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Now that my hometown is back on top of the must visit destination list, here are the top free and cheap things to do in NYC this month. The NYC Culture Calendar for April includes $20 Off-Broadway theater tickets, FREE museum admission, special exhibits at top attractions including the Orchid Show at NYBG, Earth Day
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There are great meal deals at national fast food and fast casual chains every week, to help you stretch your strained budget. Top deals now are Ben and Jerry’s FREE cone day, 85 cent Blizzards at DQ, McDonald’s FREE fries on Fridays, BOGO sandwiches at Smashburger and meal deals at IHOP and Chili’s. We update
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If you don’t want to cook yourself, there are plenty of deals from national restaurant chains for Easter Sunday, April 9, to eat-in, take-out or delivery. Be sure to make reservations or orders ASAP, and tip well, since kitchen, wait staff and order taking staff are giving up their holiday with their family and friends
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It’s awards season, and that includes awards for the best 2023 electric vehicles, in sizes from compact to full-size, priced from budget to luxury. All these EVs offer at least 200 miles between charges and a full array of safety features. These are the top EV picks for Value, Family, Luxury and Commuter categories from
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Visit more than 200 museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and other cultural institutions for FREE on the first full weekend of every month, thanks to the Museums on Us program. It’s a perk for holders of a Bank of America or Merrill credit card or debit card. Just present your active card with a photo
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Frugal Over Fifty: There are benefits to getting older, especially discounts for shopping, dining and traveling. More than 100 retailers, supermarket chains, health and wellness chains, airlines, hotels, restaurants and movie theater chains nationwide which offer discounts to seniors. Few of these offers are widely promoted. Some don’t even appear on the company website. The
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Once again, Singapore Changi Airport has been voted the World’s Best Airport. This is the 12th time it has been awarded this prestigious accolade, a record number since the award was first given out in 1999. In addition to the World’s Best Airport award, Singapore Changi Airport also received awards for the World’s Best Airport Dining,
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Now that EVs and plug-in EVs have gone mainstream, we’ve got to learn to play nice and share parking spots with charging units, whether they are on public streets or in airports, shopping mall parking lots, or hotel garages. The EV version of spam is parking your gas-powered vehicle at an EV charger spot, or
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Some of the most beautiful gardens on the planet are the front yards or back yards of classic and historic US hotels. They include gardens featured in films such as Citizen Kane and some designed by Frederick Law Olmstead Jr., one of the designers of New York’s Central Park.
Fast-food brands are always looking for new and creative menu items and promotions to generate sales and social media buzz. Sometimes there are huge successes, like McDonald’s Happy Meals and Burger King’s Whopper, but others don’t work out as well, or at all. Here are the all-time fast food winners and losers, via the restaurant
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