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Date Lab
Grant: When I signed up [for Date Lab], I was totally like, There's no way I'll get picked. I'm not one of those people who wins things. I got [to the restaurant] pretty early and told the hostesses I'd go to the bar and wait there. I was just feeling
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The top 40 hotels for 2010
Downturn? What downturn? It seems we’ll be travelling more than ever next
year, if the hotel boom is anything to go by.
In Britain, the popularity of “staycations”, the build-up to the 2012
Olympics, and the pound’s weakness against the euro have
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Mark your calendar for Broward's top hits
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E ven if you don't care about football, you're not going to want to miss Sunday's Super Bowl celebrations.
Shuck 'N Dive , 650 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale: This New Orleans-style bar will be filled to its gills with New
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Starwood Hotels to add 12,000 jobs
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Hospitality provider Starwood Hotels announced Tuesday that it plans to create 12,000 new jobs worldwide in 2010, increasing its staff by more than 8%, with about half of the new positions located in the United States.
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A-Rod enjoying single life
Rodriguez, 34, was spotted with super-toned blonde Elaine Spottswood at the new W Hotel in South Beach on January 8, and then with a petite brunette at Prime 112 on January 9.
Alex and Elaine are seeing a lot of each other and work out together nearly
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American Idol Atlanta Auditions Not that Hot
The audition episodes continued on American Idol on Wednesday. Idol returned to Atlanta, a city it has visited more than any others to see what the talent in the South looks like this year. Atlanta has been the audition city that has given us Fantasia,
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FBI seeks public's help via Times Square billboard
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tawan Hines has his name in lights on Broadway. Instead of bringing him fame, it could get him arrested.
The drug-trafficking suspect is among the first fugitives to have their names and mug shots on a digital billboard in the heart
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Article: Access Star Sightings: January 8 - 14, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010, in LA: Shia LaBeouf out for a drive in Los Feliz, smoking a cigarette.
Saturday, January 9, 2010, in Las Vegas: Kid Rock dining at TAO with pals including David Spade and Dana Carvey… also there, “90210” star Jessica Lowndes
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Merry, Merry Martini Mixer at Mercury Hall
The Merry, Merry Martini Mixer is as guileless as a University of Texas freshman peeking into Oilcan Harry’s for the first time.
It’s got martinis. Those boys lubricate social mixing. Nothing more complicated than that.
Michael Chad Carter (working on
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The Bliss Facial
Anyone familiar with the W Hotel chain will know that their motto is "your wish is our command" and there could never have been a more true wish then to hope for a fabulous LA branch of the Bliss Spa. Bliss spas are little oasis’s of pure indulgent
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L.A. Report: Scenes from the Pre-Sundance Gifting Lounge
Ahhh, Sundance. A winter wonderland of glamour, parties, Hollywood royalty and, of course: lots and lots of fancy gift bags. Think PR helped celebrities gear up for the festival and its bounty of free stuff with its 4th Annual Pre-Sundance Gifting
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Dubai World Chief Investment Officer replaces CEO
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Dubai World on Wednesday announced that Istithmar World Chief Investment Officer Andy Watson will replace David Jackson as the company's acting chief executive.
Andy Watson replaces private equity investment specialist David
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Extraordinary Women - Business Woman Debra Lee, Actress Victoria Rowell and Entrepreneur Stacie Turner - Give D.C. Foster Girls an 'Extra-Ordinary Life' with Countdown to the World Cup
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Extra-Ordinary Life (XOL), a new charitable initiative founded by entrepreneur Stacie Turner, kicks off the year with a life-changing program that benefits DC area teen girls living in foster care. The luncheon held
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Santiago Chilling.
“Finally, over there at the base of that hill is a rough neighborhood, so if you land back there, those guys will get to you before we can...just give them what they want.” And thus concluded my site briefing for Day 1 of the 2010 Santiago
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Garagiste Winemakers of Chile: Introducing MOVI
If I were Hugh Johnson or Jancis Robinson, I could clear my throat and begin my story with a distinguished pronouncement about how I've watched several wine regions around the globe evolve from their infancy to later stages of maturity. But I lack the
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L.A. Scene January 2010: Gays R Us, Uh Huh Her, p.LA.y and Jetsetter
L.A. Scene is a monthly column that chronicles lesbian nightlife and events of interest in Los Angeles. Sarah Witness, an East Coast transplant and obvious femme, has been navigating the snark infested waters of Hollywood since 2001. Although she's an
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Boy Emperor Takes a Break: A year-and-a-half ago, young Matthew Moinian...
