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Three January Food Festivals for Forgetting Your New Year's Resolutions

January 11, 2012 at 10:54 AM | by | Comments (0)

January is kind of a slow and sleepy month, but even if it’s not quite harvest time that doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of foods to celebrate. There’s spicy stuff, sweet stuff, and everything in between...so here’s our picks for three fun food festivals that might be worth your time this month:

· Kumquat Festival – Dade City, Florida:
Of course the Sunshine State is known for oranges and grapefruits, but they’re also pretty darn awesome at growing kumquats. Dade City wants to share their love for the little orange fruits, and each year they invite like 40,000 friends to come check things out. This year’s festival is scheduled to run from 9am to 5pm on January 28—that’s a Saturday—and it’s free for all to enjoy.

Kumquat ice cream, kumquat pies, and kumquat cookies are just some of the special delicacies on display for sampling and snacking. Organizers are expecting around 350 different vendors to set up shop in the city’s downtown, so expect the usual arts, crafts, car shows, and entertainment in addition to all the tasty treats. There’s recipe contests too, and there’s even a chance to do your thing in hopes of scoring the title of Miss or Mister Kumquat.

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Merry GIFsmas, from Jaunted

December 24, 2011 at 6:54 PM | by | Comments (0)

Happy Holidays to you, our awesome readers. We've already got everything we wanted—you guys.
Safe and awesome travels this long weekend!

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Less Than One Month Until the No Pants Subway Ride 2012

December 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM | by | Comments (0)

Yep, it's official. 'Tis the season for wacky urban stunts, from last weekend's Santacon to Polar Bear Plunges, and one of the world's most rapidly spreading annual "flashmob"-type event is coming up soon. We're talking about the No Pants Subway Ride which Improv Everywhere began 11+ years ago in New York, and which now has spread to include most major world cities with subway transportation.

The 2012 ride, the 11th annual, will go down on Sunday, January 8, a date ideal for those on holiday vacation to get back to the city in time to drop trou. As veterans of the NYC No Pants ride, we can vouch for it and say that it's all in good fun. Sure, it's awkward at first—you remove your pants on the subway, silently, mid-ride—but that's part of the deal.

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London's Most Popular Summer Film Event Goes Underground for Winter with 'Lost in Translation'

Where: Chalk Farm Road, United Kingdom, NW1 8EH
December 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM | by | Comments (0)

London-based film buffs most likely heard about—and frequented—this summer's Rooftop Film Club screenings, hosted at popular East End hangout Queen of Hoxton. Most shows sold out long in advance, with tickets to Wayne's World, Clueless, and Top Gun, disappearing almost immediately after being released online.

Sadly, a few of these screenings were rained out owing to the city's crappy fussy weather, much to the chagrin of many a Hoxton hipster. Just in time for the blistering cold holiday season, however, the Film Club has gone underground—literally. Migrating to Camden, the newly dubbed Underground Film Club at the historic Roundhouse

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Warm Weather Holidays: Four Ice Skating Rinks Found in the Southern States

November 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM | by | Comments (0)

The scene in downtown Raleigh...

Rolling hills covered with snow might be the typical scene around the holidays up North, but that’s usually not the case down South; however, that’s not stopping Southerners from celebrating the season. Here’s a few places where you can strap on a pair of ice skates and go for a spin in some southern spots:

· Dallas – Frisco Square’s Lights on Ice:
Apparently it’s been like a decade or so since the greater Dallas-Ft. Worth area has hosted an outdoor skating rink, but things are changing this year. The Zamboni has hit Frisco, Texas, as the ice rink is open in Frisco Square between now and January 8. It’s just $10 per person to go for a spin, and that even includes skate rental. If you and your holiday crew want a more intimate skating experience, they’ll even rent the whole place out to you for around $200 an hour. The rink is open pretty much every day—except for Christmas—and is open until 10pm each evening.

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The Three Best Travel Shoes for Fall and Winter 2011

November 11, 2011 at 6:06 PM | by | Comments (0)

There is no reason that good shoes—especially ones ideal for travel—have to be ugly. With this in mind, we've scoured our closets and done the research to present you with three excellent options for great shoes for fall/winter travel, ones that are also affordable and either lightweight for packing or sturdy for action. All of them are personal favorites, some tested on our own feet and in our own luggage around the world.

You now no longer have an excuse for showing up to the airport in your stained Uggs (ladies) or beat-down leather loafers (dudes).

