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Whether you smooch them, tickle them or jitterbug around them, good-luck monuments can leave you feeling, well, lucky.

Our sis site HotelChatter does a bang-up job of covering the latest news and trends in the hotel world. We’re also including a few links from VegasChatter, the newest member to the family. So check in and stay awhile. HotelChatter: · Foursquare + Hotels = Match made in heaven · What hotel have [...]

Not all of our friends have the best luck with passports, which they carry in their pockets because they don’t want to leave them in cheap hotel rooms. Ditto for laptops, extra currency, and so on. Travelers always have to make a decision between what’s safer: carrying something around in a strange city or abandoning [...]

Vacationers take in the last splash of sunset from popular Ochheuteal Beach, a seaside resort area on southern Cambodia’s Sihanoukville peninsula. Not far away lie stretches of sand offering complete seclusion. “This Cambodian coast is low-key, without pretension,” says Kris LeBoutillier, who wrote and photographed the story “The Beach Beyond: Asia’s Secret Getaways” now out [...]

Have you ever wanted to venture way, way out to the islands around Tahiti? Sit back and then and daydream with us as we follow Twitter celeb Stefanie Michaels, aka Adventure Girl, as she goes island-hopping in the most exotic of places—the Marquesas Islands. Each day this week, she’ll reveal another adventure. Join her [...]

Today, devoted fans of Conan O’Brien finally got the message they’ve been waiting weeks for: “Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.” That’s right, Conan O’Brien made the announcement this morning via Twitter that he is going on [...]

Alison Brick reports on an uptick in museum visits in the U.S. We’ve finally found an upside to the recession–thriving museums. According to a report by the American Association of Museums, attendance increased at 57 percent of museums in 2009. It’s all because of the recession–specifically, people opting to stay local, preferring the price of [...]

Pop star Lady Gaga is notorious for her outlandish sense of style, but dramatic shoes and avant garde outfits were almost her downfall this week when the singer showed early stages of the potentially deadly deep vein thrombosis condition while on a transatlantic flight. Gaga suffered from swelling in her legs on the flight, [...]