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Luxe Living

"Living well is the best revenge." - George Herbert, clergyman & metaphysical poet

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May 2008
- Celebs Who Dress (Way) Down
  
  Nerve | May 2, 08 2:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Just because they have tons of money and access to the hautest of couture doesn't mean they actually have to take advantage of it. Nerve highlights richie-riches who refuse to advertise their wealth with high-class duds. (Or sometimes showers.) Amy Winehouse: Even smokes crack "just to keep it real." Courtney Love: Takes grunge a little too far. More »
- Fashionistas Chase Fleeting Bargains Online
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 1, 08 6:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - New online shops are hooking up high-end customers with discount flash sales on luxury goods such as designer bags and shoes. Alerting members via text message, the members-only sites sell items in private sales that often begin immediately and can last just hours. The created frenzy works: Customers of one site buy on average within just 45 seconds of logging on, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »
April 2008
- French Wine Goes Pop
  
  Associated Press | Apr 27, 08 6:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A screw-top Bordeaux? The once-laughable notion is bubbling up in France these days as wine makers try to reverse decades of sour sales, the AP reports. Even snazzy labels and boxed-wine-with-a-straw are fair game, after French wineries exported a record $15 billion last year with "New World"-style packaging. More »
- Celebrity Scents Wrinkle Noses
  
  I.D. Magazine | Apr 27, 08 4:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Just about every week seems to bring another entry into the field of celebrity fragrances, but the news that architect Zaha Hadid has her own scent moved I.D. Magazine to ask industrial designers how they'd approach the process. Hold your nose for this sampling: France's Inga Sempé gets equine with an unnamed "blend of horse dung, gasoline, milled iron, and parma ham"—in a bottle strung with animal hair. More »
- Suri's Birthday Tab: $100K
  
  New York Daily News | Apr 23, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes certainly upgraded from last year's piñatas-and-pizza party for daughter Suri's first birthday, spending $100,000 to celebrate her second last Friday. The event's 24 guests each got their own designer cake (shaped like a hat, with a butterfly and a daisy on the brim), the Daily News reports; TomKat also shelled out for 1,000 live butterflies. More »
- Billionaire Pays $500K for 27 Bottles of Wine
  
  Reuters | Apr 19, 08 2:14 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As the global economy falters, many people are fighting to make ends meet. And then there’s the Chinese billionaire who spent $500,000 for 27 bottles of wine today. The sale set a record for a single lot. “I don’t think he has bought this as an investment,” said an executive from the selling company. “He has bought it to drink.” More »
- Civet-Digested Beans Yield $99 Espresso
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 17, 08 5:19 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - You might look for a $99 espresso shot in a crowded Italian café before the second floor of a London department store. Yet it's the latter where you'll find the cup brewed from two of the world’s rarest coffee beans, one of which is sniffed out and, er, digested by an Indonesian civet, the Guardian reports. But is the java foodie paradise or marketing racket? More »
- Dubai Sheik Pays $2.7M for Camel
  
  RIA Novosti (Russia) | Apr 9, 08 12:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Dubai prince broke the bank yesterday at an Abu Dhabi event billed as the world's top camel festival, spending $2.7 million on a prize-winning female. That was a record—until an Abu Dhabi sheik outdid him, shelling out $7 million for a pair of racing camels, RIA Novosti reports. The more expensive of that duo was also a contest winner. More »
- Gourmet Tea: The New Coffee
  
  Portfolio | Apr 8, 08 4:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Cappuccinos are commonplace, but new gourmands get their caffeine fix from tea. After falling out of favor during the Revolutionary War, tea is experiencing a comeback in the US; sales have tripled since 1990 and gourmet tea can cost thousands per pound. Portfolio pours a cupful of tips for would-be drinkers: Beware the bag: Bagged teas are usually considered lower-quality. More »
- Venice Bar Uses Discount to Lure 'Poor Yanks'
  
  Reuters | Apr 8, 08 10:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Harry's Bar in Venice has offered hospitality to tourists and expatriates since the days of Ernest Hemingway. But in recent months Harry's has noticed a sharp drop in the number of Americans showing up at the home of the Bellini cocktail. So restaurant owner Arrigo Cipriani has a novel solution: a 20% discount to subprime-stricken Americans for everything on the menu. More »
- Top New Chefs: Read 'Em & Eat!
  
  Food & Wine | Apr 7, 08 1:58 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Food & Wine has posted its Best New Chef awards for 2008. Look for their profiles in the July issue, but take a peek at the winners here: Jim Burke: owner of James , a modern Italian restaurant in Philadelphia's Bella Vista neighborhood. Gerard Craft: owner and chef at Niche in St. Louis, where bacon and eggs sandwich and braised pork belly top the menu. More »
- Plastic Surgeons Feel Subprime Pain
  
  Los Angeles Times | Apr 5, 08 2:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The subprime crisis has hit Goldy Anthony hard; she can’t even afford her bi-monthly trips to the plastic surgeon anymore. “I would rather have Botox than go out to dinner, but it’s just gotten so bad,” says Anthony, who works in Los Angeles' slumping mortgage business. Woes like hers are hurting Beverly Hills plastic surgeons, who are losing would-be face-lift-ees. More »
- Condo-Hotel Bubble Pops, Splatters Many
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 5, 08 12:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Condo-hotel rooms were a hot buy at the height of the housing boom, but marketing them as investments that would pay out every time they were occupied could come back to haunt developers, the Wall Street Journal reports. As business sours, buyers who find themselves making mortgage payments on empty rooms are suing to get refunds. More »
- Peru Swaps Backpackers for Well-Heeled Tourists
  
  Reuters | Apr 2, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Peru’s government hopes to carve a thick slice out of the world’s luxury travel market, aided by sumptuous trains with fancy oxygen enrichment systems and high-altitude 5-star hotels, reports Reuters. "It's not that we don't like backpackers," says the country's tourism minister, but with big bucks to be had, Peru is shifting its image away from frugal tourists living off pots of white rice. More »
March 2008
- Glitzy Heathrow Terminal a Destination Unto Itself
  
  Forbes | Mar 30, 08 10:46 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Heathrow’s new terminal has hit such turbulence with its opening that it may seem an odd time to sing its praises. But once the delays and lost luggage are solved, this massive addition, designed to eradicate the “Heathrow hassle,” will lure fliers with plenty of perks, reports Forbes . From caviar to Krispy Kreme, 42 restaurants fill the terminal Two spas serve up complimentary massages and facials Hyper-fast check-in More »
- Swank Suites Sweeten Stadiums
  
  Forbes | Mar 27, 08 2:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Private boxes are great on game day, and sports clubs are taking it to the next level, giving well-heeled fans super-sumptuous treatment—in return for deluxe bucks. Forbes rundowns some of the priciest stadium suites: Yankee Stadium’s Legend Suites: $2,500 per front row seat per game, or $1 million for a 5-year contract Nationals Parks Washington Suites: $400,000-plus per year, private porch included More »
- Spas Get the Vegas Treatment
  
  W | Mar 26, 08 1:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Las Vegas' go-big-or-go-home attitude runs from its slots to its spas, which now rival the Dead Sea as the world's favored soaking grounds, W reports. But what separates Sin City from Baden-Baden is the de-emphasis on escaping it all: At these luxury bathhouses, seeing and being seen is equally important as the relaxing bit. More »