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Seeking the Real in a Desert City Known for Artifice By MATT GROSS IN many ways, this brunch was like a million others I’d had before: poached eggs with hollandaise sauce, fresh orange juice, coffee, buttered toast. The sun was glowing somewhere over the comfy outdoor sofas, and no…

In Palermo, Life Vibrates in a Fading Market By DANIELLE PERGAMENT THE Vucciria, in the heart of Palermo's historic old city, opens early. By 4 a.m., fishermen are hauling in the day's catch; by 5 a.m., vendors are setting out crates of fruit and vegetables; and by 6 a.m., the place is…

A Renaissance of Charm in a Hub of the Surfing World By CHRIS DIXON IF you had walked down Avenida del Mar in San Clemente, Calif., 10 years ago, you would have found a down-at-the-heels beach town that didn’t seem to have much going for it. It had a smattering of intriguing…

By HILARY HOWARD AT 20 weeks pregnant, Courtney Monardo, a 40-year-old processor for a mortgage company in Scottsdale, Ariz., was — to quote Madeleine Kahn in “Blazing Saddles” — “so tired.” “After work, I’d sit down on the couch, take a cat…

When Children Fly Alone, Who’s in Charge? By MICHELLE HIGGINS YOUR children are going to camp far from home this summer, but you can’t get off work or justify the expense of an extra plane ticket just to fly them there. Should you trust the airlines to take care of them if…

A Vast Garden of Knowledge, Still Blooming Today By RICHARD CONNIFF IN a handsome neo-Classical building near the tourist hubbub of Piccadilly Circus in London, Gina Douglas, a librarian with reading glasses and a knot of keys on lanyards around her neck, leads the way down a grand…

Father and Son, Just Two More Soccer Fans By HENRY FOUNTAIN IT was the police officers on every corner that made us start to wonder about this English soccer business. My 12-year-old son, Walker, and I had become fans from this side of the Atlantic, watching matches from places like…

By DEBRA A. KLEIN A toddler squeals with delight alongside a jumble of boulders, plunking herself thigh high into a sloshing emerald pool within inches of dozens of honking African penguins that squirt in and out of the water like large self-propelled watermelon seeds. This sparkling cove…