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Essential track: Glenn Jones debuts 'Across the Tappan Zee' video
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticThis post has been updated. See below for details. A few months back at Sonos Studio in West Hollywood, guitarist Glenn Jones performed solo work in conjunction with a recently completed documentary on the late guitarist John Fahey. Fahey's ability at...Tags: Allentown, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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What may come to Wizarding World of Harry Potter 2.0 at Universal Orlando
After a year of construction, Universal Orlando has finally admitted that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will expand in 2014 with a detailed re-creation of London's Diagon Alley from the wildly popular series of books and movies. Photos: Top 10...
Tags: Islands of Adventure, Trips and Vacations, Fiction, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Harry Potter (fictional character)
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Go ahead, play with the goblins of Utah
GOBLIN VALLEY, Utah — "The goblins will get ya if ya don't watch out!" wrote poet James Whitcomb Riley in 1885, probably just about the time that cowboys searching for cattle in southern Utah stumbled into this extraordinary collection of...
Tags: State Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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Restored or ruined? Malibu Lagoon project stirs strong opinions
Before the bulldozers arrived last June, Malibu Lagoon was a fully grown habitat for egrets, voles and tidewater gobies, studded with sycamore trees and clusters of tule reeds. Today, the lagoon's islands appear almost barren, covered by a sea of tiny red...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Pamela Anderson, Wetlands, Renovation, Environmental Issues
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It's time for a water coaster in Southern California
Southern California is long overdue for a water coaster. For the uninitiated, a water coaster is a water park slide that mimics the ups and downs of a traditional roller coaster with the help of conveyor belts, water jets or magnetic propulsion....
Tags: South Korea, Trips and Vacations, Holidays, Six Flags Inc., Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Top 20 water parks in the world
By now, everybody knows what to expect from your standard-issue ho-hum water park: body and tube slide complexes with funnels and bowls, deluge-inducing water play towers for the little ones, undulating wave pools and relaxing lazy rivers. Photos: 20...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Six Flags Inc., Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Walt Disney World Resort
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Legoland Hotel is built, brick by brick, with kids in mind
CARLSBAD, Calif. — The Legoland Hotel, which opened April 5, got plenty of little things wrong in its first weeks. But its designers got one thing enormously right, and that will make this place a screaming success: kid-centricity. "The dragon...
Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Trips and Vacations, Building Material, Tourism and Leisure, LEGO Group
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Q&A: Zach Braff on Kickstarter, indie filmmaking and the skeptics
Zach Braff made headlines last week when he became one of the first top-tier Hollywood personalities to try -- and succeed in -- financing a movie via Kickstarter. Just a few days after listing his idiosyncratic project “Wish I Was Here,”...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Kickstarter, Finance, Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), Lobbying
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Space Mountain remains closed at Disneyland
Disneyland's Space Mountain remains closed for safety repair work, two weeks after state regulators cited the park for hazards to workers who maintain and repair the attraction. Disney officials, who said they have no estimate on when the ride will...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Employees, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Health and Safety at Work, Space Mountain
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Disneyland's Space Mountain remains closed for safety repairs
Disneyland's Space Mountain remains closed for safety repair work, two weeks after state regulators cited the park for hazards to maintenance workers on the outside of the attraction. Disneyland officials, who said they have no estimate on when the ride...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Employees, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Health and Safety at Work, Space Mountain
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Gibson Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction
A celebrated musical venue will close at Universal City to make way for a new magical venue. The Gibson Amphitheatre, a 6,100-seat hall that has hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, will close in September, clearing...
Tags: Theme Park Vacations, Trips and Vacations, Fiction, Bob Dylan, Tourism and Leisure
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Good fences make safe lions
During the 1960s, when most African nature reserves were being established, lions tended to be born free. But today, freedom doesn't always serve them well. Fifty years ago, human population densities were low in the areas where lions roamed. But...
Tags: Tanzania, International Economic Institution, Budgets and Budgeting, Economic Organization, South Africa
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