Sure, hiking is all about the journey. But these five boast destinations — stunning views, historic sites and other treasures — that are well worth the huffing and puffing 1.

So, you think everyone who works out looks like Jillian Michaels? You think that an average Joe like you could never scale a rock face or bench press 200 pounds? Wrong. Here’s the proof: people with amazing athletic talents disguised as average folks, just like you.

New and notable The British are coming I used to walk two blocks from where I lived, and turn right to find myself in the middle of the throbbing hum of everyone I could possibly know in the same place at the same time — and all there for the same soul-thrilling reason I was. Topshop.

The next phase of the food truck revolution: restaurants (and menus) that are here to stay Something crazy happened in Las Vegas in the spring of 2010 — something organic, hopeful and real amid rising unemployment and foreclosure rates and an all-around dismal business environment. A wave of friendly, casual, neighborhood eateries started opening up all across our city.

I thought fencing was a pretentious, so-called sport for snobs. But then I started poking around.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a soul in Las Vegas who isn’t happy about this month’s opening of The Smith Center for the Performing Arts. But few are happier than members of the center’s two resident companies, the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Ballet Theatre.