All of a sudden, Newark s hot, thanks in part to the new New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The Jazz and Heritage Festival started as a small celebration of regional music and is now approaching Mardi Gras in popularity, spread out over two weekends and attracting music lovers from all over the world. A former YWCA building, though listed on the National Register of Historic Places, stood vacant for 30 years until a local nonprofit turned it into transitional housing for the city s homeless. The Blue Triangle Residence Hall now offers not just a roof, but social services and job training for many of the city s homeless. The new cultural destination has sparked interest in sprucing up Roanoke s downtown.
Taxicabs are well-regulated and clean, usually.
The sweeping, romantic, exhausting Spanish Steps are a breathtaking work of art, a passageway from one neighborhood to another and the city s hippest meeting place, all at once. The People Mover, an elevated train loop, links a handful of downtown attractions the new ballpark, the fortress like Renaissance Center and the locally owned restaurants and bars of Greektown making it easy for visitors to spend more time in town. This city takes a long, hard look at proposed capital projects. Since launching this exacting procedure, Seattle s been able to create a major maintenance fund for its new concert hall, arena and aquarium. So many museums, but just one pass, which for a fixed price will allow you entry to any musee.