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Hey, what are you doing New Year’s Eve? Oh, don’t worry, we aren’t asking you out or anything. I mean, not that we haven’t considered, uhm, asking you out before. You’re great, oh, and really smart too, but really we just wanted to tell you about an Air New Zealand sale on New Year’s travel, […]

A recent campaign for selling a holiday to Fiji from New Zealand used the headline “What a coup!” to try to entice vacationers. Doesn’t sound too tasteless, unless of course you remember the country’s military coup late last year.
Travel to the island country in the past year has been a bit disrupted by political instability. […]

We usually chronicle Starbucks alternatives rather than S-bux itself, but the newest Green Monster caught our eye: It’s opened in Russia.
After trying to crack the market for years, Starbucks finally opened its shop in a mall outside of Moscow, and a downtown location is in the works. The drinks will be the same as you […]

Before 1978, when airline fares and routes were regulated by the US Civil Aeronautics Board (the predecessor to today’s Federal Aviation Administration), they all had to follow the same set of rules, including those dealing with "irregularities" such as canceled flights. One of these rules, number 240, specified that if an airline couldn’t get you […]

This Saturday and Sunday, hundreds of doctors and sort-of doctors will convene at the exhibit hall in the Dallas Market Center for the Cosmetic Enhancement Expo 2007.
The second annual exhibition is expected to draw more than 2,000 attendees, many of whom are, er, weighing their options before going under the knife. Show patrons can […]

Slate’s press critic Jack Shafer must really need a vacation. After reading through back issues of The New York Times’ Escapes section–you know, the one about all the vacation homes you need?–he’s realized that it prints the same stuff almost every week:

There are only so many places to send Times readers for quickie visits and […]

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.

The 2-million-strong city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic has one of those to-die-for climates: The average high year […]

Some airports, like Denver’s, aren’t known for easy and cheap public transportation to the city center. But, in Airfarewatchdog.com’s experience, these 10 U.S. airports make it easy to skip cab lines, traffic and high fares.

Boston Logan: The Silver Line Rapid Transit Bus Service (SL1) will take you from Boston’s Logan Airport straight to South Station, […]

When it comes to trendy brunch spots with fancy omelets and inventive cocktails Manhattan’s got the market cornered. But after a night on the town and an early morning walk of shame, sometimes you want a place that feels like home. For that, there’s Penelope. The Murry Hill country kitchen serves up specials just […]

OK, it took us a while to get these done, but by popular (or is it pup-ular) demand, we’ve taken the drawing of Browser (he’s our wheaten terrier mascot) atop the Empire State Building and put it on a T-shirt.
These are American Apparel soft and comfortable T-shirts, made in the USA. They retail for […]