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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking,…
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Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man is facing a felony grand theft charge in Broward County after a plucky airline…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi and Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — A famous waterfall in China has drawn even more attention than usual – after a video revealed…
Continue ReadingBy Cat Woods, CNN (CNN) — Before the nationwide influx of suburban malls and the convenience of online shopping, there was a golden age of…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — A new “floating” staircase in Norway promises spectacular views and undeniable thrills – but it’s…
Continue ReadingBy Simon Usborne, CNN (CNN) — Ameerh Naran is relentlessly international. Born and raised in Zimbabwe to an Indian family of shoemakers, he…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — There are some secret areas on widebody aircraft, where the pilots and cabin crew go to rest during long flights.…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — By now, the famed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s well-oiled, large-scale shoots are well documented. He has…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Now that we carry around personal devices with high resolution, 4K screens in our back pockets, the seatback…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It’s a phenomenon you might be familiar with if you’ve ever boarded an airplane on a humid day. Hot, muggy…
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — As Taiwan’s biggest rock band took to the stage in Beijing late last month, their home island was reckoning with…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for…
Continue ReadingBy Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — “I like anonymity,” designer Karl Lagerfeld (played by Daniel Brühl) tells Jacques de Bascher (actor…
Continue ReadingBy Joshua Berlinger, CNN Bernieres-sur-Mer, France (CNN) — Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. No…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — One of Tokyo’s most popular tourist neighborhoods is making a move to curb bad behavior – by taking alcohol…
Continue ReadingBy Sahar Akbarzai, CNN staff (CNN) — The Maldives has announced it will ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country amid its war on…
Continue ReadingBy Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Both a source of inspiration and a place to ground herself, Harlem holds a special meaning for the artist…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — When Emma-Jane Nutbrown went on a family vacation to Jamaica last year, she did so with one condition: that…
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines plane that departed from Vancouver, Canada, was removed from service to undergo a deep cleaning…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic…
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