Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:00AM:
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October is National Dessert Month! Okay, it's actually National Pizza Month, National Pasta Month, National Pretzel Month and National Pork Month too, but I'm putting my weight behind this one. (Oh who am I kidding, I'm sure I'll put my "weight" ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Celebrate National Dessert Month at 5 Fifty 5 in New Orleans
Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:00AM:
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October is National Dessert Month! Okay, it's actually National Pizza Month, National Pasta Month, National Pretzel Month and National Pork Month too, but I'm putting my weight behind this one. (Oh who am I kidding, I'm sure I'll put my "weight" ...Top 5 hotels for having an affair
Sep 6th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Looking for a place to take your mistress for the weekend? Trying to plan a secret rendezvous with your lover? If so, check out ABC News' list of the top 5 hotels for having an affair.
The draw of these hotels, according to the article, is "thick walls, a discreet staff, a bit of romance". Noel Biderman, the creator of a website that matches would-be cheaters with potential dates (The tag line ...Ten musical destinations that will rock your world
Aug 24th, 2009 at 10:00AM:
Music has a way of taking you on a journey. Like any great trip, the songs that inspire us are filled with joyous highs and sobering lows, unexpected revelations and exotic uncertainties. It's only natural then that each of us seeks out music during our travels. Whether it's a CD stand in a bustling market in Morocco or a classically-trained violinist playing on a street corner in Paris, music ...Hotels and inns with a cultural flair
Jul 27th, 2009 at 7:00PM: When you just need a place to stay on your way to somewhere else, finding a comfortable bed and a clean room may be all that's required. But for atmosphere that reflects a unique location look beyond a chain hotel, no matter how glammed up that chain hotel might be. Why stay at a hotel with an ambiance that says it could be anywhere when you can stay at a place that is influenced by its ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (5.15.09)
May 15th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" feature, brought to you by our friends at travel website BootsnAll. How does it work? We input thousands of travel variables into the Gadling mainframe computer, and out comes five of the best and most interesting travel stories from BootsnAll this past week, ready for your reading pleasure. Got your 5.25" floppy disk ready? Alright, here's what ...Daily travel deal - 3 nights in New Orleans (hotel + air) from $219
May 1st, 2009 at 6:00PM: Looking to get away from it all for a couple of days? New Orleans awaits you! Our travel deal for today will fly you to New Orleans, and put you up in the Comfort Inn and Suites in Downtown Nolo for 3 nights for just $299 (based on a Chicago departure). There are plenty of dates available in May at that low price, and high season (June onwards) dates only go up about $20. The really cool part ...Chattanooga, Portsmouth among top art destinations in the U.S.
Apr 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who thought that Tennessee and New Hampshire would be some of the top towns in the country for art lovers. AmericanStyle magazine just issued the results of its twelfth annual arts destinations poll. Some spots are predictable. Others, like Chattanooga, will just blow your mind. This is the first year Chattanooga made the list, shooting all the way up to second in the mid-sized city category. If ...Life imitates art at Mardi Gras
Val Kilmer, "King" of Mardi Gras?
Feb 25th, 2009 at 2:30PM:
It's Mardi Gras this week, and New Orleans has been living it up in honor of one the city's most famous holidays. It's not just Louisiana residents that are getting in on the action however. As Videogum reports, none other than Val "Iceman" Kilmer was on hand to help celebrate, decked out in a white skin-tight leotard and full Mardi Gras "king" regalia. Mr. Kilmer apparently claimed the ...As Mardi Gras picks up, so do arrests in New Orleans
Feb 23rd, 2009 at 10:30AM: Here's a fun fact: Nearly 400 people were arrested in New Orleans this past weekend, forced to chill out at central lockup after being charged with public drunkenness, lewd contact, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace and a variety of other misdemeanors that are probably par for the course during Mardi Gras time. New Orleans Times-Picayune spent the weekend looking at mug shots. Sadly, the ...Five Places To See Before Climate Change Ruins Them Forever
Feb 18th, 2009 at 8:00AM: CNN.com has an interesting article naming the five places that everyone should see before they are forever altered by climate change, which is already having an indelible effect on our planet. This list was compiled by Bob Henson, the author of The Rough Guide To Climate Change, who wants to give travelers a heads up on the best places to visit in the near future, as they are also the most likely ...Lives saved from missed connection on flight to Buffalo
Feb 14th, 2009 at 9:30AM: Imagine this scenario. You're feeling aggravated because your flight has been delayed. Because of this delay, you've missed your connection on another flight. The hours have ticked by while you're wondering when you might get to your destination.
