The ball drop in Times Square is so last decade—you know it's true when it's all about gimmicks like putting Jersey Shore guidette Snooki inside of the lit-up ball, hamster-style. The New Year's Eve tradition that's fistpump-free for 2011 is...
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Filed under: Arts and Culture , Learning , Festivals and Events , Europe , North America , United Kingdom , Mexico , Central America , Caribbean Once you pass a certain age (read: enter middle school), the novelty of dressing up and going trick or treating grows old. That is, of course, excluding...
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Atlantic City has casinos. Ocean City has the boardwalk, and Margate has Lucy the elephant. But when I have time to relax at the Jersey Shore, Long Beach Island is where I go. It strikes a wonderful balance of having everything and nothing at the same time. Known to locals...
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Now that Hurricane Danielle is out of the picture and out of the way of ruining vacations of people in Bermuda, we're tracking the progression of the next big Atlantic storm, one which could possibly do much, much more damage and throw the best-laid ...
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In the New York Times, Ben Zimmer unpacks the vocabulary of beach tourism from coast to coast. Turns out, nearly every American coastal region has its own term for the summer invaders: Old-time New Englanders have disdain for the summer people . On the ...
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What's this? Yet another new hotel in Miami? While we've been gearing up for the opening of the JW Marriott Maquis downtown, and Soho Beach House in South Beach, another boutique hotel has quietly opened its doors further north, just across the water from the Bal Harbour...
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Only minutes from MTV's "Jersey Shore" playground is the natural beauty of Island Beach State Park and Cattus Island where wildlife and breathtaking vistas await.
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