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Zabb City Thai Food
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 December 2009
Last week, I headed back to New York City for the third time since returning home from my trip around the world. After settling into my brother’s apartment in the East Village, I looked to Yelp for a good local Thai restaurant to meet my friend for dinner. Zabb City at 244 East 13th Street had [...]Buy travel insurance from Worldnomads.com (Lonely Planet's preferred carrier)
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Your Building In 1940
Blog: Scouting NY - 9 December 2009
Between 1939 and 1941, the city of New York took a 35-mm black-and-white picture of every single building in NY. Every single building. In all five boroughs. This massive undertaking was a way for the city to appraise real estate for tax purposes and resulted in over 700,000 photos. In the 80’s, the project was repeated, this [...]
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Fredericksburg, Texas – History in Architecture
Blog: Little Travel Notebook - Camping - 9 December 2009
Fredericksburg is a great place to shop and to eat and even to stay in a bed & breakfast if that’s your thing. But, I would be remiss if I did not mention that history of the place and the preservation of historic buildings that has gone on there. Fredericksburg was one of the first German [...]
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Tiger = Vegas Stimulus Package?
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 9 December 2009
It's a little disconcerting that the same night as my column about how Tiger's scandal could help Vegas, the mayor himself says so and Jon Ralston smacks him down on Twitter as buffoonish. Ahh, well. For the record, I am not saying that committing adultery while in Vegas is something I endorse.
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Murren and Ralston: It's Even Worse
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 December 2009
Jon Ralston undersold himself -- or teased us to watch, if you believe him to be that diabolical -- regarding his exchange with MGM Mirage CEO Jim Murren about Murren's remark to me that he's never been in Encore or Palazzo and doesn't even know when Encore had opened.Here's the whole exchange, which begins when Ralston asks him about the remark and quotes from my L.A. Weekly story:
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Can You Enjoy Walt Disney World When You Hate Theme Parks?
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 8 December 2009
Ummmm - the answer is yes. It’s been over a year since our visit there, but I was inspired to write this because a friend and fellow Disney-skeptic is anticipating her first visit to Walt Disney World with her two young children. I usually can’t stand places that are geared specifically toward “family fun”. I get [...]
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Life is Cheap But Living is Expensive: Hickey, the Dot-Com Death March and Why There’s No Good Bands in San Francisco Anymore
Blog: Lonely Girl Travels - 8 December 2009
I love iTunes shuffle. On those long, bumpy bus rides through pebbly Moroccan deserts, when you’ve decided you’re sick of all 8,000 songs on your iPod, you set that baby to shuffle and bam—some blast from the past you’d totally forgotten comes blaring outta little white earpieces. And during my last trip, that blast was Hickey. If [...]
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76-Second Travel Show: "Goes to Sesame Street"
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 8 December 2009
Episode #012F E A T U R I N G * 3 7 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S
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Choosing Between Disneyland Hotels
Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 8 December 2009
Now that I have children, I’m becoming a bit of a Disney freak. Last year my family bought annual passes and visited Disneyland at least once every other month. We live in San Diego, about an hour and a half hour away, so it’s a pretty easy day trip for us. However, it’s more fun and relaxing to sleep in Anaheim so we can spend the whole day at the park. I have stayed in all three Disneyland-owned hotels.
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Shopping in Fredericksburg, Texas – Many Choices
Blog: Little Travel Notebook - Camping - 8 December 2009
I was almost overwhelmed by the amount of cute shops in Fredericksburg. It’s definitely one of those shopping destinations, perfect for a girlfriend’s weekend or to get some unique Christmas gifts. Our visit, the weekend following Thanksgiving, every store was packed, and there were people everywhere. That’s not my thing, so it did reduce my [...]
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Murren Is OK With Locals Skipping Aria
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 8 December 2009
One of the quotes that fell out of my 4,100-word L.A.
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Following up on The Sun's Firings
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 7 December 2009
I'm not going to belabor the Greenspun Media Group firings much longer except to note that, for those who haven't looked, the count on the list I'm compiling is now 37.
