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...line with traditional first class. Both British Airways and Singapore Airlines have replaced their loungers with fully adjustable seats that extend into flat beds for long-haul flights. Australia's flagship, Qantas, is launching next year its own convertible seat bed, a follow-up to its highly successful gourmet restaurant in the sky. And Virgin Atlantic Airways boasts an in-flight beauty therapist who dispenses hand, neck and head massages...
Massages, full-length beds, restaurant-style gourmet meals?why bother with first class? "We worry that business class is cannibalizing our first class," says Singapore Airlines' manager of product development, Sim Kim Chui. "But ultimately our first-class passengers seek the exclusivity and space that comes from being one of 12 in a cabin, not one of 50." These days, however, even second class is first-rate...
...good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past - a tale of an amnesiac among the unemployed and one of the deadpan Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. The film's leading lady, Kati Outinen, took Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor for his role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled teenager and the carpenter whose son he killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award...
...finest option at the Sert Gallery Café isn’t gourmet at all—it’s the gallery. The exhibitions change fairly regularly and often feature artists of note. At the moment there is an exhibition of short-format abstract films. Upon entering one may view Bruce Nauman’s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square, a 10-minute film wherein Bruce Nauman really does just walk along a taped-out square in his studio. Another offering is David Hammons’ Phat Free. The film...
Personal chefs are different from private cooks, who usually work full time preparing gourmet meals for the wealthy. Instead, personal chefs are tempting two-earner households with customized menus at reasonable rates, typically $15 per person at each meal. The chefs are masters of efficiency, whipping up three or four weeks of meals in a marathon six-hour session and juggling a dozen or more clients. Hayward's business, Premier Concierge of Columbus, primarily consists of a Volvo station wagon brimming with knives, spice tins and cling wrap...