Nov 2nd, 2011 at 10:00AM:
If New Orleans' Bourbon Street has a little sister, it is, at least sometimes, 6th Street in Austin. Both streets are main attractions, teeming with boisterous activity. Both streets are usually embraced by tourists and, perhaps just as usually, eschewed by locals. And both streets are worth walking, no matter who you are or where you are from, on certain days of the year, namely, costumed days. ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Halloween on 6th Street in Austin: the sounds and lights
Nov 2nd, 2011 at 10:00AM:
If New Orleans' Bourbon Street has a little sister, it is, at least sometimes, 6th Street in Austin. Both streets are main attractions, teeming with boisterous activity. Both streets are usually embraced by tourists and, perhaps just as usually, eschewed by locals. And both streets are worth walking, no matter who you are or where you are from, on certain days of the year, namely, costumed days. ...Five Halloween treats for grown-ups
Oct 29th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Like many former kids, I used to live for Halloween. Sure, the dressing up part was fun, but so was TP'ing the neighbor's tree. What All Hallow's Eve was really about were Pixy Stix, Fun Dip, mini Milky Way bars, and REESE'S Peanut Butter Cups (in my world, the latter still reigns supreme).
Still, things change. We grow up; most of us lose our appetite for eating the equivalent of eight cups of ...4 days of Halloween in New York
Oct 22nd, 2011 at 4:00PM: Wondering when and where to go this Halloween to get the most out of your costume? In New York, there are events for every night you want to go out.
Friday, October 28, 2011, 9PM-3AM
Nightmare Between 17th and 18th Streets
Union Bar, 204 Park Ave. S., between 17th and 18th
After years of successful event planning, David Shapiro, who owns the leading social networking company in New York ...Ohio State Reformatory continues to spook guests with overnight ghost hunts
Oct 20th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Exotic animals may have terrorized a small town in Ohio, but guests looking to get really scared should head to the infamous Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield--one of the ultimate places to go for a ghost hunt. For the Halloween season, the reformatory is offering a haunted house-style "Haunted Prison Experience," but next spring the real frights will begin when the facility that housed over ...Ten most haunted hotels, as ranked by travelers
Oct 18th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Planning a creepy getaway this Halloween? Don't rely on rumors when hunting for a hotel with the most paranomal activity. According a poll of more than 800 on TripAdvisor, 17% of travelers say that they have had a supernatural or ghostly encounter while staying at a hotel. Just in time for Halloween, the site has released their list of the country's most "haunted hotels," ranked by the number ...5 terrifying haunted houses in New York
Oct 17th, 2011 at 3:00PM: What's Halloween without a good old-fashioned haunted house? While that may be true, there is nothing old-fashioned about these terrifying haunted houses in New York.
Blackout Haunted House
54 W. 39th St. (between 5th and 6th)
Just based on the fact that you are required to go in solo is scary enough. Some things to expect as you make your way through this dark house of horrors include ...Alabama celebrates its haunted past with an entire month of events
Oct 11th, 2011 at 2:30PM: Throughout October, the state of Alabama in the United States will celebrate its haunted past with a variety of events, including ghost walks, story-telling festivals, and a moonlit tour of Old Cahawba, a historic ghost town.
Here are some of the scheduled events:
7th Annual "Historic Haunts Walk"
Athens, Alabama (Oct 4, 12, 14, 19)
This spooky walk will begin at the Houston Library and ...5k zombie infested obstacle course comes to the United States
Oct 3rd, 2011 at 2:00PM: Adventure-lovers and zombie-enthusiasts will be excited to hear about a new zombie infested obstacle course coming to the United States this Fall. Like any other obstacle course event, such as Warrior Dash or Spartan Race, Run for Your Lives will include man-made challenges (12, to be exact) as well as tests of physical fitness. This obstacle course in particular will involve mud, water, climbing, ...Galley Gossip: Flight attendants, turbulence & scary flights
Nov 5th, 2010 at 9:30AM: One of the scariest flights I ever worked also happens to be one of the first flights I ever worked for an airline called Sun Jet International Airlines. I lasted three months before moving on. Sun Jet is no longer in business. I'm going to guess this had a lot to do with gimmicky $69 flights to cities like Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Newark, and Long Beach. While cheap tickets attract a lot of ...Weekend travel media top five
Nov 1st, 2010 at 10:00AM: Among the best travel stories this last weekend of October: emerging Armenia, undervisited Northern Vietnam, a rail journey across China, top spots to celebrate Halloween (start your research for Halloween 2011 here!), and a wine-free tour of St. Helena, California.