A year-and-a-half ago, young Matthew Moinian was in charge of developing the Financial District's ultra-glam W Hotel & Residences for his father, and he said he was keeping the entire 56th floor of the condo/hotel for his ultimate bachelor pad. Today
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Numbers Don’t Lie
Men lie, women lie, but numbers don’t. You’ve probably heard it in a rap song or acceptance speech before. I overheard it while having drinks with a friend at Drinkstory at the W Hotel. I perked up when I heard a group of people talking
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Spice it up with cocktail from Steak 954
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Cocktails are about $14 at Steak 954, W Hotel Fort Lauderdale.
Whiskey Blue at the W Hotel is where Broward's beautiful people gather for cocktails and conversation before hitting the dance floor. The antioxidant gloss of drinks
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Morning Headlines
Back From Haiti: The 72-member LA County Urban Search and Rescue crew that helped out in Haiti returns to LA. Full Story
Swanky Swindle: A husband and wife are accused of being part of a theft ring that stole about $3 million worth of merchandise. Full
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Univeral Orlando boosted spending on '09 capital projects
Universal Orlando, which is racing to finish construction of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, is pumping more money into its capital spending.
The resort says it spent an estimated $130 million on capital projects in 2009. That's about $10 million
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A quiet interivew with 'Mr. Chow'
Eva Chow, whose tall frame and curtain of straight, jet-black hair give her the air of an austere fashion model, greets you at the doors of an empty Mr. Chow for a lunch that she has orchestrated down to the final course of lychees and oranges.
The
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Lindsay Lohan: Post-Grammy Good Times
She’s no stranger to swanky industry shindigs, and last night (January 31) Lindsay Lohan hit up some exclusive post-Grammy bashes in Tinseltown.
The “Mean Girls” babe looked to be having a marvelous time as she mingled with partygoers at the EMI
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Hoboken High School students participate in Harvard Model Congress
Hoboken High SchoolEleven Hoboken High School students participated in Harvard Model Congress in San Francisco in which they reenact U.S. Congress operations.
Hoboken High SchoolHoboken High School senior Jordan DeJesus won a national excellence award
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Dubai World Asset Sale Nears
State-owned conglomerate Dubai World, which is restructuring some $22 billion in debt repayments, has yet to arrive at a formal standstill agreement with its creditors.
The company rocked global markets on Nov. 25 with plans to request a delay on
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Noisy clubs, longtime residents conflict in downtown Scottsdale
Business owners in Scottsdale's entertainment district, along with city officials are trying to strike a delicate balance between promoting a vibrant downtown and keeping the noise level reasonable for longtime residents.
The conflict between neighbors
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Tab for $20: Fine Line Bistro
I've never crashed a party at the White House, but if I did, I'll bet that the sumptuous hors d'oeuvres being served would be similar to those at this marvelously sleek locale, where slick track lighting illuminates customers drinking, eating and
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Audi Hosts Exclusive Event During Super Bowl XLIV
HERNDON, Va., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating a number of exciting milestones, Audi of America hosted an exclusive gathering on Friday, February 5, 2010 at the W Hotel in South Beach to kick off Super Bowl weekend. Celebrities and athletes including
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Alba not flattered by attempt to look like her
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery for Jessica Alba. The actress said Saturday she's been distressed by Internet reports about a Chinese woman who is havinga plastic surgery makeover to look like Alba in hopes of getting
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What Was Hot — And What Was Definitely NOT! — During Super Bowl Weekend In Miami!
Nick Lachey raising $300K 20 different charities at his super skins celebrity golf tournament was really hot!
It was not so hot when Heidi Montag showed up to the Maxim magazine party at the Raleigh Hotel and started swinging around a heat lamp
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Diaz Linked To Hudson's Ex
The sportsman is said to have split from Hudson in December after a whirlwind romance.
But the New York Yankees player - nicknamed A-Rod - is now rumoured to have moved on from the actress with another Hollywood beauty after he was spotted partying
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Ristorante Nicola to open Dallas branch in early March
Ristorante Nicola (pronounced knee-CO-la), a new sister concept to the popular Nicola's Ristorante Italiano in Plano, will open in early March 2010 at 8111 Preston Commons (near Preston and Northwest Highway). Helmed by Executive Chef Luigi Iannuario,
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Tiger Woods Former Mistress Michelle Braun Runs Up Hotel Tab For Sports Agent In Miami
Former madam Michelle Braun, who claims to have provided girls to Tiger Woods, had to return clothes and jewelry worth up to $10,000 after she and her girlfriends went on a wild shopping spree at a South Beach hotel store — and then billed the lot to a
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Fort Lauderdale: Beyond the breakers
What followed each year was a building human hurricane of swirling collegiate inebriation that blew in from the north, paralyzed city traffic and services, forced mass evacuations (among smarter locals) and left streets and beaches awash in broken
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UrbanDaddy's Pimp Party
Sugar daddies, baby daddies, cool daddies and big daddies all feted the official launch of UrbanDaddy DC at the W Hotel last night. Snowed out on Thursday evening, last night was "take two" for the schwanky shindig and a much needed break from Blizzard-
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In Black Caucus, a Fund-Raising Powerhouse
WASHINGTON -- When the Congressional Black Caucus wanted to pay off the mortgage on its foundation's stately 1930s redbrick headquarters on Embassy Row, it turned to a familiar roster of friends: corporate backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors,
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Shakira, Rafael Nadal dating?
