What to Do About TSA Delays Caused by Government Shutdown
Posted on 01/14/2019, 7:00 AM
The U.S. government's partial shutdown, now in its fourth smash week, has started to have a negative impact on airport security lines. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners aren't being paid during this month-long-and-counting lapse in federal productivity and rationality. On Friday, those workers missed their first paychecks since the shutdown began on December 22. As an almost...
Floating Hotel Debuts in Edinburgh, Near the Queen's Old Yacht
Posted on 01/11/2019, 5:00 AM
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has been a yachtless monarch since the 1997 decommissioning of Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia, which was eventually sent to the Port of Leith in Edinburgh to serve as a tourist attraction. Today, visitors to that Scottish city with the frequently mispronounced name can see the decks, surprisingly modest bedrooms, galley, and state dining room of a ship used by the royal ...
Museum of The Dog Learns New Tricks As It Returns to NYC
Posted on 01/10/2019, 8:00 AM
After being in Missouri for 32 years, the AKC Museum of the Dog is a getting a new leash on life. The American Kennel Club’s repository of canine-related art will now be dog housed at the club’s headquarters at 101 Park Ave. in Midtown Manhattan, two blocks south of Grand Central Station. This is actually a homecoming for the museum, which originally opened in New York City in 1982. It move...
Tiger Woods Designing Public Golf Courses in Missouri and Chicago
Posted on 01/07/2019, 6:30 PM
It has become common for golf greats to turn into course designers. Arnold Palmer, Greg Norman, and Jack Nicklaus all went in that direction—a career avenue that seems unique to their sport. After all, you don't see Michael Phelps drawing up plans for water slide parks. The latest star of the PGA Tour to try his hand at devising sand traps: Tiger Woods, golf's most well-known—some would say only—ho...
America's Most Stressful Airport Is Named, Surprising No One
Posted on 12/20/2018, 10:30 PM
New York City's much-despised LaGuardia Airport is the U.S. hub most likely to give you a stress migraine this holiday season, according to new research from travel insurance comparison site InsureMyTrip. The study ranked 75 U.S. airports by their flight cancellation data for this year, and LaGuardia was found to have the worst record, canceling 4.9% of total flights.Here are InsureMyTrip's top 10 ...
Watchmaker Shinola Is Opening a Hotel in Downtown Detroit
Posted on 12/18/2018, 4:30 PM
Detroit-based Shinola, maker of watches, fancy bicycles, and other luxury goods, is expanding into the hotel business. The 129-room Shinola Hotel is set to open in the company's hometown on January 2. Developed in collaboration with local real estate firm Bedrock, the property encompasses three new buildings as well as two historic ones—the former homes of the T.B. Rayl Co. department store and ano...
Now Car Renters Will Scan Your Face: Hertz Goes Biometric
Posted on 12/11/2018, 9:00 AM
Calculating your forehead-to-eye ratio to expedite a car rental? Sure! Anything to help trim a few minutes off the arduous process of approving paperwork. Hertz announced today its new partnership with CLEAR, the first in the car rental-industry to introduce biometric screening as part of the check-in process. Just how will it work? Similar to other systems seen recently in travel, such as moves...
Historic Delta Queen to Resume Cruising U.S. Rivers
Posted on 12/07/2018, 11:00 AM
The Delta Queen riverboat will once again cruise American waterways. A floating National Historic Landmark, the 1920s-era vessel has been docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 2008 due to a law banning overnight cruises on wooden ships. But a bipartisan measure exempting the Delta Queen from that prohibition was approved by Congress, clearing the way for multiday excursions aboard the historic st...
Meet UNESCO's New Cultural Heritage Inductees: Reggae, French Perfume, and More
Posted on 12/04/2018, 7:00 PM
Reggae music from Jamaica, the Irish sport of hurling, Polish Nativity scenes, Korean wrestling, and about three dozen more arts, crafts, folk dances, foods, and festivals are the latest global traditions added to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (Pity the arts and tourism officials currently trying to squeeze that mouthful into quick after-dinner speech...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa Is Leaning Less
Posted on 11/28/2018, 7:00 PM
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is standing a little straighter these days. Engineers say that the tilt of the Italian icon has reduced by about 4cm (1.6 in.), according to news reports.More significantly, the international group that monitors the tower has deemed it stable, safe, and unlikely to topple over. For these developments we can thank a restoration process begun in the 1990s, when safety concer...
