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Vegas, Baby. THEhotel Las Vegas, a boutique luxury hotel within the Mandalay Bay hotel, is offering two promotions. Winter Wonders offers rooms for $129 per night with the third night free on select dates from Nov. 23 to Jan. 6. Exotic Escape offers rooms at $119 on select dates through Jan. 6 and includes discounts for resort services and events (TIME's Joel Stein raves about the Mandalay Bay's shark reef and pool), as well as a $150 "fly back free" certificate that can be used with major airlines. See the hotel's promotion page for details...
Candid Camera. William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, photographer Eggleston's first retrospective, will be at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art from Nov. 7 through Jan. 25. In his review, TIME's Richard Lacayo said the artist "reinvented the whole idea of what a picture was supposed to look like." (See William Eggleston's photos.) 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, New York City...
...Boston’s support for documentary and independent filmmaking has occasionally found its influence filtered into the mainstream. Independent filmmaker Jan Egleson shot films in Cambridge during the late 70s and early 80s, and his working-class dramas inspired other local filmmakers, such as Christine Dall and Randall Conrad—a husband-wife duo whose 1981 film “The Dozens” won an award at the U.S. Film and Video Festival, the Sundance Film Festival’s predecessor. Egleson was also an early admirer of Ben Affleck, casting the actor in his 1981 film...
...President-elect of the United States, and its first African-American commander in chief. He had mobilized a staff of organizers and volunteers that numbered in the millions, and amassed a war chest of some $700 million. Now, however, the tough work begins. Between today and his inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009, Obama must pick his advisers, organize a staff, appoint his cabinet and learn how to operate the countless levers of control that come with the highest office in the land - everything from getting briefed by U.S. intelligence agencies' top spymasters to figuring out the White House phones...
...names to the FBI to be sure that they are packing security clearances as soon as possible. McCain mocked the presumption of Obama's "measuring the drapes," but Obama's preparations for a transition reflected the fact that the rest of the world isn't going to wait until Jan. 20 to find out what he thinks. At a time like this, there's probably no such thing as being overprepared...