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This Weekend In The World: Dude, It's Labor Day. Whatever.
What Labor Day is all about
Hallelujah, Labor Day weekend has arrived! In honor of this amazing holiday in the United States, we've got a list of festivals and other funky times happening around the country, just in case you don't know what to do with all the extra free time:
· Seattle: The Bumbershoot Festival celebrates the arts with performances from Katy Perry, Jason Mraz, Modest Mouse, and several comedians.
· New York: "Beer Me" is the name of the game this weekend as the Big Apple brings in a big amount of beer for the Great World Beer Fest.
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Five Ways to Kick It In Chicago During Labor Day Weekend
If you're spending Labor Day in Chicago, there's a number of ways you can say goodbye to the summer and celebrate before Oprah practically shuts down the place on Tuesday. Let us give you some last-minute options for your three-day-weekend itinerary. Let us share a few awesome ways to make Monday in The Windy City a Labor Day to remember...
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The National Drink Of Costa Rica Redefines 'Sweet & Sour'
After Labor Day, summer will officially be over, and with it our list of Signature Summer Cocktails. It's been a good run, and to top off the glass so to speak, we'll finish with our tenth cocktail: Costa Rica's national drink the Cacique Guaro Sour.
Like the Pisco Sour in Peru, Cacique Guaro is to be found everything in Costa Rica. Heck, we saw (and drank) plenty of it on our recent Costa Rican Field Trip. It's an alcohol made from sugarcane, so expect the taste to be sweet but eye-widenly strong. In fact, it's an aguardiente, or "firewater" liquor between between 30 and 60% alcohol content.
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Labor Day Travel, Overall Airline Revenue Both In Freefall
It seems like the airlines' current business plan, which as near as we've figured out goes something like "alienate our customers by repeatedly raising a bevy of opaque fees," has failed to reinvigorate air travel. They will still perhaps manage to fill up their planes this Labor Day, but only because they've also dramatically scaled back their fleets:
U.S. airlines will carry 16 million passengers during the eight-day Labor Day period, a 3.5 percent drop from a year earlier. And airlines already are offering discount fares for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's travel...While fewer people are flying, full planes will be more common because U.S. airlines pulled at least 500 aircraft from service since the start of 2008 to better match capacity with sagging sales.
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Get Psyched For Labor Day Travel, If You're One Of The Lucky Ones Going Somewhere
Got big travel plans for Labor Day? We don't know about you, but this has been the summer of discovering places perfect for a quick daytrip or weekender, and according to the AAA, this trend of short-distance vacations will be hugely reflected with Labor Day.
By their estimates, 39.1 million people will travel "at least 50 miles from their homes between Thursday and Monday by car, plane or other means." Sounds like a whole crapload, doesn't it? It does until you realize that this number is a whole 6 million, or 13.3%, from last year's Labor Day traveler count.
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Spend Labor Day Feasting At The Annual National Buffalo Wing Festival
Another Labor Day, another annual National Buffalo Wing Festival. The Buffalo, NY event stretches back to 1992, when Wing King Drew Cerza was inspired to start it by Bill Murray's junk food addicted character in "Osmosis Jones." Over the years, it's grown from a small competitive eating spectacle to a full-blown convention--hosting over 400,000 total people, generating over $125,000 for New York charities, and even serving as the site of a wedding.
This year's gala promises to build on last year's gigantic festival, where more than 78,000 people consumed over 27 tons of wings.
Buffalo Wing Festival organizers are fond of describing the spectrum of sauces as stretching from the mild to the suicidal, with dozens upon dozens of stands serving their specialties. The "Official Wing Sauce of the National Buffalo Wing Festival," Frank's RedHot, will be given away from a booth at the festival. There are also a variety of eating contests, including one that involves bobbing for chicken wings in a vat of blue cheese.
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Seattle Has An Everything Under The Umbrella Festival For Labor Day
If hot air balloons and chuck wagons aren’t in your plans for Labor Day, there’s still plenty of other ideas for you to waste away your holiday weekend.
