Ruggedness and smart design meet in this passport holder
Ruggedness and smart design meet in this passport holder from the Norwegian online store Dansk Design. The sleek stainless steel exterior keeps a passport safe from harm. But what's really cool is the card slot -- it's located at the top of the passport holder making it easy ...
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Gourmet versions of old favorites for adults (and their inner children)
Seriously, this place specializes in milk and cookies. It’s no $100 per entrée hot spot playing “the irony angle,” it’s a café that has found a niche in a city where it seemed that all of the niches had been taken ten times over. Of course, no one ...
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Bring the heat with you
Autumn is upon the northern parts of the northern hemisphere and we're stocking up on our cold weather gear. First up, the new hard warmer from Zippo. Unlike the company's famous lighters, this Zippo produces no flame. Instead, the radiant heat comes from a smoldering of lighter fluid ...
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Sleep amongst the birds in the shadow of Mount Rainier
There are other treehouse hotels in America but none are as dramatic as Cedar Creek. Here, 200-year old trees literally grow through the kitchen, bedroom and living spaces of the five-person bed & breakfast suite. Coolest of all is the observatory tower, which is more than 100 feet ...
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Somehow we didn’t get here on our junior high school field trip to Miami
Somehow we didn't get to The World Erotic Art Museum when we took that junior high school field trip to Miami. Don't you make the same mistake the next time you are in the south Florida.
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Where playing old video games is cool
Most of the people who religiously played Centipede, Mario Bros. and Frogger did so when they were too young to drink. Good news. Times have changed, but the games remain the same. At this slightly out of the way former warehouse, friendly and grungy locals jingle all the ...
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