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...confidence. "In Dubai, if you have a fantasy, you don't just fantasize about it, you build it," says Sultan bin Sulayem, Kerzner's partner in the Atlantis, whose firm, Nakheel, constructed the Palm. "It's astounding," agrees Kerzner, sipping Perrier with Sultan recently in the Atlantis' lobby bar. "When I first came here, we were in the middle of the desert. You wonder how you can continue at this pace, at what point this irons out. But Dubai is still going strong...
...you’re un-American. And best of all, you get to watch freshmen awkwardly grope each other, unsure of the proper etiquette for grinding on a stranger. It’s almost as good as watching 13 year-olds play Snowball at your cousin’s Bar Mitzvah...
...attended the University of Indiana, where he played rugby and bought a nightclub that he named Motley's. He says he had to shut down the bar when authorities discovered that the winner of an in-house wet T-shirt contest was a 16-year-old girl on probation for prostitution...
...arrived in town a few hours earlier than my boyfriend, so I ducked into a divey-looking bar in the heart of the French Quarter called the Copper Monkey (725 Conti Street; 504-527-0868) for a beer and an awesome burger. The toothless gentleman to my right regaled me with tales of the chef training he received in Angola (the state penitentiary, not the country). When I tried to buy him a drink, he waved me off, saying, "Women don't pay for beer down here," and sent one my way. I was really starting to like this town...
When Philippe Starck designed the Royalton Hotel, there were lamps that resembled animal horns and a champagne bar shaped like the inside of a bottle. "In the '80s, the boutique hotel was about design," says Starck. "Today we want something completely different. We don't speak about design." Starck's latest endeavor is SLS Hotels, a new brand meant to "re-explode" the luxury-hotel experience. The first property, SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills, opens next month. Rather than the flashy design motifs of the past, the emphasis is on quieter indulgences. Design retailer Murray Moss will select objects...