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A new museum celebrating '60s counterculture and music is set to open this summer on the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival. The Museum at Bethel Woods in Bethel, New York (about 90-minutes north of Manhattan) will be an addition to the 2,000-acre Bethel Woods Center of the Arts. The museum, opening June 2nd, will house exhibitions that combine film footage, interactive displays, and artifacts—bring on the bell bottoms! (bethelwoodscenter.org.museum, museum admission $13) Consider planning your visit to sync up with one of the concerts at Bethel Woods' 15,000-seat outdoor theater. Tickets for this summer’s acts, such as Ringo Starr, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Steve Miller, are already on sale, starting at about $26. There's also an open-air market selling crafts and produce, and, of course, the concert fields of the original Woodstock, if you're feeling nostalgic. MORE FROM BUDGET TRAVEL Road Trip to the Catskills: A Heap of Old-Fashioned Fun, Only Two Hours From New York City

Today, the TSA is set to expand its Black Diamond security checkpoint program to Milwaukee, making it the 13th airport so far to offer self-select lanes based on ski icons (green for beginners, blue for intermediate, and black for expert). After debuting in Salt Lake City in mid-February, the program has rolled out—in order of appearance—to Denver, Spokane, Boston, Orlando, Cincinnati, Raleigh-Durham, Portland, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Houston-Hobby, and Oakland airports, according to a TSA spokesperson. Here's how editor Erik Torkells recently described it: When you reach the security checkpoint, you can choose which line to enter--expert (travel frequently, know the rules), intermediate (not quite an expert, but it's not your first time at the rodeo), and beginner/people who need more time (families, special needs). In a cute touch, they're using traditional ski iconography—black diamond for expert, blue square for intermediate, green circle for beginner. In case you haven't passed through these lines yet, here's a one-minute video explaining the system: While flying from Oakland last week, I used the system, which launched at that airport on April 18. By picking the near-empty "expert traveler" lane, I was able to skip 10 people in the blue "casual traveler" line. However, my gloating was short-lived since I ended up standing behind a member of the National Guard, who had unlaced his boots but neglected to take them off. After beeping the second time, he had to go back to remove his wallet and belt. At this point, the TSA had opened another checkpoint, and I sadly watched the "casual travelers" bypass me. When we blogged about this service before, readers generally gave favorable comments about the idea. What do you think of the program? Was I just unlucky, or are slow lines common even in "expert" lanes?

Takashi Murakami isn't called the Japanese Warhol for nothing. In his most recent retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, Murakami’s 90-plus-works use popular culture to investigate branding and identity. But, instead of using the likeness of celebrities, Murakami introduces the public to his own world of characters in the form of life-size transformer dolls, anime-inspired paintings, and a 10-minute cartoon episode. His world is cheeky, bright, and fun. The buzz surrounding the artist may be, in part, due to his focus on his own brand. His collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 1999—where he created a new collection of leather goods—is displayed in the form of a luxurious in-house shop (yes, bags can be purchased). The artist also self-imposes his name in a popular Japanese model maker’s sign, keeping the tagline "first in quality around the world." Murakami’s most stunning works showcase his affinity for anime: A 7-paneled-painting of mushrooms dotted with eyes alludes to the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his hybrid character, Mr. DOB, is a morph of what could be Mickey Mouse and Sonic-the-Hedgehog. With all the buzz surrounding Murakami’s work, these are the ones that live up to all the hype. The exhibit © MURAKAMI is on display until July 13 in the Morris A. Meyer Schapiro Wing and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery on the 4th and 5th floors. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students. (www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami)

Disney Cruise Line is slapping on a fee for fuel costs, says the Orlando Sentinel's tourism blog. It was the only major cruise line that hadn't already adopted a fuel surcharge. It will not follow the others in charging even those guests who have already booked, a policy we've complained about before and that is being investigated by Florida's state attorney general. Per the Sentinel: Disney Cruise Lines will charge the first two passengers in a stateroom $8 a person per day up to a maximum of $112 per person per vacation. It will charge any remaining passengers in a cabin $3 a person per day up to a maximum of $42 per person. It will begin levying the fuel surcharge on any new bookings made on or after May 28.