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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
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On September 22, 1973, was allowed the first visit of the press and the Red Cross into the Estadio Nacional de Chile, after ten days of total reclusion since the Coup d'etat. More than 12,000 people were confined, in the grounds of the National Stadium, from September 12 to November 9, 1973 (59 days), when the sports complex was vacated.
As soon as he learned about the military coup of 1973, Koen Wessing (1942-2011), a Dutch photojournalist, bought a plane ticket and flew to Santiago de Chile. During his stay in Chile, Koen Wessing, managed to capture the tense situation on the streets and the activity inside the National Stadium, then converted into a prison camp.
Upon his return to Europe, Koen Wessing, published '' Chili, September 1973", a 48-page booklet with 24 B&W pictures, with no text, which became an instant classic visual essay of contemporary photography and one of the best testimonies of the repression in Chile. With those and other pics, was mounted an exhibition at the Centro GAM, located in the former Diego Portales’ building in Santiago de Chile from March 9 to April 30, 2011.
The centerfold pic of this book is known as the "Booking of the Detainees". The military photographer wearing a helmet is Chilean Air Force NCO Leopoldo Víctor Vargas. It is noteworthy to mention that Aviator Vargas was wearing a helmet because by then civilians in Chile were used to see Air Force personnel wearing only their customary Garrison (or Flight) caps or their Service (or Peaked) caps. Helmets were mostly associated with army men.
One of the detainees at the National Stadium was Silvio, one of the only four, of a group of 13, members of Allende’s party bodyguards (known as GAP, Spanish acronym for Group of Personal Friends) who were fighting inside La Moneda Palace the day of the coup, and survived to tell the story. Juan Bautista Osses Beltran (a.k.a. Silvio), was a 23 years old young man by September 11, 1973. The other three survivors of that fateful day are: Hugo García Herrera (Julio), Luís Renato Gonzáles Córdova (Eladio), and Pablo Manuel Zepeda Camillieri (Ignacio).
After escaping alive the combat in La Moneda Palace and their subsequent detention in the Tacna Regiment he is sent to the Estadio Chile (Arena). Upon his arrival to the Arena (now named Estadio Víctor Jara) he meets with his former colleagues at the Universidad Técnica del Estado (UTE, known today as USACH), where they remained captive until Saturday 15 September, when they are transferred to the National Stadium.
Juan Ossés says that: "there (at the National Stadium) happened something fortuitous that saved my life again. When the Prosecutor proceeded to interrogate me under the stands in the coliseum, the man tells me: "I don’t believe a word that you are saying" and he sent me to Level D which was for torture, the butchery. Minutes later an Aviator wearing a helmet, who was the one taking the mug shots of the detainees, took my folder, we went out to the stands, passed me a ticket number and orders me to change the hand and put my left fist on my chest. The man placed my folder in the pile letter A of those whom were been set free. Once again I was saved."
Juan Ossés (Silvio) was released from the National Stadium on September 24, 1973. From then on he would seek for his way out into exile.
Meanwhile, my father, the photographer and Aviation NCO Leopoldo Vargas, fearing for an overexposure due to his extremely dangerous direct contact with the detainees, while taking their mug shots, asks the Army Colonel in charge of the National Stadium for his release of this assignment. Understanding his personal reasons the Colonel accepts his dismissal. Thus my Father returns again to his previous assignment, at the Diego Portales’ building, where the military Junta was governing.
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A pioneer by definition is the first one to open roads into virtually undiscovered territory.The career of DJ and producer Anderson Noise is one as pioneer of the electronic music scence in Brazil. Native of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Noise started DJ ing in a slow but steady manner as is the custom in his region of Brazil. Yet he never forget to take the necessary steps to insure total success. In 1989, during the explosion of Acid House on the club scene, Noise started playing around the local circuit in his hometown. With the professional passion for DJ ing, hes noted for saying that, the function of a DJ is to emote the audience or bring them to an emotional frenzy. Subsequently Noise started organizing and producing large scale events in which he could also DJ for as early as 1992.
With a fervor, he opened space for the expansion of the electronic music scence in the capital city of Minas Gerais, which as the time was in an embryonic state locally speaking.
There were more than 40 party events thrown in places like mental institutions, car dealership lots, shopping centers, historic buildings, etc, etc. The Noise Family turned into an institution, as the entire family was involved in organizing and working the events. Mamma Noise, Anderson´s mother worked as hostess in the events,and Alvinho Little Noise joined in the fun burning up the dance floor spinning records along with Anderson. The first compilation disk come out in 96, "Paralisia Cerebral", when the dream of producing his own records turned into a reality in the talented hands of Anderson Noise.
