If you missed the Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden (it closed Easter Weekend), you need to put this next one on your calendar — Caribbean Gardens: Journey to Paradise, on display April 27 through September 16, 2007.

When I think about the flora of the Caribbean, I think about richly green, lush foliage, brilliantly colored, uniquely shaped blossoms, and a dense, fragrant air. Caribbean Gardens will have all that, and a lot more ...

Unless you’ve been avoiding television, radio, newspaper, and reading online, you can’t possibly have missed that today is Earth Day. It has become the most widely celebrated modern secular holiday in the world, with round-the-world efforts and activities coordinated by the non-profit Earth Day Network.

Earth Day is a modern holiday, established on April 22nd 1970, with US Senator Gaylor Nelson (Wisconsin) providing the push for the legislation after witnessing the devastation of an oil spill ...

This weekend kicks off Fiesta San Antonio, a 10 day city-wide, fun-filled, multi-cultural, family-oriented celebration. It’s a huge party — with an estimated three and a half million people attending — a real fiesta, lasting for days and days, with over 100 different events.

The annual Fiesta honors the memory of heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, with the origins tracing back to 1891 when a group of women decorated ...