InterContinental Toronto Centre Energizes Workers With Dance
If you’ve recently stayed at InterContinental Toronto Centre and accidentally ended up in a back-of-the-house area, you may have noticed a group of housekeepers having an early-morning party. Your eyes weren’t deceiving you but it wasn’t a party. The hotel employs a unique method of preparing its employees for a day of work: dance. Each morning, the housekeeping staff dances to Latin samba music to get themselves energized.
Anil Datt, the …
New York Philharmonic Presents The Art of the Score
The New York Philharmonic announced The Art of the Score: Film Week at The Philharmonic, a series of film screenings with live orchestra accompaniments. The performances will take place between September 17 and 21.
The idea was conceived by Alec Baldwin, the orchestra’s radio host and board member. The week’s events include a montage of scores from Alfred Hitchcock films and music from Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Hitchcock! will …
Celebrity Summit New York to Bermuda – Cruise Review
Cruise ships, once the exclusive domain of vacationers, have become floating hotels with plentiful activity for business travelers, conference groups, art aficionados, and foodies. Celebrity has led the charge in offering unique onboard amenities, providing everything from creperies to Internet cafés, and I thought it was time to review a cruise ship in a similar manner to reviewing hotels.
My experience aboard the Celebrity Summit was both relaxing and enlightening as …
Great Moments in Travel History – September 2013
Chicago’s Palmer House hotel first opened on September 26, 1871, 13 days before the Great Chicago Fire. The structure did not survive the blaze and it reopened its doors in 1875. It is currently the Palmer House Hilton.
John Jacob Astor IV’s St. Regis hotel opened its doors on September 4, 1904 in New York City. Sheraton Hotels purchased the St. Regis in 1966 and renamed it the St. Regis-Sheraton and …
Lobby Bar – August 30: Bodysnatching Court Dates, Picturesque Cement, An Army of Words, and Sometimes Black and White is Better
The Lobby Bar – A Weekly Summary of Frequent Business Traveler News and Views
Invasion of the new words. Jonathan Spira shares the latest additions to the Oxford Online Dictionary. Don’t get FOMO, study up on these terms because YOLO, you know.
Paging Chris Christie. Jeremy Del Nero test-drives a 2014 Ford Fiesta around New Jersey. Along the drive, Jeremy noticed two shocking things: the 2014 Fiesta drives quite nicely and there …
Munich Airport: Come Away With Me
Airports can be boring, a place you have to go to as opposed to one you want to go to. Few people, if any, sing about going to the airport. That is, unless you are an employee at Munich Airport (Flughafen München) where employees sing about wanting passengers to come away with them.
Roughly 200 airport employees and other workers at the airport got together in a quirky, OK Go-like video …
Photo Essay: Newport Jazz Festival in Black and White
Jazz, despite its rich tones, just looks better in black and white.
The Newport Jazz Festival, referred to as the grandfather of all jazz festivals, was founded in 1954 and draws thousands of music lovers from all over the world to Newport, Rhode Island, a city which is famed for its spectacular coastal scenery and awe-inspiring architecture.
This year’s festival offered performances by jazz legends including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick …
Checking In »
Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 7: Biden’s SOTU, Last Day to Order Free At-Home Tests, Masks Are Off at China’s National People’s Congress
Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,457th day.
THE LEDE
Public Service Announcement: Tomorrow is the Last Day to Order Free At-Home Covid Test Kits in the U.S.
The federal government’s offer for free at-home Covid test kits will soon be discontinued. The on-again/off-again offer was most recently made …
In Flight »
Operational Woes Continue to Plague United Airlines as Three Additional Flights Encounter Issues After Departure
United Airlines’ operations are under great scrutiny these days and not for naught. Indeed, anytime a United Airlines aircraft sneezes, it tends to make the news.
This past week, a United flight from San Francisco International Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was diverted to Denver on Thursday after the flight crew observed an issue with one of the Boeing 777’s engines.
The following day, several people were hospitalized after a …
Checking In »
Coronavirus Daily News Brief – March 7: Biden’s SOTU, Last Day to Order Free At-Home Tests, Masks Are Off at China’s National People’s Congress
Good afternoon. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on its 1,457th day.
THE LEDE
Public Service Announcement: Tomorrow is the Last Day to Order Free At-Home Covid Test Kits in the U.S.
The federal government’s offer for free at-home Covid test kits will soon be discontinued. The on-again/off-again offer was most recently made …
In Flight »
Operational Woes Continue to Plague United Airlines as Three Additional Flights Encounter Issues After Departure
United Airlines’ operations are under great scrutiny these days and not for naught. Indeed, anytime a United Airlines aircraft sneezes, it tends to make the news.
This past week, a United flight from San Francisco International Airport to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was diverted to Denver on Thursday after the flight crew observed an issue with one of the Boeing 777’s engines.
The following day, several people were hospitalized after a …