In 1997 he was invited to include "Shantytown" on "Electronic Music Brazil", the first CD of 100% Brazilian DJ's& Procucers released by Sony-Mercado Mundo Mix.Without fear of expanding his horizons, Noise promoted the first trio electrico playing exclusively electronic music in 1999 during Carnabelô, the off season Mineiro Carnival that turned into a must see perfomance. Without knowing it, he would be acquiring the experience which would later prepare him for a bigger challenge playing on Daniela Mercury´s trio electrico during the Salvador Carnival of 2002, giving him huge national exposure in the media. On the shelves of the great DJ´s are always something besides records, that being trophy's and awards.In 97', Noise won the Best Underground DJ award for the magazine ,"DJ Sound". In the two times that "DJ Sound" ran the competition Anderson won each time.
Then he won the trophy for the best producer and the best DJ of techno music which was called the "Night Illustrated" award created by Erika Palomino from the newspaper ´´A Folha De São Paulo``. The faíscas trophy, an award Noise Won 3 years in a row was offered by the Minas Newspaper, "O Estado de Minas" for those artists that shook up the nightlife in Belo Horizonte and in 2003 he was runner up in the Cool Magazine Awards, Brazils most elegant electronic music magazine.The trophy was given to him in the subsequent year of 2004, as best DJ.
Anderson has always participated in the major national/Brazilian Eletronic Music Events.His presence was felt by all in every edition of the Skol Beats Festival since it's inception,serendipitously closing the 2003 Skol Beats Festival with great fanfare.Noise also participated in the "Electronic Tent" of Rock in Rio in 2000.
It was in this year that his second compilation CD was released called "October", with some tracks produced by his own record label ´´Noise Music. The label started up in 1999 with the intention of bringing music to the world composed and produced by Brazilians. In his own words;´´ We Brazilians always buy music by gringo artists and the gringos in turn never have any of our music``. There has already been great electronic music produced in Brazil of excellent quality waiting to be shown to the world.
In 2001 Anderson became a DJ in residence at "Headstart Night" in the "Turmills Club" of London, integrating a select group of Brazilian DJs that were playing in the UK and Europe at the time. At the same time Noise played abroad he would share the stage with great interational DJs when they would tour Brazil. The must notable of them who was impressed by the mineiro DJ was Carl Cox, considered the greatest DJ on the planet. Carl Cox was impressed by Noise's force of playing the first time Cox toured Brazil. "Anderson is very talented. He played with me sometime before, sometimes after. He also has his own label, Noise Music. They´re good records, too good to ignore. In the 2001 issue of DJ Magazine, "2001 Top 100", Cox classified Anderson as the future "DJ Hero'.
His third CD compilation came out in 2002, greatly pleasing his Brazilian fan base, "Noise Music Compilation 100% Mix, Anderson Noise". It was released by a major record company,bringing all of the best Noise Music tracks into the form of an awesome set list compilation. It was well received in Brazil as well as in Europe , calling the attention of Trevor Rockcliffe, the owner of Mentor Records, a very well respected English label.After hearing the material, Rockcliffe wanted to release "Você Mesmo" on his Mentor Label. In 2002 Anderson started up his radio show, "Radio Noise", as one of his various weekly programs in his site.
In 2003 Anderson was invited by "DJ Magazine", the worlds most respected publication dedicated to electronic music, to produce his fourth CD, "DJ World Series, Anderson Noise". In a series of 5 records that the magazine released, where each DJ, representing a different continent would make a record representing his continent of origin, Anderson was chosen to represent Latin America.
From then on Noise's international career kept growing steadily.He has participated in the biggest international festivals: Homelands, Dance Valley, Creamfields, Sonar, Exit, Rock in Rio Lisboa, SAMC, Knebworth Ministry of Sound, etc. His presentations around the world have given him the opportunity to play in various countries such as;,Argentina, Chile, Colombia, England, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela. Noises CD´s, records,and DVD's have been released by international labels such as Audio, Eukatech, Mentor, Missile, Molecular and Primate and are being played throughout the world.
In 2005 Noise created TV Noise together with "Toro Productions", including weekly programs from the DJ's perspective showing clubs,parties,and festivals in Brasil and all over the world. After having played in Tokyo,Anderson entered into a partnership with "Womb",considered the second best club in the world by MIXMAG for presenting annual tours in Brazil and Japan.
