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Need a last-minute spring break idea? The Jacksonville Jazz Fest just announced its lineup, and while it’s not as prestigious as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival or Aspen Jazz, it’s cheaper and sooner. You make the call, but if you go, exercise your powers of decision at these hot spots:
Aromas — This cigar […]

We. Love. Social networking sites. If Southwest can release a YouTube video about its latest college coeds incident, where should we look for Nisreen Swedberg’s response? Myspace, of course.
The self-proclaimed hottie thinks “Southwest Sucks,” even though the airline tossed her for verbally brawling with another passenger. And from the looks of it, she’s switching to […]

In the future, every famous person will be forced to do a stint on Broadway. Until then, celebs flock to it–like recent new mama Nicole Richie, who is reportedly in talks to join the cast of that evergreen revolving-stage show “Chicago.”
Richie gave birth to baby Harlow just six weeks ago, but with her show “The […]

If only we were six years old again….
In 1984, a Cabbage Patch Kid doll was like the only doll we ever wanted. Our mom once got in a fight at a Toys R Us over the last Cabbage Patch doll on the shelf.
So it sort of saddens us that as we were perusing Jezebel that […]

We really should be placing bets on where the next Disneyland is going to spring up. Despite the problems in Hong Kong, there was that talk of a Disneyland development in Malaysia, and the latest rumors are about stalled discussions on some kind of Disney product hitting Sydney.
The state government of New South Wales in […]

Some US cities are perfect for the intelligent, driven women of today. It’s easy to identify the qualities of a top-notch city: lots of economic opportunity, strong education and health care system, safe streets, and a sense of community and culture. But which city is the right one for you?
WomenCo has combed through […]

There’s a reason why Anne Murray sang about snowbirds. Canada is known for them. Every year thousands of Canadians avoid the cold and winter blahs by running down south. I’ll be honest, I pretty much hate the cold. There reaches a time when you think that winter is never going to end - such […]

T3 at Beijing Capital International officially opened today, greeting a domestic flight from Shandong with bouquets before a British Airways flight touched down a few hours later. While officials expect 64 million passengers to pour through this year, so far there are no lines at the nearly 300 check-in counters.
The soft opening today has the […]

Flying down narrow singletrack trails on a mountain bike is challenging. Doing so after sundown in the South African wilderness sounds damn near crazy. But if there’s a beer and a beach at the end of the road, then we’re all in.
Live2Ride tours in Langebaan, South Africa–a coastal city roughly 60 miles from Cape Town–offers […]

In South Texas, peyote is getting harder and harder to find. The Houston Press sent a reporter to chat with the men who rustle the cactus to find out how dire the situation is getting, with supplies drying up and endangering a traditional part of Native American culture. It’s grim enough that peyoteros are now […]