Travel headlines for the weekend of 9/3/06.

Not the industry, but the actual neighborhood that gave Tinseltown its name. The NYT has a new video up with their version of how to see the real city lurking beyond the Walk of Fame, the Kodak Theater and Grauman’s Chinese.

This clip has been circulating around the Web for awhile, but it cropped up as a recent post while I was searching YouTube’s travel pickings today, and I was reminded how great it is.

Like a slice of roadside Americana gone global, PBS’ web-only feature “Off the Map�? tours 10 artistic oddities in the US, Africa, Asia and Europe.

Everyone loves comeback stories, and this weekend’s travel coverage is full of them.

Most trips won’t live up to the advertorial prose and glossy images that inspired them, and far less dramatic things than political uprisings or pandemics have the ability to send a vacation off the rails.