Noises fifth CD is an innovative one for the Brazilian public called, "Anderson Noise Live @ Skol Beats 04". It is the first electronic music CD recorded live by a Brazilian DJ during his gig at the Skol Beats Festival which is the biggest electronic music festival of it´s kind in Latin America. In Anderson´s never tiring mode, he released shortly afterwards the first DVD from a Brazilian DJ, "Brazilian Love Affair",that accompanies Anderson´s club/gig- circuit in many different states/regions of Brazil in which he is resident DJ. As far as Noise is concerned, there exists no limits that can't be surpassed.
This is surely a great virtue for those who are of a creative and pioneering nature.
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Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit is calling it a “DOTUC fee,” for Department of Transportation Unintended Consequences, and the airline says it covers costs to the airline for holding fares 24 hours after booking without penalty.
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A Spirit Airlines jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.
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The battle between discount air carrier Spirit Airlines and the U.S. Department of Transportation escalated today with the airline — the fastest growing carrier at McCarran International Airport last year — adding a new $2 fee to ticket prices to cover costs associated with new consumer regulations that took effect last week.
Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit is calling it a “DOTUC fee,” for Department of Transportation Unintended Consequences, and the airline says it covers costs to the airline for holding fares 24 hours after booking without penalty.
The Department of Transportation ordered new consumer protection rules that took effect on Thursday. Spirit, Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air, all prominent operators at McCarran, have been the most vocal in their displeasure with the rules.
Spirit’s passenger counts at McCarran grew by 228 percent last year over 2010. Southwest is the busiest carrier at McCarran while Las Vegas-based Allegiant is poised to grow substantially in 2012 after having a 6.4 percent increase in local passengers last year.
The new rules order airlines to include all taxes and fees when advertising or displaying costs of airfares. Airlines don’t have to disclose fees that may not apply to all travelers, such as baggage and booking fees. The rules also order airlines to hold passengers’ fares when booking and allow them to be canceled or changed without penalty for 24 hours.
“People love the idea of not having to commit to a reservation, but this regulation, like most, imposes costs on consumers,” Spirit President and CEO Ben Baldanza said in a company release issued today.
“Wouldn’t we all like to eat all we want and not get fat?” Baldanza said. “Regulators like to try to sell the idea of this rule but have ignored the cost impact to consumers. You simply can’t eat all you want without consequences.”
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Senate Ethics Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2011, after speaking on the Senate floor about former Nevada Sen. John Ensign.
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Baldanza was on the receiving end of a scathing letter from Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who criticized Spirit for emailing customers and telling them the government is encouraging airlines to hide federal taxes. It is Spirit’s contention that by requiring airlines to display the full cost of a ticket that customers won’t see how much of it is taxes and fees and how much of it is the airline’s fare.
“I have been shocked by the failure of your airline to tell the truth in an email sent to your customers earlier this week as well as warnings posted on Spirit.com that read, ‘New government regulations require us to HIDE taxes in your fares.’ Nothing could be further from the truth,” Boxer wrote.
“What the rule says is that you have to tell your customers the full cost of a ticket," she continued. "It prohibits Spirit or any other airline from advertising fares ‘that exclude taxes, fees or other charges since the major impact of such presentations is to confuse and deceive consumers.’
“And despite Spirit's claim that the airline must now hide relevant information, the rule ‘allows carriers to advise the public in their fare solicitations about government taxes and fees ...’
“Today's consumers are faced with many options when planning air travel, and being able to compare the full price before purchase is both necessary and fair. Your recent statement that ‘the better form of transparency is to break out costs so that consumers know exactly what they are buying’ is exactly what this new DOT rule will help do,” her letter said.
Airlines like Spirit, Southwest and Allegiant are more sensitive to the new rules because they traditionally have offered lower fares and the displays that include taxes and fees come across as sticker shock to potential customers.
Spirit and Allegiant have business models that offer greatly discounted fares but numerous fees for baggage, booking by phone or online and for seat selection. Southwest fares appear higher with taxes and fees, but its counterparts don’t have to disclose bag fees it doesn’t have.
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The New Amsterdam Theater, built in 1902-03 for the theatrical producers Klaw & Erlanger, was for many years one of the most prestigious Time Square theaters and home of the famous Ziegfeld Follies. Designed by the noted theater architects, Herts & Tallant, the New Amsterdam Theater achieved distinction both for its functions and for its artistic program.
