Pacific artworks exhibit

Pacific artworks exhibit
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is the exclusive East Coast site for an exhibition of 49 paintings and lithographs by Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918), the first black American artist to paint Pacific Northwest scenes.
A traveling exhibition in 2004 will exhibit the works in the mid-Atlantic region where he was born.
"Grafton Tyler Brown: Visualizing California and the Pacific Northwest" continues through May 30.
For more information, visit www.thewalters.org or call (410) 547-9000.
Psychic to appearon two cruise trips
Delta Queen will offer a psychic experience featuring medium Sylvia Browne on two cruises in December.
Browne, author of books on the paranormal and a regular guest on "The Montel Williams Show," will lecture aboard the American Queen Dec. 10-13 and 13-17.
Both cruises begin and end in New Orleans, one of America's most haunted cities.
Fares begin at $995 per person, double occupancy, and include a three- or four-night land package in the Crescent City.
The cruise also may be bought as a cruise-only vacation.
Passengers may arrange individual readings by Browne during the cruise.
For more information, call (800) 543-1949 or visit www.deltaqueen.com.
Radio telescope tour
A U.S. government site that monitors the heavens for signals from other galaxies is now offering something for earthlings, too.
A new tour center at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory site in Green Bank, W.Va., features hands-on exhibits, plus a bus tour through the observatory.
Guests see the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world -- the most massive moving structure on land.
For more information, visit www.gb.nrao.edu.
Magazine issues listof top tech hotels
NEW YORK (AP) -- Need a hotel that's as technologically up to date as you are?
Mobile PC magazine has compiled a list of the 10 "most wired hotels in America," based on Internet connectivity, well-equipped business centers and well-wired meeting rooms.
The hotels are Wyndham Hotel in Atlanta; the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston; the Omni in Chicago; Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas; Hilton Americas in Houston; the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas; the W in Los Angeles; the Holiday Inn Wall Street in New York; the Hotel Valencia San Jose in the San Francisco Bay area; and the Hilton Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.
And if you can't get a reservation at one of these, Mobile PC's April issue ranks three runners-up in each city.
Yoga retreats playhost to whole family
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yoga doesn't usually top the list of family vacation activities. But Travel + Leisure Family magazine's latest issue features five retreats and resorts that offer yoga for all ages.
They are the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, N.Y.; the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Mass.; the Sivananda Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island; the Kalani Retreat in Hawaii; and the Caneel Bay resort in St. John.
Programs include all-day children's camps at Omega, where classes for kids are scheduled at the same time as separate classes for adults; activities geared for children to do with their parents as partners at Kripalu; and sessions that welcome anyone of any age at Sivananda.
For details, check out the magazine's spring-summer issue.
For an expanded list of retreats, visit www.TLFamily.com.