(photo by View of the World) Whether the Steelers or the Cardinals win the Super Bowl remains to be seen. But it's clear who the big losers are: Tampa hotels and businesses hoping to rake it in this weekend. USA Today reported today that the mood in Tampa is subdued and the streets are basically [...]

I was at the coat check at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, deep in thought about the Alexander Calder: exhibit I had just seen. I was thinking about how Calder truly exercised his imagination, creating wire sculptures of animals, faces and figures like no one had ever seen before. Not to mention his mobiles [...]

Today would not be a particularly good day to visit Santorini. It’s rainy, windy and in the low 50s there — typical January weather for Greece’s Cyclades islands. And because it’s the off-season, most of the tavernas and hotels are closed, and the whole island is very quiet until at least Easter. But today is [...]

When the Airfarewatchdog barks, I listen. Airfarewatchdog is a fantastic website created by veteran travel journalist George Hobica that tracks airfare deals and has an adorable canine logo. It's very user-friendly — all you have to do is type in your departure city and it will give you a list of cheaper-than-normal fares. You can [...]

I wasn't paying attention to the TV screen, so when I heard the Moldy Peaches' distinctive doo-doo-ing I just assumed Juno was on again (HBO has been showing it a lot lately). But no. It was a commercial for The Atlantis, the fancy mega-resort in the Bahamas. The words to "Anyone Else But You" have [...]

It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. While that may be the ultimate travel cliché, it sure makes for some great movies. Some of these films may inspire envy with their beautiful scenery, but most of them leave us feeling thankful that we’re safely on the other side of the screen and not in a [...]

(photo by Stefanie Says) Real New Yorkers don't go to TKTS, the Times Square booth that sells discounted same-day theater tickets. (Or if they do, they don't tell anyone and deny it vehemently if asked.) But that doesn't mean that we locals pay full-price — at least not if we can help it. TheaterMania.com offers [...]

(photo by Jill — Glossy Veneer) You’ve probably had a drippy slice or two from Domino’s or Papa John’s, but have you ever had a true Neapolitan pizzamaker  — who’s a member of the Vera Pizza Napoletana organization no less — pile your personal pie with pancetta, wood oven sausage, roasted mushrooms, pine nuts, crushed [...]

Here's a quick and easy way to visit Rio de Janeiro: watch Ivan's four-minute video. Ivan takes you to dine at an authentic restaurant behind the fish market, on a harrowing motorcycle-taxi ride through the neighborhood of Rocinha and all the way up the mountain to the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer.

Skiing might not have been invented in Switzerland, but sometimes it feels that way with the number of famous Swiss ski resorts. Katie Ginsburg just got back from Gstaad, where she spent a week at the luxurious and — recently renovated — Gstaad Palace, home of the 70s-themed GreenGo nightclub as well as a world-class [...]