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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Chicago's Andersonville (in Instagram)

Where: Clark Street [map], Chicago, IL, United States
December 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM | by | Comments (3)

We're going to give it to you straight. There once was a time—not too long ago at all—that the north side Chicago neighborhood of Andersonville was known as an area where girls who like girls settled down and raised their kids and altogether made the area a desirable and safe place to stay forever. We're happy to report that the spirit of inclusiveness prevails, but a bloom of craft beer bars and brunch-happy restaurants have brought in a more mixed crowd and—dare we say it—tourists way tired of the Michigan Avenue crap.

Andersonville is where to come if you want to leisurely stroll while window shopping, sipping some excellent coffee and reminiscing about college with a friend you haven't seen in years. There will be occasional breaks to coo at babies in their strollers, pet Dachshunds in quilted tartan coats and impulse buy entire pieces of vintage furniture. God it's just so great when you really need to be in or are already in a warm and fuzzy mood, no matter the season.

Without further ado, our personally picked top spots to hit in Andersonville:

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Five California Neighborhoods for Warm Weather Winter Exploring

November 8, 2011 at 1:07 PM | by | Comments (0)

Heading west for the winter? Join the club. For many, the lure of a season, a week, or even a weekend in the sunny part of California is irresistible.

When you land at LAX or SAN and emerge into the sun, it's time to get out and enjoy the weather. We advocate exploring new neighborhoods, getting a smoothie from a new shop and walking down a new street, sunglasses on.

Here's our own guides to five of our favorite California areas for warm-weather winter exploring:

· Encinitas
· Silverlake's Sunset Junction
· San Diego's North Park
· Downtown Los Angeles
· Coronado's Orange Avenue

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Manchester's Northern Quarter

July 21, 2011 at 1:18 PM | by | Comments (0)

In contrast to the U.K.'s expanse of verdant countryside, Manchester is urban, industrial, and strikingly cold (in ambiance, that is, though this applies to weather as well). Yet, it's this hardened quality that makes up its personality and, for some, its appeal. Casual visitors hoping to immerse themselves in slick, cosmopolitan environs may walk away from a visit to Manchester feeling disheartened. It certainly isn't London-lite, even if there is a Harvey Nichols located in its city centre.

This isn't to say that Manchester is impossibly somber, however. There are areas of the city which exude friendliness and vibrancy, most notably the arts-friendly Northern Quarter, where we found ourselves most of Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.

A hotbed of nouveau bohemianism (read: bourgeois bohemianism), the neighborhood is populated by intimate cafes, indie music-friendly bars, vintage boutiques galore, and attractive denizens with a love of organic cuisine and secondhand record shopping.

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13 Awesome Neighborhoods You Should Hit Up Yet This Summer

July 14, 2011 at 1:55 PM | by | Comments (0)

We're officially half-way through the summer, but that by no means puts a stop to summer travels. For anyone still staring at vacation dates in the upcoming warmer months, heat and crowds aren't a deterrent. To help you get around and make the most of any upcoming city trips, we've compiled a multitude of Neighborhood Guides.

It's our fun little series "Neighborhoods to Know and Go," and in it we walk you through our personal favorite places to eat, drink and plain chill out in areas we know very well, around the world.

Check 'em out:

· Jægersborggade in Copenhagen, Denmark
· The Old District of Bruges, Belgium
· Exmouth Market in London, UK
· Streeterville in Chicago, IL, USA
· Chinatown in Chicago, IL, USA
· Lincoln Square in Chicago, IL, USA
· Encinitas in California, USA
· Silverlake's Sunset Junction in California, USA
· San Diego's North Park in California, USA
· Downtown Los Angeles in California, USA
· Coronado's Orange Avenue in California, USA
· Brooklyn's DUMBO in New York, USA
· NYC's Astoria in New York, USA

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Europe's Longest Shopping Street Finds Competition in Copenhagen's Jægersborggade

Where: Jægersborggade, Copenhagen, Denmark
June 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM | by | Comments (0)

This week, Jaunted contributor Heidi Atwal will guide you through a series of food and shopping-rich travels through Copenhagen, a quaint European city trafficked by many a bike and artsy hipster. Stay tuned for suggestions on where to eat, hang, drink, and what to see in the city.

Copenhagen's bounty of design shops, throngs of sharply dressed denizens cycling along city streets, and photographic evidence captured on CPH-centric blog The Locals point toward a simple fact: Danes live, breathe and bleed style. Designers like Henrik Vibskov and Malene Birger have attracted attention to Denmark's ever-expanding fashion industry, while guidebooks direct the retail hungry toward Strøget, Europe's longest pedestrian shopping thoroughfare.

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: London's Exmouth Market

April 5, 2011 at 2:31 PM | by | Comment (1)

The more we explore London, the more we're wont to wander off the beaten path. A recent trip to Oxford Circus reminded us how the city's most crowded areas are enough to rile up agoraphobic feelings in just about anyone, even locals.

Exmouth Market is a sweet pocket of Clerkenwell that boasts a rare village-y atmosphere. On a recent sunny (miraculous, we know) Sunday afternoon, the area was buzzing with hipster parents and their prams, tattooed creatives sipping on flat whites at Caravan and older couples enjoying a midday glass of Sauvignon Blanc at the Ambassador. With restaurants, independent boutiques and nary a conspicuous tourist in sight, it's a worthy place to spend a part of your day, perhaps before taking in a dance show at Sadler's Wells just down the road.