More than just a theater, the structure was planned, at the request of Klaw & Erlanger, to incorporate two performing spaces with an office tower to house their varied theatrical interests. Even more importantly, however, the New Amsterdam is a rare example of Art Nouveau architecture in New York City, and, as such, is a major artistic statement by Herts & Tallant.
Working in conjunction with sculptors, painters, and other craftsmen, they used the Art Nouveau style to carry out a dual theme—the representation of the spirit of drama and the theater and the representation of New Amsterdam in its historical sense as the city of New York. The form of the building vividly expresses the dual functions of office tower and theater, while the Art Nouveau-inspired ornamental detail expresses the spirit of drama.
The Clients
By the beginning of the 20th century, New York's theater district had moved uptown to the Time Square area, continuing a northward shift which had prevailed throughout the 19th century, and many theatrical producers commissioned new theaters to meet an expanding need. Among them were the producing partnership of Klaw & Erlanger.
Marc Klaw and Abraham L. Erlanger , both of whom had served as advance agents and managers of touring companies, joined forces in 1886 to buy the Taylor Theatrical Exchange, a New York booking agency. By 1895 the Klaw & Erlanger agency was the second largest in the nation, controlling nearly 200 theaters. In 1896 they joined with Charles Frohman, Al Hayman, Samuel F. Nixon, and J. Frederick Zimmerman to organize the Theatrical Syndicate.
The Syndicate avowed its intention of bringing about needed reforms in the booking of shows, but in the process created a monopoly with exclusive control of bookings for more than 500 theaters throughout the country.
The firm of Klaw & Erlanger was made responsible for all attractions presented in theaters controlled by the Syndicate. Beginning about 1910 the Syndicate was challenged by the growth of the organization of the Shubert brothers, and it was formally dissolved in 1916. Klaw & Erlanger retained its dominant position as a booking agency, and the partners continued their roles as managers and producers.
It was in the role of producer that Klaw & Erlanger purchased, in 1902, a parcel of property west of Seventh Avenue and extending through the block between 41st and 42nd Streets and commissioned the noted firm of theater architects, Herts & Tallant, to design a multi-use theater structure, incorporating two theaters and a ten-story office tower to house their booking and producing enterprises.
The Architects
By 1902 Henry Beaumont Herts and Hugh Tallant had begun to achieve a reputation as theater architects. Herts, the son of Henry B. Herts who had established the decorating firm of Herts Brothers, had studied at the Columbia University School of Mines, while Tallant received two degrees from Harvard College.
They became friends while students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked together on student projects. Also a talented painter, Herts exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1898.
Returning to New York, the two formed the firm of Herts & Tallant in 1900 which quickly began to achieve a reputation in theater architecture. In addition to the New Amsterdam, other theaters which the two designed were: the Lyceum , the Liberty , the Gaiety , the Folies-Bergere , the Booth , the Longacre , the Shubert , all in Times Square; and the Brooklyn Academy of Music .
In the New Amsterdam, they pioneered the use of cantilever construction to create theater balconies without supporting pillars that would obstruct the vision of those in the lower seating area. This innovation is generally credited to Herts.
The partners were also talented acousticians, and Tallant wrote extensively on the subject. Careful attention to fireproof construction and extensive stage facilities were other hallmarks of Herts & Tallant theaters. Tallant also wrote a series of articles on "The American Theater: Its Antecedents and Characteristics." As an architect Tallant was especially anxious to understand the precedents offered by Greek, Roman, and Renaissance theaters and to incorporate these precedents into the firm's designs. The firm dissolved in 1911, and each partner went on to other architectural associations.
The New Amsterdam as a Playhouse
Construction of the New Amsterdam Theater began in the summer of 1902, but political difficulties arose in 1903. The ornamental portions of the building were designed to project beyond the building line, and the Manhattan Borough President ordered work stopped.
Klaw and Erlanger asserted that the owner of the adjacent property, former Parks Commissioner Samuel McMillan, was exerting his influence because they had refused to buy McMillan's property. The partners noted that a number of new buildings, including several theaters, projected beyond the building line and that the New Amsterdam should not be discriminated against. In response to the controversy, the Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance allowing ornamental projections four feet beyond the building line. Thus the exterior of the New Amsterdam Theater was able to be completed as planned.
The New Amsterdam Theater officially opened on October 26, 1903, with a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream accompanied by Mendelssohn's incidental music, additional music by Victor Herbert, and starring Nathaniel C. Goodwin as Bottom.
