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Travel letters: Fantastic memories of Hong Kong
I just read Scott Kraft's article ["Looking Up, Up, Up in Hong Kong," May 6]. I lived in Hong Kong from the mid-1970s to 1980, and his article refreshed my memory. Hong Kong is one location that changes ever so quickly. I can only imagine what it must...Tags: Japan, Kraft Foods, Inc., Empire State Building, North Africa, William Holden
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Water conservation and the hotel guest
Just read Catharine Hamm's column ["Hotels and the Environment," On the Spot, May 6]. I have a suggestion: Hotels and motels should retrofit showers with dual controls. The problem is that too many hotels and motels have showers with controllers that...Tags: Leon Trotsky, Energy Saving, Bratislava (Slovakia), Hotels and Accommodations, Mexico
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MachineGunsVegas, Guns & Ammo Garage: Pull the trigger on a trip
Two new Las Vegas venues invite guests to — quite literally — have a blast. Letting loose with high-powered firearms may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but my visits to two indoor gun ranges suggested just how popular they are with...
Tags: Entertainment, Gaming, Firearms
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'Johnny Carson: King of Late Night' takes an in-depth look
Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings and Diane Sawyer all made their best pitch but were turned down. Johnny Carson, the man who changed forever the world of late-night talk, wasn't talking. The network news powerhouses had separately attempted to secure...
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Vegas sign a tourist attraction in its own right
LAS VEGAS — It sits along a stretch of median on the less-glamorous south end of this city's glitzy gambling Strip, a stubborn holdover from another era. Yet, as the days turn to night and back into day, it beckons as many tourists, human...
Tags: Travel, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tour Operations Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Empire State Building
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A proving ground for Las Vegas entertainers
The place is packed when singer Mark Giovi takes the stage as emcee of the Monday night open-mike at a little roadhouse on a dusty stretch a few miles west of the Strip. Fronting a tight backup band of drums, keyboards and tenor saxophone, the veteran...
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Super moon 2012: 'Gloriously full,' with 14% more lunar excitement
According to NASA's calculations, 11:34 p.m. EDT Saturday is the moment when the moon will hit your eye like a big pizza pie, to paraphrase Dean Martin. It's "super moon" time. NASA is letting its enthusiasm show in a new video on the subject. "The...
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Restaurant Diary: The curious case of the Prince in Koreatown
Daily DishThe Prince in Koreatown is located in one of those trapped-in-time rooms in a building dating back to the 1920s. It was originally opened as the Windsor, back when Wilshire Boulevard was the grandest road in town, cutting a ritzy...... -
Old Hollywood lingers at Chez Jay
When piped-in music and a bar's history perfectly align, it makes for a sweet cocktail of synchronicity, a besotted wink from the intimate interior that makes all the drinkers lean into their liquor just a little bit more.
On a recent Sunday night, the...Tags: AOL LLC, William Morris, Celebrities, Richard Burton, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Billy Strange dies at 81; guitarist, arranger for Presley, Nancy Sinatra
Guitarist Billy Strange once took the kind of phone call that thousands of musicians receive only in their best and wildest dreams.
"I was staying at a hotel in Nashville in 1965 when my telephone rang and this unmistakable voice said, 'Billy, this is...Tags: The Everly Brothers (music group), Duane Eddy (music group), Circuses, Nancy Sinatra, Capitol Records
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Art world responds to death of Kenneth Price
Culture MonsterThe art community mourns the loss of ceramics artist Kenneth Price who died early Friday at his home in Taos, N.M.... -
PASSINGS: Kaye Stevens
Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, 79, who performed with the Rat Pack and frequently appeared on Johnny Carson's late-night talk show, died Wednesday at Villages Hospital north of Orlando, Fla. She had breast cancer and blood clots, said her friend Gerry...Tags: International Military Interventions, Concerts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Talk Shows (genre), Margate
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