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Dance at ORD & MDW, drop your pants at PHL

03/12/10
Ready for St. Patrick’s Day festivities? The Chicago airports are. Today, Friday, March 12, Irish dancers from the Trinity Academy will perform at both O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and at Midway International Airport (MDW). Performances will be 3 to 5 p.m. at O’Hare (in Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 5) and at Midway in Concourse […]

Tidbits for travelers: news from JAX, PHL, and ATL

02/17/10
On Valentine’s Day, volunteers at Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) handed out 1700 red and white carnations to arriving and departing passengers. (Photo courtesy Jacksonsville International Airport ) On Tuesday (February 16, 2010) Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Terminal E expansion, which includes seven gates for Southwest Airlines and several […]

New art exhibit at Philadelphia Int’l Airport uses nails and thread

10/19/09
The newest exhibition at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is Kim Kamens’ Photobooth. Instead of using paint, pen or pencils, Kamens uses carpenter nails and sewing thread to make her art. PHL Director of Exhibitions, Leah Douglas, says: Kamens’ carefully orchestrated methodology is analogous to drawing as the linear quality of the thread wound from point […]

Philadelphia Int’l Airport: Private Collections/Personal Obsessions exhibit

09/23/09
Do you collect anything? Baseball cards, stuffed monkeys, or small soaps from hotels? If you’ve got three or more of something – or 3000 of anything – then you’ll be especially interested in the fun new exhibit at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). (Enamel Pins – collected by Patti Dougherty) Private Collections: Personal Obsessions includes selections […]

Next time you’re stuck at the airport, don’t get bored: get vaccinated.

09/17/09
The vaccine for the H1N1 vaccine isn’t available quite yet, but there are plenty of regular, seasonal flu shots around. And this year there are also plenty of airports where you can get a flu shot on the fly.  I tracked down the details for my At the Airport column on USAToday.com: Airports ready for […]

Phone book art at Philadelphia Airport

07/16/09
Yet another batch of phone books showed up on my porch today.  I dutifully threw the old set into the recycle bin and stuffed the new set under the telephone table. Even though I haven’t opened a phone book for years. But maybe I should have sent those phone books to Alex Queral, the Philadelphia […]

Baseball exhibit at Philadelphia Airport

07/03/09
Philadelphia International Airport’s newest exhibit is all about baseball. “Philadelphia’s Baseball Legends: The Championship Teams,” includes b&w and color photographs that tell the stories of Philadelphia’s champion baseball teams and the individual players, including many who are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The exhibit is located post-security in Terminal A and officially opens […]

Cheap airport eats: $5 meals at LGA, PHL and a dozen other airports

05/19/09
“For a limited time only,” which could end up stretching throughout the summer, you’ll be able to get $5 meals at both Philadelphia International Airport and New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Between the two airports, there are 50 restaurants and food vendors participating in the WOW! $5 CHOW! promotion, which includes special offers for breakfast, lunch […]
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