tz
/ October 3, 2026
Center Parc Stadium sits at 755 Hank Aaron Drive in Atlanta, Georgia, and few college football venues can match its backstory. The structure began life as Centennial Olympic Stadium, built for the 1996 Summer Olympics, where it hosted track and field competitions and the closing…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium is the on-campus football home of the East Carolina University Pirates in Greenville, North Carolina. Opened in 1963 as Ficklen Memorial Stadium with just 10,000 seats, it has grown through decades of expansions into one of the largest stadiums among Group of Five…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium has been the home of Kansas Jayhawks football in Lawrence, Kansas, since it opened on October 29, 1921. Built as a memorial to University of Kansas students who died in World War I, it’s recognized as one of the oldest…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
The Roundhouse is a circular performance venue in Chalk Farm, Camden, built in 1846-1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a steam locomotive turntable shed. After its brief life moving trains ended, the building spent decades as a gin warehouse before being reborn…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
ACL Live at the Moody Theater opened on February 10, 2011, in downtown Austin, Texas, as the full-time production home of the long-running PBS series Austin City Limits. Built as part of the mixed-use Block 21 development alongside the W Austin hotel, the $40 million…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
The Beacon Theatre opened on December 24, 1929, at 2124 Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, built by showman Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel as a lavish movie palace. Architect Walter W. Ahlschlager designed the interior with a sweeping mix of Renaissance, Greco-Roman, and Rococo flourishes, crowned…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo sits inside historic Beardsley Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, holding the distinction of being the only Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)-accredited zoo in the entire state. The zoo traces its roots back to 1922, when it opened on parkland that local farmer…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Pepsi Orange Streak is an indoor family roller coaster at Nickelodeon Universe inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Built by German manufacturer Zierer and designed by Werner Stengel’s engineering firm, it opened on August 11, 1992, as Pepsi Ripsaw when the park was…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Avatar Airbender is an Intamin Half Pipe shuttle coaster at Nickelodeon Universe inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. It opened on March 15, 2008, as one of the headline attractions when Nickelodeon Universe replaced the former Camp Snoopy indoor park, debuting from day…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Fairly Odd Coaster is an indoor spinning roller coaster at Nickelodeon Universe, the theme park built inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Manufactured by Germany’s Gerstlauer Amusement Rides, it opened on March 15, 2004, as one of the first installations of the company’s…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Here are today’s 10 verified theme park & live event stories, covering Theme Parks & Roller Coasters, Stadiums & Arenas and Live Music & Venues. Every item below links to its original source. The TLDR Theme Parks & Roller Coasters Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Solar…
Read more
tz
/ October 3, 2026
Snoopy’s Racing Railway is a family launch coaster at Carowinds, the Charlotte-area park that straddles the North Carolina–South Carolina line. Built by German manufacturer ART Engineering, the ride opened on May 24, 2025, inside the park’s Camp Snoopy section, replacing the smaller Snoopy’s Junction miniature…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
Can my toddler actually ride anything at Six Flags Magic Mountain, or is this strictly a coaster-record park for big kids? The honest answer: Magic Mountain is built around record-chasing thrill coasters, and its dedicated kids’ zone, Looney Tunes Land, is comparatively small — as…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
The Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park has been a fixture of downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, since 1937, when it opened with little more than two small cages for rhesus monkeys. Nearly nine decades later, the AZA-accredited facility has grown into a compact but densely packed wildlife…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
Charles Paddock Zoo is a small but mighty community zoo in Atascadero, California, tucked beside Atascadero Lake Park on the Central Coast. What began in 1955 as county park ranger Charles “Chuck” Paddock’s informal menagerie of rescued and recovering wild animals grew into a public…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
Kiddy Hawk is a suspended family coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma. The ride first opened on March 22, 2003, as Rugrats Runaway Reptar, themed around the Nickelodeon cartoon, before the park rebranded it as Flying Ace Aerial Chase…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
Hurler is a wooden roller coaster that has rattled through Carowinds’ Thrill Zone since opening on June 4, 1994. Built with a triple out-and-back layout, it was one of two nearly identical sister coasters constructed that year, with a twin installed at Kings Dominion in…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
If a favorite coaster is on your must-ride list, 2026 is shaping up to be a year of goodbyes. Several well-known rides are either confirmed to run their last laps once the year wraps up or have already been pulled from operation months ahead of…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
2026 turned out to be a genuinely strong year for new coasters, even after the headline-grabbing Falcon’s Flight and Iron Rattler technically opened a day early at Six Flags Qiddiya City on December 31, 2025. What’s left is still a loaded field: a record-setting giga…
Read more
tz
/ October 2, 2026
Black Friday has become the single best day of the year to lock in a theme park season pass, and 2026 should be no different. Parks like Six Flags, SeaWorld, and Universal Orlando use the week around Thanksgiving to roll out their lowest pass pricing…
Read more