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...French playwright Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage is at least livelier, though it's set in a similarly claustrophobic world of refined, self-involved people. Two upper-middle-class couples (transplanted, in the U.S. translation, from Paris to Brooklyn) get together in the tastefully decorated living room of one to calmly discuss how to resolve a schoolyard fracas between their two boys. One of the parents is a corporate lawyer who can't extricate himself from his cell phone. Another is a socially committed writer who proudly displays a collection of art books on the coffee table. A third...
...hand (barely) on the steering wheel while his other shoved a stack of local currency, the som, into my face. He insistently urged me to trade the money for dollars. After checking in at the grim Hotel Uzbekistan, a nattily clad porter showed me and my wife to a room, fiddled with a broken TV set, and then reached into his jacket pockets for large bricks of som. He, too, persistently begged me for greenbacks. In Uzbekistan, the dollar ruled...
...lamps and modern dining chairs. Guests will find discreet luxuries such as Aesop bath products, retro-style Roberts radios and Windsor rocking chairs. But the real focus at the Olde Bell is the common spaces. "It's all based around the table," says Crawford of the inn's public rooms. So the dining room has long, rustic tables ("with room for a roast," says Crawford). In an outbuilding dating from 1135, guests can gather around small tables next to crackling fires. The chef uses ingredients from nearby purveyors, like Machin's butchers in Henley, and has even been known...
...husband Tai of the Missoni brand and now head of Missoni home collections, partnered with the Brussels-based hotel group Rezidor to translate the company's signature colorful knits into a luxurious hotel environment. "I want the hotel to look and live like my home," says Missoni. The 136-room property, designed by Matteo Thun & Partners, the Italian firm responsible for Missoni's New York City flagship, will feature meeting spaces, a fitness suite, Cucina Missoni restaurant...
...about issues affecting gay, lesbian and transgender people. During the event, drag king Haywood Wakefield and drag queen Fena Barbitall gave a presentation about their lives and then split the attendees into two groups to teach them how to dress in drag. Barbitall took the men into a separate room and spoke about being a drag queen performer, saying that she hoped that students would gain insight into drag culture. Meanwhile, Wakefield spoke about the process of dressing as a drag king, discussing issues from “packing a pud” to “building a tummy?...