Producers Add Thursday Matinees On Broadway
NEW YORK (AP) — Catching a Wednesday matinee on Broadway is so last year. The hot thing now is Thursday afternoon shows. Three shows making the move are “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella,” ”Mamma...
View ArticleCNN Bringing Back Anthony Bourdain’s Hot Series
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Bourdain has traveled to all sorts of exotic places over the past couple of years, with none as important as where he’s taken CNN itself. Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” series, a...
View ArticleStaycation Or Bleisure? Travel Loves Made-up Words
NEW YORK (AP) — Hotels advertise “bleisure” packages. The Thai Tourism Authority is promoting “honeyteering.” And a Mississippi TV anchor told advocates of gay equality to “go on gaycation.” Whatever...
View ArticleRevisiting NYC’s 1964 World’s Fair, 50 Years Later
NEW YORK (AP) — You can just barely see them through the window of the No. 7 subway as it rattles into the elevated station in Corona, Queens: a gigantic steel sphere, two rocket ships, and towers that...
View ArticleConey Island Amusement Rides Open For The Summer
NEW YORK (AP) — The Coney Island amusement park opened Sunday for another season — with a 1920s wooden roller-coaster and a new, steel one ready to roll at breakneck speeds. In Luna Park, Italian...
View ArticleBelgian Head Of Congo’s Virunga Park Shot
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Belgian director of Africa’s oldest national park, a reserve in conflict-ridden eastern Congo, has been shot and seriously wounded but his condition is improving, park...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright Tower Opens For Public Tours
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Frank Lloyd Wright fans will get their first look at one of his most unusual buildings, an industrial tower with a tree-like design, when a home products company opens its former...
View Article5 Free Things In Glasgow, From Gardens To Museums
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — The image of Scotland’s largest city as a hard and dirty industrial center is long gone. Instead, this former European Capital of Culture is now widely regarded as one of...
View Article5 Free Things For Visitors In Birmingham, Alabama
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s largest city is making a comeback after decades of dormancy, and there’s plenty of free stuff for visitors to see and do in the new Birmingham. Re-energized by a wave...
View ArticleAirlines Expect More Travelers To Fly This Summer
NEW YORK (AP) — More travelers will take to the skies this summer, the U.S. airlines’ trade and lobby group predicted Thursday. About 210 million passengers — or 2.28 million a day— are expected to fly...
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