Amusement and Theme Parks

January 4, 2024

A Fantasy That Comes With a Price Tag

What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn’t it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators […]
June 29, 2023

A Wild New Roller Coaster Opens in Georgia

Tucked away in the wooded suburbs south of Atlanta is a small family-owned amusement park that used to bring in customers thanks to humble attractions like […]
June 10, 2022

After a Political Storm, Gay Days Return to Disney

ORLANDO, Fla. — Last Friday evening, about 6,000 people — almost all of them gay men — poured into a Walt Disney World water park near […]
June 7, 2022

Disney Apologizes After Employee Thwarts Marriage Proposal

A man had been planning for months to pop the question at Disneyland Paris, but the employee instead snatched the ring and ushered the couple off […]
April 9, 2021

Clementon Park and Splash World Auction Has Surprise Ending

CLEMENTON, N.J. — Their coats buttoned against the chill of a gray Friday in March, people were climbing the stairs of the water slides and the […]
March 13, 2020

‘If I’m Going to Get Sick and Die, I Might as Well Do It at Disney World’

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December 2, 2019

Celebrating New Year’s, Offspring in Tow

Childless revelers have a plethora of options when it comes to New Year’s Eve. Unencumbered adults can go to parties held in bars, at homes and […]
November 2, 2019

Where ‘Jaws,’ the Ride, Lives Forever

ImageShark! Shark! Shark! A YouTube video of a defunct “Jaws” ride has a gazillion views. When Robb Alvey, an amusement park fanatic, heard that Universal Studios […]
October 24, 2019

After 15 Years, Dream Mall Finally Becomes a Reality

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It has taken 15 years, three owners, two names and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer incentives, but a giant […]