Articles in Journeys

Lobby Bar – November 11: Back to the Present, Toxic Automobiles, and Canines Should Avoid the Theater

Lobby Bar – A Skeptical Synopsis of FBT News and Views
Slay Rosebud. Jonathan Spira gets in the driver’s seat of the 2016 Ford Mustang GT Fastback California Special. The car, dubbed “Little Red Wagon” is actually nothing more than a motorized Radio Flyer wagon, but thanks to its size and efficiency, gets an astounding 10,000 miles to the gallon. And that’s gallons of lemonade, supplied to the 10-year-old child pulling …

Review: ‘Falsettos’ at Walter Kerr Theater

Review: ‘Falsettos’ at Walter Kerr Theater

Unlike shows that need a moment (or an hour) to get going, “Falsettos” starts with a bang, or rather with “Four Jews in a Room Bitching.” Confused? Don’t be. Just sit back, relax, and take it all in.
The lively and heartbreaking show that first opened on Broadway in 1992 and stitched together two one-act musicals, “March of the Falsettos” and “Falsettoland,” which were produced individually in 1981 and 1990, from …

Lobby Bar – November 4: Leaf Blowers Anonymous, Time Travel Paradoxes, and Accidental Art

Lobby Bar – A Belligerent Bellwether of FBT News and Views
Modern comforts. Most countries in Europe have set back their clocks for winter time. This year, parts of Spain voted to abstain from changing their clocks because, as they pointed out, there is no need to adhere to obsolete and ancient time changing practices, especially now that we have time travel machines thanks to advancements at FBT Magazine.
Eyes on me. …

Fall Back! Daylight Saving Time for 2016 Ends this Sunday

Daylight Saving Time will end this Sunday, November 6, at 2 a.m. local time in most parts of the United States and Canada. Clocks should be set back by one hour.
In the European Union, Summer Time (called British Summer Time, or BST, in the United Kingdom and Sommerzeit in Austria and Germany) ended last Sunday, the last Sunday of the month. This discrepancy in start times left the United States …

Great Moments in Travel History – November 2016

Great Moments in Travel History – November 2016

Robert Esnault-Pelterie, a French aviation pioneer, was born on November 8, 1881. He developed the idea of ailerons, which allow “banking” of fixed-wing aircraft around the fuselage’s longitudinal axis and are essential in making turns when aloft.
The Hotel Kämp in Helsinki, Finland, opened its doors on November 1, 1887. The hotel is still in operation today, and is part of Starwood’s Luxury Collection of hotels.
The first flight in a rigid …

Europe – Except Perhaps for Parts of Spain – Sets Clocks Back for Winter Time

Most European nations adjusted their clocks back one hour early Sunday as the cutover from Summer Time to Winter Time, a move akin to the switch from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time in the United States, took place.
The change from Summer Time to Winter Time is observed in every European nation except for Iceland and Belarus. However, parts of Spain are not happy about the switch.
Two days after the Balearic …

Lobby Bar – October 28: Bird-Assisted Air Travel, Pillows are Not for Sleeping, and Artificial Intelligence Gets Smug

Lobby Bar – An Allegorical Assortment of FBT News and Views
Air Purgatory. It’s time to find out if you’ll be accepted into our spring honors course by taking our fall travel pop quiz. If you don’t get at least three questions right, you’ll be sent to traveler’s purgatory: an Air Koryo flight with unlimited fuel that never seems to receive clearance for landing.
A tale of two strokes. Jonathan Spira is …