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Summertime and the living is easy in Marin — especially if you have a pool. In Home, P. J. Bremier takes us on a tour of pool houses, from one fit for a Hobbit to another made for the good…

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Ah, to be an innkeeper! To hold reign over a pastoral domain of hospitality, good cheer and the company of people who have a taste for life lived slow. A dream? Yes, but for the many innkeepers of West Marin…

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Before we tell you what’s inside Marin this month, let’s talk about what’s outside—on the cover. The painting, The Umbrella Man by Marin artist Tim Horn, is one of the three winning entries for our second annual Get Covered contest.…

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With global warming sadly turning much of arctic ice into open water, adventurers seeking the great frozen north had better head south—to Antarctica. Dave Bartruff takes us on a visually stunning journey aboard a polar ice boat to the southernmost…

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This issue Marin Magazine marks its first green anniversary. For a year now we’ve printed the magazine on 30 percent post-consumer waste paper—saving 120,000 gallons of water, 543 tons of greenhouse gas emissions and approximately 2,200 trees so far. We’re…

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With the full fury of winter upon us, warmer environs beckon, promising to pamper our body, nurture our soul and help us forget that spring is still weeks away. Spas provide just the right remedy for the wintertime blahs, whether…

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“A good walk spoiled.” That’s how Mark Twain saw golf. Were Twain around to join a foursome today, he’d see a different game of golf, one that is motorized, computerized and excercised, and from that experience most likely coin a…