The American Express® Gold Card holds a special place in my wallet. It was the first Amex card I opened and my first time paying an annual fee for a card. Despite a relatively high $250 annual fee, I was excited about having a metal card (in rose gold!), and […]
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^ I Support Local Community Journalism Support the independent voice of Denver and help keep the future of Westword free. Shea Boynton has worked in Colorado’s oil and gas industry for the past few years, which means he spends a lot of nights in hotel rooms away from what most […]
Retail real estate investment trusts, or retail REITs, made up one of the worst-performing subsectors of real estate in 2020. As a group, retail REITs declined by more than 25% for the year as lockdowns and tenant bankruptcies weighed on the ability and willingness of tenants to pay rent. However, […]
© Photo by Gabriel DeSanti Turndown CBD Gummies Are the Anti-Stress Hotel Amenity We Need in 2021 Unlike some AFAR editors, I love turndown service at hotels. After a long day out exploring a new city, coming back to my hotel room and finding my makeup all lined up on […]
A dip in a swimming pool on a sunny day or a gentle bike ride are simple pleasures that most of us take for granted. But what happens if you go your whole life without learning these skills – and then decide to take one up? This was the case […]
The founder of Draper University threatened to move it out of downtown San Mateo during a Planning Commission meeting Tuesday after officials expressed continued reservation about proposed changes to the historic Benjamin Franklin Hotel where it is located. The Planning Commission remains unconvinced by the proposed changes to the university […]
Romanticizing life connected to the land has complicated implications, but it’s starting to shape what we see as aspirational. In the early twenty-teens, Jenny Ong fell into the fashion influencer dream. She started outfit-blogging under the moniker Neon Blush as a hobby while preparing for grad school. The photos she […]
WINTER PARK, Fla. — Hundreds showed up Wednesday night to debate a proposed 4-Star waterfront hotel project in Winter Park. City Commissioners heard from developers Wednesday night. The meeting drew so much interest that overflow rooms had to be set up, and the meeting was streamed on the radio and […]
Men wearing masks chat outside the hotel where a team of experts from the World Health Organization are quarantined in Wuhan in centra China’s Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work […]
Pamela Anderson is a married woman again! The 53-year-old Baywatch alum wed her bodyguard, a bodybuilder and fellow Canadian, Dan Hayhurst, in an intimate ceremony on the grounds of her home on Vancouver Island, British Columbia on Christmas Eve, E! News confirmed on Wednesday, Jan. 27. The two have been together since at least last […]
Wrapping up the first month of 2021, a few things are coming clearer, some facts and trends that will define the coming year. The clarity on the political front appeared to buoy sentiment, as the Democrats gained a slim majority in Congress following the Georgia runoff elections. The Biden Administration […]
With online registrations largely available only through individual providers, some seniors and their loved ones raced to sign up for openings that begin Monday. They refreshed Web pages, tested every link, and waited for hours, often to no avail. They described outdated information pages and glitchy websites that put them […]
Each year, millions in China make long journeys home during the Spring Festival Today marks the start of the world’s largest human migration – an event which sees millions of people travel thousands of miles across China to reach home in time for the Lunar New Year. For some, it […]
Pamela Anderson is a married woman again! The 53-year-old Baywatch alum wed her bodyguard, a bodybuilder and fellow Canadian, Dan Hayhurst, in an intimate ceremony on the grounds of her home on Vancouver Island, British Columbia on Christmas Eve, E! News confirmed on Wednesday, Jan. 27. The two have been together since at least last […]
Earlier this month, she told British Vogue she’s been “trying to find the right balance of being so excited and being in love, and wanting to share that with the people around me, but at the same time not wanting to put too much out there. I want to be able to […]
Joe Walsh is available for all of your virtual concert needs. “If you ever wanna do a big event on the Internet, call us,” jokes the legendary Eagles guitarist, who was given a crash course in digital concert promotion when his annual VetsAid fundraiser moved online last month due to […]
Travellers will see tighter border checks as well as the introduction of ‘quarantine hotels’ – GETTY Anyone departing from the UK will be required to declare their reasons for travelling, as the Government today announces tighter border restrictions – including ‘quarantine hotels’ for arrivals from selected countries. Speaking in the […]
LONDON–The British government announced it will soon require incoming travelers from certain countries that are deemed “high risk” to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days at their own expense. The move–which stops short of a blanket requirement for all arrivals into the U.K. to isolate in a hotel–comes as […]
In the early months of the pandemic last year, information and unanswered questions about the new coronavirus were coming from everywhere. “COVID seemed like this big, scary monster,” said Chris Rudisill, director of the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative. The collaborative, or CJC, is a consortium of six area media outlets and […]
During the January 6 assault on the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., rioters posted photographs and videos of their rampage on social media. The platforms they used ranged from mainstream sites such as Facebook to niche ones such as Parler—a social networking service popular with right-wing groups. Once they realized […]
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images Text size Don’t expect much from this week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting—or any meeting for the rest of this year, at least. America’s monetary-policy makers are comfortable with where they’ve put interest rates and have deliberately set a high bar for making […]
The Covid-O committee will also consider whether test and release, where travellers can leave quarantine if they have a negative Covid result on the fifth day, should continue for both those held in quarantine hotels and all other arrivals from lower risk countries, as currently happens. Also on the […]