Archive for the 'Happy Hour Links' Category
Happy Hour Links: Want to Phish? Book a hotel quick; Smokey Bear isn’t quitting yet; nearly extinct frogs found
July 24, 2009 5:15pm
> Jam band Phish has announced that it will put on a three-day, Halloween-weekend event at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio. Festival 8 will start Oct. 30. If you’re itching to go, don’t delay with your accommodations booking: “The Coachella site has been speculated as the location for the Phish fest for weeks, and hotels have reportedly been going fast,” warned the Times’ Pop & Hiss blog.
> Smokey the Bear? No, it’s Smokey Bear, thank you. He’s 65 years old now, so let’s call him by his proper name. This furry icon remains at the center of “the longest-running public service campaign in U.S. history,” and a complicated history it is. Read “At 65, Smokey Bear is still fighting fires” for more.
> A species of almost extinct frogs has been found in the San Jacinto Wilderness in Southern California, according to the Associated Press. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday Happy Hour Links: Amtrak bus catches fire on I-5 in Castaic area; Carnival Elation cruise update; LAX water main rupture
July 17, 2009 5:32pm
> An Amtrak bus caught fire on the side of the freeway on northbound Interstate 5 in the Castaic area. It led to a brushfire near the freeway at Sloan Canyon Road.
>L.A. Now updates us on the Carnival Elation situation in which a woman was found dead in her cabin before the cruise came back from their five-day Mexican excursion. Robert McGill, a longtime teacher for the Los Angeles County Office of Education, was arraigned in San Diego on Friday on murder charges in the death of his wife, Shirley. He pleaded not guilty.
>A 12-inch water main broke Thursday afternoon at a parking structure at LAX, resulting in some limited drinking water services in Terminals 2 and 3. Since then water services in Terminal 2 have been restored in the bathrooms but are not drinkable yet.
>If you were the winner of a $25,000 dream trip customized by travel expert Wendy Perrin from Condé Nast Traveller, where would you go? Give it a shot—it’s not too late to enter.
– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger
Photo: Robert McGill, in white, is taken off the cruise ship by an FBI agent. Credit: Howard Lipin / San Diego Union-Tribune
Happy Hour Links: San Diego County Fair begins; baby-whale birthing at Vancouver Aquarium; George H.W. Bush jumps
June 12, 2009 5:40pm
> Deep-fried s’mores, demolition derbies and musical performers ranging from KC & the Sunshine Band to the B-52s? Get ready for the San Diego County Fair, which opened today at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. It’s got a full calendar of attractions on offer almost daily from now till Sunday, July 5.
> One of the coolest things I’ve seen this week was the video above, recorded June 7, of a 20-year-old beluga whale giving birth. A resident of the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada, mama whale Aurora labored for three hours, according to an aquarium news release.
> George H.W. Bush took the leap, again. To celebrate his 85th birthday in style, the former president jumped out of a plane. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Hour Links: Cruise ship with suspected swine flu cases finds dock; Anne Frank diaries on permanent display; FlyAway bus fare increase
June 11, 2009 4:41pm
> After being rejected from two Caribbean ports, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship carrying three passengers with flu-like symptoms was allowed to dock in St. Thomas, according to Cruise Critic. The quarantined bunch (two crew members and one passenger) aboard the Adventure of the Seas are reportedly being tested for swine flu.
> All of Anne Frank’s diaries will soon “come home,” announced the Anne Frank House Museum. Starting Nov. 1, diaries and other works of the Jewish teenager who chronicled her experiences in hiding during WWII will be on permanent public display in the Amsterdam museum.
> A new warning system at Los Angeles International Airport is “designed to stop runway incursions that for years have endangered planes taxiing to and from terminals at Los Angeles International Airport,” according to an L.A. Times report. Read the rest of this entry »
