Travelers, Get Ready to Choke Down Even More Fees
Christopher Elliott
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Posted 05.17.2013
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Travel
Is a small surcharge on your fast-food bill a reasonable thing?
Is a small surcharge on your fast-food bill a reasonable thing?
The San Francisco I fell in love with was a place of welcoming bonhomie and a sense of community. It was politically correct before the concept of political correctness existed. Now the cool, gray city of love is undeniably cold. It has become a hard place.
Ten years ago, I was a 20-year-old Marine who was about to cause a world of trouble by becoming the first person in the military to publicly speak out against the Iraq War.
Test, a film set in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1985, focuses on a prestigious dance company dealing with the spread of HIV ...
Fresh out of undergraduate school at the University of Virginia in the late 1980s - and facing the reality of a recession - Thomas Woltz leapt at the ...
This week I was proud to read a statement of support for Bradley Manning before his court-martial and protest the San Francisco Pride board for rescinding his community grand marshal status after he was democratically elected by former San Francisco Pride grand marshals.
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Stuart and Nicole of State Bird Provisions about their follow-up project, the versatility of pancakes and where they eat on their days off.
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Before she became one of the most influential literary voices of our time, a 16-year-old Maya Angelou had her sights set on one very specific job pros...
Many hotels have on-site bars, even if they're merely situated in the glorified outskirts of the lobby, where guests can grab standard drinks after a ...
It has come to my attention that six companies have submitted serious bids for the naming rights to our new Santa Clara stadium. I've posted the shortlist below, complete with my argument "for" or "against" each contender.
Instead of coaching athletes, she has spent the last several years coaching me as I've strived to get better, first from ovarian cancer at the age of 32, then from the autonomic nerve damage the life-saving chemo caused.
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Eating slowly makes dining into a spiritual and philosophical matter; each bite is like saying grace
Amongst 48 of the most populated cities in America, San Francisco ranks as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs based on education levels, unemployment rates, income, population and the percentage of businesses owned by women in each city.
We packed our bags and moved to San Francisco seeking the next challenge... and new service and civic opportunities. In our mind there was no better place for both of us than the most innovative region of our country, the San Francisco Bay Area.
"Getting old is wonderful," my neighbor Robert Akeley told me with a smile, his blue eyes lighting up, when I asked him for the single most important message he'd like to pass on to Huffington Post readers.
Jawbone expanding even further into the industry of exercise tech just shows that getting healthy is becoming even easier, and anyone who can use a smartphone will have to tools they need to take control of their health.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — First came the tapping. Over the blasting music, limo driver Orville Brown heard someone in the backseat knock on the par...
SAN FRANCISCO — A limousine taking nine women to a bachelorette party erupted in flames, killing five of the passengers, including the bride-to-...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials across the country are lookin...
Hotel bars are often a convenient spot for a nightcap or a quick after-work drink (anything to take the edge off!) while on a business trip -- but not...
The aesthetic of San Francisco-based decorator Grant K. Gibson is all about mixing magazine-ready chic-ness with a livable quality. Definitely not the you-can't-touch-this-it's-too-precious look. Here Grant talks about creating beautiful spaces and putting that iPhone down every now and then.
Summertime is fast-approaching and we can't wait till the days of top-down convertibles, cover-ups and flip-flops dress codes, and mini weekend getawa...
