Searching for romantic hot springs (Vail Daily)
I guess I watched one too many episodes of “The Girls Next Door†because I always assumed natural hot springs would be just like the grotto. You know, that jacuzzi cave outside the Playboy Mansion where models go to sponge each other. us.rd.yahoo.com
Tween spa, salon opening (Chicago Sun-Times)
Princess pampering is the game at a couple of Chicago area spas opening to provide pre-teen girls manis, pedis, ’dos and stuff. Hubby and wife team Chad and Michelle McClennan will open a Sweet & Sassy salon and spa in Chicago Dec. 5, and another in Oak Brook in February. us.rd.yahoo.com
Rapper Blaxican's loot reaches the auction block (Daily Southtown)
As celebrity memorabilia auctions go, it might be a bit below Sotheby's. But the list of items seized from Homer Glen rapper Blaxican's mansion going on the auction block makes up in quantity what it lacks in star power. Among the items are a 650-gallon shark tank he kept his pet shark and bat-ray in, and a $14,000 hot tub with pop-up stereo and TV. us.rd.yahoo.com
NCAA tournament is college sports done right (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
For all the griping that takes place each December and January when college football digs in its cleats to decide its national championship, college basketball should be basking in a hot tub filled with harmony today. us.rd.yahoo.com
DVD reviews | Meet the real Charlie Wilson (Miami Herald)
When first we meet Texan Congressman Charlie Wilson in Charlie Wilson's War (Universal; $29.98; R), he's naked in a Vegas hot tub with coke-sniffing strippers who find his sudden fascination with images on a nearby television puzzling, given the amenities they offer. us.rd.yahoo.com