The pair was spotted sharing a cozy meal at the W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain, after shooting a video together there late last week.
"There was just the two of them at the table together. They were whispering and all smiles. It definitely looked like
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Taste Testing Delphine Inside The New W Hotel Hollywood: Of course SIV drops by newly...
Of course SIV drops by newly opened Delphine in the shiny, spacious W Hotel. While we wait for her full-blown review, here's some initial thinkage: "The room is bright and lovely, with vaulted ceilings, posh banquettes and tables widely spaced...IDG
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LeBron James Predicts Another New York Yankees Championship In 2010
Ah, the first day of spring training. Major League Baseball pitchers and catchers end their vacations and report to their teams' spring camps to start early workout regimens. For baseball fans, it's a time of hope for the new baseball season. And if
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Shakira & Tennis Hottie Rafael Nadal Hot New Couple?
Woweewowee! Are She Wolf Shakira and tennis champ Rafael Nadal a hot couple or what? The gorgeous duo star in a steamy video for Shakira’s new single, Gypsy – you can see a preview of the soon-to-be-released video, below. But what has everyone
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Is Shakira Dating Rafael Nadal?
Are things getting muy caliente between Shakira and tennis star Rafael Nadal?
Last week, the pair was spotted sharing a cozy meal at the W Hotel in Barcelona, and the singer, 33, and the athlete, 23, get thisclose in Shakira's upcoming video for
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VIRGINIA POLITICS BLOG: McDonnell hits the road to Washington again
Gov. Bob McDonnell’s road trip continues with yet another appearance in Washington, this one on Tuesday.
We told you earlier that McDonnell is zipping back and forth between Richmond and DC several times over the three four days and now we hear of
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Are Shakira and Rafael Nadal dating?
The rumor mill is going crazy after a story surfaced that Shakira and Rafael Nadal were getting steamy in the set of Shakira’s new video “Gypsy”, premiering in April. The two stars were seen at the W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain getting flirty.
In
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Miami Free Times: Dietrich, Fossils, and Tutu
âMonday: We can't believe it either. The posh W Hotel is hosting a free screening of Blonde Venus, staring Marlene Dietrich, as part of their "Dive-In" series with the Miami Beach Cinematheque.
Tuesday: We think you need to chill out, you of
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Fine tuning the blushing bride
Q: How did you get started doing makeup?
A: A few years ago, I went to get a makeover at the mall, and after the artist finished, I looked at myself in the mirror and I looked like a ghost -- I actually looked like I was dead. I ran upstairs to the
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944 Magazine Scores Big With Dallas All-Star Weekend Blowout Featuring Unrivaled Entertainment and A-List Special Events
944 Magazine and it's annual custom sports publication GAME, brought glitz and glamour to Dallas' All-Star Weekend with three-days and three-nights of exclusive, unrivaled events at the city's most sought after hotspots The Boardroom and Ghostbar at
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Drag Theatre Company Shim Mamsir Productions Presents SHE'LL BE DYING
Theater gets a lot prettier with the debut of Shim Mamsir Productions, a new New York City-based drag theater company. The company presents its inaugural outing, SHE'LL BE DYING, on Thursday Feb 25 at 8pm at Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, between
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Dog About Town: Fun at the bank and other things to do
•Tango, a 1 ½-year-old Australian shepherd/terrier mix, is looking for someone to dance with. Get the details by clicking on Pet of the Week at dallasanimalservices.org.
* means they are city of
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Panettiere brushes off Morton romance rumors
Actress Hayden Panettiere arrives at the LG Mobile Phones' LG Xenon Splash Pool Party for the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica held at the W Hotel on June 2, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Frazer Harrison, Getty Images)
Heroes star Hayden
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Quake reunites former Metro Detroit classmates
Sometimes it pays to keep in touch with old high school friends. And as people in Chile sort through the damage done by Saturday's 8.8-magnitude earthquake, Matthew Shiffman is reaping the benefits of doing so.