While home to serious drama in its early years, the New Amsterdam quickly became very highly regarded as a musical comedy house. Among early productions there were: George M. Cohan's Forty-five Minutes from Broadway with Fay Templeton and Victor Moore; Her Own Way with Maxine Elliott and Charles Cherry; Richard III and Peer Gynt, both starring Richard Mansfield; the American premiere of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in 1907; Sardou's The Sorceress with Mrs. Patrick Campbell; Kitty Gray with Julie Sanderson; The Pink Lady of 1911 and The Little Cafe, both starring Hazel Dawn; Margaret Schiller with Elsie Ferguson; and Irving Berlin's first musical, Watch Your Step, in 1914, starring the dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle.
In 1913 Florenz Ziegfeld , the world-famous theatrical producer, began an association with the New Amsterdam Theater which lasted until his death. Ziegfeld had entered the entertainment business in 1893 at the Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition. In 18 9 6 he introduced Anna Held to the American stage in A Parlor Match; this was quickly followed by a series of lavishly mounted musical comedies.
Their success led him to produce a 'revue' which he called The Follies of 1907. The show proved so popular that he produced a new Follies each season for over 20 years. The stage facilities of the New Amsterdam were ideal for these productions, and Ziegfeld presented the Follies there between 1913 and 1920, from 1922 to 1925, and in 1927.
Among the notable performers Ziegfeld featured in the Follies were Ann Pennington, originator of the Black Bottom dance, comediennes Fanny Brice and Ina Claire, Ed Wynn, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, and Marilyn Miller. Beginning in 1915 Ziegfeld used the rooftop theater of the New Amsterdam to produce his Midnight Frolic. Ziegfeld also produced ether shows at the New Amsterdam, even after he opened his Joseph Urban-designed Ziegfeld Theater in 1927 on Sixth Avenue.
Other productions added to the luster of the New Amsterdam: Sunny and Rosalie , starring Ziegfeld's discovery, Marilyn Miller; Whoopee , a Ziegfeld production starring Eddie Cantor; Trelawney of the Wells with John Drew, Pauline Lord, Helen Gahagan, Estelle Winwood, and Peggy Wood; The Bandwagon with Fred and Adele Astaire; Irving Berlin's Face the Music with Mary Boland; also in 1931, Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory productions of The Cherry Orchard and Alice in Wonderland;' Jerome Kern's Roberta with Fay Templeton and Bob Hope; and George White's Scandals of 1936 with Bert Lahr, Eugene and Willie Howard, and Rudy Vallee. Othello with Walter Huston was the last legitimate theater production at the New Amsterdam.
With the onset of the Depression, many Broadway theaters fell onto hard times and were converted for use as movie houses. The New Amsterdam proved no exception. The mortgage on the property was foreclosed in 1936. The building was sold in 1937, and the new owner began showing motion pictures in the theater. Ironically the first presentation was a film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, echoing that opening night of 1903.
The Building and its Design
The New Amsterdam had opened to widespread praise for its facilities, innovative features, and beautiful design. Stylistically the theater is a rare example of Art Nouveau architecture in the United States. Critic Theodore Waters headlined the New Amsterdam as "A Triumph for the New Art."
While the Art Nouveau style had been popularized in France and Belgium in the last years of the 19th century where Herts and Tallant surely must have discovered it firsthand, the style was little used in the United States. Most French-trained American architects preferred to use the classical forms they had learned at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Herts and Tallant, too, were adept at using Beaux-Arts forms, but the design for the New Amsterdam Theater offered them an unparalleled opportunity to create a total unified statement—one of the fundamental principles of Art Nouveau— expressing the excitement and artistry of the theater.
The form of the building resulted partially from the constraints of the site and partially from the requirements of Klaw & Erlanger. The major portion of the building, located on 41st Street on a site approximately 150 by 100 feet, houses the two theaters. However, Klaw & Erlanger wished to have the theater entrance on the more important 42nd Street, so they purchased a narrow piece of property 25 by 100 feet facing on 42nd Street.
This enabled the architects to create a major entrance, and to build above the entrance the tall office tower which was desired by Klaw & Erlanger to house their booking and producing activities. Because the side walls of the tower were built to the lot line they were faced with plain brick in anticipation that other towers would soon rise along side of them. To meet the dual requirements of the building—theaters and offices— the architects made extensive use of structural steel in the framing—
2000 tons. The roof theater is supported by a 70-ton girder, 90 feet in length and 14 feet high. Even though the stage doors were located on the 41st Street side, it was anticipated that the general public would not normally see that facade, so it, too, was faced with plain brick. The main focus of attention was the 42nd Street facade, and on it the architects lavished their artistic efforts.
