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Jorge ColomboBy STUART EMMRICH FOR the last few years, Queen Street West has been the epicenter of Toronto cool — with its trendy restaurants, night-crawling club kids and boutique clothing shops featuring the work of local designers. But now the action seems to be shifting a few…

Archive Photos It’s 1977 New York in a “Saturday Night Fever” rental. By SETH KUGEL TRAVELING is fun, except for the traveling part. If you live in Alaska or North Dakota or somewhere else where dashing to New York for the weekend seems a bit extravagant in these days of…

Andreas Solaro/Agence France-Presse — Getty images A 2004 Notte Bianca event at the Colosseum in Rome. By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO WHEN Paris held its first Nuit Blanche — a frenetic all-night, multivenue cultural bash — in 2002, few could have imagined that five years later…

Charles Platiau/Reuters VANITY OR ART A Dior show in Paris in February. New York Fashion Week begins on Tuesday. By GUY TREBAY DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, fashion is bourgeois, girly, unfeminist, conformist, elitist, frivolous, anti-intellectual and a cultural stepchild…

Charity de Meer for The New York Times Christopher Swinney connects a Prius to his home’s backup power unit to help provide electricity.By JIM MOTAVALLI WHEN Hurricane Frances ripped through Gainesville, Fla., in 2004, Christopher Swinney, an anesthesiologist, was without…

Ji LeeBy JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Skip to next paragraph THE WORLD WITHOUT US By Alan Weisman. Illustrated. 324 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press. $24.95. When Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was published in 1963, the chemical giant…

Matt Gross for The New York Times Ride board, La Farge, Wis. By MATT GROSS NOTHING but sagebrush for 130 miles,” said the construction worker in the orange vest who was temporarily blocking U.S. Highway 20 in eastern Oregon. As my Volvo idled in the midday heat, I looked past her at…

Susana Raab for The New York Times At Rustico, the challenge is to match the right dishes with the right beers and ales from the restaurant’s selection of 310. By SUNSHINE FLINT ALEXANDRIA, VA., is only 10 minutes by car from downtown Washington, but the two restaurant scenes…

Stefano Buonamici for The New York Times At Fundació Joan Miró, a show of works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. By GREGORY DICUM IT was a cool spring day at the foot of La Rambla, Barcelona's famous — and famously overrun — main promenade. I had been strolling…