10 Graduation Gift Ideas for the Traveling Grad
Posted on Monday, May 31st, 2010
Looking for a gift for that high school or college graduate? If your graduate is planning a trip after graduation, finding a gift can actually be a blast.
Traveling grads needs some basic gear to make it around the world safely and with ease. Consider enclosing a small gift that will make their travels easier and [...]
Dresden revival
Posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Dresden is a city lined with meadows on the banks of the Elbe which has spent the last fifteen years intensively reconstructing its historic centre from dereliction.
continue readingOjai Music Festival: A look at Frank Zappa’s classical side
Posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010
When Frank Zappa was a teenager, he became obsessed with the daring music of Edgard Varèse. He listened to an album with the works of the European composer over and over, even though he didn’t understand the technical aspects. “I didn’t know what timbre was,” he wrote in a 1971 magazine piece titled “The Idol [...]
Florida’s Harn Museum of Art to display vintage posters meant to motivate workers
Posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010
No one wants to think about the workplace during a hard-earned vacation, but a new exhibit opening next month at the University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville could turn that around.
“America at Work: Art and Propaganda in the Early 20th Century” features 30 bold and colorful lithographs made by Chicago-based Mather [...]
A new first on Disney’s first Main Street: tamales
Posted on Saturday, May 29th, 2010
As you may have heard, Main Street USA has been struggling. But maybe things will be different, now that the first Mexican restaurant has arrived.
I’m talking about Marceline, Mo. (population about 2,500), smack in the sleepy, rural middle of America, about three miles south of U.S. Highway 36.
This is the town where Walt Disney lived from [...]
Snoopy light show debuts Saturday night at Knott’s Berry Farm
Posted on Saturday, May 29th, 2010
The calendar says Memorial Day weekend, but it sure feels like Christmas at Knott’s Berry Farm.
“Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular” nighttime light show starts Saturday and will run every night the Buena Park theme park is open after 8 p.m. throughout the summer and fall.
The “Peanuts”-themed lighted walkway takes over Knott’s Camp Snoopy area, with all the [...]
On the Spot: Passport trumps all
Posted on Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Question: My wife, a recently naturalized citizen, has a U.S. passport with her new Americanized first, middle and last names. Will the Transportation Security Administration require her to show a California driver’s license to travel domestically, to Mexico or internationally? Are two consistent forms of ID required?
—Douglas Wicks, Westchester
Answer: Wicks — and his better half [...]
Travel blog: Cycling through Bulgaria
Posted on Friday, May 28th, 2010
Sorry for the rather naff title for this post but I’m afraid I couldn’t resist! As you might have guessed, we have made it to Istanbul in Turkey, and so are officially at the end of leg one of the trip.
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