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Paramount is the last major studio still operating in Hollywood itself. An afternoon on the Melrose Avenue lot, among the soundstages, the water tower, the fake New York streets and one of the most famous gates in film history.
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Oogie Boogie Bash is a separate-ticket Halloween party at Disney California Adventure. Here is what to expect from a night in the park, and whether it is worth the price.
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Jon Batiste played with the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center, the orchestra’s summer home in northeast Ohio. Here is what the night was like and how to plan your own visit.
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One is a freight railway turned into a garden. The other is a park standing on concrete tulips in the Hudson. A Sunday morning on the West Side, walking between two of New York’s strangest public spaces.
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Everyone goes to MoMA for the famous walls. We found Warhol’s soup cans, and then a Lithuanian-born artist’s year of empty packaging, which turned out to be the piece we talked about afterwards.
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America’s smallest big national park is one steel monument, a lawn and a tram ride that feels like nothing else. We rode to the top of the Gateway Arch for the view over St. Louis and the Mississippi.
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Bentonville, Arkansas, is an unlikely home for a world-class art museum. Crystal Bridges sits in a wooded ravine, with galleries over the water and a giant bronze spider in the trees.
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The Walmart Museum sits in Sam Walton’s old 5&10 on the Bentonville town square. It is free, it is small, and it ends at a soda fountain.
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A morning in Little Rock, from the steps of Central High School, where nine teenagers changed American history in 1957, to the Clinton Presidential Library on the Arkansas River.
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St Peter’s is bigger than your eyes will accept at first. The best way to take it in is to climb: up to the roof, then between the shells of Michelangelo’s dome to the view over Rome.
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