03/05/2010The Livingston boutique hotel in Waco offers a chic escape A city some consider little more than the midpoint between Dallas and Austin, Waco isn't destination central. But interior designer and Highland Park High School grad Mary Baskin's eight-months-open venture, THE LIVINGSTON , is setting the stop-and-stay bar higher. Austin menswear shop Stag is a nice surprise 12/03/2009Take a beach-by-beach tour of Mexico's Riviera Maya In the early 1980s, the pristine, beach-girdled Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatán peninsula was marked by little more than a few fishing villages. There was a hotel here and a hammock there, but not much of an effort to identify their position, nor much infrastructure to support them.