The graduate of West Bloomfield High
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Daniel Snyder with Cameron Diaz
On the way back to our seats outside the baseball press box, we ran into Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Cameron Diaz, who were with Washington owner Daniel Snyder.
Well, we were all wrong about the alligator-skin desks, and
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New Yorker hosting pre-WHCD party
The New Yorker is planning to host a rooftop party at the W Hotel the evening before the White House Correspondents Dinner, the first time the magazine has thrown an event during Washington’s annual "prom weekend" in recent memory.
Editor David
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The Perverse Hybrid Incentive
Image credit: Method The hybrid car has become the icon of eco; a status symbol of responsibility. Roll up in one and you have instant green cred. There is even a sub-culture of hybridism, talking up the benefits and doling out deals to hybrid owners.
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Oscar suites break out the gifts ahead of awards
Here's a tip for Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller: want to
improve your troubled marriage? Try Twittens.
Don't know what Twittens are? You aren't alone. But celebrities
who visit one of a dozen or so "gifting suites" around Los Angeles
during Oscar
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Twittens can help save troubled marriages
Los Angeles: Here's a tip for Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller: want to improve your troubled marriage? Try Twittens. Don't know what Twittens are? You aren't alone.
But celebrities who visit one of a dozen or so "gifting suites" around Los Angeles
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Zorianna Kit: 2010 Oscar Season Gifting Suites
It appears to be a record-breaking year for gifting suites as HuffPost attended a dozen of them in the week leading up to the Academy and Independent Spirit Awards. Believe it or not, there were more than the ones listed below. So read on to see what
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A-listers, Olympians Mingle at Oscar After-parties
LOS ANGELES -- With his shaggy red hair, black leather jacket and
skintight American flag-printed jeans, Olympic gold medalist Shaun
White upstaged even glam Oscar winner Sandra Bullock at a pack of
parties around town following the Academy Awards.
The
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‘On the Edge’ Banks Face Writedowns on FDIC Auctions (Update1)
(Adds FDIC plan to encourage retirement funds to buy failed banks in the 11th paragraph.)
March 8 (Bloomberg) -- A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. plan to auction more than $1 billion in assets seized from failed banks next month, including a loan to
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GDC 10: FreeAppADay.com Now Free for Freemium Developers, Also Launches ICS Financing Branch
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power of FreeAppADay.com and merging it with the Free+In-Apps business model which has already generated a sizable increase in revenue for several of our developers including Tiki Totem (
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W Hotel in Hoboken gets reviewed in Washington Post
A Washington Post staffer recently spent a night at the W Hotel in Hoboken, as documented in vivid detail in an article that ran this week. The luxury hotel - Hoboken’s first and the only W in New Jersey - is nearing its one-anniversary in April.
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SOCOM 4, played with PlayStation Move: our thoughts
We played with the PlayStation Move at the party last night, but at Sony's more intimate gathering at the W Hotel today it was easier to get a better picture of the peripheral. The main games on the floor were interesting, but the game we wanted to
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Marketing games: the art of the pole dance
Let's get one thing out of the way first: True Crime looks good. The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer. Mixing the best parts of Stranglehold and Grand Theft Auto IV, it was a game where we walked in
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Eva Longoria: Birthday Lunch with Kim Kardashian
Out celebrating her 35th birthday, Eva Longoria was spotted making her way around Miami, Florida earlier today (March 15).
The “Desperate Housewives” babe was joined by fellow celebrities including reality TV babe Kim Kardashian and Pussycat Doll
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Kim Kardashian Sam Edelman Sandals FOUND
Kim Kardashian was spotted yesterday leaving Eva Longoria Parker's birthday lunch at the W Hotel in Miami and doing some shopping wearing her Sam Edelman Gigi Brown Leopard thong sandals.
Kourtney Kardashian was seen wearing the same pair of
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Building housing W Hotel on auction block
A Chicago real estate investment firm is preparing to auction off the building that houses the downtown W Hotel and Residences.
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W Hotel in Hoboken makes birthday plans
Star-Ledger file photoThe W Hotel in Hoboken has various gifts and activities planned for its one-year anniversary the week of March 21 to March 27.
The W Hotel in Hoboken, 225 River St., is unsurprisingly celebrating its one-year anniversary in style.
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Hard times send hotel industry into 'survival mode'
An abandoned Capital Plaza Motel sits boarded up in Raleigh, N.C. Closing a hotel is a last resort, because once it shuts, it's almost impossible to sell.
Neil Cornelssen says he misses the free cookies in the evening at one hotel and the daily