Ten stories high and three bays wide, the facade is of gray limestone and is topped by a sloping red tile roof. Projecting from the roof is a central dormer with stylized pediment incorporating a garlanded, carved mask at the peak; this is flanked by two smaller dormers. Originally freestanding figures representing Music and Drama surmounted the center dormer.
The roof level is separated from the floors below by a projecting carved cornice with carved heads and floral ornament. An elaborate carved frieze with the date "1903" surmounts the ninth story windows which are flanked by stylized pilasters. At the seventh floor the windows, which are taller than those on the other office floors, are set off above a frieze incorporating winged heads, and the center window is flanked by stylized pilasters with floral capitals.
Arches above the windows are filled with terra-cotta panels executed by the architectural sculptors Grendellis and Ricci. The panels with their trios of cupids represent Dance, Declamation, and Song. This ornamental detail and sculpture on the upper stories is inspired by Art Nouveau principles, especially the abstraction of classical motifs and the lush and realistic depiction of floral and foliate forms. The various carved heads and figures personify aspects of the theater.
However, the architects lavished the most ornament and sculpture on the lower three floors, which encompassed the theater entrance and were visually handled as a unit. The segmental-arched entrance was flanked by rusticated piers which supported paired columns of Monreale Sicilian marble at the second floor. Bronze capitals, designed by sculptor Enid Yandell. , displayed heads representing the four ages of drama.
These columns in turn supported a massive arch encompassing the third floor windows: The arch was outlined by a modillioned cornice with a keystone displaying the escutcheon of the New Amsterdam Theater executed by Grendellis and Ricci. Resting on the cornice were a group of freestanding sculptured figures by the noted sculptor George Gray Barnard .
The central figure was a woman personifying Drama, holding a mirror in one hand and a mask in the other. The draped baldachino above her head represented the stage. Four other figures represented various aspects of drama and theater. All were linked by garlands of fruit and flowers. Although not specifically credited in any of the sources examined, Barnard probably also designed the figures at the roof level. Stylistically they appeared very similar to those which surmounted the arch. The second and third story windows were framed in bronze modelled in curvilinear flower and vine forms. This type of motif is one of the hallmarks of the Art Nouveau style.
Various changes had been made to the marquee and signs of the theater through the years, but when Anco Enterprises, Inc., acquired the New Amsterdam in 1937, the entrance was drastically altered to accommodate the theater to its new purpose of showing movies.
Virtually all sculptured detail at the first three stories was removed to be replaced by a new marquee and vertical electric sign. Both displayed the streamlined motifs associated with Art Deco architecture of the 1920s and '30s. The marquee and vertical were again modified in 1955.Fortunately the basic form of the arch encompassing the second and third story windows survives as does the intricate bronzework framing those windows.
Also in 1937 the original entrance doors were removed, and the original enclosed vestibule is now open to the sidewalk. The walls have been faced with polished marble, and an inlaid terrazzo floor with Art Deco motifs was installed. A "streamlined" box office is at one side.
Despite changes to the building through the years, significant Art Nouveau elements survive to remind us of the major artistic statement made by Herts & Tallant.
The form of the building still embodies the dual function of office tower and theater. Most importantly, the illustrious history of the New Amsterdam, which was facilitated and enhanced by its design, cannot be erased. Its survival evokes the spirit and the history of the theater.
- From the 1979 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
Das zentral gelegene Rovere Hotel befindet sich in der Nähe vieler Touristenattraktionen und Business-Adressen in Losone. Um den Gästen ein Höchstmaß an Komfort zu bieten, verfügen alle Zimmer des Hotels über die umfassende Ausstattung, die man in einem Hotel dieser Kategorie erwartet. Alle Zimmer mit Nichtraucherzimmer, Föhn, Dusche, Minibar, Kabelfernsehen, Kaffee/Tee. Zu den Einrichtungen des Hotels in Losone gehören Aufzug, Bar, Reinigung, Veranstaltungsraum, Restaurant, Behindertengerechte Einrichtungen, Business Center, Haustiere erlaubt. Wer sich entspannen möchte, kann die Freizeiteinrichtungen auf dem Hotelgelände nutzen, zum Beispiel Hoteleigener Golfplatz, Garten. Sie werden Ihren Aufenthalt in diesem eleganten und einladenden Hotel in bester Erinnerung behalten.
