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Tropical Storm Fay may be dealing out sub-hurricane-force winds, but she’s pounding the hell out of Key West all the same. And forecasters say there’s a good possibility that the storm will be even stronger by the time it hits Naples and the rest of Southwest Florida sometime soon.
Airports in the Keys are currently closed, […]

The Democratic National Convention will be held August 25-28, and we bet a lot of people would love to be there whether they support presumptive nominee Barack Obama or not. And stars are no exception: Gossips are predicting an unprecedented level of celeb sightings next week in Denver.

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Now that British Airways, American Airlines and three other carriers have announced their merger-which-isn’t a merger, Virgin Atlantic is making a serious stink. After all, Richard Branson’s baby holds just three percent of the slots at Heathrow, while BA and its newest pals control 47 percent of the landing rights at the airport.
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Watch out, New York pedestrians! Even more glass panels and other assorted detritus are flying off buildings and crashing to the sidewalks below. The latest was a 1,500-pound window that smashed into a protective metal shed above the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street, injuring two people.

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A friend of Jaunted decided to go on the Rental Car Rally this past weekend, after we hyped it in a post in July. So was the “36-hour adventure” as awesome as it sounded back then? Not exactly:

Rental Car Rally started off in a great location, Water Taxi Beach in Queens. There was a great […]

The Democratic National Convention is just eight days away, and the mile-high city of Denver is gearing up for four days of speechifying, glad-handing, and baby-kissing as Barack Obama officially accepts his party’s nomination for the presidency. And while organizers are looking forward to a week of virtuous pronouncements, other groups are expecting the seedy […]

I recently flew on 4 flights in one week with my husband and two small children (ages 4 and 11 months). Now, when flying with children you expect people to groan to themselves, roll their eyes when they see you coming and then run from you as hey get off the plane. But at the […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been laying low in Hawaii for a couple of days, taking a break from campaigning to soak up the sun and surf of the state where he spent his most formative years. But while the guy clearly has a bit of money and a few connections, his trip has […]

Florida, Mexico, and the Caribbean are in the midst of hurricane season, with a series of storms knocking down power lines, battering buildings, and ruining vacations. Here, Victor Ozols thinks back to a long-ago hurricane experience, and the boredom it entailed.
Tropical Storm Fay is on its way to Florida right now after roaring across Haiti […]

At the deli by our office, a turkey sandwich used to be four dollars even. Then, about two years ago, they started adding sales tax on top of that, when it used to be included. Not long after that, a couple slices of tomato suddenly cost an extra fifty cents. Within weeks they came for […]