The haves will always have, no matter what the economy does. For them, there’s the new Ego for Bentley, a $20,000 limited-edition notebook computer that takes the performance and style of Bentley Motors cars and puts them in a computer. Ego for Bentley is a partnership between the British luxury automaker and Ego Lifestyle (http://www.ego-lifestyle.com/collections/bentley/)….
Stock prices are falling, gas prices are rising, the economy is collapsing and thus Artisanal Premium Cheeses of New York has decided to … lower shipping prices. Yes, lower. The cheese shop (www.artisanalcheese.com), affiliated with my favorite midtown restaurant of the same name (about which I’ve written before) has decided to give customers a break….
I’ve put an awful lot of wine in my body. I just learned that putting it on my body can be just as wonderful. The vinotherapy massage at the new Glade Spring Spa (http://www.suncadiaresort.com/vacation-spa-resorts.php) in the Suncadia resort community 80 miles east of Seattle uses Chardonnay-infused oil that soothes away all the kinks and knots…
Get your Claret and carnival glass all in the same place: Vintage Vine LLC in tiny Roslyn, Washington. The combination wine and antique shop opened in March in the little town west of Seattle that portrayed remote Cicely, Alaska, in the television show “Northern Exposure.” The town of Roslyn and the Vintage Vine shop are…
It’s been decades since my last slumber party, but the fun deals at Denver’s The Curtis Hotel make me want to call my BFF, dig out the Ouija board and stay up all night talking about boys. The funky, year-old downtown hotel known for its emphasis on pop culture kitsch is offering two great options…
George W. Bush has his Texas ranch. Reagan had Santa Barbara. Now you can buy a presidential retreat of your own. Former President Gerald Ford’s Beaver Creek, Colorado, home is for sale for $14.9 million. The ski-in/ski-out, 10,000-square-foot, seven-bedroom house is on the market for the second time in two years. Investor Kevin Hayes bought…
Scandinavians take their sauna seriously. The world’s first sauna gondola has been built in the Lapland ski area of Yllas, Finland. Doppelmayr’s sauna gondola lets skiers warm up during a 13 minute round-trip ride. Guests strip down to swimsuits in the main station and then relax in the warm cabin while it’s attached to the…
Think of Kansas and what comes to mind? Dorothy, Toto and a wicked witch? Sunflowers? Corn? How about wine? Yes, wine, wineries and vineyards. Who knew Kansas is home to 15 wineries producing more than 50,000 gallons of wine? One of the newest Sunflower State wineries, established in 2004 and producing its first bottlings this…
My recent trip to New York led me in opposite directions for lodging. I spent a couple days in the W Times Square, a splashy Starwood hotel that still attracts the young and the pretty from this country and Europe. Then I spent a few days in the Helmsley Middletowne, a down-to-earth comfy old building….
Any sentence that uses the words “free” and “spa” together gets my attention. Rock Resorts, with properties in the Rocky Mountain West and Caribbean, is giving it away at all of their spas to celebrate their four newest. Book a stay at any of their properties for two nights or more, arriving by July 31,…
For our friends with significant disposable incomes and the urge to find a truly special hotel-spa-dining adventure, Denver’s Hotel Monaco is celebrating its 10th anniversary by offering two Decadent Decade packages that include 10 exclusive experiences for $10,000. The Klimpton hotel opened in downtown Denver on Oct. 1, 1998, the same year, the hotel notes,…
Manhattan is so full of wonderful little neighborhood restaurants that it’s impossible to find and try them all. When I lived there, I’d wander the cross streets and duck into little 10- or 12-table bistros then wobble out an hour or so later sated and thinking I found my new favorite place … until I…