Travel, Cruise

I went to visit my sister before summer was officially over for me (school started last week!). She lives in Mobile, AL but we usually drive down to Gulf Shores, AL for our end of the summer vacation. We wanted to hit up the beaches before Tropical Faye, Jorge and whoever else whipped the Coastal […]

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What happens when eight boozy New York transplants traipse around a borough full of Twitter geeks? We get a constant bead on their location!
Tom Reynolds spotted the crew at a Greenpoint bar:

They’re filming the Real World: Brooklyn at Matchless. Bizarre.
Lisa Graham also peeped the cast:

Not only am I awake too late I got drug into […]

After a triumphant stop in his home state of Illinois with new road buddy Joe Biden, Barack Obama is speaking in Davenport, Iowa this morning at a “One Nation” town hall meeting. While his wife Michelle Obama is making tracks to Denver to speak at the DNC tonight, her husband is wending his way there, […]

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The Trocadero Theatre, a 138-year-old, 1,200-person Victorian venue, has gone through many incarnations in its time on Arch Street–hosting vaudeville, burlesque, movies and, since 1996, pop music.
“The Troc” has long been known as a place to discover local Philly bands, but as the surrounding Market East neighborhood has transformed into a more desirable location in […]

More details are emerging about Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines, which plans to start flights between Heathrow and India next month. If all goes smoothly, the three-year-old upstart could be landing in San Francisco before the end of 2008.
Billionaire Vijay Mallya runs the show, and he tells the Financial Times:

That Kingfisher is establishing the base for […]

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This week, our Cambodia embed, Tim Patterson, is giving us the inside scoop on the country.
The Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia are perfect habitat for Javan rhinoceroses, Indochinese tigers and Asian elephants. Gibbons sometimes serenade at sunrise and Barking Deer yelp at the edge of the jungle. Siamese crocodiles, once thought extinct, have even been seen […]