1. In the Financial Times, Teresa Levonian Coles writes about the emergence of Armenia as a tourist destination. Her piece is ...Tarantula cocktail at the Langham London - yes, an actual tarantula
Oct 31st, 2010 at 1:00PM: It's a Scorpion & Oven Baked Tarantula Tea Punch, to be exact. Happy Halloween, right?
Actually, it has nothing to do with Halloween. This unprecedentedly creepy cocktail is the result of the Courvoisier Spirit of Punch Masters competition this year, and was created by the Langham Hotel's very own Francesco Orefici and Alex Kratena. They decided to infuse the cognac with a real tarantula ...Colonnade Hotel offers Halloween discounts
Oct 27th, 2010 at 12:30PM: Halloween night can get a little, well, creepy. Before you set out on the streets of Boston looking for something ghoulish and gaudy to participate in, make sure you have a place to call home at the end of the night. Boston's Colonnade Hotel is offering all guests who arrive in costume on the weekend of Oct. 31, 2010 a 10 discount on room rates.
But for those who like a little trick with their ...Lonely Planet offers Halloween alternatives
Oct 22nd, 2010 at 2:30PM: Once you pass a certain age (read: enter middle school), the novelty of dressing up and going trick or treating grows old. That is, of course, excluding those who wait all year to dress up as a slutty nurse or Snooki from The Jersey Shore.
In fact, seasoned travelers know that the over-the-top portrayal of Halloween is rather limited to American culture, and that people from other countries ...Highwood, IL to attempt Guinness Record for most jack-o-lanterns lit in one location
Oct 18th, 2010 at 3:31PM:
There must be a thousand ways to break a Guinness World Record, and most are easier than this.
The city of Highwood, Illinois will light the night for Halloween this year. If all goes well, they will also end up in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most jack-o-lanterns lit in one location. To break the record, this little town of about 5,000 residents needs to beat Boston's record ...SkyMall Monday: Top 5 Halloween Decorations
Oct 18th, 2010 at 1:00PM: Can you believe that we're less than two weeks shy of Halloween? It seems like just yesterday that we were saying farewell to summer. But here we are, stocking up on candy, finalizing party plans and coordinating costumes with our friends. There's just one thing that we forgot to do here at SkyMall Monday headquarters: decorate. You can't celebrate Halloween without properly decorating your home. ...Haunted hotels in the US
Oct 18th, 2010 at 11:02AM: "The tender word forgotten, the letter you did not write, the flower you might have sent dear, Are you haunting ghosts tonight."
– Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Spending an evening away from home in a luxurious hotel invites the opportunity to be pampered in a spa-like setting, enjoy fine dining and spend a romantic evening in a beautiful room. Over the years, some guests have enjoyed ...The best travel themed Halloween Costumes of 2010
Oct 18th, 2010 at 8:30AM: Halloween is a great time of year to dress up in a costume that fits your lifestyle - if you travel a lot, you may want to use the opportunity to dress up as a flight attendant and tell people they need to close their damn laptop and listen to to the safety briefing. Others may want to relive the day when Steven Slater freaked out and made himself famous for a few weeks.
So, we've picked some ...Costume store develops angry flight attendant Steven Slater costume
Oct 13th, 2010 at 3:00PM:
I haven't put on a costume for Halloween in years, but I think that's going to change this year. I want to spend an evening as flight attendant hero irresponsible nut Steven Slater. In case you spent the summer living under a rock, Slater's the flight attendant who tangled with a passenger (you know, one of the people he was responsible for protecting), popped the emergency slide, grabbed some ...The spooky Stanley Hotel celebrates the 30th anniversary of 'The Shining'
Sep 29th, 2010 at 11:00AM:
Everyone knows Stephen King's The Shining as a terrifying tale of isolation and horror, and Kubrick's epic interpretation featuring creepy twins and the freakiest Jack Nicholson moments of all time (so far), but did you know that the novel which inspired the film was actually based on The Stanley Hotel overlooking Rocky Mountain National Park (above)? This legendary Colorado hotel, located about ...Halloween Lantern Tours at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sep 23rd, 2010 at 2:37PM:
Old Dutch Church at Sleepy Hollow
Many communities have a signature event that sets them apart from others. It's their claim to fame. Their annual extravaganza. Events range from mega-productions like the long-running flowery flotilla, the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California to the testosterone fueled Run-A-Mucca Motorcycle Rally in sparsely populated Winnemucca, Nevada.
In the ...
