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...environmental concerns,” said Matthew V. Moore, the hotel’s director of rooms and environmental programs. “The complimentary parking is our way of giving back to those guests who share a similar environmental philosophy.” Across the river, The Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel has implemented numerous energy conservation measures in place, such as room occupancy sensors that automatically modify thermostat settings and new energy-efficient heating and cooling equipment and laundry machines, according to General Manager Christian Coffin. Though it has a parking garage, the hotel has not considered altering...
Although certain self-parodying epiphenomena of the Age of Profligacy - so long, Paris Hilton! - are about to disappear, fun will endure. Hollywood is doing fantastic box-office business, thanks to insanely unserious movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Madea Goes to Jail. The Colbert Report has been a special haven of sanity amid the sky-is-falling hysteria. And again, history is encouraging in this regard: Saturday Night Live and modern comedy were born during the malaise-y '70s, just as wit and humor - the New Yorker, the Marx Brothers, screwball comedy - flourished in the '30s. I'm even...
...that I've used it a few times, I wonder if Netdisaster inspires feelings of ill-will when previously there were none. I kind of like Perez Hilton's website, but then I made an animated baby scribble all over his already scribbled on photos and suddenly I felt superior to the pink-haired celebrity gossip diva. Gwyneth Paltrow runs an online lifestyle website called Goop. I have no opinion of the site, but I enjoyed covering it in goop. And the recently arrested Kanye West? I loved 808 and Heartbreak, but I couldn't help but attack his site...
...long time ago, when a Hilton was a hotel and Big Brother was a character in a book, there was acting and the stage - and a generation of British actors to whom those were the only things that mattered. On any given night in the small provincial theaters of Britain of the 1960s, you might catch the likes of Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave or Patrick Stewart plying their trade. All were born or grew up during World War II, many in northern English counties known for their booming diction, and all shared the same obsession. Says...
...When I returned to Washington, my skeptical friends asked how my trip went. Go now, was my advice, quickly, before Cartagena is overrun by Starbucks, McDonald's and Hilton - all of which are opening branches there soon. The first time I visited the city - on a business stopover in 2004 - it had a handful of high-rise buildings. Now it has 48, with dozens more under construction. Right now the Cartagena landscape is still shaped by local stores and galleries, Colombian cooking, and the open, curious hospitality of people who haven't yet dealt with pushy hordes of foreign tourists...