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...Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita, 45 minutes from Puerto Vallarta, is giving away a free night for every two consecutive nights booked at the hotel. You can use the benefit more than once in a single stay, so if you stay four nights, you get two nights free. Rates start at $545 per night through June 30 and drop to $415 from July 1 through Sept...
Ultraluxe proprietors talk less about amenities and more about personalization, experience and authenticity. Service is everything. "We have to anticipate your needs," says Atef Mankarios, former ceo of the St. Regis and Rosewood Hotels, who is overseeing a development planned for Punta de Mita, Mexico. At the recently opened Fouquet's Barrière Paris, where rooms start at about $800 per night, guests are encouraged to fill out a "favorites" form before they arrive. The hotel then welcomes them with fruit, chocolates, music or flowers to suit their tastes. "You have to give your guests a warm, genteel, caring kind...
...outdone, the Four Seasons in Punta Mita, Mexico, fourseasons.com, offers its guests one-hour tequila lessons at its cultural center twice a week. Students learn to distinguish among tequilas that are silver (or clear), gold (colored with caramel), reposada (aged for at least two months), and añejo (aged for up to three years). The tequilas are from several different manufacturers, homemade sangria is on hand to cleanse the palate, and spicy bar snacks ensure that the booze doesn't go to your head too fast. The tasting is free for hotel guests...
...Saturday, April 24, the HFA screened one of Ozu’s silent films, I Was Born, But... (Umarete Wa mita karedo) the way audiences would have seen it in the 1930s: a live benshi performed while the movie played on the screen. During the silent film era in Japan, benshi served as narrators to the on-screen action, playing a key part in popularizing motion pictures throughout the country. Saturday’s performance will come from Midori Sawato, one of the few remaining practicing benshi in the world. The live narration is a performance...
...government is poised to pour money into making that formula work, with MITA's paper touting ambitious proposals like the construction of a new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art modeled after the Bilbao Guggenheim. After years of being financially neglected by the government, however, artists are skeptical. The National Arts Council only spent $840,000 on artist training grants last year. "The government spends a lot of money on hardware and very little on software," says actor Glen Goei...