Then you find out that the plane you would have been on if your flight had not been delayed had crashed into a house and everyone on board had ...New Orleans could cut efforts to keep the French Quarter clean
Jan 12th, 2009 at 12:15PM: After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans' City Hall poured a lot of money into spiffing up the French Quarter, the thinking being that the best way to get the Big Easy back on its feet was to attract even more tourists to the likes of Bourbon Street. The results have not been lost on anyone who has visited the city in recent years. Once a collection point for puke, trash and a host of ...Weird things that drop on New Year's Eve
Dec 31st, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Jeffery wrote about weird New Year's traditions around the world. There are also weird items that drop at midnight New Year's Eve.
Sure you can watch the ball drop at Time's Square in New York City on New Year's Eve, either in person or on television, or you can watch a walleye drop. A walleye is a fish caught in Lake Erie. Every year a 20-foot, 600 pound fiberglass walleye is dropped in Port ...Eat bugs, see bugs, be like a bug at the newest museum in New Orleans
Jul 1st, 2008 at 12:40PM: Two summers ago my son was wild about cicadas. They were everywhere, and each time he found one of their shells he put it in an empty bottle. His exuberance was the type only four-year-olds can generate
There's a museum in New Orleans with his name on it. Not literally, the museum is called Audubon Insectarium, but it's the kind he would LOVE. This museum is the first new tourist attraction to ...Cockpit Chronicles: Domestic Duties
Apr 28th, 2008 at 9:00AM: I can't wait for our one European destination to come back to Boston in May. These crack of dawn departures don't fit my circadian rhythm at all. I'm convinced in fact, that when I retire I may never again see the sun rise. That said, it's just so amazing to walk down the jet bridge and out the side door to start the preflight inspection and see the sunrise shining down the polished fuselage just ..."Tent City" in New Orleans does, in fact, exist
Feb 11th, 2008 at 12:30PM: When Democratic presidential nominee hopeful John Edwards dropped out of the race late last month, he stood in front of his supporters in New Orleans and talked about an unfortunate site he witnessed on the way into town. "We passed, under a bridge that carried the interstate," he said, "where 100-200 homeless Americans sleep every night." In response, everyone's favorite hatemonger, Bill ...How to dress for Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Jan 29th, 2008 at 2:40PM: New Orleans, I love ya, but you're a dirty city -- especially in the French Quarter during Mardi Gras. In fact, I've ruined a couple pairs of pants thanks to the "drunken sludge" on Bourbon street (right). After my first few trips to Mardi Gras, I got smart and went on a shopping spree at the thrift store before heading down, and now it's a tradition. Here's my yearly shopping list: A few pairs of ...Mardi Gras beads by the handfuls: What to do with them?
Jan 28th, 2008 at 11:20AM: I've never been to Mardi Gras but I have beads. My first few came from a good college friend of mine who came back from New Orleans with a smile on his face and tales of forgetting that he's from a "nice" family. Not really, I do know he had a grand time and bought beads back for everyone.
Acquiring lots of beads and trinkets is one way to measure how much of a good time one had at a Mardi Gras ...Things NOT to do at Mardi Gras in New Orleans (unless you want to go to jail)
Jan 28th, 2008 at 8:30AM: Despite it's relaxed, party atmosphere, the city of New Orleans has laws -- even during Mardi Gras. Further, the city has a concentration of NOPD officers, ATF, and undercover police in the French Quarter during Carnival to enforce these laws. If you're heading to the Big Easy for the Mardi Gras, here are a few things you might be tempted to do, but should consider otherwise. And remember: just ...
