Christopher Reynolds

In the Salt Lake tabernacle Brigham Young built, 360 voices blend with frontier history

August 23, 2019 at 10:02 p.m.

There’s nothing particularly Mormon, or American, about “Ubi Caritas.” It’s a Gregorian chant at least 11 centuries old, was rearranged by French composer Maurice Duruflé in 1960 and has been...

View of the building of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Museum of Anthropology). It was built in 1964 and designed to harbor and display the archaeological heritage of the peoples of Mesoamerica.

Esto es Ciudad de México, una guía de su universo

May 15, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

Al igual que muchos californianos, he viajado decenas de veces a México a lo largo de las décadas: balnearios en Baja California, ruinas mayas en Yucatán, pueblos coloniales en el...

Lisa-Kaindé Díaz of Ibeyi performs during the duo's concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Grab an apple and enter the Fillmore, San Francisco’s cradle of psychedelia that continues to rock

August 23, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

It’s 10 minutes to showtime. Step up to the three-story Italianate brick box at Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard. Avert your eyes from the payday-loan operation that takes up much...

View from Trattore Wines on Dry Creek Road north of Healdsburg, Sonoma County There are many wineries along the snaking Dry Creek Road.

After the fires, the road back to Napa and Sonoma counties

August 23, 2019 at 8:58 p.m.

I was driving California Highway 12 through the Napa-Sonoma wine country in mid-December when a low, dark cloud drifted into my peripheral vision. It was over a vineyard and seemed...

A couple in a canoe paddle past Kings Beach in North Lake Tahoe, Calif., on April 29, 2017. In the early 1860s, Mark Twain hiked to North Lake Tahoe with a buddy and failed to stake a timber claim. He wrote about paddling around on the lake, the lake's beauty and about accidentally starting a fire. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Tracking Mark Twain by marks he left in Nevada and California

August 23, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

Who flies to Reno on a spring evening, rents a car and heads into the mountains with no skis, no mountain bike and a backpack full of books? Me. Why?...

A cyclist relaxes on the beach at Holbox Island, Mexico.

Mexican island of Holbox allows travelers to swim with a whale shark

May 11, 2019 at 10:23 p.m.

Several weeks before I found myself uncomfortably close to the world's largest shark, I told a few folks I would be going to Holbox. "Whole what?" asked more than one....

A view of the Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong will host the Beijing 2008 Olympic Equestrian events.

17 travel destinations for 2017

August 23, 2019 at 7:43 p.m.

Here are 17 destinations that look especially fetching right now. The list includes cities, countries, islands and national parks on five continents; bohemians and Slovenians; spherical Canadian treehouses; vast Vietnamese...

Once considered too dangerous for visits after dark, the Capitol Riverfront of Washington, D.C., has grown to feature more restaurants, hotels, apartments and parks.

Forget the elections: 7 reasons to visit Washington D.C.

August 23, 2019 at 7:31 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — You're worried about the next president. I'm here to change the subject. But only a little. That next U.S. president, looking out at Washington, D.C., on Inauguration...

On the dirt road to Titus Canyon, Mark Buche takes a moment to take in a desert view in Death Valley National Park.

8 of the most memorable drives in the West

August 23, 2019 at 7:23 p.m.

In national parks throughout the West, rangers and traffic engineers work long hours to nudge travelers out of their cars and onto trails — or at least onto shuttle buses...

Helicopter tours are available at the Grand Canyon National Park.

What’s new at Grand Canyon National Park

August 23, 2019 at 3:27 p.m.

Visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park this year will find new water-bottle refilling stations, a South Rim bicycle rental and bike-tour operation is expected to open, a multiuse trail...

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