Word: indigo
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Music: Johnson’s CD collection includes U2, Indigo Girls, Christmas music and various mixes made by friends, including “Bump It In Da Club.” Kauble plays “Camille’s Special Mix” on her stereo. “This is a really good mix. Off the chain...
...Genuine Hawaiian aloha shirts from the 1960s and '70s take pride of place on his walls, and a pair of vintage, indigo Big E Levi's hang by the door. "Not for sale," says Preecha. "Just to attract good customers." Levi's, especially Red Tab and Big E versions, as well as Japanese denim brands such as Evisu, are in strong demand with collectors, he says...
Welcome to Indigo, the upper-crust company that doesn't even call itself an airline. With most of the country's large carriers suffering financially and cutting back flights and amenities, a fresh flock of new and expanding niche carriers is rushing to fill the gap with wildly varying routes and styles of service. Indigo and an unprecedented transatlantic Boeing Business Jet service offered by Germany's Lufthansa Airlines are aimed at executive travelers. Others, like JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways, are profitably targeting bargain hunters. Some are even more offbeat: Want to fly among skimpily clad hostesses from Atlanta...
...early passengers and encouraged the airline to expand service to Munich from Newark and schedule a Chicago-to-Dusseldorf flight starting in June. The carrier will not say whether the route is profitable, but it has been flying at a healthy 60% of capacity. Among U.S. business travelers, Indigo is attracting almost as much attention for its clever use of secondary airports like Teterboro and, starting in June, White Plains, N.Y. Indigo CEO Pete Pappas, a longtime American executive, is a seasoned pro who sweats the little things--like promising a 6-ft. 8-in. frequent flyer a seat...
...John) who wears Hawaiian shirts in the dead of winter. Quirky is the first word that comes to mind when describing people I have come to share my life with here: the poetry writing, tarot-card reading, personal-ad posting English concentrator from Florida, the right-of-right conservative Indigo Girls fan from New York, a hippie classicist from North Carolina. And although there may be a bigger proportion of Nalgene-sporting anti-war activists here than most places elsewhere, I think we have more than a fair share of eccentric characters whose ideas, backgrounds, beliefs, soapboxes and idiosyncrasies make...