LONDON AND NEW YORK — Virgin Atlantic Airways, in October of 2014, was the first European airline to take delivery of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. That aircraft, Birthday Girl, is what I am flying in right now en route from London to Washington, D.C. The airline’s second 787-9, Dream Girl, was the airline’s launch vehicle from Washington, D.C. to London Heathrow on January 8, which marked my third flight on …
The Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw the rise of the Great Camps, built for wealthy families in the Adirondacks, an area of New York State about a five hour drive North of New York City. Most of the camps consisted of luxurious log cabins, influenced by the British Arts and Crafts and American Craftsman movements, and many were modeled after Swiss chalets. The Sagamore …
Richard Brown, who has taught film in New York City for the past 40 years, speaks of “getting on the ride” when it comes to an audience making a connection to characters in a movie. In the best of cases the viewers get on the ride early on; but all too often they never get on the ride.
The concept of getting on the ride is applicable to plays as well …
On the Tuesday just before the Christmas holiday, with a severe winter storm forecast for the Northeastern United States, and the holiday travel season already in full swing, I ignored my best instincts and traveled when everyone else is traveling.
This flight would be my first on US Airways, an airline now owned by American Airlines Group following the American-US merger in 2013, and an airline that will soon become a …
The first transcontinental phone call took place one hundred years ago today, on January 25, 1915.
The historic call was placed by three parties, Alexander Graham Bell in New York, Theodore Vail, the president of AT&T in Jekyll Island, Georgia, and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the White House, to Bell’s assistant Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
In the call, Bell repeated into the phone his famous sentence, “Mr. Watson, come here, …
Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping? Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s Film Chinois, a play with elements of the film noir genre, does beg that question at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. The play has many of the elements of the genre – shadowy scenes, silhouetted figures, a black-and-white-ish visual style, and of course, femmes fatales – but how well does this translate to the stage?
The setting? Beijing, …
Lobby Bar – A Thoughtfully Fabricated Summary of FBT News and Views
Doc’s dreams come true. Find out what travel plans our readers have in store for 2015 in our annual Business Travel Outlook Report. An alarming percentage of respondents say they will nix air travel in favor of hover boards as soon as the technology reaches commercial status.
Choco–migration. It’s time to go shopping at the most chic boutique around – …
Business travelers report they will be on the road more often in 2015 than last year, according to a new Frequent Business Traveler research report.
Almost half of business travelers surveyed said they plan on taking more trips in 2015 as compared to 2014, while a similar number said they anticipate taking more trips in 2015 than they did two years ago in 2013. The number of travelers who say they …
One of the things I’ve come to truly enjoy in hotels are the lounges. While not all lounges are created equal, I’ve enjoyed exquisite lounges in far flung places, but possibly the best lounge I’ve visited was the Club Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco.
The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco is in a landmark building in the Nob Hill district. The neoclassical structure opened in 1909 housing offices of the Metropolitan Life …
Until the middle of the last century, sleep was simply that – sleep, a passive state with one’s head on the pillow. Fifty years of study has changed our view on slumber and we now know it to be a much more active and restorative process in which our brains process voluminous information including the events of the day.
Still, numerous factors can influence the quality of sleep, among them: age, …
