Key West Festival to Tempt Appetites for Food, Wine, History and Fun Creative cuisine, premium wines and unique events in a subtropical island setting await attendees Wednesday through Sunday, Jan. 23-27, at the 2019 Key West Food & Wine Festival. The 10th annual festival celebrates Key West’s rich culinary culture and historic sites. Scheduled events showcase local chefs’ […]
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Mob Museum Debuts Tech at the Museum
The Mob Museum, The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement located in downtown Las Vegas, this year launched “Organized Crime Today,” a technology-driven exhibition dedicated to present-day topics. Featuring artifacts as well as fully interactive, 17-foot-long touch screen wall, the exhibition enables Museum guests to take a deep dive into the Global Networks […]
Trailblazing Women in Travel History
It’s not just men who love adventure and trailblazing into the unknown. Yet for some reason it’s men who’ve gained the notoriety of being explorers and adventurers, with the history books filled with pages of their exploits. But women aren’t the wallflowers they’ve been represented as through the years. Women, in both past and the […]
Flash Mob Disrupts UN 20,000 Rally For World Law to Save Humanity
A Broadway actor leapt over a barricade to the front of the United Nations Assembly and interrupted the proceedings with a demand for peace and world law to protect human rights for all. “And if you won’t do it, step aside and a Peoples World Assembly will arise from our own ranks to do it,” […]
Got Global Gifts?
THE GLOBAL GIFT THAT GIVES BACK – EMPOWERING AFRICA’S FEMALE ARTISANS Did you know the artisan sector is the second largest employer in the developing world? It’s true, and the majority of artisans are women who create handcrafted goods using traditional techniques passed down through generations. Marketplace Africa, the ecommerce site created by Mall for Africa and powered […]
Kyrsten Sinema Wins Arizona’s U.S. Senate Seat
By Reid Urban Arizona is finally getting its first female U.S. senator. Democrat Krysten Sinema rode a wave of Maricopa County voters, as well as voters from her opponent Martha McSally’s congressional district in Tucson, to give her the edge and the eventual win for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by […]
DUBLIN’S MERRION HOTEL
DUBLIN’S MERRION HOTEL CELEBRATES ITS 21ST AND 252ND BIRTHDAYS Two hundred and fifty years ago Dublin was a city of fashion and wealth, political unrest and poverty. And it was 21 years ago that four adjoining mansions that were built 252 years ago in 1766 – a decade before the independence of the United States […]
THE BEATLES × APPLE MUSIC
THE BEATLES RELEASE NEW “GLASS ONION” MUSIC VIDEO EXCLUSIVELY ON APPLE MUSIC Premiere Includes Rare Beatles Performance Footage and Photos Ahead of the Upcoming Release of The BEATLES (‘White Album’) Enjoy a Sneak Peek HERE As the world readies itself for the comprehensive new edition of The Beatles’ 1968 studio album, The BEATLES (‘White Album’), the group today launches […]
TITANIC II × 2022
If you thought the long-delayed project to launch a full-size replica of the ill-fated RMS Titanic was sunk in the water — think again. Just like Celine Dion sang back in 1997, the travel project will “go on and on.” Australian businessman and politician Clive Palmer, who is behind the controversial initiative, announced in September that work on the ship had […]
FABERGÉ × ROLLS-ROYCE
ROLLS-ROYCE DEBUTS ‘SPIRIT OF ECSTASY’ FABERGÉ EGG From Kings and Queens to entrepreneurs, many of the most prominent and wealthy collectors of the 20th and 21st century have been beguiled by the lure of a Fabergé Egg. With just 50 pre-1917 Imperial Eggs completed, these exceptionally precious creations are some of the most valuable and coveted objects […]