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A Cartagena hotel with runway appeal

T CHERASSI HOTEL Calle del Sargento Mayor 6 to 21, Cartagena; 57 (5) 664-4445; www.tcherassihotels.com . Seven rooms and suites from $350 (breakfast included). Mention a Colombia trip to most people and they'll tell you to be careful. But the country ...

From JOHN LEE, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UNESCO

Boring Summits Are Better for Everyone

When Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives as U.S. President Barack Obama's first official state visitor this weekend, Washington will be pulling out all the bells and whistles to welcome the leader of the world's largest democracy. Many already ...

From JOHN LEE, Foreign Policy,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Test Spin: John Mayer

“Who says I can’t get stoned?” The opening line of the first single “Who Says,” on John Mayer’s new Battle Studies, is an accurate portrayal of the album: Downbeat tones over scoff-worthy lyrics that you would only expect to be sung by a self-admitted ...

From JOHN TAECHIN LEE, Cornell Daily Sun,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Mayer,  Nicole Richie,  Taylor Swift

Search ends for missing toddler whose mother was slain

Jashon Williams was last known to be with his mother, Zoelina Williams, 23, of Oakland, who was found beaten and fatally shot at about 4 a.m. Friday in the park, police said. A suspect in the slaying, convicted child-killer Curtis Martin III, 38, of ...

From HENRY K. LEE,JOHN KING, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Nov 2009

Hey, You! — Media Bandit!

How do over 3GB worth of music sound blasting from those earphones — did you steal those too? That’s not counting the 10GB+ worth of Heroes episodes you ripped off of DC++, your ever-growing collection of movies you downloaded from Mininova and your ...

From JOHN TAECHIN LEE, Cornell Daily Sun,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lily Allen,  Radiohead (musician)

Beauty is in the Flaws, T-Painful

This year’s TIME “100” finalist was nominated for eight Grammy’s in the last two years, has had nine different songs chart on Billboard’s Rhythmic Top 10 and two years ago, in November and December, had seven different singles hit the Billboard Hot 100 ...

From JOHN TAECHIN LEE, Cornell Daily Sun,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: T-Pain,  Britney Spears,  Cher,  Jay-Z,  Jennifer Lopez

Good Music, A Good Cause — Good Times

Weekends start on Thursday at Cornell. The underclassmen make their way off campus, sneak into parties or packed bars, get wasted and then stumble their way back into dorms screaming out random obscenities at 3:00 a.m. when others are trying to ...

From JOHN TAECHIN LEE, Cornell Daily Sun,  15 Oct 2009

Dirac, Solstice and Revision Heat Up Castaways

Put Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles and Pink Floyd all into a tiny room, strip away all their charisma, take away the good equipment, bring down their level of talent a bunch of notches and kidnap the good sound director, ...

From JOHN TAECHIN LEE, Cornell Daily Sun,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Lennon,  Jimi Hendrix,  Led Zeppelin (musician),  Stevie Wonder,  Pink Floyd

The Party's Not Over

On Sept. 16, the blockbuster film The Founding of a Republic was released to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which occurs Thursday, Oct. 1. Featuring more than 100 big-name mainland and Hong Kong ...

From JOHN LEE, Foreign Policy,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Deng Xiaoping,  Jackie Chan,  Jet Li,  Mao Zedong

Pop Art & Beauty

In 2009, People Magazine selected and photographed around two dozen celebrities as the “World’s Most Beautiful People.” Maxim Magazine chose 100 hot women and published revealing pictures of a selected few. In the same realm, FHM cherry-picked the “100 ...

From JOHN TAECHIN LEE, Cornell Daily Sun,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Andy Warhol,  Nico,  Dean Wareham,  Dennis Hopper,  Lou Reed

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