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Traffic warnings issued for weekend beach bash in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is presenting its annual Memorial Day weekend beach bash, but getting to and leaving from the sand may be a hassle. City officials are urging anyone attending the Great American Beach Party at the beach to avoid the Las Olas Boulevard...
Tags: Traffic, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Sunrise (Broward, Florida)
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Beach Bear Weekend kicks off Wednesday
Thousands of '"bears" will head to Fort Lauderdale this week for Beach Bear Weekend, which kicks off Wednesday for a second year in the city. That's the affectionate name given to the group of typically large and hairy gay men that will be in town...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Trips and Vacations, Dining and Drinking, Travel, Fort Lauderdale
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To surf with love: Surfers for Autism Beach Festival
No one can explain exactly why what happens happens, that a child locked away in the grip of autism and a family hardened by years of accommodating the disorder are suddenly, for a few hours, free. The moment when the child, aided by a Surfers for...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Behavioral Conditions, Entertainment Events, Festive Events, Entertainment
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Mérida — an appealing destination in Mexico's south
MÉRIDA, Mexico — Until this winter, Mérida had just been a busy city I passed through on my way to the ancient Mayan ruins. Then, in mid-December, I made it my destination. I pretty much had to: I'd been hearing the city's name all fall, from...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Architecture, The Home Depot, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Entertainment
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From Key West to the beaches, Florida beckons spring breakers
Like the college experience itself, spring break has evolved. It started with the innocent notions of Connie Francis in the 1960 film "Where the Boys Are," accelerated into the hedonistic MTV-fueled excesses of the early 1990s and down-shifted into...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, MTV (tv network), Panama, Travel, Jimmy Buffett
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Ocean City looks ahead to summer -- and tourists up for grabs
In past summers, Rodney, the fictional Ocean City lifeguard in the resort town's advertising campaign, has ventured to rescue New Yorkers and New Jerseyites from summer boredom. After Hurricane Sandy, Rodney may have less convincing to do. While Sandy...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Advertising, Atlantic Ocean, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Elections
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Shoppers offered free parking
Huntington Beach is offering holiday shoppers two hours of free parking at the Main Promenade Parking Structure until Jan. 1. The City Council passed the matter unanimously, 7-0, as part of the consent calendar at the Nov. 19 meeting. The city projects...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Beyond sand and surf, it's the local touches that define Florida beaches
There's more to a beach vacation than sand and surf.
Distilled to those basic elements, every Florida beach getaway might seem the same. Yet there are also infinite variables that imprint distinct personalities to stretches of the state's 1,250 miles...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Atlantic Ocean, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Arts
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'All We Are:' Inside the fervent mind of Matt Nathanson
It was a very surprising answer to a common question, at least for singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson. When asked Thursday during a phone interview how life has been treating him, he responded: "Everything is really good. I have no complaints at all...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Festive Events, Tracy Chapman, Entertainment, Talk Shows (genre)
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Taking opera places it has never been
"People in Chicago no longer will have to deal with an opera company director with an English accent," jokes Andreas Mitisek. "Now all they will have to adjust to is dealing with one with an Austrian accent!" In fact, the change of regime at Chicago...Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Trips and Vacations, Millennium Park, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Life lessons learned in the water
It only took all summer. After spending nearly every weekend at the beach this season, Thom, 3, finally decided on Labor Day that he liked going in the water. Granted, he spent most of his beach time loading up sand and water in buckets to just dump out...Tags: Swimming, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sports, Labor Day
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Kaity Tong Nearly Gets Blown Away By Tropical Storm Isaac
PIX11.com | @wpixThis is PIX11's Kaity Tong trying to file a report on her lovely vacation in Miami Beach this past weekend. She is on the terrace of where she was staying. You can't hear her but what she's saying is she went because Mr. G assured her it would be...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Miami Beach, Tropical Storms
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