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New York City -- Flying in from Seattle for a series of one-offs concerts in New York, Minus the Bear awoke slowly with the morning sun blaring through their hotel room windows. There is no better cure for a hangover than orange juice, asparagus and eggs. Martin Halo, in his directorial debut, brings you behind closed doors and into the touring lives of indie's troubadours.
We have breakfast with Jake Snider [guitar/vox] and Alex Rose [keyboards] of Minus the Bear and talk about New York nights, screaming crowds and the comfort of the beds at the Marriott under the Brooklyn Bridge.New York City -- Flying in from Seattle for a series of one-offs concerts in New York,... more
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Still No Place in New York for Qaddafi’s Tent
Poor Muammar el-Qaddafi.
He has been trying to pitch his tent all over the New York area. But he has been turned down in Central Park, Englewood, N.J., and most recently, by the Westchester County town of Bedford, where tenants from the United Arab Emirates renting Donald Trump’s 213-acre estate were given a stop-work order after they began assembling a tent that would be used by the Libyan leader.Still No Place in New York for Qaddafi’s Tent
Poor Muammar el-Qaddafi.
He... more
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Hyatt's Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel has just instituted what is possibly the hotel world's cheekiest service yet: bedtime story house calls. For commitment-phobes, mama's boys, lonely travelers, book fetishists, neglectful parents, or literary-minded singletons, Andaz Hotel may have just what the doctor ordered.
For the next two weeks, sprightly writer Damien Barr will read to hotel guests in the comfort of their hotel rooms. No books are off limits, including racy ones, although Barr notes that "security is always on standby." A former writer-in-residence at London's College of Art, he claims he came up with the Reader-in-Residence concept to "get out of writing." Hyatt's Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel has just instituted what is possibly the... more
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