Friday Travel Ticker: Help make history
L.A.’s Natural History Museum is
looking for volunteers to help build its first-ever Rose Parade float. Click here for info on how to participate. . . . The anti-pornography group Morality in Media is calling for a consumer protest of Ryanair after the European airline’s announcement it will provide inflight iPad and smartphone
apps that will include pornographic content. The group says the material would create an unpleasant and unsafe environment for female passengers and flight attendants. . . .
Actor-author Henry Winkler will discuss and sign copies of his homage to fly-fishing, "I’ve Never Met an Idiot on the River," Dec. 11, 1-3 p.m. at the Fishermen’s Spot, 14411 Burbank Blvd., Van Nuys. . . .
Lottery registration forms are due Nov. 16 for the 2012 season at Ostrander Ski Hut, a popular overnight destination for those making the 10-mile trek from Badger Pass Ski Area to Ostrander Lake in Yosemite. . . .
Vintage Volkswagen buses will be the guests of honor at the London Bridge Vintage Volkswagen Bus Show and Camp Out at Lake Havasu City, Ariz., Jan. 13-15. Click here for details. ….
Hotel del Coronado in Coronado is offering a holiday package that includes ice-skating sessions. Rates start at $339 per night, Book online or call (800) 468-3533. . . . Yet another Veterans Day deal: Papaya King Hollywood is offering retired and active-duty military one of their renowned
hot dogs for free all day Friday. In addition, they’re offering the general public $0.11 fries with the purchase of any hot dog, in honor of 11/11/11. . . . For a complete list of participants in the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival Nov. 16-20, click here. . . . The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula held a memorial service Thursday to
honor the 29 men who sank with the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Lake Superior gale 36 years ago. The 729-foot ore carrier sank about 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point. . . . PopCrush is giving two lucky Michael Buble
fans the chance to watch the crooner perform live at the Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting on Nov. 30. . . .
Quote of the day: “It"s scary. You go out there and your knees are shaking and you try to hold onto the microphone and not look