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Lee's Fried Chicken and Donuts Houston by Donna Dailey 7

Lee’s Fried Chicken and Donuts. Extraordinary Fast food fine dinng.

Lee’s Fried Chicken and Donuts serving the fast food equivalent of fine dining, if I lived in Houston I’d never eat at home. And if you’ve never had fried chicken stuffed in a donut and dipped in bacon jam then, believe me, you haven’t lived.

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LBJ Library Austin Texas 5

The LBJ Presidential Library. Discover Austin’s brilliant LBJ LIbrary

Lyndon Baines Johnson was Vice President when Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, and so found himself leading the country during the stormy years of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

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Mike Gerrard stays at the Lone Star Court in Austin

Lone Star Court. Discover The newest retro boutique hotel in Austin

We’d found what sounded like the perfect place to stay in the state’s capital: Lone Star Court. Does that sound like the perfect Texas hotel or what?

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Michigan beyond Detroit.

Beautiful Michigan Beyond Detroit

Michigan is a real surprise . Literally a peninsula of extraordinary beauty, surrounded as it is on three sides by the Great Lakes and 3,200 miles of freshwater shoreline.

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Andy Mossack eats at Wright & Company, a Detroit staple when it comes to trend and food. wright and co restaurant

Wright & Company. Detroit has never tasted so good.

t seems, making a restaurant hard to find is all the rage these days. Signage is so last year. So tucked away above a fancy tailor on the second floor of an 1891 Detroit Queen Anne style building at 1500 Woodward Avenue, Wright & Company is well on trend.

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Andy Mossack reviews the Aloft Hotel in Detroit, an art deco masterpiece rediscovered.

The Aloft Hotel. Discover art deco luxury in Detroit

There is something quite remarkable happening in Detroit these days and the stunning art deco Aloft Hotel in the Whitney Building is a perfect example.

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