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Story by Kerri Westenberg and Simon Peter Groebner • Star Tribune Illustration by Chiara Ghigliazza • Special to the Star Tribune April 23, 2021 Simon Peter Groebner • Star Tribune Illustration by Chiara Ghigliazza April 23, 2021 At MSP and airports across the country, security checkpoints are newly abuzz. Car rentals are selling out. Gas prices are rising as road trips rev up. Travel search site Kayak is seeing a steady rise in queries for summer travel. As more Americans get fully vaccinated, they are casting aside cabin fever and for the first time in over a year acting on their vis...

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) when you haven’t seen it for a number of years is a deeply reassuring experience. It is every bit as bad as you remember it, in fact perhaps just a little bit worse. This is Wood’s low-budget, largely incomprehensible sci-fi horror picture in which flying saucers appear over LA and Washington and cause some of the recently deceased to lurch back to life.  The film features an eccentric cameo from an addled-looking Bela Lugosi, Hollywood’s most famous Dracula, shot days before he died. There is an equally odd performance from 1950s horror star Maila Nurmi,...

Although Mystery Science Theater 3000 was dedicated to making fun of bad movies, not all the movies the show featured were truly awful. Many were merely crappy, but some of them were so ineptly made, so heinous, so unwatchable that trying to imagine viewing them without Joel, Mike and the ’Bots is terrifying. Here are the most wretched movies they had to sit through—and no, Manos: The Hands of Fate is not #1. 19) Robot Monster Perhaps the B-est “B movie” ever made, Robot Monster sounds generic enough—evil robot has conquered the world, the remnants of humanity try to survive. Wha...

Yachting Monthly 0shares Confined to quarters during the pandemic, many sailors are itching to slip their lines and sail for the sun. Elaine Bunting explains exactly how to break free and sail across the Atlantic and back If your dream is sailing off into the sunset, making it a reality could be easier than you think How to sail across the Atlantic and back Just as the island of Hiddensee drew across the wake of the boat, Malin Andersson took up her camera and shot a video. When she looks at it now, a late summer scene from the Baltic coast of Germany, she remembe...

March 01, 2021 Oahu is the third largest of the Hawaiian islands, located southeast of Kauai. The most populous of the islands, Oahu is home to the state capital of Honolulu and its cosmopolitan surroundings. Historic sites like Iolani Palace and Bishop Museum contrast with modern luxury hotels and highrise apartments. The glittering skyline, along with the Diamond Head crater, form a stunning backdrop for Waikiki's popular beaches.  Not far from the shops, restaurants, and hotels of Honolulu and Waikiki Beach, the scenery changes to quiet beaches, green valleys, and ...