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If you thought, "How cool is that?" when reading Jerry's post on stopping time in Grand Central Station and wish you had been involved, it is possible to get in on some improv action yourself. Improv Everywhere, the New York City-based group that ...

In an Absolut World, Everyone Would be Welcomed Home from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo. One Gadling post that consistently gets weekly hits, sometimes daily, is the one on ImprovEverywhere's "Frozen Grand Central." The Grand Central stunt is an ...

We're fans of Improv Everywhere's work here at Gadling. There's Frozen Grand Central, Food Court Musical (my favorite) and welcoming home strangers at JFK. Here's another one designed to put a smile on the face of New Yorkers and one idea to try at ...

Not since Improv Everywhere's Food Court Musical have I been so pleased by a surprise musical number in a public place. This time the setting is Central Train Station in Antwerp, Belgium and the vehicle is Julie Andrew's voice singing "Do A Deer" ...

A friend and I were looking through a few Improv Everywhere videos, the folks who created Frozen Grand Central, and loved this one so much we watched it twice and then showed it to others. For anyone who has ever eaten in a food court anywhere ...

Meg isn't fond of the idea of airport karaoke. I think it's the best thing since sliced bread, particularly after I heard the NPR radio story about the small karaoke stages at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. That's the very ...

News of Improv Everywhere's latest prank has been zipping all over the Internet tubes in the last 24 hours, and dare I say, it's perhaps their most successful--and heartwarming--performance. Basically they managed to turn a little league game in ...

You guys get the drill by now. Improv Everywhere has popped up in Paris this time, staging another one of their "frozen in time" pranks. The first time, they pulled it off in New York's Grand Central Station. Then they did it in London. Where next? ...

My recent post about Improv Everywhere's prank at Grand Central has been off the charts: it just broke the 1 million hits mark and gathered 1,200 forwards and 60-odd comments in just three weeks. So backed by popular demand, I bring you part two of ...

There once was a time when family vacations meant loading up the car and hitting the road for a camping trip that involved setting up a big canvas tent or parking a silver Airstream camper in a vaguely wooded area, and enjoying some time in the great ...

GPS systems are everywhere these days, thanks largely in part due to ubiquidous iPhones and Blackberries. The technology, proper, isn't very cumbersome either -- one can get a GPS chip small enough to uplink into a laptop computer or even to tie to a ...

Here's another interesting widget for OSX users. Secret Agent Europe is a crime-solving game in which the player travels around Europe following trivia-based clues in order to catch up with bad guys. You can visit 49 cities in 39 different ...

Here's an idea. American company BikeToursDirect offers one-stop shopping for more than 140 bike tours in 27 countries. Choices include escorted or self-guided itineraries, point-to-point or "home base" tours, and even bike-and-boat travel. The ...

You wouldn't know it from the abundance of nutmeg in shops, but Grenada's production of the spice stopped five years ago. And it'll continue to be at a halt for another five years. Why? Because of Hurricane Ivan. 82% of the island's nutmeg trees ...

Veteran's Day is next Wednesday, November 11th, and to celebrate the National Park Service has announced that they will once again waive all entry fees to every national park, forest and monument across the U.S., giving travelers the opportunity to ...