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Playing On Florida’s Gulf Coast With Babies & Young Children: Madeira Beach
Blog: Have Baby Will Travel - 7 December 2009
As a kid, I went to Florida quite a few times with my parents, and then again once they split with both my mom and my dad. We always stayed in little beach motels or in rented condos on the Gulf Coast. I have such fond memories of the beach and the sun - those [...]
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Road Food: Fredericksburg, Texas
Blog: Little Travel Notebook - Camping - 7 December 2009
Fredericksburg is one of those towns where you make a special trip each year for shopping, visiting some of the beautiful old buildings and, eating the delicious German food available in town. The vast majority of weekend visitors to Fredericksburg stay in one of it’s 300+ bed & Breakfast establishments. We of course, were camping [...]
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Shameless Facebook Plug
Blog: Scouting NY - 7 December 2009
Hey everyone - I finally got around to putting up a Facebook page for Scouting NY – if you’re a fan, please befriend us by clicking here! (Or, log-in and search for “Scouting NY”). I swear, this is the only time I’ll ask! I’m hoping to post pictures and stories that don’t really fit on the [...]
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Wynn Out, Murren In This Afternoon
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 5 December 2009
Sorry folks, but I just got word from Steve Wynn that he would prefer I not air the audio of our conversation. As I probably mentioned, the interview was laced with sections that were off-the-record and, while I feel I've cut those out, he asked me not to air it and I will oblige.That said, there are two upsides:* He's fine with me writing all sorts of pieces based on the conversation, so there will be loads of good stuff I'll post in the next few days about Bette Midler, Garth and a few other topics.
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LEGOizing NY
Blog: Scouting NY - 5 December 2009
Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about my favorite building in midtown, this chopped-in-half brownstone at 19 W 46th Street. The other day, I got a note that a Lego fan had built a Lego version of the building based on my pictures! Great job! Most of the time, a building this quirky would be [...]
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Canyon de Chelly in Arizona
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 4 December 2009
See my collaboration with photographer Leigh Spigelman, fellow Tucsonan, as we guest post at Travel Wonders. When anybody asked me for my favorite spot in Arizona, I do not hesitate–Canyon de Chelly ( pronounced de-shay) on the Navajo reservation in Northeastern Arizona fascinates me. I see new things each time I go, and as Leigh [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library
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Special WYNN Saturday!
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 4 December 2009
Join us from 4-6 pm PT for a bit of a Pre-Aria Cyber Party at LVRocks.Com for your chance to hear my blockbuster Steve Wynn interview with other Vegas lovers including Chuck Monster of
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Busy Day Ahead...
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 December 2009
Gotta dash off to KNPR now to join Dave Berns on State of Nevada from 9:40a-10a PT for chatter about Steve Wynn, CityCenter, Las Vegas Sun layoffs and, so I hear, what the Tiger Woods drama could mean for Vegas clubs. (I know, I know. I go where the host wants me to. Friesster = Media Whore.)
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A New Beer Destination – California’s Central Coast
Blog: thebeergeek.com - 3 December 2009
We took the opportunity on Thanksgiving weekend to make another road trip to the southern portion of California’s Central Coast [see SLO Saturday and What is a Beer Geek?]. Quickly, our brethren to the south are building quite a beer community, something that makes us both happy and jealous. Early Saturday morning we were heading [...]
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28 Things That Are Funny
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 3 December 2009
1. Sandwiches2. Pants3. Spirals4. Large beaked animals5. Calgary6. Falling down7. Gerbil attacks8. Fig bars
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Wynn: CityCenter's No Mirage
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 3 December 2009
Here's this week's Las Vegas Weekly "The Strip Sense" column, in which Steve Wynn takes apart what he views as a myth that there's any comparison between pre-Mirage skeptics and pre-CityCenter skeptics.Is Steve Wynn Rooting For CityCenter?By STEVE FRIESSIt’s the conventional wisdom, so naturally Steve Wynn must do his best to explode it.
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Forbes: R-J Parent Is Debt-Free
Blog: VEGAS HAPPENS HERE - 2 December 2009
A commenter, SG, mentioned that the Review-Journal has no debt and clearly that's looking like a better model these days given the bloodbath yesterday at the Sun as well as other waves of layoffs within Greenspun Media Group. The R-J has done some belt-tightening -- pay freezes, slimming the newspaper's width and bulk -- but not any serious layoffs that I've heard.
