What if the ghost isn't inside the house, but is the house? NPR rounds up three pieces of fiction where houses want their inhabitants to get out, and quickly, like Manderley, the domain of secrets in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca where a skittish second wife tries to root out how her predecessor died.

British writer Du Maurier based her depiction of the mansion on two real-life, but sadly private houses, Milton Hall in Cambridgeshire and Menabilly in Cornwall, having visited one as a child and rented the latter as an adult. While you can't tour either one, you can catch a glimpse of Milton Hall from the nearby Peterborough Milton Golf Club (includes free lessons for beginners!) or stay on the grounds of Menabilly in one of two gamekeepers' cottages offered for rent. And really, do you want to get closer? Probably not. ]]> egw 2009-10-28T16:59:18-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/15/143752/37

The outlook for the 2010 airline industry is unremittingly bleak, but you wouldn't know it from the way that Southwest is acting. The low cost carrier is adding 104 flights to its spring schedule. In the process they're turning the Boston turf war they started with JetBlue and AirTran into a full-blown bloodbath:]]> Omri 2009-10-15T17:33:37-05:00 42.3644450 -71.005280 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/5/102843/571

If you were in Boston over the weekend, you may have thought someone got hijacked on the Charlestown Bridge, but it was actually just Ben Affleck causing all of the commotion. Ben is back in his hometown directing and starring in The Town, about a bank robber being chased by the FBI. The movie, which also features a Gossip Girl (Blake Lively) and a Mad Man (Jon Hamm), has been filming at at various locations, including Fenway Park and Copley Square, around the city for the past month or so.

The latest scene filmed on the Charlestown Bridge involved police vehicles chasing burglars (in creepy habits and masks) and was all filmed from a helicopter above. The scene is sure to look cool in the movie, but it had traffic backed up all weekend as they closed the bridge completely so Ben could get his shot. ]]> cmb 2009-10-05T10:38:09-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/2/81456/6844

Bust out your favorite organic cotton T-shirt as it’s time for the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival. Things kick off on October 31 and run through November 1 at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center in Beantown. We know that it’s hard to resist bacon for an entire day, but festival organizers have such a full lineup that you won’t even remember what a pig tastes like.

There will be plenty of exhibitors hawking their vegetarian wares and offering a ton of free samples, so you may want to skip breakfast for this one. Once you’ve discovered your new favorite ingredient, take in a presentation by professional chefs so you can learn how to prepare some new dishes. Maybe they’ll even teach you that you really do enjoy broccoli—you were just making it wrong for all those years. This is the longest running festival of its kind in the country, so you won’t be disappointed. They just want to share a love for delicious plants with you and your friends. ]]> kjb 2009-10-02T11:18:52-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/9/28/95022/6274

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz were up all night Friday, but not for a hot Hollywood party, instead they spent the night in a Bridgewater, MA field. The pair were shooting scenes for Wichita, aka "The Untitled Wichita Project", their new movie which has been filming around Boston for a few weeks. In one scene shot Friday night, just off of Curve Street, a 747 "crashed and exploded" in a a large field. Though it looked and sounded like a real crash, no planes (or humans) were actually injured in the shoot. The plane arrived to the field on Friday already in pieces and the explosion was nothing more than a little Hollywood magic.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie focuses on "a lonely woman (Diaz) whose seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a superspy (Cruise) takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source." So how does this plane crash fit into the this "worldwide journey"? ]]> cmb 2009-09-28T11:30:53-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/9/23/103652/035

Boston is looking more like Hollywood every day. For starters, Ben Affleck is directing Jon Hamm in a movie called The Town at Fenway Park today while Kevin James is wrapping up his latest, The Zookeeper at The Franklin Park Zoo. But the biggest celebrity news in Beantown has to be that there have been sightings of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz filming the comedy/action flick Wichita in and around Boston for the past week.

Yesterday, Tom and Cameron shot scenes for Wichita at Gaslight in the up-and-coming SoWa district of Boston's South End. Gaslight is a classic neighborhood Parisian brasserie. Their specialties include Duck Confit, Steak Frites, Roasted Salmon Fillet and Rotisserie Chicken, all ranging between $15-$20. For dessert try the Chocolate Beignets, which are small pastries filled with chocolate and dusted with powered sugar, yum! Reservations are suggested and can be made online.

More Cruise/Diaz sightings, after the jump. ]]> cmb 2009-09-23T12:19:21-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/9/18/133042/615

Become an informed consumer while still on vacation! Check out Jaunted's newest series of the best factory tours the world over.

Why settle for sitting at home on your couch eating chips when you could be out seeing where they come from? We'll spoil the ending of the Cape Cod Chips' factory tour and say that yes, it does end in a free bag of golden salty deliciousness—but consider making this a detour on your obligatory fall foliage tour.

The Cape Cod company was founded in the '80s with an eye to creating a healthier potato chip (Ed. note: hah!) by cooking in a shallow vat of oil instead of a giant tub like the big guys used. You can still see this process, producing what we call kettle chips, at the company's Hyannis factory, where it all began with a storefront for tourists and a guy who had taken a potato-chip-making class. ]]> egw 2009-09-18T16:43:55-05:00 41.6806102 -70.295602 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/