by Fran Golden – Posted July 8th, 2010 11:41 AM from Aol Travel All this month, JetBlue is letting cycling fans bring along their two-wheelers for free. The carrier said it was waiving its regular bike transport fee of $50 each way to celebrate the Tour de France. The carrier is broadcasting wall-to-wall coverage of Lance Armstrong and gang for a seventh year in a row on the seatback TVs of all its flights. The coverage is on VERSUS, the TV home of the 23-day Tour de France in the U.S. The free bike deal is available through July 31, …
Dave Matthews Band – Cruzan Amphitheater, Fri. 7/30
The dynamic performers of the Dave Matthews Band will be performing at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, FL on Friday July 30 at 7:00 pm. The Dave Matthews Band had their beginnings in Charlottesville, Virginia in early 1991, when vocalist/guitarist Dave Matthews put some of the songs he had written on tape. He brought in some instrumental help to give his musical ideas more depth. The Cruzan Amphitheatre is in West Palm Beach, FL adjacent to the South Florida Fairgrounds. If you and your friends and family need a ride – call M&M Airport & Car Service, Inc. …
Classic Gold Music Awards at Hard Rock Live- Aug. 30th, 8:00 pm
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino: Hard Rock Live, Fort Lauderdale, FL If you like 1960s-1980s music, there is an upcoming event! CLASSIC GOLD MUSIC AWARDS, which will be held August 27-August 30, 2010 at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood, Florida 33314 (954) 866-502-9529. This 4-day charitable event will feature Rock N Roll workshops, seminars, parties, celebrity dinner-concert… with artists such as– Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad, Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals, Larry Hoppen of Orleans, ConFunkShun, Bar-Kays. The Classic Gold Music Awards will honor classic gold music that has withstood the test of time. The …
ALEX – First hurricane of the Season!
The National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded ALEX to a Category 1 hurricane – the least powerful type – shortly before 10:00 pm CDT Tuesday. Alex is projected to stay hundreds of miles from the area of the BP spill zone, but the storm could cause complications on both the cleanup and the effots to cap the flow. 3 rigs, 28 platforms evacuated because of Hurricane Alex. Material from the Associated Press was used in this post.
“Am I The Only One?” – Sports Column
Who finds this time of year quite interesting in the world of sports? Why do you ask? Very simply, it’s the end of June, and the NBA and NHL playoffs just ended, NFL training camps don’t open for a month or so, and even baseball diehards like myself find the day to day “marathon” that baseball is, just a little bit tedious in this hot weather here in beautiful South Florida. So you ask, what are us sports aficionados watching on a daily basis??? Would you believe World Cup Soccer?? Just check out any of the many sports bars here …
Spirit Airlines makes deal with pilots. Will fly again!!
Posted June 16 – Palm Beach Post On Wednesday, Spirit Airlines made a deal with its pilots that will end their strike. They said they would fly again starting on Friday 6/18. Everything prior to that has been cancelled. Spirit carries roughly 16,000 passengers per day, or about one percent of the nation’s air traffic. Its hub is in Ft. Lauderdale, with flights to US cities including Detroit and Atlantic City, NJ, as well as the Caribbean and Latin America. Spirit pilots were negotiating for more than 3 years before the strike started Saturday morning. The union said first officers …