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Wish You Were Here? You Can Be—For Only $79 a Night!
May 2011

Gather your friends and score a deal. These six group getaways grow cheaper with every pal.

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Redecorate Your Living Room with Items You Already Own
May 2008

Transform your rooms from blah to beautiful by using pieces you already have. The only thing you need to add? A bit of ingenuity.

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Tot Chef
November-December 2007

Planning meals can be stressful enough, but involving children in the prep sounds like a shortcut to a migraine. That is, until you spend some time with Lauren Bank Deen, a veteran Food Network producer and trained chef.

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Lassie
September-October 2006

The preternaturally faithful collie, too long the furry butt of “What’s that, girl? Timmy’s fallen down the well?” jokes, returns to her roots in this British film based on Eric Knight’s classic tale. Gently paced and all but bereft of special effects—a bizarre Loch Ness monster cameo being the sole exception—the film’s old-fashioned ambience and style feels closer to the era of 1943’s Lassie Come Home than to its own.

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Prepare to be dazzled by the grandly renovated Morgan Library
July-August 2006

Ever since it opened to the public in 1924, the Morgan Library & Museum has been one of the city’s preeminent cultural gems. And parents have long appreciated it as a bite-size antidote to megagallery fatigue. The space—a manageable 151,000 square feet, compared with MoMA’s 630,000 and the Met’s whopping 2 million— reopened on April 29 after celebrated architect Renzo Piano’s three-year, $106 million renovation.

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How Rent Changed Me
Anthony Rapp
February 2006

In his new memoir, Anthony Rapp talks about coming out, losing his mom and how his role in the musical made him the man he is today.

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Gayla Trail
July 2006

"My concept of what's possible as far as gardening goes is pretty open ended," says Gayla Trail, who grows edibles and ornamentals on a roof deck, in a strip of city-owned property at the side of her apartment building and at a community garden.

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Hip and Handy? Reads You Need
June 5, 2005

Got the itch to stitch but not really into the draped afghan look? You're in luck: The popularity of such crafty trends as knitting, embroidery and quilting means that plenty of books are flush with projects you'll actually want to wear.

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