The Netherlands — apparently long a haven for visitors looking to partake in illegal drugs – is set to ban foreigners from entering the country’s famed cannabis cafes by the end of the year. Interestingly, the proposed ban will not affect locals who will be issued one-year membership cards — [...]

I can’t say I’m a big travel gimmick fan. There’s just too much awesomeness in the world to see to waste time looking at the world’s largest frying pan or meandering around a dinosaur park in the middle of the desert (unless you’re doing it ironically because of Pee-wee’s Big [...]

Anthony Bourdain will be taking a break from post-production on Season 7 and speaking in New York City at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 24, 2011, at this store called Barnes & Noble that reportedly sells paper versions of books (in person, not online). He’ll be at the Union Square location [...]

It looks like the coding elves at Matador Network were busy over the weekend working on a site redesign that was unveiled today. The new site features a rotating featured article slider front and center and 15 links below to articles from their various sub-domains (a nice touch is that [...]

Sad news for travel agencies, but according to this week’s The New Yorker — and despite rosy news to the contrary — the travel agency is officially dead. [Photo courtesy of The New Yorker]

The Washington Post recently reported on the resurgence of the much-maligned profession, the travel agent, an occupation that the article notes was even the butt of a joke on 30 Rock when Liz Lemon was cast off to a subway tunnel to live with other extinct American professions (among the [...]

Palomar, a design company based in Florence, Italy, recently introduced a line of fabric-based maps called “Crumpled City,” in what seems like what Apple would do if it was charged the task of designing a traditional city map. Okay, so it’s not exactly an iPhone, but there’s something quite futuristic about [...]

It turns out New York City food cart vendors actually keep quite a clean shop, and they’re even very careful about keeping fresh food, so tells one vendor to Budget Travel who decided to dish some dirt about the business. As every traveler to New York knows, food vendors are ubiquitous in [...]

What a great time of the year it is when the summer music lineups begin to be announced, heralding the imminence of summer and marking those glorious few months of the year when it’s socially acceptable to wear shorts in public above the age of 24. The Boson Globe put [...]

Having just returned from Barcelona — a city that was immensely impacted by hosting the Olympics — I saw firsthand and heard in almost every story about the history of the city how hosting the Olympics helped transform the city by creating public beaches, cleaning up once dingy neighborhoods, and [...]