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Las Vegas hotels favored by cheaters named in infidelity website survey
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And we always thought Sin City was the place to elope. According to a new AshleyMadison.com survey, that thinking is practically provincial. The website, which helps marrieds find people to cheat with, reports that 53 percent of members surveys have gone to Las Vegas for an adulterous tryst. Granted, the 7,680 folks surveyed is but a fraction of the nearly 16 million AshleyMadison members, but they...
Read more »Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando
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Universal Orlando doesn't just have a haunted house: It has haunted houses, plural. Seven of them of them. For Halloween, on select nights through Oct. 31, the theme park also offers a "street experience" with roaming monsters (vampires! menacing beasts! chainsaw-wielding prisoners!) and two shows.
Universal's movie and TV connections of course make us expect haunted houses occupied...
Read more »American Airlines: Should you avoid booking flights on AA?
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American Airlines and American Eagle are canceling a total of 300 flights this week, The Associated Press has reported, and The Wall Street Journal has recommended fliers avoid the airline entirely this fall.
“American has become too unreliable,“ WSJ travel writer Scott McCartney wrote in a Sept. 18 story.
AMR Corp., which owns AA and AE, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late November...
Read more »MoMA to exhibit Munch's 'The Scream'
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You had the poster on your dorm-room wall, and soon you can see the real thing in person.
One of the world's best-known artworks, Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1895), will be on display at New York's MoMA, the museum announced Tuesday.
The pastel-on-board work -- one of four versions Munch created of "The Scream" -- will be on loan from a private collector Oct. 24...
Read more »Off-Broadway Week: Get 2-for-1 tickets to shows
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It's Off-Broadway Week, and that means two-for-one tickets to shows. And proving how "off" it is, the sale lasts Sept. 17 to 30.
Get the deals on more than 25 shows, including "Avenue Q," "Bullet for Adolf," "Forbidden Broadway" and "The Awesome 80s Prom."
For the full list of plays and to book tickets, head to nycgo.com/offbroadwayweek.
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Read more »Lady Gaga's meat dress in 'Women Who Rock' museum exhibit
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A new exhibit centered on women's political contributions to music history includes Lady Gaga's meat dress, among 250-some other iconic artifacts.
"Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power," from Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, is now on display at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Curator Meredith Rutledge-Borger told The Associated...
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