Virgin America offered a special Friday flight to premiere its new reality TV show that debuts later this month. But on Friday, it was all cocktails, laughs and clips.
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Camping has always been an inexpensive way to enjoy some time off and save a few dollars -- but it requires a lot of planning if you want to camp in a good spot. And even then, it may not work out exactly the way you planned.
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If you study Arabic, expect delays. That’s the case for one Pomona College student who packed his Arabic flash cards in his carry on to study on the plane ride from Philadelphia to Los Angeles. Nicolas George is getting ready to enter his last year at Pomona where he’s studying bomb making and infidel hating —...
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Hotels are not camping -- and most people don't like sleeping in dirt. So if you like to take someone else's advice, here's something a list from TripAdvisor you may want to look over -- and find some thing else.
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Some people only become a star when they die and while no one remembers Elizabeth Short, lots know her by another name: The Black Dahlia.
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A big tax on big alcohol in the most populous state in the union falls flat on its face -- as if it had one too many -- as the measure Charge for Harm measure in California dies. For now.
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Esotouric starts its crime spree Jan. 9 and will be carting tourists around the City of Angeles all year long -- reliving the real past of Hollywood and all of its seediness. Life on the silver screen required a lot of death.
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