Con la sua posizione centrale, Hotel Rovere è a breve distanza dalla maggior parte delle attrazioni turistiche. Questo hotel 3-stelle offre comode camere con una gamma di comodità in camera adatte al viaggiatore moderno. Ciascuna camera dispone di comfort come camere non fumatori, asciugacapelli, doccia, minibar, televisione (via cavo), bollitore per caffè /te,ventilatore,prodotti da bagno in omaggio, ecc. I comfort di base forniti da questa struttura ricettiva di Losone comprendono ascensore, bar, servizio lavanderia, sala ricevimenti e meeting, ristorante,Sauna,Sala Fitness e giardino. Per un soggiorno più gradevole, gli ospiti possono usufruire di un certo numero di strutture ricreative nelle vicinanze, tra cui campo da golf (1KM), Pitch and Putt(200m), mini golf,scuderie,ecc. Comfort e agi moderni si fondono per assicurare la soddisfazione del cliente.
Le Rovere Hotel se trouve à Losone, ce qui en fait l’un des meilleurs hôtels où séjourner lorsqu’on visite la ville. Toutes les chambres de l’hôtel disposent de toutes les commodités attendues d’un hôtel de cette catégorie pour offrir aux clients un maximum de confort. Chaque chambre a chambres non-fumeur, sèche-cheveux, douche, mini-bar, télévision avec câble/satellite, cafetière/théière. Cet établissement de Losone disposent de toutes les infrastructures et de tout le confort moderne auxquels vous pouvez vous attendre dans un hôtel de cette catégorie. Pour un séjour encore plus agréable, les clients pourront profiter de nombreuses infrastructures de détente, notamment terrain de golf (1 km), jardin. L’hôtel allie parfaitement culture traditionnelle et confort moderne pour vous garantir un séjour mémorable.
The Rovere Hotel Losone is located close to several tourist sites. Among these are the, Visconteo Castle, Piazza Grande, Madonna del Sasso, Verzasca Dam.The Lugano Agno Airport is within 21 kilometers away from the hotel. All guest rooms at the Rovere Hotel Losone are outfitted with modern amenities. These include cable/satellite televisions, free wireless Internet connections, clock radios, minibars. Private bathrooms come with complimentary toiletries, shower areas and hair dryers.The Rovere Hotel Losone is a 3-star property that was renovated in March 2010. This hotel provides tennis courts, a fitness gym, a sauna, a business center, meeting/banquet facilities, a rooftop terrace, a restaurant and a snack bar. Complimentary amenities include wireless Internet access and newspapers in the lobby.
Ontdek alles dat Losone te bieden heeft met het Rovere Hotel als uitvalbasis. Alle kamers van het hotel hebben alle gemakken die mogen worden verwacht in een hotel van deze klasse, ten einde het beste comfort van de gast te garanderen. Iedere kamer is volledig uitgerust met niet-roken kamers, haardroger, douche, minibar, satelliet/kabel TV, koffie/theezetfaciliteiten. Deze Losone accommodatie bevat alle faciliteiten en gemakken die u mag verwachten van een hotel in deze klasse. Het hotel biedt golfbaan (ter plaatse),tuin om extra plezier en ontspanning te bieden voor alle gasten. Het hotel schept een balans van rijke cultuur en modern gemak voor een gedenkwaardig verblijf voor u.
Descubra todo lo que Losone le ofrece con Rovere Hotel como lugar base. Todas las habitaciones del hotel poseen todas las comodidades que se esperan de un hotel de su clase con el fin de hacer que los huéspedes se sientan como en casa. Todas las habitaciones disponen de servicios, como por ejemplo habitaciones para no fumadores, secador de pelo, ducha, mini bar, televisión por cable, café/té. Para la comodidad de los huéspedes, este alojamiento en Losone dispone de ascensor, bar, servicio de lavandería, Salas de reuniones / banquetes, restaurante. El hotel ofrece campo de golf (a menos de 3 km), jardín con el fin de proporcionar placer y relajación adicional a todos los huéspedes. El hotel ofrece un servicio cálido y acogedor de estándar internacional.
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Pic: Performance by award-winning recording artiste and singer-songwriter Melissa Indot.
