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Emerald City Gem. The luxury Fairmont hotel wants your business in Seattle. The Fairmont Olympic Hotel is now offering 40% off rack rates, so standard rooms are down to $199. There are also three different executive suite packages available, for $299 per night: "Shoppers Delight" includes a $100 Visa gift card; "Savor Seattle" comes with a three-course dinner for two at The Georgian restaurant in the hotel; "Celebration" gets you truffles and a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne in your room. If you buy all three, you get a fourth package of your choice for $99. Deals are available...
...place to compare a moment of striking camaraderie in post-9/11 New York to the resolve of the passengers of the Arbella. The book could just as easily be a conversation with the author herself.“The Wordy Shipmates” is a gem, and Vowell’s ambitious and rewarding work to date. Unlike her contemporaries Bill Maher and Lewis Black, who use a skewed view of American history to point out its flaws, Vowell exhibits a deeply sympathetic perspective for American figures both past and present, and in doing so, she evokes the same...
...mother still pulls this gem out whenever possible. There’s nothing she likes more than such a perfect example of my “endearing neuroses.” So anxious about the hard parts, I struggle with what is inherently easy...
...that distracts from—if not totally ignores—that message.To the extent that “Choke” has one, the movie’s saving grace is its cast. Rockwell, in his second top-billed role after George Clooney’s 2002 sleeper gem “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” fills Victor’s slime-caked shoes with appropriately intelligent and acerbic abandon. Rockwell excels at playing the sane man on the ship of fools, and it’s a testament to his talent as an actor...
...carry the book and advance the reputation of the author. But of the entire trove of qualities that distinguish Vincent Lam's first book of short stories, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, the most immediately conspicuous is that each and every single story in this book is a flickering, luminous gem...