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Attention extreme sports enthusiats: Kite surfing is not one of the things the National Hurricane Center considers “Preparations to protect life and property.”
A guy in Fort Lauderdale had to find that out the hard way after he was snatched up by a wind gust, slammed to the ground, dragged over a busy highway and thrown […]

We all have our vices to get us through the day. Maybe it’s coffee, exercise or Diet Coke. Maybe its a little more taboo than those; chocolate, liquor or Bejeweled.

 
My one and only weakness (that I will admit to publically) is that I need to check my iTunes every few hours and see that adorable […]

Southwest CEO Gary Kelly just posted a request on the airline’s official blog: He needs our help coming up with a costume for this Halloween. In the past, he’s gone all the way with portrayals of Gene Simmons, Jack Sparrow and Edna Turnblad (from “Hairspray”), so not just any idea will work.
We think we have […]

Seems we’re not the only ones trying to cram in a beach break before summer travel season runs out. Celebs of all stripes are jetting all over in an attempt to catch some rays before, uh, heading back to sunny LA.

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Who doesn’t want to siphon off a bit of that Michael Phelps glory these days? Baltimore, the record-smashing swimmer’s hometown, is hoping to milk his eight-medal Olympics for as much tourism as the city can stand. The Baltimore Area CVA has even set up a specific URL for Phelps phanatics: Baltimore.org/phelps.
So far, the page is […]

Now that a combination of big-budget blockbusters and sunstroke has sapped our attention spans, we feel violently resistant to sitting still in the dark for the last few weeks of summer. But television premiere season is just around the corner! We found our perfect bridge in the São Paulo Short Film Festival, opening Thursday and […]

Will there be any Real World Brooklyn worth watching when the show finally airs? Not if these cast and crew sightings keep up!
The latest snap of the cast shows them doing some sort of yoga or ab workout on the patio of their killer pad on Pier 41, just down the road from where they […]

Cute animal alert! The city of Bern plans to open the BearPark by fall of 2009, and it will be stocked with critters of the vivacious–not stuffed–variety.
The attraction will be an expansion of the existing Bear Pit, where Pedro and Tana, two brown bears, currently live. The new park will offer more terrain for the […]

Late summer means one thing to red-blooded American food fans: We’re in prime state fair season! No other type of festival truly puts American food inventiveness on full display–and by inventiveness, we mean coming up with new ways to put stuff on a stick and deep fry it.
Without state fairs, we would never have tasted […]

Guidebook guru and pot promoterRick Steves just left the Netherlands, and he’s got a substantial update on the marijuana scene in Amsterdam. First things first: Don’t bother calling an ambulance after smoking too much because the EMTs will just tell you to walk it off!
But the big news is what’s changed thanks to a new […]