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Sky Spy: More time to savor planetary dance

Tim Hunter Special To The Arizona Daily Star

Last week I talked about the spectacular grouping of Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in the evening sky after sunset.

5 free attractions in South Dakota's Black Hills

Kristi Eaton The Associated Press

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Mount Rushmore National Memorial may be the most famous landmark in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but it's not the only one.

Travel Solutions: Nonrefundable ticket means just that - unless writer helps

Christopher Elliott Tribune Media Services

Q: I'm trying to help my sister get a refund on her daughter's nonrefundable airline ticket. Her daughter went to Spain in January as an excha…

Photos: Giant leatherback sea turtles

The giant leatherback sea turtle is making a comeback in the Caribbean, and that's sparking a tourist boom in long-stagnant fishing towns. The…

San Francisco newspaper says Tucson is cool

Cathalena E. Burch Arizona Daily Star

Chronicle compares Tucson's hipness to Portland, Ore.

Sky Spy: Venus returns to the night sky

Tim Hunter Special To The Arizona Daily Star

Moon Watch

Monroe, Wis.: Home to the stinkiest cheese in the world

Helen O'Neill Associated Press

MONROE, Wis. - The sign above the bar in Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern warns visitors about the perils of sampling the $3.25 house spe…

Museum of the Confederacy opens Gettysburg exhibit

Steve Szkotak Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. - Among the swords, the wrenching letters home and the haunting photographs in the Museum of the Confederacy's new exhibit on Ge…

Travel Solutions: Wyndham should've fixed smoking-room problem at Days Inn

Christopher Elliott Tribune Media Services

Q: I have a concern that I tried addressing with a specific Days Inn and with Wyndham, which owns Days Inn, but have not received a response. …

Sky Spy: Moon watch

Tim Hunter Special To The Arizona Daily Star

New moon is today, and there is a solar annular eclipse visible in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.

Historic Miracle Mile area shows off its revitalization with tours, open house

Gerald M. Gay Arizona Daily Star

They say the neon lights are bright on Miracle Mile again.

Street art blossoms in Buenos Aires

In most major cities, street artists create their works under cover of darkness, spray-painting their graffiti quickly to elude arrest. Not so…

Hollywood and vine: Wineries with celebrity ties

Michelle Locke The Associated Press

HEALDSBURG, Calif. - Sometimes visitors to MacMurray Ranch, the 1,500-acre spread owned by movie and TV actor Fred MacMurray for a half-centur…

Travel Solutions: Cruise line was right to insist ailing passenger leave ship

Christopher Elliott Tribune Media Services

Q: We were recently scheduled to sail on a seven-day Carnival cruise to Mexico. A few minutes after we boarded in Long Beach, Calif., I had ho…

Fairy tale Fashion: Pima Community College readies for sixth annual student showcase

Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star

In the end, Pima Community College's fairy-tale-themed fashion show will be fanciful and fun, but getting there has been anything but a fantas…

Neo Malaysian Kitchen puts food first

Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star

Neo Malaysian Kitchen has lemak.

Sky Spy: Big Dipper, its neighbors light up the night sky

Tim Hunter Special To The Arizona Daily Star

Moon Watch

Pets available for adoption

Find your BFF at one of Tucson's shelters and rescue groups. These groups also need volunteers and donations.

Photos: Easing travel for the upper crust

Just as they've made first class more enjoyable with new seats, tastier meals and bigger TVs, airlines are focusing on easing the misery of ai…

5 free things in Cincinnati, from bridges to parks

Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press

CINCINNATI - With dueling nicknames of the Queen City for its beauty and Porkopolis for its love of, well, pork, Cincinnati cannot be pigeonholed.

This time, Cyclovia will go linear

Gerald M. Gay Arizona Daily Star

Those who participated in the first 2013 Cyclovia Tucson event earlier this month will find some distinct differences with this year's second …

Adopt a friend

Find your BFF at one of Tucson's shelters and rescue groups. These groups also need volunteers and donations.

Cinco de Mayo 10K a Tucson tradition

Inger Sandal Arizona Daily Star

Don Branaman was new to running when the Cinco de Mayo 10K got its start 33 years ago.

Sky Spy: Look north, find 2 stars with hard-to-spell names

Tim Hunter Special To The Arizona Daily Star

Tonight look toward the southeast around 9 p.m. to see the bright full moon low in the sky. Saturn will just above it.