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In: Food & Drink
14 Jun 2009Beginning next month one of our favorite beers, Newcastle Brown Ale founded in 1927 in the Northeast of England, will launch its new portable DraughtKeg in select markets initially including Southern California, Minneapolis and Chicago. Featuring the same technology originally created by Heineken, the Newcastle DraughtKeg is a pressurized recyclable mini-keg that serves up to [...]
In: Cars
13 Jun 2009Dashing Fiat heir Lapo Elkann is something of a dandy and while we generally admire his taste and what the Italians call sprezzatura, we’re not too crazy about his new custom two-tone blue Ferrari with an interior upholstered in pairs of old jeans. Last time we checked Lapo was cruising around in a much more [...]
In: Travel
12 Jun 2009Looking for something new under the Caribbean sun? The Sheherezade is a new five-acre resort – one acre for every star, I guess – on Mustique. This is one of only a handful of properties on the island that offers access to the Mustique Moon Walk and is adjacent to a 100-acre reserve, tennis court [...]
In: Cars
11 Jun 2009There are car shows and then there are car shows. The Goodwood Festival of Speed is the latter. Instead of static displays in a convention center under terrible lighting, Goodwood takes some of the most desirable automobiles past and present and puts them on full display in all their glory, racing up the hill at [...]
In: Accessories|Clothing|Men|Shoes|Women
10 Jun 2009Luxury house Hermes is inundated with demand for their products. It’s not unsual for people to literally wait years to own of their $50,000 bags. In an effort to meet this demand for their accessories, Hermes has opted to start their own farms in Australia for the sole purpose of breeding crocodiles.. “It can take [...]
In: Food & Drink
8 Jun 2009It’s not a vodka. It’s not a gin. It rather defies description which is just fine with Square One Botanical which is a new organic rye spirit. With a decadent infusion 9f eight organic botanicals – pear, rose, chamomile, lemon verbena, lavender, rosemary, coriander and citrus peel, it’s a sensory experience that is softer than [...]
BMW Group DesignworksUSA was given the task of tricking out the interior of a Falcon 7X jet and the plane just debuted in Geneva. The concept behind the design was “elegance and style fushed with function” in an effort to elevate the flying experience to an entirely new level. While PR people are great at [...]
In: Pets
6 Jun 2009There’s nothing worse that Eau de Pooch when your dog comes in from the dog park or wrecking havoc with with the neighbors cat. So whip out a bottle of Pepper & Tanky to freshen Fido right up. It uses less alcohol than other brands so it won’t irritate sensitive skin and they’ve beefed up [...]
Have you ever wanted to indulge in surfing but shuddered at the garish colours of the boards? Fear no more because New Zealander Roy Stewart has designed a $20,000 Makaha surfboard that has been fashioned from more than 400 individually crafted pieces of empress wood. This amazing, handmade, limited edition surfboard is considered “museum quality”; [...]
In: Shoes
4 Jun 2009Personally, we feel that Gladiator shoes / sandals / boots will be one of those styles in years to come where people look back and say, What were we thinking? (and do NOT even get me started on the tres tacky creation that are Gators!) However, if you haven’t seen the gladiator sandal yet most [...]
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