Take a look at Team USA's Olympic training camp roster, and the message is clear: Out with the old for the Red, White and Blue.
The actor's abs send Twilight's fanpires into a flesh-hungry frenzy
• She's settling into the Vancouver life! In town to shoot New Moon, Dakota Fanning took a break from work for a leisurely lunch with her mom and two women at the Cactus Club Café on Robson Street. The group grabbed a booth, and Fanning enjoyed fish tacos with shredded cheese. On her way to the restaurant, the teen star stopped and seemed happy to sign autographs for some fans.
• They're still hanging out! After dinner at Vancouver's Keg Steakhouse and Bar, Selena Gomez and Taylor Lautner finished their date with a casual stroll. The duo kept their arms linked as they laughed and window-shopped in the light rain, taking their time walking back to their hotels.
The teen stars look like more than just friends grabbing dinner and a movie (and each other) in Vancouver
The star stopped the Circus in Vancouver after the arena grows too smoky
• Robert Pattinson, mingling in the VIP room at a party following the Juno Awards (the Canadian Grammys) at Vancouver's Velvet Room inside the Opus Hotel. The Twilight star arrived after the Universal Music bash was in full swing, then grabbed a martini and some food - much to the delight of many of the waitresses working the soiree. According to a source, several servers giddily greeted the actor, who was "gracious and really enjoying himself."
Juggling broadcasting, diplomacy and college, the skating champ takes aim at another Olympics
Watching Jean-Georges Vongerichten working out the kinks on the afternoon before he opens his latest restaurant, you might think Market by Jean-Georges was his first. As the chef walks through the kitchen, perched above Vancouver, British Columbia, in the new Shangri-La tower, his team is stirring sauces and filleting whole fish. The restaurant's manager swings by to report on the servers' uniforms. "I had to send them back," he says. "The shirts were too translucent."
Last October, more than 40 people followed signs depicting a skull and crossbones, with a knife and fork in place of the bones, to a secluded Bavarian-style hunting lodge 30 minutes north of St. Louis.
Take a look at Team USA's Olympic training camp roster, and the message is clear: Out with the old for the Red, White and Blue.
The actor's abs send Twilight's fanpires into a flesh-hungry frenzy
• She's settling into the Vancouver life! In town to shoot New Moon, Dakota Fanning took a break from work for a leisurely lunch with her mom and two women at the Cactus Club Café on Robson Street. The group grabbed a booth, and Fanning enjoyed fish tacos with shredded cheese. On her way to the restaurant, the teen star stopped and seemed happy to sign autographs for some fans.
• They're still hanging out! After dinner at Vancouver's Keg Steakhouse and Bar, Selena Gomez and Taylor Lautner finished their date with a casual stroll. The duo kept their arms linked as they laughed and window-shopped in the light rain, taking their time walking back to their hotels.
The teen stars look like more than just friends grabbing dinner and a movie (and each other) in Vancouver
The star stopped the Circus in Vancouver after the arena grows too smoky
• Robert Pattinson, mingling in the VIP room at a party following the Juno Awards (the Canadian Grammys) at Vancouver's Velvet Room inside the Opus Hotel. The Twilight star arrived after the Universal Music bash was in full swing, then grabbed a martini and some food - much to the delight of many of the waitresses working the soiree. According to a source, several servers giddily greeted the actor, who was "gracious and really enjoying himself."
Juggling broadcasting, diplomacy and college, the skating champ takes aim at another Olympics
Watching Jean-Georges Vongerichten working out the kinks on the afternoon before he opens his latest restaurant, you might think Market by Jean-Georges was his first. As the chef walks through the kitchen, perched above Vancouver, British Columbia, in the new Shangri-La tower, his team is stirring sauces and filleting whole fish. The restaurant's manager swings by to report on the servers' uniforms. "I had to send them back," he says. "The shirts were too translucent."
Last October, more than 40 people followed signs depicting a skull and crossbones, with a knife and fork in place of the bones, to a secluded Bavarian-style hunting lodge 30 minutes north of St. Louis.
Canadian ski resort gondola cars that were left dangling and swaying with terrified skiers inside failed because ice buildup snapped a supporting tower, the resort said Thursday.
A group of skiers had a fortunate escape Tuesday after they were rescued from a stricken gondola that was left dangling over a freezing creek at a ski resort in Canada.
Passengers have been rescued from a gondola dangling over a freezing creek after the tower snapped in half Tuesday at a ski resort near Whistler, British Columbia.
Offseasons are marked by one constant -- change. That held true with management, coaches, players, philosophies, you name it; everything was up for audit this summer.
A severed human foot was found washed up on an island on the western coast of Canada this week, the fifth detached foot found in the area in the past 11 months, according to local police and media reports.
BIGGEST CLIMB: Min. (10 to 7), Phi. (14-11), Col. (15-12), Was. (19-16), Edm. (23-20) BIGGEST FALL: Vancouver (13 to 18)
Judging by their place in the standings, they don't look like much.
There are more than 160 ships in the fleets of the 24 major cruise lines and more than 7,500 itineraries, from Alaska to Zanzibar. So how do you decide which one most suits your style? Follow these 10 steps to ensure smooth sailing:
Production on Heath Ledger's latest movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, has been halted following the 28-year-old actor's tragic death, a manager for the film crew's union tells PEOPLE.
Now that all teams have passed the midway point of the season, I figured it was time to submit my early predictions for the playoffs. And yes, there will be some surprises, so make sure to fire off those E-mails.
After months of preparation, the Spice Girls delivered a pulsating concert in Vancouver on Sunday night, kicking off their grand reunion tour for thousands of screaming fans – including one surprise VIP in particular.
A 20-year-old man died Sunday after being shot with a Taser device during a scuffle with a sheriff's deputy in Maryland, a spokeswoman for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said.
I didn't know quite what to expect when I entered the injection room at Insite, the world's busiest supervised drug clinic.
BIGGEST CLIMB: Columbus (25 to 13) BIGGEST FALL: San Jose (8 to 14), Vancouver (11 to 17), Anaheim (15 to 21)
The fiercely carved dragon head on the prow of the boat glares over the water while 18 paddles churn rhythmically to the beat of a drum. It looks like a sight from ancient China, but the bizarre vessel is crossing Seattle's Lake Washington, powered by some very contemporary Starbucks employees. They're in training, hoping to repeat their gold-medal performance at Vancouver's Alcan Dragon Boat Festival next year.
The slogan is catchy, give the Flyers that: Back with a Vengeance. (Certainly the motto is not open to interpretation, unlike the nearly ubiquitous One Team. One Goal. That one is trotted out during the playoffs, but it can also apply to watching the Oilers' bumbling power play for two weeks.)
No matter how good you are at customer service, let's face it: Periodically you are going to screw up. That's when you face a test - and an opportunity. Handle the incident poorly and you may create a corps of negative customer evangelists, trash-talking your business to anyone who'll listen. Fix the situation, and you may secure a customer for life.
Few of us would expect to get rich selling parking meters. But meters generate hundreds of millions of dollars for cities every year, and since 50 percent of parking fines go unpaid, according to one San Francisco study, city halls are on the lookout for a more convenient - and effective - kind of meter.
The Ottawa Lynx played their final game Monday, joining in the funereal footsteps of ballclubs that once played in Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Edmonton.
Two gunmen opened fire inside a Vancouver, British Columbia, restaurant early Thursday, killing two people and injuring six in what Canadian police suspect was a targeted attack.
As expected, this year's free-agent "frenzy" has been more like a "fizzle," with few big names changing teams. With all due respect to Rashard Lewis (Magic) and Darko Milicic (Grizzlies), their relocations aren't likely to shift the balance of power in either conference.
Mischa Barton was hospitalized for two hours on Memorial Day weekend after an antibiotic she was taking interacted badly with alcohol.
Kevin Ham leans forward, sits up tall, closes his eyes, and begins to type -- into the air. He's seated along the rear wall of a packed ballroom in Las Vegas's Venetian Hotel. Up front, an auctione...
It's a rough crowd in the Anaheim locker room on the night of May 3. The Ducks have just closed out their Western Conference semifinal series against the Vancouver Canucks, winning Game 5 on Scott Niedermayer's bad-angle, what-the-hell wrist shot from 59 feet in the second overtime. An unofficial assist came from his younger brother, Rob, who had freed up the puck with an organ-jostling, ass-over-bandbox hit on Vancouver winger Jannik Hansen. Across the room from Rob, now recounting that collision to a scrum of reporters, is Brad May (he of the 2,000-plus career penalty minutes) discussing the mucking he did in those final seconds. In the middle of the room stands the formerly handsome
We're looking into the future this month on CNN Business Traveller 21st Century.
While these aren't full recipes for playoff success, here are three ingredients for each of the eight semifinalists:
Green roofs aren't the future: They're already here. In Chicago, 2.5 million square feet of downtown roof space is now covered with hardy plants such as sedum and prairie grass--the better to lower heating and air-conditioning costs (by 10 percent or more) and dramatically reduce rainwater runoff.
Brrrrrrrr. A chill came over Gina Luongo as she spoke on the phone to her husband last June and learned that the couple was in for a serious latitude adjustment. Roberto Luongo, then the star goaltender for the Florida Panthers, had just been traded to the Vancouver Canucks, and he was crying as he broke the news from his parents' Montreal home. Gina, who'd just pulled up to her parents' house in sunny South Florida, tried to comfort him, but heading north for the winter didn't sound like much fun to her, either. The next day Gina got even gloomier after she looked at a map and realized that she and Roberto would be making a diagonal move across all of North America -- no other two major pro sports franchises on the continent are so far apart. You've got to be kidding me, she said to herself. "They might as well have sent us to Alaska."
Note: All statistics are through Sunday.
Note: All statistics are through Sunday.
British Columbia's lake country is producing Pinot Noirs and Rieslings well worth tasting. Here, a Travel + Leisure wine expert's primer on the best way to explore the region -- and which bottles to take home with you.
The Scene brings together the world's coolest cities with the personalities who know them best.Tell us who you would like to see featured in future films and why The Scene should visit your city.
Billionaire booze baron Sidney Frank was en route to Vancouver for a heart valve replacement when he died on Jan. 11 at 86. "He was in great spirits," says longtime employee Sarah Zeiler. Somehow t...
Send us your tips, words, photos and videos to thescene@cnn.com, or text "SCENE" plus your comments to +44 7786 20 40 60. Remember to include your name and the city/country where you live.
U.S. Navy personnel cleared unexploded ordnance from a luxury cruise ship Monday, two days after pirates attacked the vessel off Africa, the U.S. military said.
A luxury cruise line will re-evaluate whether to offer future cruises off the coast of Somalia after pirates attempted to attack one of its ships early Saturday.
Vancouver is the world's most desirable place to live, according to a new survey, while Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby is at the other end of the scale.
Most people do not change their bed sheets every evening, but at hotels business travelers expect fresh linen every night -- a practice that takes its toll on the environment.
First the bad news: Long airport layovers are here to stay. With fewer planes flying but just as many people traveling, passengers now spend twice as much time in transit limbo as they did prior to...
If you have ever worried about the contribution business travel makes to global warming and climate change, you can now do something to offset that.
A massive ferry carrying 544 passengers plowed into a marina as it prepared to dock Thursday morning in Vancouver, British Columbia, crushing several boats and heavily damaging the piers, officials said.
Representatives of Canada, India and Ireland joined victims' relatives Thursday to remember 329 people killed when an Air India jetliner was blown up off the southern Irish coast 20 years ago.
It's been 34 years since a long-haired, thick-bearded Canadian journalist reluctantly boarded a dilapidated fishing boat for a rocky journey up the coast of Alaska and into ecological history.
Airdate: March 16th, 2005
Scientists were flying over the crater of Mount St. Helens on Wednesday to locate the origins of a plume of ash and steam that spewed nearly seven miles high into the air Tuesday night.
The Strategy: Maximize Downtown Real Estate Minimum Investment: $100 million
"Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall is to make her British stage debut -- swapping her role as manhunter Samantha to play the paraplegic victim of a road accident.
It may get down to chilly sub-zero temperatures in mid-winter, but the cold climate country of Norway remains the best place in the world to live, according to the latest research by the United Nations.
Known for its epic spring skiing, big snows, milder temperatures and lots of open terrain, Whistler Blackcomb throws a 10-day party making April a don't-miss at the British Columbia ski resort.
Check out this list: an eight-foot-long stuffed swordfish, 13 large porcelain Buddhas, two boxes of dried pig ears, a ship's compass, a Bill Clinton mask, and a prosthetic leg. No, this is not an i...
Check out this list: an eight-foot-long stuffed swordfish, 13 large porcelain Buddhas, two boxes of dried pig's ears, a ship's compass, a Bill Clinton mask, and a prosthetic leg. No, this is not an...
French adventure
METROPOLITAN VIEWS Le Meridien's smartly located downtown hotels, cleared of business travelers on weekends, are offering half or more off normal rates until February. A weekend stay in New York Ci...
Yes, it is presumptuous of us to name the 12 best places to spend a summer vacation. Perhaps even foolhardy. After all, most of us can already see in our mind's eye a place that all but defines the...
Q. My niece made a $22,000 down payment on a house, and the seller's lawyer put the money in an escrow account. However, the sale was delayed seven months. When my niece finally closed on the house...
Hurrying through the airport, you feel a tap on your shoulder, and a concerned young lady tells you a streak of ketchup has somehow landed on your back. What the...? Damn. She offers a Kleenex. You...
Midsummer fevers infect Manhattan as nowhere else. . . Forget the drunks and druggies, rapists, muggers and murderers who are part of the city's pestilence year-round. Think instead of the steamy d...
-- Dinosaur dig (406-994-2251). Spend a week at Egg Mountain near Choteau, Mont., searching for dinosaur fossils with paleontologists from the Museum of the Rockies. You sleep in Blackfeet tepees a...
THE RICHEST man in Hong Kong and the world's most successful Overseas Chinese entrepreneur is a legend in the East. But Li Ka-shing, 63, is barely known in the West. That will soon change because L...
CAR RENTAL TERMINAL If you love ATMs, wait until you see Budget Rent a Car's Remote Transaction Booths (RTBs). These three-by-five-foot machines allow anyone with a driver's license and major credi...
When Emmett Steed, 39, accepted a job as vice president, operations controller at the headquarters of the Red Lion Hotels & Inns in Vancouver, Wash. last April, he and his wife Jana, 37, faced the ...
Retailers love plastic. Instead of worrying about whether your check might bounce, they collect from the card issuer, who in turn bills you. As a consequence, credit cards have become even more pre...
THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY is scrambling to cope with the millions of missing tourists and business travelers scared away from Europe by the threat of terrorism. Companies that work both sides of the Atla...
Is mankind ready for another World's Fair? The people of Vancouver, British Columbia, certainly think so. Expo 86 opens there on May 2 with Prince Charles and Princess Diana on the scene, and organ...
Canada's plans to liberalize trade regulations and attract more foreign investment have a growing number of U.S. executives wondering when they'll be packing for a trip north. Many also wonder what...
The global trading race is on. The New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange started talks to hook up joint trading between their floors, perhaps 24 hours a day. The Big Board is consid...
On the northwest coast of the continent, among the forested inlets above Vancouver, British Columbia, there lives a tribe of Native Americans called the Kwakiutl. While nowadays much reduced in num...
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
Video
