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Ice-cream. At the airport, the hotel and beyond.

07/07/10

We’re having a heat wave. Well, a lot of the country is having a heat wave. The kind of tropical heat wave Ella Fitzgerald, Marilyn Monroe and Gale Storm sang about. And when there’s a heat wave there’s only one thing to do: eat ice-cream and lots of it. Back in the 1984, President Ronald →

Dusseldorf Airport’s far-out food festival

07/02/10

On the first Sunday of each month you’ll find a party or some sort of unusual event going on in the vast public lobby area of Dusseldorf International Airport (DUS). Last Christmas it was a circus, complete with aerialists and clowns. Last month, the airport was the site of the 2010 German’s best parkour championship. →

Tidbits for travelers: fresh art at airports in Tucson and Denver

06/30/10

Next time you’re stuck at the airport don’t just sit there and be irritated. Look around. It’s a fair bet you’ll find some great artwork just around the corner. A few fresh examples: (Terry Bustamante Idolatry) From now through mid-August you can see work by Terry Bustamante and Jennifer Hill in an exhibit titled Exploring →

At German airports, bees are the canaries

06/29/10

(Courtesy Field Museum, via Flickr Creative Commons) According to a story by Tanya Mohn in the New York Times, Düsseldorf International Airport and seven other airports in Germany are using bees as ‘biodetectives.’ Clues about the air quality around each airport show up in the honey. “The first batch of this year’s harvested honey from →

Airplane pilots pay attention to Bitching Betty

06/26/10

I don’t have a GPS unit in my car, but I do find myself talking back to the little digital chef that pops up on the screen of my microwave. So I got a kick out of this Family Matters column from the New York Times in which Bruce Feiler examines the relationships people develop →

Free classical concert at Orlando Airport; free terminal tour at San Jose Airport

06/21/10

As part of its Liberty Weekend festivities, the Orlando International Airport (MCO) will present a free concert by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert will take place at 8 pm, on Saturday June 26, 2010 in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which doubles as the public lobby area for gates 60 to 129. →

Souvenir Sunday: horseshoes and cigars from Lexington’s Blue Grass Airport

06/20/10

Each Sunday at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday – the day we look at some of the fun, inexpensive items for sale in airport gift shops. This week’s souvenirs come to us from the Blue Grass Airport (LEX) in Lexington, Kentucky. The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is on airport property and last weekend (June 13, 2010) →

Tidbits for travelers: LAX views, Orlando news, & KCI cruise

06/18/10

Here’s great news for anyone who finds themselves stuck at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on the weekend. The Observation Deck at the top of the Theme Building, which has been closed since 9/11, will finally re-open to the public this Saturday. (A view of the old version of the observation deck; courtesy LAX. New →

Aliens, UFOs & crop circles at the airport

06/16/10

My At the Airport column on USATODAY.com this month – UFOS at DEN? is all about aliens (from outer space), UFOs, crop circles seen at some airport and the secret messages in some of the artwork at Denver International Airport Scary stuff – but really fun. Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient →

Parkour Championship at Düsseldorf International Airport

06/07/10

If you’re going to get stuck at a German airport, try to make it Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) on the first Sunday of the month. That’s when DUS has is its “Airlebnis” (air-experience) events and if you were there yesterday, Sunday, June 6, 2010, you would have seen athletes and visitors literally bouncing off the →

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