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Travel deals for Zoolanders

Travel deals for Zoolanders

We would feel remiss if we didn’t keep you up to speed on all of those travel deals floating around — in the ether of the Internet. Travelzoo sends us their weekly Top 20 and we like to cut them down and share them with you. Keeps getting cheaper: $19 & up — JetBlue...
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Spain: Ramblas bird market closes

Spain: Ramblas bird market closes

We always thought the Barcelona bird market on the Ramblas — that long road filled with street performers and tourists — was kind of creepy. Sure, people loved to walk through the market snapping pictures of caged squawking birds as they quoted Maya Angelou. But there was a sadness to the market too, there...
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Where the hell is Rhinebeck, New York

Where the hell is Rhinebeck, New York

It’s the wedding of the century or the weekend, depending on who you talk to. Chelsea Clinton is tying the knot to some guy (his name is Marc Mezvinsky, and eventually will get his own Wikipedia page, he doesn’t have one now). While the media just won’t shut up about this wedding, we’re more...
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Lost in translation: Signs of times

Lost in translation: Signs of times

The key to communications is to have people receive the message you intended to send — but here are a few times that the message may have been lost in translation — or worse yet, maybe it wasn’t. Check out what we found around the web.
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Gulf tourism will cost $23 billion to fix

Gulf tourism will cost $23 billion to fix

The oil has stopped gushing and the media has gone on to cover other breaking stories. Oh, there may be a couple of hundred million gallons of oil still floating around, but, well, whatever, if there’s not fresh video of birds dying, what’s the point of covering it? Sadly, that is case of our...
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Riding out of history: King Tut’s chariot awaits NYC

Riding out of history: King Tut’s chariot awaits NYC

King Tut, who’s been dead for about 3,300 years, should be aware of the following rules in New York City. Parking, when you can find it, is very expensive. And that’s only if you can find it. Double parking, while illegal, is often the preferred method if you’ve just got to run into the...
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Chicago: Live in a museum for 30 days, collect $10,000

Chicago: Live in a museum for 30 days, collect $10,000

Some trips are an adventure. Now Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry are offering a once in the lifetime adventure that will never let you leave the confines of its walls. The museum wants one person to live there for 30 days. That’s 24/7 inside the museum. When people leave, you stay — able...
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Helpless hipster is powerless

Helpless hipster is powerless

We pride ourselves on endless updates at Hipster Travel Guide — or at least daily ones. But late Friday night a tree did it’s best to keep us from filing anything. Up the road from the HTG headquarters, that tree fell during a storm and took all of the electricity from us. We were,...
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LAX goes Pink’s

LAX goes Pink’s

It only makes sense that Los Angeles International Airport would get the hotdog stand for the stars. Pink’s hot dogs, which, according to the LA Times Travel Blog, has been steaming up wieners to Hollywood’s finest for seven decades has now opened up a stand at LAX. Passengers haven’t had this much access to...
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Hitched: Jax Beach’s Casa Marina Hotel named top wedding venue

Hitched: Jax Beach’s Casa Marina Hotel named top wedding venue

If you're looking to tie the knot, or just kick back for a long weekend, check out Jacksonville Beach's hidden secret, Casa Marina Hotel.
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