Pexels Since June of 2010, Brian Kelly has been offering expert-level advice to travelers and readers of his travel blog The Points Guy. In that time, he’s grown so successful at strategizing how to maximize your travel benefits that his efforts were recognized by Forbes, who named him the most important travel influencer in the […]
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Getty Image Food and marijuana go hand in hand. One of the best ways to enhance the experience of an already amazing dish — like honey-glazed grilled salmon with a seaweed elote succotash, for example — is to eat it post-smoke-sesh. Not only will it make you more sensitive and appreciative of the complexity of […]
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Getty/Uproxx Gathering up your best friends and working your way through a series of bars is one of the best ways imaginable to spend a summer evening out. You get great company, you have the chance to sample drinks from a variety of creative minds, and there’s an air of spontaneity and seeing where the […]
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Earlier this month, the owner of a Los Angeles ice cream truck decided that he’d had it with influencer culture, and was exhausted with (and a little embarrassed for) anyone who’d asked for free soft serve in exchange for a two-second shoutout on their Instagram story. So instead of trading ice cream for that promised […]
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[embedded content] Share This Video Pro-travel tip: don’t engage with exotic animals without doing at least some research about the wildlife endemic to the part of the world you’re about to visit. Two travelers were lucky enough to cheat death after unknowingly playing with a blue-ringed octopus during a fishing trip to Queensland, Australia. A […]
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Getty Image The dog days of summer are here. Temperatures keep pushing up and up and humidity is settling in over a large swath of the country. It can be … stifling, to say the least, and leave you longing for milder climates to beat that summer heat. Finding a spot in the summer that […]
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UPROXX / Getty Images A new chapter has been added to the Boeing 737 Max saga, and it’s pretty bleak. When the new aircraft was grounded worldwide in March following two fatal crashes in a five-month span, Boeing promised to fix the software at the heart of the malfunctioning aircraft and have Maxes back in […]
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Unsplash If you’re an emerging author looking to find the right time to get started on that future best-seller, this writer’s contest from Boston’s Hotel Commonwealth might just give you that opportunity. The Hotel Commonwealth’s Writers in Residence Reading Suite Contest sees the Kenmore Square hotel joining forces with local novelist and bestselling author Ben […]
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Alyssa Thorpe/Getty Image Welcome to Beer This City! If you dig Eat This City and Drink This City but have always wanted more beer-ness, then this column is for you. We’re talking to brewers to get an in-depth look at the best places to pair amazing beer with exciting food in different cities around the […]
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Photo: iStock Once upon a time, not long ago, when people wore pajamas and lived life slow, my wife and I were invited to a wedding in Dallas; ya know, deep in the heart of Texas. Because I believe that there’s nothing you should do today that you can put off until tomorrow—I don’t actually […]
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Getty Image If you’ve been on a flight, you’ve heard a flight attendant say that you should “please” keep your seatbelt fastened when you’re in your seat. Yet, as soon as that seatbelt light clings off, those belts come off as people hit the toilets, fetch gear from their bags, and stretch their legs a […]
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A 24 / Uproxx Spoilers for Midsommar. Whenever a new generation comes of age in the west, we get a movie that both inspires them to travel and says something significant about how they do so. By their very nature, these films can’t be period pieces; rather they’re “of the current moment” and created in […]
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Graphic: Chelsea Stone I travel a ton. When I’m on the road, at conferences, in the air, or wandering around a new city, I don’t just want to have pockets, I need them. I’m not talking about the useless front pockets on a pair of skinny jeans, I’m talking the kind of pockets you can […]
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Unsplash We’re now in the full swing of summer festival season. It’s safe to assume that every single person you’ve ever met is partying right now — dancing on the lawn to your favorite band, drinking designer cocktails, or gorging themselves on fancy quesadillas while you toil away at an office. Seriously. Everyone you know. […]
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Getty Image With 4th of July’s sales behind us, you’re going to have to dig in to find the best travel deals and cheap flights. Sales are on but they tend to be short. Like, “blink and you’ll miss them” short. That doesn’t mean you can’t find great deals right now. In fact, hotels are […]
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Unsplash Watching whales from a cliff facing the sea in Scotland is a magical experience not soon forgotten. Ah yes, there is nothing quite like observing a large mammal frolic in the distance while you sit on a ledge and contemplate how we’re all connected in the circle of life or whatever. But if you […]
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A majority of services these days require you to submit a copy of passport photograph. The photograph is used as a mode of identity. Passport photos are required by many agencies including immigration, DIY, and AAA. That being said the U.S Department of state has enforced certain requirements for the passport. In this article, we […]
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Unsplash/iStock/Uproxx Alice Cooper sang “School’s out for the summer.” Well, for most of us, school’s out forever. But for some reason, we still feel like summer automatically frees us from our adult responsibilities. That’s part of why we plan camping excursions, day trips to wineries, road trips to natural waterparks, and book flights to destinations […]
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VIVID Sydney “So…” my sister, Anna, begins between alternating bites of polish sausage slathered in upmarket mustard and waffle-on-a-stick drowned in chocolate sauce, “explain to me how this fits with the tiny concert we went to last night?” She gestures towards a sea of food vendors, street performers, and interactive light displays. The scene is […]
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Corporate travel booking and management company TripActions today announced the close of a $250 million funding round that raises its valuation to $4 billion. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from Zeev Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Group 11. This series D follows a $154 million round in November 2018 that was also led […]
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