One of the best festivals of the year is Bumbershoot 2009, and it’s conveniently taking place at Seattle Center from September 5-7. Film, theatre, arts, and of course music, will all be yours to enjoy. So grab a triple venti something or other and hit the festival running.
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Head To Rio's Copa, Copacabana Over Labor Day For $599
This is how we want to spend our Labor Day weekend: kicking it in Rio de Janeiro and staying only two blocks away from the famous Copacabana Beach. And only $599 for a four-day trip with airfare, hotel and breakfast included? We'll be there with yellow feathers in our hair and a dress cut down to there.
Vacation-planning/tour-guide company Gate 1 teamed with Travelzoo to run the holiday special, which includes round-trip airfare from New York City to Rio (other departure cities are available, but you have to check with Gate 1). The airline that will swoop you off to Rio depends on availability; we tried booking the package several times and both American Airlines and Delta popped up as our carriers. With taxes and fees (and a "package airfare" charge of $362.44), the final price is $1,068.14.
To take advantage of the deal, you have to start your extended Labor Day vacay on Sept. 3, though you can opt to leave Sept. 10, 17, 24 for an extra $50.
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Up, Up, and Away At New York State's Hot Air Balloon Fest
If you’ll be chilling in upstate New York this Labor Day weekend, you may want to consider a little more action than just chowing down a couple of white hots off the grill. The New York State Festival of Balloons is taking place all weekend in Dansville, and it’s only about an hour south of Rochester. There will be plenty of food, arts and crafts, entertainment, and a huge amount of hot air balloons. You can even camp right at the festival in case you get stuck with overnight balloon duty.
To celebrate their 28th year running, organizers will kick things off on September 3 with their Thursday Night Balloon Glow. Swing by the town’s municipal airport to see the balloons fire up their burners and watch them shine in the night sky. Maybe if you’re lucky you can sweet-talk a pilot into a free ride over the weekend.
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Horses Will Be Hauling At Arkansas' Covered Wagon Races
If that other festival dedicated to the wild west isn’t doing it for you, then we have another one that may help you move along your little doggies. It’s the 2009 National Championship Chuckwagon Race in Clinton, Arkansas, and it’s off to the races throughout Labor Day weekend. Just remember to bring your best horse and your dinner bell, and you’ll fit right in.
The festival is just what it sounds like—covered wagons hauling as fast as they can against other Conestogas. We’re still wondering why Dr. Quinn wasn’t all over this sport when her show was on the air, because maybe then we would have watched. More than 20,000 people will be on hand to check everything out, and some of them will likely being cozying up to the weekend’s winners who hope to share in over $20,000 in prizes.
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Have A Hoppy Labor Day Weekend In NYC
For those living in New York, the Labor Day weekend usually requires an unfortunate trip out of the city to attend Uncle Herman’s annual family barbeque. However, if you’re lucky enough to not have genetically mandated plans, start thinking about attending this year’s Great World Beer Fest. This is its seventh year running and it used to be called Brewtopia, so we're thinking they've got things down to a sudsy science by this point.
This year’s festival of all things beer will be held at the Park Avenue Armory, and they’ve added an extra day. Craft porters, ales, and lagers will be available on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this year’s holiday weekend. If you do plan on attending, the most important decision will be choosing what session to enjoy. There’s evening sessions on Friday and Saturday, and afternoon opportunities on Saturday and Sunday. The only drag is that tickets are a pricey $60 per person.
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Labor Day Is The Apple Of North Carolina's Eye
Of course we’re sad that summer is winding down right before our eyes, but Labor Day is usually a good send off into the crisp days of the fall. That’s why we’ve picked the North Carolina Apple Festival as a cool way to ease us into an autumnal attitude. After all, a few apples in the system will probably help counteract all the overindulgences we’ve experienced this summer.
Set in the western part of the state, among the mountains, is Hendersonville, and their main street area is going to be buzzing with the sights of Red Delicious, Galas, and Rome Beauties. The state is in the top ten of apple production in the country, and they certainly want you to know it. Music, arts and crafts, and of course food will all ring in the harvest season. Make it a priority to get an applejack; it’s pretty much an apple fritter, but with a better name and a better taste.
