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Tidbits for travelers: art & massages at Schiphol, more music in Austin

03/18/10
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone →

Souvenir Sunday: Amelia Earhart luggage

03/14/10
Earlier this week, while waiting for Captain Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger’s presentation at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, I spent some time in the Amelia Earhart exhibit.  And while I don’t think I’ll take up flying my own plane anytime soon, I keep thinking about getting some new luggage. Amelia Earhart endorsed a long →

Oregon Curiosities: The Bomber in Milwaukie, OR

03/13/10
I love hanging around airports, of course, but I also find bliss when let loose in small museums filled with odd and unusual artifacts or if there’s a wacky roadside distraction somewhere and I’ve got the keys to the car. So I’m fortunate to be able to produce radio features and write books about my →

Happy Souvenir Sunday from the WorldShop & Richmond Int’l Airport

02/21/10
Lufthansa pilots have scheduled a four day strike beginning on Monday, February 22, 2010.  Negotiations are currently underway, but if those talks fail to avert the strike, the carrier will be forced to cancel most of its flights. And that will leave passengers stuck at the airport. The upside? If you do end up spending →

Video game history on exhibit at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

11/20/09
A new exhibit at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)  is all about the history of the video game industry and includes some original video-game-related art and artifacts related to the Austin-based development of such video game classics as Wing Commander, The Black Gate and Thief: Deadly Shadows. (Pen and ink concept art drawing by Denis Loubet →

Showcase G20: Warhol and others in new art exhibition at Pittsburgh International Airport

10/06/09
Showcase G20 is a new exhibition at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) put together to show off the region’s art and culture to the many world leaders, interested attendees, news cameras, and protesters that converged on the city in September for the G-20 Summit, a meeting of leaders from countries around the world that together represent →

Labor Day treat: The Museums on Us Program

09/04/09
Traveling somewhere this holiday weekend? Wherever you go, keep in mind that on the first full weekend of each month, admission to more than 100 museums around the country is free for Bank of America customers, courtesy of the Museums on Us program.  If you’ve got an ATM, credit or check card from Bank of →

Montreal celebrates 40th anniversary of John and Yoko’s bed-in for peace

06/02/09
Officially, I went to Montréal to report on what airport representatives are talking about at their annual marketing and communications conference.  And I will. But today, I’m hanging out at the hotel called Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, which hosted John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s bed-in for peace forty years ago. “JoYoko,” as the concierge up →
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