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A historic center of learning, scholarship and artistic achievement in Paris, The Latin Quarter's mystique is well-merited. Unfortunately, the area is also a bit of a victim of its own popularity: it can be hard to see through some of the tourist-trap artifice to get at the fascinating heart of this beloved neighborhood.
Here are insider tips on the travel destinations where your dollar goes furthest in 2018 as well as the world’s most popular travel experiences, according to TripAdvisor..
Fresh off a record-breaking year of visitation, the Mexico Tourism Board is rolling out a new marketing initiative, “Viajemos Todos por México,” (Let’s All Travel Across Mexico), with the aim of attracting many of the 35 million U.S. citizens who identify as being of Mexican descent.
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"Lexophile" describes those who have a love for words, such as "you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish", or "To write with a broken pencil is pointless." An annual competition is held by the New York Times to see who can create the best original lexophile.
A spectacular trumpet section anchored by John Fick is flying high, the tightly knit harmony electrifying a room packed with music aficionados and the timeless and earthy ambience of a hard-swingin’ 18-piece big band. Cherished sidemen, who should each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, sit elbow to elbow, each with a tale to tell. Johnny Vana’s …
I was at my local watering hole having a round at the bar. An unusual fellow came up and sat beside me. After a little while, he engaged me in conversation. Right off the bat, I noticed that he didn’t quite look like anyone I had ever seen in all my years here on earth. It turns out that he …
If you’re the Yes Men, you meet NRA lunacy head on with the ludicrous. If you don’t know the Yes Men, Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos, from their prior projects beginning in 1996, don’t take no for an answer. They’ve just released a twenty minute film on YouTube that underscores how the NRA’s steam is generated by fear rooted in racism.
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman...