Morning Links: Stolen Picassos, Travel Games and Gadgets and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.10.09 | 8:50 AM ET
- A sketchbook containing 33 drawings has been stolen from the Picasso Museum in Paris. The book is apparently worth millions.
- A car bombing at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, has killed 15 people and injured dozens more.
- World Hum contributor Pam Mandel looks back on the “continually confusing exercise” that was her trip to Leningrad in 1990.
- Over at Double X, author Rachel Cusk talks about her latest memoir, “The Last Supper,” which tells the story of a summer spent in Italy with her young family.
- An electrical fire in the bathroom forced an American Airlines flight to make an emergency landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia yesterday. Nobody was injured.
- Doesn’t anyone just play “I Spy” anymore? The Telegraph has a tech- and gadget-heavy list of the 10 best travel games.
- The New York Times takes an evocative look at a South Carolina BBQ joint that still smokes its hogs the old-fashioned way.
- An Arkansas Holiday Inn got seriously pranked this weekend, as a caller claiming to be a sprinkler company worker convinced guests and employees to smash windows, set off fire alarms and more. (Via Fark)
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Ling 06.10.09 | 10:09 AM ET
If that gang at the Holiday Inn in Conway ever get hold of that prank caller, they’ll probably warap his neck around a sprinkler. I mean, they must be feeling really ripped off. Seems they really went nuts braking up windows and stuff, and there was some 150 people who turned up to see what all the fuss was about.
Grizzly Bear Mom 06.10.09 | 12:39 PM ET
A prank is a practical joke, like setting a wake up call for someone 6 AM. Breaking windows, pulling fire alarms, etc is not a prack, it is valdalism. I wish editors would ensure their copy doens’t including words like prank or lady when they mean vandal or woman.
I wonder how much time these vandals spend finding hotel guest who cooperate with them. destruction. I knew I wouldn’t.
Eva Holland 06.10.09 | 12:43 PM ET
Hi Grizzly Bear Mom - I’m not sure I would call the caller a vandal when he/she isn’t physically responsible for any of the damage. “Prank call” is generally the term for disingenuous, trouble-making phone calls.
Joanna Kakissis 06.10.09 | 5:00 PM ET
My gods, how I loved that bbq story. Is anyone else rooting for John T. Edge as The New York Times’ next restaurant critic? Please, please, please….
Blair 06.10.09 | 8:05 PM ET
Extremely sad hearing about the Picasso sketchbook. You pay millions for something stolen and you can’t share the art with anyone. Why even bother?