBow is featured as the “Colette expert”  on the new Warner DVD Home Video release of the 1958 musical Gigi, with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier. The two-disk Special Edition includes clips from the original 1949 French version of Gigi.  Both films are based on Colette’s...

April Orcutt has a tiny little essay in National Geographic Traveler‘s March “The Magic of the City” issue (page 65).

Thanks to Karen Misuraca for telling us that new member Yvonne Horn has launched her beautiful Winery Wedding Guide, a website listing winery wedding venues country across the United States. 

The big chill of the global economic recession which arrived on the tourism scene last September like an abrupt cold weather front will continue to bite at U.S. outbound travel harder than inbound travel throughout this year.

Thanks to Susan Alcorn for checking out Help A Reporter Out (HARO), a very cool resource. 

Here’s Ginny Prior’s “Happy Wanderer” column from Feb. 27, which ran in the Hills Newspapers: The Berkeley Voice, Montclarion, El Cerrito Journal, Alameda Journal and the Piedmonter. Not since the days of the old ‘60’s sitcom Mr. Ed have I felt so close to a horse. But...

Hank Mattimore‘s article “Pupfish, Golden Canyons and the Pure Desert Air” about a delightful trip to Death Valley National Park in January ran in the Daily Republic in Solano County on Feb. 7. Pupfish, Golden Canyons and the Pure Desert Air Death Valley has an undeserved bad name....

Diane LeBow & John Montgomery in New Orleans. Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo ’cause tonight I’m gonna see my ma cher amio. Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gayo, Son of a gun, we’ll have big fun on the bayou. – Hank Williams Mention Louisiana and most people think...