The Five Best Fall/Winter Shoes for 2011/12 are:

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Five California Neighborhoods for Warm Weather Winter Exploring

November 8, 2011 at 1:07 PM | by | Comments (0)

Heading west for the winter? Join the club. For many, the lure of a season, a week, or even a weekend in the sunny part of California is irresistible.

When you land at LAX or SAN and emerge into the sun, it's time to get out and enjoy the weather. We advocate exploring new neighborhoods, getting a smoothie from a new shop and walking down a new street, sunglasses on.

Here's our own guides to five of our favorite California areas for warm-weather winter exploring:

· Encinitas
· Silverlake's Sunset Junction
· San Diego's North Park
· Downtown Los Angeles
· Coronado's Orange Avenue

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Yes, This Exists: Snowman International Airport

Where: Norway
March 25, 2011 at 9:58 AM | by | Comments (0)

Bardufoss Airport sits pretty close to the tippy top of Norway, so it really doesn’t get that much airplane action throughout the year. That’s why the folks in the marketing department at the airport should get some kind of award, as their rebranding idea is pretty darn clever. They’ve decided to rename the airport "Snowman International Airport."

Besides being an awesome idea, airport officials are hoping that this can get their little airport on the map. Technically, it’s still going to be called Bardufoss Airport—BDU for those collecting airport codes—but for all other purposes this is the airport where snowmen (and snow-women) catch their flights for all those business trips.

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Stranded? The Top 10 Jaunted Stories to Help You Out of This Mess

February 2, 2011 at 4:49 PM | by | Comments (0)


Sedgwick and Armitage

We don't have to tell you this, but Chicago is at a complete standstill right now thanks to the 20+ inches of snow dumped on the city last night. An honorable mention goes to the scary high winds, which have managed to make those 20 inches seem like mini-mountains in some areas, and chill potential pedestrians enough as to send them running back inside. The Windy City is, today, the Windy-and-Hopelessly-Snowed-In City.

Just in case you were wondering, Chicago-O'Hare Airport is closed and Chicago-Midway is operating on a very limited basis. If you have a flight out of or into any US airport, please check your flight status; FlightStats is a good site for doing so. Unfortunately, the 6,429 total flight cancellations thus far today are having system-wide effects, so even if you're just hopping from Florida to a Caribbean island, your plane may not have made it down to pick you up.

Without further ado, The Top 10 Jaunted Stories to Help You Out:

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Three of 2011's Best Winter Festivals, Plus the World's Largest Ice Skating Rink

January 25, 2011 at 9:46 AM | by | Comments (0)

Sure it’s pretty chilly outside and the snow keeps falling from the sky, but that doesn’t mean that you need to totally dismiss winter as the worst season. There are plenty of positives to the snow and cold, so here’s three festivals that want to show you how great things can be:

· Saint Paul Winter Carnival:
If there’s one state that’s known for its winter weather it’s Minnesota, so it’s no surprise that one half of the Twin Cities is a great place to celebrate the season. The Saint Paul Winter Carnival kicks off this weekend and runs through February 6. Dubbed "the coolest celebration on earth," the festival features activities only found in the dead of winter, and they know what they’re doing as this thing has been running for over 100 years.

The ice carving competition happens this weekend from January 27 through 30, and there will be public ice skating opportunities each and every day of the festival at Landmark Center. For those that would rather carve things out of snow, there’s even separate snow sculpting events. Other features include an autonomous snowplow competition where college kids build snowplowing, ice-busting robots that run through a designated course. Of course no festival could be complete without a parade, so be sure to bundle up before hitting the parade route.

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Where to Learn Some of the Best Winter Sports, Like 'Skijoring'

January 14, 2011 at 4:53 PM | by | Comments (0)


This is Skijoring.

Heard the news? A few ago, the news pointed out that 49 out of the 50 states now have snow on the ground. But instead of getting all indignant and eye-rolling at Florida (the only snowflake survivor), take advantage of January’s National Learn a Snow Sport Month and get out there.

Listen here, frosty fun is the only way to laugh in Mother Nature’s face. Or escape to an island—and we’ve got the lowdown on that, too. For now, however, we're looking to what you can do in the white stuff this weekend.

What and where to learn some of the winter's best sports:

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The Airline with Their Own Meteorology Department Is...

January 11, 2011 at 4:01 PM | by | Comments (3)

Do you think there are children out there who are saying "I want to be an airline weatherman" to their teachers on career day? Probably not, but lo and behold that position exists, and only at Delta. Just before Christmas, Delta published a really great little blogpost that gave a quick look at the support they have ready to deal with winter weather, including their own weather department...

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