Contemporary Country Club Chic What:The latest W Hotel opening is in Atlanta’s upscale Buckhead neighborhood, which is now home to a Jean Georges restaurant.

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The Dirt:Long a second tier city, Atlanta is growing and is now home to a great art scene and thanks to Starwood Hotels & Resorts, a Jean Georges Vongerichten restaurant housed in the new W Atlanta-Buckhead. W Hotels and developer Noble Investment Group enlisted the artistic advice and expertise of interior decorator Thom Filicia, the [...]

MidEast Property Orgy Ends, Currency Battle BeginsWhat: Dropping oil prices and a global credit crisis is hitting the Middle East too, where some states are considering a common currency.

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The Dirt:Cost cutting in a world where five-star hotels are the norm is a scary sign. The folks in the Middle Eastern city of Dubai are cutting costs and bringing the real estate development spending spree to halt, having already asked Abu Dhabi for help. Some of the folks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) [...]

If You Build It, Will They Come?Dubai’s Latest Splurges What:The pioneer of modernity in the Middle East surges on with development plans, despite rocky financial markets.

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The Dirt:While Americans rejoice the end of the presidential campaign and the election of the first non-white president, the financial markets continue to falter, including those in the Middle East. Though the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman) states are sitting on hefty energy resources, dropping oil [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking September 8

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Organizers of the Venice International Film Festival showed one of Vietnam’s banned movies, reports Intellasia.net. Vietnamese censors banned Phan Dang Di’s 20-minute film entitled Khi Toi 20, claiming that it portrayed Vietnam negatively. The film follows the relationship between two teenagers, one of which is a sex worker forced into the profession to support her [...]