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Private Club Goes Public. The dismissive door women at the private club Soho House in New York City will have to find it in their heart to welcome even you. The exclusive hotel has joined the hotel group Utell Hotels & Resorts, and now its 24 rooms, roof deck pool, library bar and games room are open to the public. Rooms start...
...former chief officer on a Hong Kong-registered container ship, of the frequent hijackings he witnessed and heard of in the Gulf of Aden during his stint onboard last year. "The pirates come at you firing rocket launchers. You can outpace them if you're a fast, high-decked container. Otherwise you'll have to slow down or risk being blown up. Then they'll bring out their ladders, climb onto your deck, guns in hand, and it's all over in seven to eight minutes." Describing the passage through pirate-infested waters, he adds, "Every few minutes there...
...Empire Hotel is encouraging you to extend your midweek business trip through the weekend and invite your significant other along. With the Stay Another Day package, you get a room upgrade, a buffet breakfast for two, a pitcher of sangria, iced tea or lemonade for lounging by the roof-deck pool, and two cocktails at the Lobby Bar. Rates start at $259 per night. The package is valid through September 15. 44 West 63rd Street, New York City...
...each have a queen bed and two trundle beds amid the groovy Lucite globe swing chairs, beanbags and rocking chairs, as well as flat-screen TVs and free wi-fi. If it's warm enough outside, you can hang out at the hotel's outdoor café or rooftop deck. Rates start at $199 per night. If you're traveling alone, you can book a regular room for just $69 per night. 230 East 51st Street...
...kind of truly low-brow notion of what art is supposed to be,” Toback says. “What happens with the most interesting works of art, I think, is that you start with a sense of deception, of half-knowledge, preferably with the deck stacked against your protagonist, and then in the course of whatever you’re watching or hearing, you gain a greater, deeper understanding of who that person is.”Toback, like his subject, has something of a bad reputation. Associated in Hollywood with drug cults, hustlers, and gangsters...