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FREE ADMISSION AND THREEFER DEAL AT DISNEYLAND: Throughout 2009, you'll get free admission to the Anaheim, Calif., theme park on your birthday, but don't miss a summer offer that adds two free nights to a three-night stay.
Guests pay for three nights of hotel accommodations and three days of theme park admission, then receive two more nights at the hotel and two more days at the theme park. Until Sept. 26, the offer is valid at Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel, the Disneyland Hotel and Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa. It's also available at participating Disneyland Resort Good Neighbor Hotels.
To book a Disneyland Resort vacation package, or for park info: www.disneyland.com.
Los Angeles Times
FUN IN NEW ORLEANS: You'll find plenty to spend money on in New Orleans, but when you're feeling thrifty, the city's tourism Web site offers a list of “50 Free Things to Do in New Orleans.”
Some activities are seasonal, but many are available year-round. Examples: Ride the Canal Street Ferry to Algiers Point to see the New Orleans skyline. Experience a cooking demonstration at the Crescent City Farmers Market. Enjoy free oysters and music by Joe Krown each Friday at Le Bon Temps Roule music club. Tour the Germaine Cazenave Wells Mardi Gras Museum at Arnaud's. Watch sailboats race on Lake Pontchartrain from Lakefront Park or a sunset from Lakeshore Drive.
Get the whole list at www .neworleansonline.com (click “50 Free Things to Do in New Orleans”). At the site, you can also sign up for the free monthly newsletter and free “Official Visitors Guide.” Dallas Morning News
HISTORY EXHIBIT IN N.Y.: A landmark exhibition on Vichy France has opened at the New York Public Library. “Between Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under Nazi Occupation,” guest-curated by award-winning historian Robert Paxton, runs until July 25 at the library's headquarters at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.
This rich and complex show explores one of the saddest chapters in the history of France, the period between 1940 and 1944 when France succumbed to the armies of Germany's Third Reich. Using rare journals, maps, letters and photos, the exhibition probes the issue of French collaboration with the Nazis.
Free public tours and a series of films made in France during the Nazi occupation accompany the exhibition. Exhibit admission is free. Details: www.nypl.org/research/chss/vichy. Los Angeles Times
