Marriott to Enter Economy Chic Sector

Send to KindleTweet Hotel giant Marriott is teaming up with Swedish budget furniture goliath IKEA for its impending entry to the budget hotel market. In the works for almost two years, MOXY HOTELS is a collaboration between Marriott and Inter IKEA Group subsidiary Inter Hospitality Holding. The first hotel will launch next year in Milan, with features such [...]

NYC’s High Line Park To Expand

Send to KindleTweet NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Friends of the High Line Co-Founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond joined the groundbreaking of third and final section of the Highline in late September. The construction of the section that will run up to 34th Street followed the City’s acquisition of the [...]

Weekly Links: Clothes, Art & Men – In the News

Send to KindleTweet It’s 7:43 a.m. on a Tuesday and I’m already exhausted and I have already eaten a meal. I woke up four times last night not because I have a child – I don’t – not yet – but because I was afraid of sleeping through my Spring 2013 registration slot. Add to [...]

Boxed In: A Woman’s Right to Defy the Norm

Send to KindleTweet Before I start defending a woman’s right to be a functioning junkie, I just want to say this. Cat Marnell has shit taste in graffiti. Any tag on a wall is not art. So to bury the lede from the start, I’ll tell you about an amazing graffiti artist I met in [...]

Tech Baby: Stalk Your Nanny Via Your iPhone

Send to KindleTweet This actually makes me want to buy another baby present. European company Withings has come up with a number of products that enable DIY health monitoring, from scales that track your weight and BMI online, to home blood pressure monitors. But, the one I love is the small square device that alongside [...]

Big Data: Walmart, Consultancy Ink Deal

Send to KindleTweet If you are among the group of Americans that was outraged to hear that an American man learned about his teenage daughter’s pregnancy from Target, get prepared to be even more outraged about privacy issues and big data. Consumer and retail market research firm The NPD Group has inked an agreement with [...]

Dell: Call It A Comeback

Send to KindleTweet I never thought I’d say this, but I might buy a Dell. The new XPS13 is the closest to what I’m looking for in an Ultrabook. But before I get into the specs, here are the major selling points: $999 starting price, standard SSD (128GB base), and 100GB of free storage on [...]

Six Notes on Juneau, Alaska

Send to KindleTweet I arrived in Juneau, Alaska about 17 hours after I left the Boston area. I must confess that I did expect most people to be baseball hat and flannel wearing men with pickup trucks and maybe that’s not far off though this is also Subaru country. But, city folk need to admit [...]

Data Whore: Why I Splurged on a 64GB iPhone 4S

Send to KindleTweet Frustrated to near tears the other night I rang Verizon Wireless and asked if I could upgrade three weeks early. The nice southern belle on the phone got manager approval to do so and recommended, after I asked about size, the 16GB iPhone. I was thinking even if it wasn’t big enough, I’d [...]

Taschen Hosts Almodovar For Signing

Send to KindleTweet Publisher Taschen is hosting Spanish Film Director Pedro Almodovar on Monday November 14 for a book signing. The man behind Women on the Verge and Volver has a new book out, The Pedro Almodovar Archives, complete with more than 600 images and a film strip from Volver. Paper Magazine Publisher and Editor [...]

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