The Chicago Traveler

• Learn about the causes and outcomes of earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and more at The Field Museum’s new exhibit, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters. (through Jan 4)
• The Las Vegas male revue Thunder from Down Under is coming to Chicago for a 75-minute performance at Crobar. Meet and greet the hunky hotties after the show. (May 23)
• Grab your tent and your sleeping bags and head down to Three Sisters Park for Summer Camp 2008. The weekend event features over 60 bands, including moe., the Flaming Lips, and OAR. (May 23-25)
• The R-rated, Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q …read more

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Are your taxes done? Or have you been scrambling these past few days (or hours) to meet the deadline? If you’re among the latter, you’re not alone.
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax products, put together a list of American cities that are full of procrastinators when it comes to filing federal income tax returns. And guess who’s at the top of that list? That’s right… Chicago. The list is established by the number of tax returns filed electronically by the TurboTax Online service from April 14-17, 2007. The top twelve cities are…

Chicago, IL
New York, NY
Houston, TX
Austin, TX
San Francisco, CA
San Diego, CA
Seattle, …read more

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After watching today’s flick, I have to admit that I didn’t see anything Chicagoan. However, several websites (including IMDb) attest that Chicago was one of the filming locations for Diamonds Are Forever, the seventh spy film of the British James Bond series. Despite the lack of a Chicago sighting, I am willing to justify viewing the film and blogging it as a tribute to Las Vegas, where I’ll be traveling next week with friends.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Directed by:
Guy Hamilton

Produced by:
Albert R Broccoli
Harry Saltzman

Starring:
Sean Connery
Jill St John
Charles Gray
Lana Wood
Jimmy Dean

Distributed by:
United Artists

All Movie Guide
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Amazon.com

Loosely based on Ian Fleming’s novel of the …read more

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I arrived home Wednesday from an 8-day long trip to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I just wanted to take a moment to say what a great time I had there and to thank all my friends for making my visit so much fun.
Also, be sure to check out The Las Vegas Adventurer for some great things to see and do while in Sin City.

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The Travel & Culture Channel here at b5media just keeps growing and growing! We have three new destinations to read, visit, and enjoy.

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