Visitors to Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles, can now rest their heads in the Lennon or McCartney suites at the Fab Four-themed Hard Days Night Hotel This new ,four-star establishment housed within a 19th century mercantile building, aims to provide everything a Beatles fan could desire — from the Yellow Submarine jukebox in the lobby…
Got your brackets? Are you in an office pool yet for the Final Four? If not, you’re not hooked into the latest craze for March Madness when business productivity slumps as hoops fans go nuts for the annual NCAA Basketball Tournament. Now, college basketball parties are going way upscale as host cities rock the fans…
The next time you’re in Vancouver, BC stop in at John Fluevog’s new world headquarters in Gastown. The shoe maven opened his very first shop just down the street in the 1970s. It was a bit smaller than the airy 5,000 sq. ft. space, which will be both Fluevog’s flagship retail store and the design…
‘Tis the season and decade for green — even for festivals. The Palm Springs Food and Wine Festival, April 12-14 in downtown Palm Springs, is showing its cool colors. The event will be powered by Akeena Solar’s Mobile Solar Power Station and tastings will be served with eco-friendly plates, cups and napkins. All are made…
Having some time to kill often leads me to great new discoveries, and the hours between a recent afternoon doctor’s appointment and meeting friends for dinner was no exception. My doctor’s office had moved to Denver’s far southern suburbs where a food, shopping and nightlife boom has been underway for a couple years. With not…
How cool a party would this make? Perfect for a Girlfriend Getaway or even to take over the whole place for your daughter’s Bat mitzvah party. DEX New York, is a brand new makeup/photography studio located in the hip Chelsea fashion district. Equal parts makeup studio, photography studio, progressive hair salon, makeover center, learning center…
The Transportation Security Administration is applying ski resort-style signage at Denver International Airport in an effort to speed up the dreaded security checks. The agency had a two-week test using the ski slope color-coding of green, blue and black. On ski slopes, green means novices; blue is for intermediate skills and black designates experts only….
BKWine is offering three wine and gastronomy tours this autumn to France and Portugal. The tours, organized by Britt Karlsson of BKWine based in Paris, specialize in wine, food and gastronomic travel. The new tours on the program are: September 8-12: Bordeaux Focuses on ambitious and dynamic wine makers of this region. October 22-26: The…
How about catching an elephant by the tail? As part of a massive exercise to re-stock the Majete Wildlife Reserve in southern Malawi, visitors are being offered the chance to be part of a programme of elephant capture and re-location this summer (May-June). Malawi is located in southeastern Africa. Often hyped as the “warm heart…
Chemists lined up drinking water from 20 cities across the country. I don’t know if they did a blind taste test or what, but all agreed that they could not detect any contaminants in San Francisco’s tap water. “We didn’t detect anything whatsoever,” said Shane Snyder, research manager at the Southern Nevada Water Authority who…
The Bozonos Luxury Villa has a wonderful location, called Akrotiri, on a hill over the city of Zakynthos, Greece. The natural beauty of the landscape is perfectly harmonized with the exceptional high-standard hospitality in a place as familiar as home, (though my home certainly isn’t 435 sq.m. on a 1600 sq.m property.) With respect to…
Kor Hotel Group’s Maison 140 Beverly Hills has brought back its popular wine and cheese tasting series, Vin et Fromage, held Wednesday evenings in the hotel’s intimately stylish Bar Noir. Set in a rich palette of crimson, black and red, Bar Noir offers a chicly refined décor. The evenings are both educational and informal, featuring…