FEASTY FESTIVITIES? You can definitely find several opulent, over-the-top, extra-special celebrations throughout California when the yuletide is in view. But one of the most venerable events — it will ...

Yosemite National Park is a magical place to spend the holidays, with festive events and special packages. We had a chance to sit down with Yosemite Hospitality Communications Director, Chelsie Layman ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK... is synonymous with the sorts of experiences that a person will revisit, in memory and story, again and again, for as long as she lives. A hike through Tuolumne Meadows, the ...

OK, you've got 44 minutes to change someone's engagement with pop culture. So, which Gilmore Girls episode should new fans watch if they want to understand exactly what makes the show so special? That ...

Tuesday: Behind the scenes of the Bracebridge Dinner in Yosemite National Park. By Jill Cowan Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) Alex Collado, ...

HAVEN'T "HUZZAH'D!" MUCH THIS YEAR? Few of us have, to be frank. For 2020 has been almost fully huzzah-less, in so many difficult ways. But there is a way to connect to a Christmassy, huzzah-ful ...

Time was, to compete for a seat at Yosemite‘s annual Bracebridge Dinner, you had to enter a lottery. Not so anymore. Tickets went on sale in August — and some are still available for anyone who wants ...

Several years ago, I was interviewing the unreasonably talented and conversationally charming Cate Blanchett before her appearance at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Our interview ended ...

WHEN A YEARLY BANQUET... has been around for decades upon decades, and slots at the supper used to be by lottery, and the setting is a world-famous lodge, and that lodge is in a world-famous national ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- -- YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- The winter that Ansel Adams shot one of his most renowned images of Half Dome, Yosemite's iconic granite crest, he nearly gave up ...