If you’re not going to be able to take advantage of FREE Museum Day, September 30th, you still have some options if you live in the Baltimore area. During October and November, you can enjoy the Free Fall Baltimore Program. Area museums will be offering free and/or reduced admission. Other highlights of the program include [...]
Grapevine, Texas: 20th Annual Grapefest
September 7, 2006 By Leave a Comment
My pal, Astroprof, sent me some information about the 20th anniversary of Grapefest, being held in Grapevine, Texas. This wine festival, “A Sparkling Celebration” is billed as the largest in the southwest, and starts today and runs through the weekend. There are a wide variety of events, one of which is sure to pique your [...]
15 Tourist Traps — or Not!
September 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
A recent MSN article listed 15 tourist traps that the writer recommended avoiding, claiming they weren’t worth the time and/or money. I disagree with most of them, believing that they are things you need to do at least once in your life. Read my reasoning here, compare with MSN writer Jon Douglas here, and then [...]
The Last Days of Summer: Still Time to Get Out for Labor Day Weekend
September 3, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Labor Day Weekend: Seattle's 36th Annual Bumbershoot
August 30, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Bumbershoot: a noun, another name for an umbrella. Labor Day: a noun, the last 3-day weekend of the summer, and the time for Seattle’s Bumbershoot, the country’s largest music and arts festival. Billed as the “mother of all arts festivals,” Bumbershoot was one of the good things to come out of Seattle in the 70′s, [...]
California: Summer in Oakland
August 1, 2006 By Leave a Comment
FREE Broadway Concert: Stars in the Alley
June 5, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Here’s another FREE event for those of you living or traveling in Manhattan: A FREE concert, Stars in the Alley, June 7th, at 11 am in Shubert Alley. Enter on 45th Street, west of 7th Avenue. This annual event features stars from currently running Broadway shows, and is an end-of-season celebration and thank you to theater [...]
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