These sites and articles are great for traveling news and entertainment:

New York Times Travel Section
Site Address: http://travel.nytimes.com/pages/travel/index.html
The travel section of the New York Times is great. It offers some entertaining and insightful travel news and information. Some articles from the New York Times below:

California's Overbooked Peaks

Readers’ Picks: Barcelona

New York Times Olympics Features

June 24, 2008
China's Visa Policy and Olympics Tourism

January 7, 2008
Streets of Bangkok

National Geographic
Site Address: www.nationalgeographic.com
I'm just a fan of National Geographic anyway but the site offers a lot of indepth features, articles and exposes on practically any destination you can think of and then some.