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The 2009 Mazda6 needed to do a lot of sweet talking to win me over; I reviewed the 2008 Mazda6 and had some not-so-nice things to say about it, so I was quite interested to see what improvements to the all-new 2009 Mazda6 might tempt me to change my mind. There are a lot of new […]

Travel makes us more complex. Under the right circumstances, each time we visit a new place, we incorporate a bit of it into our own being. We are no longer the “typical New Yorker”, “typical Californian”, or typical name your stereotype here. If I hadn’t traveled to the places I’ve been, I wouldn’t be the […]

The 2008 Edinburgh Military Tattoo is in full swing, with more than 200,000 people in town to watch military bands and display teams from the British Isles and around the world perform against the backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. This year’s tattoo held a special honor for one resident of the Edinburgh Zoo, as a three-foot-tall […]

We’ve gone on before about how great it is to travel to pedestrian-friendly cities. The simple act of leaving the car behind alleviates a huge source of stress, and you can go about your merry way without worrying about parking, fuel, and moving violations. Now USA Today goes and publishes a story about one of […]

Topsy-turvy oil markets have got everybody in a tizzy these days, and the airline industry is no exception. Higher ticket prices are a drag, to be sure, but at least the economic shock is finally causing the major carriers to look into alternative fuels to power their fleets. A recent AP item points out that […]

Participants in the annual Gumball 3000 road rally are known to be a little nuts, racing their souped-up rides across continents at blistering speeds, stopping only to spray Champagne on each other at glitzy locations around the globe. But they may have just carved another notch in the crazy tree with their latest gambit, a […]

Commence neighborhood handwringing! We knew that The Real World was about to take over Brooklyn, frightening residents and setting the borough up for an epic amount of (scary!) gentrification. And Amy Langfield could have the first sighting of the actual cast, seen hiking around Red Hook in the shadow of the neighborhood’s brand new Ikea.
Amy […]

Climbing the icy peaks of Alaska can be scary, but not as scary as approaching a cute waitress or waiter. If you dream of glaciers, we’ve got your hot places to warm up in the largest city of our northernmost state.

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We’re all about trying out new adventures, but people in the Czech Republic may have started to take things a little too far. So far this year, 56 Czech tourists have died while traveling abroad.
Officials chalk it up to people being a little less careful when they’re away from home. The “it can’t happen to […]

Tomorrow, the latest TSA shitshow starts, with passengers trying–undoubtedly with varying degrees of success–to run their laptops through x-ray machines while still inside carry-on bags. So how did the agency remind travelers about the new policy today?

James Brown once sang that Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag. Well, it may be a different kind of […]