Paul Brady

"Fletcher will support the current management team, which will be responsible for the day-to-day..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:10:45 -0600

“Fletcher will support the current management team, which will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of Budget Travel magazine and budgettravel.com and has indicated that it intends to keep essentially all of Budget Travel’s employees.”

- Newsweek Enters Agreement for the Sale of Budget Travel

"Each Fall more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students from the the S.I. Newhouse School of..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:48:13 -0600

“Each Fall more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students from the the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University canvas a small town in upstate New York, recording sound, writing stories and shooting photos and video. This year the town of choice is Skaneateles.”

- The Fall Workshop

"The recovery will likely be slow, bringing only incremental improvements over several years. As a..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:13:00 -0600

“The recovery will likely be slow, bringing only incremental improvements over several years. As a result, PhoCusWright projects very modest growth of 1% for the total travel market in 2010.”

- Travel Industry Projections for 2010

"People who know their way around the Internet have been congregating on the Trans’ balcony twice a..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:04:35 -0600

“People who know their way around the Internet have been congregating on the Trans’ balcony twice a week, chowing down on a sort of global cuisine that wife and “Kitchen Ninja” Thi creates without the help of recipes: Chinese five-spice beef in yellow-corn tortillas; sweet potato–kimchi pancakes; curry mashed potatoes.”

- Spiers on The Restaurant in Apartment 205.

“Robots gigantes invaden Montevideo!”

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:56:06 -0600

“Robots gigantes invaden Montevideo!”

"A successful outcome from sending one blogger on a press trip would not just be a positive post or..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:21:11 -0600

“A successful outcome from sending one blogger on a press trip would not just be a positive post or two on their own blog, but content that was so spectacularly interesting/funny/useful that it resulted in link backs and knock on posts from a whole variety of other blogs and a surge of interest from social media, trending on Twitter and front page of Digg, etc., etc. How likely is that? Not very.”

- Why we shouldn’t bother with blog trips

"Still, Wang Shuang, a 20-year-old student at Beijing Foreign Studies University, complained, “Since..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:31:14 -0600

“Still, Wang Shuang, a 20-year-old student at Beijing Foreign Studies University, complained, “Since the BT was closed, I cannot find all the American television series that I have been watching, like ‘The Mentalist.’ ””

- NYTimes.com

What CityCenter is Like

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:11:06 -0600

doree:

alexanderbasek:

So, I was out in Las Vegas for the CityCenter opening. One day of the three-day festivities was plenty, thankyouverymuch. The entire project, which was finished only when Dubai World sued MGM to complete it after MGM tried to pull out, is staggeringly unnecessary. It’s like visiting the home of a couple that remains married because it’s too expensive to be divorced.

It’s a monument to a pre-Goldman-Sachs-blood-funnel way of thinking: Walk through the Daniel Libeskind-designed Crystals Mall to the Tom Ford and Lanvin stores! Oh right, that’s not a thing that people do anymore, unless they really, really need a $5,000 paisely smoking jacket. (Don’t we all?) The Libeskind design of the mall doesn’t look stark, it looks like they haven’t finished building or decorating it, thanks to the huge empty white spaces.

I also visited the nightclubs in the project. At “Haze”, the owners were sending the busboys on speed trials, wherein they had to carry buckets of ice and bottles in a dark, smoky simulated club night environment, and then yelled at them for their mistakes. “Where’s your petit four tray? What the FUCK are you thinking?” Presumably, repeated petit four tray failures would lead to the employee being loaded on the next bus to Juarez. By the way, Vegas’ unemployment rate, officially, is at 13 percent.

Still, the people are coming. I rode in the elevator of the Wynn Tower Suites with a young Nigerian man casually leafing through approximately $8,000 worth of $100 bills on my last night. Then, I went to an early evening meeting with a manager at Blush, they Wynn’s nightclub, so he could give a co-worker the exclusive on the name of the Encore’s upcoming nightclub (“it’s going to push the envelope of sexiness”). I started the walk back to my room at Treasure Island. Outside Blush, young girls in over-leveraged tops and boys shoehorned into Ed Hardy shirts were begging to be let in, even though the club was empty.

Going to Vegas in January. Can’t wait. Sounds apocalyptic.

"There are those in our Big Ten camp who believe Syracuse isn’t a geographic fit, but..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:02:35 -0600

“There are those in our Big Ten camp who believe Syracuse isn’t a geographic fit, but they’re closer to the Midwest than Penn State, and at least Syracuse has a freaking airport.”

- The Sports Section

The airport is nice, too! Bonus: When it snows, which it does seven months of the year, the ground crews actually know what to do. Take note, Chicago.

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Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:53:09 -0600

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"Gawker has been moving in the opposite direction by hiring experienced reporters. Actual reporting,..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:26:17 -0600

“Gawker has been moving in the opposite direction by hiring experienced reporters. Actual reporting, done in an opinionated but informed voice, may be the key to the successful blogging — or is it web publishing? — of the next decade.”

- Mediaite

Given my current situation, yeah, I certainly hope so.

"I’m not sure if this is really an outrageous request, but the tourists that come in and order the..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:17:15 -0600

“I’m not sure if this is really an outrageous request, but the tourists that come in and order the Tortilla Espanola always say it’s never as good as the one their mother made. That’s one thing that we haven’t been able to solve.”

- Eater NY: Boqueria Soho’s General Manager Joel Steiger

Some thoughts on the Post Jet Set set

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:48:00 -0600

Some thoughts on the Post Jet Set set

matthintsa: A year ago today at the Monumento al Ahogado in...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:47:50 -0600

matthintsa:

A year ago today at the Monumento al Ahogado in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

Best thing about Punta del Este?

"I was especially sucked into the arc of the book, as I have a similar no-go list, though mine also..."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:01:41 -0600

“I was especially sucked into the arc of the book, as I have a similar no-go list, though mine also includes Russia, Egypt, the Caribbean, and the entire southern half of the US.”

- Killing Batteries

"What we do know is that rarely has such a cloud of uncertainty hung over any new year, and that..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:19:28 -0600

“What we do know is that rarely has such a cloud of uncertainty hung over any new year, and that better than 2009 isn’t saying a whole lot.”

- Air Transport Association chief economist John P. Heimlich, in The New York Times

"The Spanish introduced cattle to Uruguay more than 400 years ago, and beef has long been its most..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:09:34 -0600

“The Spanish introduced cattle to Uruguay more than 400 years ago, and beef has long been its most important export industry. Cows outnumber people more than three to one in this country of 3.4 million, where about 80 percent of the land is used for cattle grazing.”

- NYTimes.com

Believe.

Cityplex at Oral Roberts University (via Paul Brady)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:52:54 -0600

Cityplex at Oral Roberts University (via Paul Brady)

"Police searched the mid-range Saddam Hotel in the southern city of Karachi, the country’s..."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:57:48 -0600

“Police searched the mid-range Saddam Hotel in the southern city of Karachi, the country’s commercial hub, where some of the men stayed on Nov. 30 after their arrival in the country.”

- The Associated Press

Wonder if the Saddam Hotel in Karachi has free wifi…

"Only 700 visitors are allowed on Campbell Island every year."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:54:15 -0600

“Only 700 visitors are allowed on Campbell Island every year.”

- Far Flung: New Zealand’s Campbell Island