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Normally New York is a place to flee in the summer, as your shoes melt into the sidewalks and all your buddies are chilling at beach houses in Long Island. But Mayor Bloomberg has just announced a new program called Summer Streets that’ll open up nearly seven miles of pavement to pedestrians and bikers.
Scheduled for […]

The US Open just wrapped up at Torrey Pines outside San Diego; Tiger Woods won. The schmancy course has been hyping the golf tourney for more than a year, and they put on quite the contest.
Tiger Woods of course played well, but Rocco Mediate wasn’t content to let him simply walk off with a win. […]

A monkey escaped from the Washington Park Zoo in Michigan City, Indiana by using a garden hose to climb the walls of the moat surrounding its enclosure. The mischievous monkey quickly made it to a nearby boat dealership and jumped on a speedboat. Sadly, he was apprehended by zoo workers before making it to the […]

It may cost $1.55 to buy a euro, but President Bush is still enjoying high season in Europe. The commander in chief has been on a whirlwind tour of the Continent since June 9, making stops from Slovenia to the UK.
Bush started his tour in Slovenia, which he once confused with Slovakia. After hobnobbing with […]

The longest day of the year is due in the northern hemisphere this weekend, and all earth-lovers, hippies and miscellaneous interested parties are invited to the Summer Solstice bash on Friday night at Stonehenge in England.
If you think that this collection of rocks is the work of the world’s first astronomers then you might find […]

When you give up that big trip because 4 bucks a gallon puts an uncomfortable crimp in your wallet or airfares are too ridiculous or that unexpected stint of unemployment took a bite out of your travel budget, it is not a staycation or a holistay, it’s staying home. It’s the chick flicks and ice […]

We love our Starbucks Alternatives, but sometimes we do enjoy the Green Monster. Our very own Hunter Walker just checked out a unique bit of coffee gadgetry for us.
This weekend I had the opportunity to check out the infamous $11,000 coffee maker at a Starbucks on Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The coffee machine, known […]

Unadvertised United summer and fall airfare sale with cheap flights and great deals to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
We can’t guarantee that Santa Claus comes early in the Southern Hemisphere, but it’s definitely coming on winter down there in the big EZE. Still, the mild climate and "good airs" of Buenos Aires should be as easy on […]

Unadvertised airfare sales with cheap codeshare flights and great deals to London Heathrow and Gatwick.
This is not where we tell you about a sudden shortage of healthy sprouts in the English diet, because depending on who you ask this predicament is either famously chronic, spanning centuries of bad cooking, or an equally famous myth that […]

My friend John landed in Japan yesterday (or today, depending on how much you believe in the conspiracy of time zones). After working for a certain financial firm for over five years, he was finally sent to Tokyo on his first business trip. I would be very happy for him, if I wasn’t so busy […]