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Don’t be fooled by Portland’s too-cool-for-school exterior. Under that indie-rock skin lurks a balladeer’s heart, and if you don’t believe us, maybe you’ll believe the lonely souls in Missed Connections. Get found at one of these local love nests:
The Crystal Ballroom — This pub turned mega-concert venue hosts rock acts like The National and The […]

A Primer on Sitting More Comfortably in the Air
Have you noticed that padding on airline seats is getting thinner? Back in the days of the Lockheed Constellation or the DC-6, seats actually had some padding (they were more like La-Z-Boys). Some of you may remember airliner seats like those in this DC3:

Or in this Eastern […]

Our Eat ‘n Sleep feature profiles a restaurant in a random city and a hotel nearby. It’s kinda like that old show “Dinner and a Movie” but you know, with restaurants and hotels. And better jokes.

No trip to Germany is complete without at least a stop in the southwestern region and towns like Stuttgart, Heidelberg […]

In the continuing contest between airplanes and trains in Europe, the Eurostar line has set a new record for the fastest journey between Brussels and St. Pancras Station in London. Cutting a good twenty minutes off the previous record, the Belgium to Britain journey took just one hour and 43 minutes.
When the new regular service […]

I spent a day in Bucharest, and couldn’t wait to get out of there. I went to the Black Sea, a place I’d always wanted to go. I had a Eurail pass for the Balkan Peninsula, so I figured it would be easy to get around. Wrong. All Romanian trains are on indefinite strike. I […]

Cold, rainy fall days make for the best museum visits. So over the next few weeks we’re mapping the latest shows worth seeing–and a nearby spot to nurse your art hangover.

The All Roads Film Festival will be held this weekend at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. The event includes film, a photography exhibition, a […]

See, this is why I don’t fly commercial…
President Bush called a meeting Thursday with Transportation Secretary Mary Peters and FAA chief Bobby Sturgell to figure what they could do to stop the endless flight delays and cancellations that have plagued the United States this year. (Since record keeping started in 1995, this has been the […]

Britney Spears caused a paparazzi circus after dropping by an Acapulco Mexican Restaurant y Cantina in Burbank Wednesday night. Right across the street from the Access Hollywood studios, she certainly couldn’t have thought she’d be under the radar. But we’re more concerned about her restaurant pick: Acapulco? Come on, Brit, that’s like Applebees for burritos.
LA […]

Embedded Travel Guides: We are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their “backyard.” When we find these folks, we then stealthy embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.
We are expecting the same sort of […]

We aren’t quite sure how we ended up at the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard last night. It could have been the lone margarita we had with dinner, or it could have been the fact that we’re slowly approaching 30. But since we had never even been to River Phoenix’s deathspot in the 5 years […]