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this Far North Queensland beauty offers chic dining, cafes and cocktail lounges plus year-round sunshine, making it the perfect winter escape. Just one-hour’s drive north of Cairns, flanked by the Atherton Tablelands on one side and pristine coastline on the other, Port Douglas is a picture-perfect tropical paradise. From June to October is the best [...]

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Back in April, I succumbed (quite happily) to Dave Egger’s publishing house McSweeney’s entertaining e-newsletter advertising their brand spanking new food quarterly, “Lucky Peach.” David Chang, chef/owner of NY’s Momofuku Noodle Bar et al, is the brainchild. Momofuku means “lucky peach” in Japanese if you were wondering. I preordered it, sight unseen. how could I resist? [...]

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Time for new blood To the Editor: I would like to know why the town spent so much money to repair Shell Beach yet can’t maintain a proper road surface there. I know that the craters slow down the hot-rodders and out-of-towners but what about the year-round citizens? I guess it’s easier for us to [...]

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