Philadelphia has something most American cities do not: a purpose-built event spine. The Benjamin Franklin Parkway runs a mile from City Hall to the Art Museum steps, lined with flags and museums, with Eakins Oval at the top as a natural stage and the whole length of it closable for a parade, a race, a […]
Phoenix is one of the only major American cities whose primary airport sits almost in the middle of it. Sky Harbor International is about three miles from the downtown core, wedged into the Salt River corridor between downtown and Tempe, with east-west runways that put arrivals over Tempe and departures over the west valley at […]
Portland banned consumer fireworks outright, and it did not stop at the Fourth of July. Portland Fire and Rescue prohibits the sale and use of fireworks inside city limits year-round, which in a city with 5,200 acres of forest inside its boundary is less a nanny-state flourish than a fire plan. Anyone who watched the […]
Rhode Island is small enough that the entire state is a single operating day. From the Connecticut line at Westerly to the Massachusetts line at Woonsocket is well under an hour of driving, which means a crew can scout in the morning, set up in the afternoon and fly the same night. That is genuinely […]
Count the military airfields in San Antonio before you count the venues. Joint Base San Antonio spans Lackland with Kelly Field, Randolph to the northeast, and Fort Sam Houston, with Camp Bullis training ground sitting above the city to the north. Add San Antonio International and Stinson Municipal, and you have one of the most […]