Montage Beverly Hills: New Place For Old Money
Once TAR’s favorite open-air parking lot, the space between Canon and Beverly Drives has finally been transformed—after years of political wrangling between the neighbors, including hotel neighbors who didn’t want the competition and the city—into one of Beverly Hills’ premier places to stay. Managing director Ali Kasikci, formerly of the Pen, is making sure this new 8-story, 201-room luxury hotel becomes an icon of style and...
Da Plane
I was told many years ago by my father, a pilot, never to fly the airlines of a third-world country. Why? Because they don’t maintain the planes properly, he said. The US airline industry is looking pretty third world right about now with the recent groundings, preemptively by American Airlines–like, oops, we better check the planes before we get fined millions of dollars like Southwest did! Southwest’s planes...
Leaving Las Vegas
So, I’m headed out of Sin City yesterday after three days at NATPE (National Assn. of Television Program Executives) where I moderated a panel on environmental programming with reps from the soon-to-launch Discovery Planet Green, News Corp., PBS, HGTV and KRON in San Francisco. The aiport seemed overwhelmingly mobbed for a late Thursday morning. Wha’ happened? It seems Air Force One was docked at McCarran Int’l...
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