green living, smart spending
Depending on your opinion of 7-Eleven, it’s either good news or bad news for summer travel that the chain is opening its first location inside a US airport terminal. Slurpees, bacon-wrapped hot dogs, pizza and more are on the terminal menu at LAX, otherwise known as Los Angeles International Airport starting June 24th. If it
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Ford is sponsoring a sweepstakes win a 2015 Ford Edge SUV, with its award-winning fuel-saving EcoBoost engine. No purchase is required. The giveaway is open to legal residents of the 48 contiguous US states and the District of Columbia (sorry Hawaii and Alaska), at least 18 years old. Enter by June 20 to be eligible.
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St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated around the world with parades, green beer and fireworks. Here are some of the biggest and best celebrations around the world, in alphabetical order: Honolulu – From a parade through Waikiki to what Guinness calls “the single biggest St. Patrick’s Day party” at Murphy’s Bar and Grill, you’ll be among
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Whichever film wins the 2015 Oscar tonight, you can add it to your own personal bucket list destination to visit. Here are four Oscar-nominated films and their real life – or reel life – locations. Wild The 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), which stretches from Mexico to Canada, through California, Oregon, and Washington, is
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American Airlines is launching special amenity kits featuring the names and logos of airlines no longer in business, including TWA, Piedmont and Reno Air. I can’t decide whether this is a “gotcha” aimed at nine airlines that American either absorbed or otherwise helped put out of business, or a way to honor what American describes
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Auto shows are where car makers strut their stuff, showing us what’s new in showrooms soon, and what we can expect in years to come. At the Los Angeles Auto Show just before Thanksgiving, new cars and trucks unveiled included the all-new Acura TLX performance sport sedan, a hydrogen fuel cell version of the Audi
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Kansas City and San Francisco have much more in common than the World Series 2014 match between the Royals and the Giants, including food, technology, music and other sports besides baseball. Here’s some of what they have in common besides loyal fans: BASEBALL HISTORY: The Kansas City Royals are the successor team to the old
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More than 150,000 people already have formally petitioned Starbucks to stop serving milk from genetically modified cows, and that’s just a drop in the milk bucket thanks to an international “social media day of action” planned for this weekend. Tens of thousands of additional consumers are expected to join the one-day protest on Sunday, October
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Most of the restaurants on the OpenTable list of top 100 restaurants for foodies have opened in the last two or three years, with talented young chefs redefining American cuisine in a creative, even playful way. The annual Diners Choice Award winners reflect the combined opinions of more than 5 million restaurant reviews submitted by
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Are you frugal, or are you cheap? There’s a difference. Change one letter of the word ‘cheap’ and it becomes ‘cheat’, but frugal doesn’t cheat anybody. Cheap is a negative and undignified way to save money, while frugal is fashionable, even necessary. Cheap doesn’t brag about it. Frugal does. Examples of frugal vs. cheap: Frugal
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