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Musician Joshua Shapiro plans to swap Chicago for a remote corner of southern Italy. He's bought and renovated an apartment in the small town of Latronico, and plans to eventually apply to move permanently.

US-based celebrity chef Vikas Khanna looks for inspiration in the flavors of his native India. He often finds them at Kalustyan's, a spice shop and New York institution home to over 600 spices and spice blends.

At the historic Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, guests can stay in the same quarters that President Teddy Roosevelt did during his visits out West. In fact, Hotel Colorado was once considered the “White House of the West” because President Roosevelt brought out his staff to stay for a three-week hunting trip.

Good ski conditions appear to be in store for most Colorado resorts over the Presidents Day weekend, following multiple storms in recent days and more incoming before the holiday.
The best snowfall totals are expected to target the northern mountains. Steamboat can expect 20 inches over the next five days, the OpenSnow forecasting and reporting service reported Thursday. Vail and Beaver Creek are forecast to receive 12 and Winter Park 11, with Copper Mountain and Loveland getting nine.

Amache National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is officially America’s newest national park, the National Park Service announced Thursday.

Whether it’s your first time on a snowmobile or you’re ready to explore the wilderness on your own machine, there are plenty of opportunities to ride across the snow in Colorado.

Work to repair and improve the iconic Hanging Lake Trail in Glenwood Canyon will impact opportunities for hikers to enjoy it this summer, officials of the White River National Forest say.

If you’re looking for a quick getaway from Denver with one-of-a-kind experiences this winter, put Tucson on the list. A short two-hour flight to Arizona’s second-largest city brings visitors to a unique patch of the American Southwest, with history, food and sites that can only be seen and tasted here.

Permits for overnight backpacking in restricted areas of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness in the rugged Elk Mountains west of Aspen go on sale next week.
Advance reservation permits ($10) are required for overnight stays in the busiest areas of the wilderness including the famed Conundrum Hot Springs, as well as Capitol Lake, Crater Lake and the Four Pass Loop that includes Snowmass Lake and Geneva Lake.

As old Colorado disappears, one historic building at a time, the nonprofit group Colorado Preservation, Inc., has fought to save some special but endangered places, spaces and buildings by highlighting a few of them each year. On Thursday, the group released its latest batch of five.