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Encinitas, California

August 12, 2010 at 12:32 PM | by | Comments (2)

Encinitas, CA is a sleepy surf community a half-hour north of San Diego. Walk around the small downtown that centers around South Coast Highway 101, and the seemingly mandatory bathing-suit-and-flip-flops dress code tells you that this is a beach town. And that's why people come here—for the six gorgeous miles of Pacific coastline in North County (northern San Diego County).

You won't be overwhelmed by tourist attractions in Encinitas. There's not much here as far as shopping, mostly just tchotchke shops. This is a place to visit so you can kick back and enjoy the view. But between the sand, surf and picturesque places to unwind, you'll have plenty to do.

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Chicago's Streeterville

June 9, 2010 at 4:45 PM | by | Comments (0)

Perhaps you've visited Chicago before and seen all that there is to see, or maybe you ever live there and relish in the awesome places the city has to offer, but there's a pretty good chance you haven't even tapped the wonder of Streeterville.

Streeterville is a small neighborhood, right in the center of everything and with enviable access to both Michigan Avenue and the lakefront. In fact, it's the portion of land bordered on its west by Michigan Avenue, at its north by North Avenue, on its east by Lake Michigan, and by the Chicago River at the southern end. The land is manmade, developed only in the early 1900s when silt was dumped there and a man by the name of Streeter attempted to claim the newly-made prime lakefront property.

These days, it's still some of the most expensive property in the city, and one of Chicago's most recognizable landmarks—The John Hancock Tower—stands in a proud position in Streeterville. If you've already shopping on Michigan Avenue or staying in a nearby hotel, seeing Streeterville could be the easiest diversion you'll make. And perhaps the most memorable.

Join us in Streeterville...

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Downtown Los Angeles

May 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

[Photo: Steve Jurvetson / Wiki Commons]

Downtown Los Angeles has been languishing in a perennial state of about-to-be-revived for decades, but in recent years it looks like it might actually be happening. There's always been a vicious cycle: to get people to move in you need businesses, and to get businesses to move in you need people. Finally someone made the decision to just start building shops and restaurants by brute force, hoping that people would subsequently follow. To take only the still-opening but impressively huge LA Live "entertainment campus," you've got Club Nokia, the Staples Center, the new Ritz-Carlton hotel, a Regal Cinemas, and a dozen restaurants including an ESPN Zone, a Yard House, and a Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill.

So while it's impossible to exhaust even a tiny bit of what there is to see and do nowadays, there are some definite highlights—and a few niche locations—where visitors can eat and drink and shop and see.

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Coronado's Orange Avenue

May 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

San Diego attracts people in search of sand and surf, but across San Diego Bay is one of the most gorgeous beach towns in the area, Coronado. Although a naval base occupies the north half of the island, you don't feel like you're in a police state with big brother watching you. Instead you'll see tourists and locals hanging out in the gold-flecked sand and shopping along the one-mile-long main drag, Orange Avenue.

"Coronado" means the "crowned one" in Spanish, so that explains why you'll see more crown-themed souvenirs here than in England. You'll see crowns on clothing, placards and tea towels, plus you'll even spy actual crowns, fake, of course, in almost every shop along Orange Ave. But the strip of mom-and-pop shops offers a lot more, with restaurants, cafes and a bookstore.

The city is only a 2.2-mile drive from downtown San Diego via the distinctive Coronado Bridge. Or you can hop on the ferry in San Diego Bay and take a pretty 15-minute ride to the Coronado Ferry Landing for about $3.50. But get going now, since tourists will flood the place once Memorial Day hits and summer arrives; more than 2 million people visit the island each year.

Get cracking on Coronado after the jump.

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Neighborhoods to Know and Go: Brooklyn's DUMBO

March 24, 2010 at 9:47 AM | by | Comments (0)

It's finally spring in New York City, and do you know what that means (aside from the return of the tourists)? It means that everyone is shedding their coats and trading in their winter boots for bicycles and new running shoes. New York is an active city, and nowhere will you find more to do with better views than down in the Brooklyn neighborhood of DUMBO.

"Dumbo" means "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass," because the small area—dominated by the buildings that print a certain religious organization's magazine—sits mainly underneath the roadways of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges. Being down in a warehouse-y district underneath bridges may sound sketchy, but Dumbo is populated by the rich and powerful who actually care about their area. We resided in Dumbo for a period ourselves, and found it to be one of the most pleasant urban communities we've ever set foot into. All of the chocolate and bookstores probably helped our opinion too.

You can easily reach the area by taking the F train to the York Street stop and walking downhill from there, or the A/C trains to High Street-Brooklyn Bridge. Or just walk across the Brooklyn Bridge from downtown Manhattan—your call.

Join us in DUMBO, after the jump.

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Off Rodeo Drive: Where To Swipe Your Plastic In Silverlake's Sunset Junction

December 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM | by | Comments (0)

Just six more friggin' shopping days 'till Christmas. Sorry to be the bearers of bad news, folks, but if your tree isn't yet surrounded by metallic-wrapped gifts, you're going to have to hop to it. In Los Angeles, we're steering clear of malls, especially after a psychotic trip to The Grove last night saw us almost being run over by the circling trolley.

This weekend, we're heading East to a neighborhood popular among Ray Ban and gourmet coffee aficionados: Silverlake. We've heard many a disgruntled Westside friend criticize the area for being impossibly hip, and that it is, but it's also charmingly eclectic, laid-back, and there's never a dearth of activity to speak of. On the stretch of Sunset Boulevard known as Sunset Junction, there are a healthy handful of stores to shop at for the vintage lover, barfly, and comic book fan in your life. Here's our Off-Rodeo Guide to shopping 'tha Junction, after the jump.

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