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Miss Electricity: free theater performance at San Diego Int’l Airport

03/02/09

Travelers passing through San Diego International Airport on Tuesday, March 3, between 11 am and 2 pm, can enjoy a free theater performance. The La Jolla Playhouse’s Performance Outreach Program Tour will be performing Miss Electricity in the Terminal 2 West Baggage claim area (pre-security). It’s billed as “a delightful story of a young girl →

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Stuck at the airport? Play a game or watch baggage go round

01/25/09

Need ideas for what to do when you’re stuck at the airport? The folks at CreativeApplications.net are inspired and impressed by Jetset – a game about airports that you can play on your iPhone or iPod touch. According to the game’s creators, “Security is there to make you feel safe and get you to your →

Giant chess sets at Lubbock International Airport

10/26/08

The World Chess Championship is taking place in Bonn, Germany right now. Defending champion Viswanathan “Vishy” Anand (India) is playing former world champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) in a 12-game match for the title – and for 1.5 million Euros ($2.35 million U.S.) in prize funds. Of course, chess fans are pretty excited about this. And →

Smallest traveling circus at San Diego International Airport

08/05/08

Step right up! Today, between 11 am and 1 pm (West Coast time) kids of all ages will be treated to a free performance of Circus Minumus, San Diego’s smallest traveling circus, in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2 at San Diego International Airport. Scheduled to appear: Dori Smith’s Pig’s Eye Puppet Theater, featuring →

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Learn to dance at the Paris airports

08/01/08

I’ve always thought that a great service for air travelers would be gate-side mini-courses in everything from the ancient history to CPR or packing. Now comes word from Paris that the airports there are offering free dance classes. Since the end of June, the Ecole des Vacances holiday school has been offering free dance classes →

Tattoos – and more – at DFW AIRPORT

07/03/08

I’ve got a long list of services and amenities I’d like to see offered at airports. Speed-dating and remedial classes in packing are on the list. And so is tattooing. Which is why I was tickled to see that, along with a jazz trio and an Uncle Sam on stilts, the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport →

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Gamble with your OnePass miles

05/22/08

To mark the 21st birthday of its OnePass(R) frequent flyer program,Continental Airlines is holding a four-day Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament in Las Vegas. The event begins August 6, 2008 and will take place the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino. The entry fee is 50,000 OnePass miles and the grand prize is 21 million OnePass miles. →

The Russians are coming

03/20/08

Traveling to or through Houston’s George Bush International Airport (IAH) today (March 20th)? Don’t be alarmed if you see Russian Cossacks and Lion Dancers wandering about the terminals. From 9:30 in the morning until 11 pm at night the airport is celebrating Singapore Airlines’ new service to Moscow and Singapore with music and dance performances →

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