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TUNE HOTELS WINNERS TAKE OVER AND PARTY AT klia2 NEW HOTEL
Overwhelming response to Tune Hotel klia2 since 9 May opening
SEPANG, 5 June 2014 – Over 200 winners descended upon the brand new Tune Hotel klia2 and enjoyed a fun-filled evening as the hotel organised a ‘Pyjama Party’ to celebrate its recent opening last weekend.
Ten individual winners of the Tune Hotels’ #RoomerHasIt Facebook campaign were able to invite family and friends to enjoy a further 10 complimentary double rooms for a sleepover at Tune Hotel klia2 and join in for the celebration in their sleeping garb.
Award-winning recording artiste and singer-songwriter Melissa Indot, YouTube sensation Elizabeth Tan and Tune Hotels’ very own Eugene See entertained with performances of their own hit songs and popular interpretations.
International journalists and bloggers from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia and Taiwan were also flown in courtesy of AirAsia and AirAsia X. The event was also made possible by partner-sponsors including Tune Talk Mobile Prepaid, the AirAsia BIG Loyalty Programme, Doof The World Sdn Bhd and TripAdvisor, whose mascot Ollie the Owl made a special appearance.
Group CEO of Tune Hotels Mark Lankester said: “We are thrilled with the opening of Tune Hotel klia2 which has already received an overwhelming response and very strong forward bookings from travellers around the region. Through the #RoomerHasIt social media campaign we wanted to introduce and create further awareness of our latest design and fit-out to previous guests as well as the fantastic facilities at klia2, the world’s largest purpose-built airport for low cost carriers. There’s no better way to do that than have them immersed in the hotel itself.”
He said with Tune Hotel klia2, guests now have a superior accommodation option that is not only great value for money but also features improvements to its international-standard offerings. With 400 rooms, the hotel is directly connected to the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) Terminal via a covered walkway and link bridge, allowing easy and more convenient access as well as the Gateway@klia2 shopping mall. For ultimate convenience, the hotel features AirAsia self check-in kiosks in the lobby.
“Much has been said about the huge size of the new klia2 Terminal and it is impressively large. By hosting these winners and their guests at the Tune Hotel klia2, we want to illustrate just how convenient it is to have a great sleep or enjoy the services within the hotel while waiting for their next flight, and the convenience of strolling over to the terminal without rushing and with time on your side. Business and leisure guests as well as airline passengers on connecting flight extended waits will enjoy a totally improved experience and most importantly a very comfortable and refreshing stay, with more amenities,” said Lankester.
On top of that, he said, guests at Tune Hotel klia2 enjoy great connectivity to KL city and its surrounding suburbs as the klia2 Terminal boasts not only bus and taxi services but also the Express Rail Link (ERL) train service that connects to and from Kuala Lumpur Sentral. For guests arriving at or departing from the KLIA Main Terminal, they can make use of the scheduled shuttle service via the ERL that costs just RM2 one way and stroll over to the hotel via its covered link bridge.
“As you can see, from klia2 guests and travellers can easily connect and enjoy our hotel service network depending on their preferences and travel purpose. In the heart of KL city they will find the hugely popular Tune Hotel Downtown Kuala Lumpur that is right smack in the centre and in the surroundings we have the Tune Hotel Kota Damansara as well as the soon-to-open Tune Hotel DPulze Cyberjaya, not to mention excellent flight connectivity, direct and indirect, to key cities and destinations in Malaysia and the whole region including Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Japan and even as far as England and Scotland, all destinations where the Tune Hotels network is present,” he added.
Tune Hotels has innovatively transformed the guestroom experience into a modern-style accommodation featuring the all-new room design with a sleek writing table, luggage platform and a 32-inch flat screen LED TV, bringing about an improved, sophisticated but cool ambience throughout the Tune Hotel klia2.
To add to the guest experience and comfort, the hotel’s spacious lobby features a cool casual seating lounge with free wifi and an expansive open-air courtyard lounge, overlooked by a 24-hour restaurant and beverage centre. For guests with further transportation needs, the hotel includes a transport counter for overland transport needs and for flights, two AirAsia self check-in kiosks and klia2’s flight information displays are provided within the lobby for added convenience to hotel guests.
The hotel also features 167 parking bays which are conveniently located just a few steps away from the airport terminal.
With a projected annual capacity of 45 million passengers, the klia2 is the world's largest purpose-built terminal dedicated for low cost carriers (LCCs). The new airport commenced commercial operations on 2 May 2014.
Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group CEO and Executive Chairman respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier AirAsia.
There are currently 45 Tune Hotels available for booking across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, England, Scotland, Australia, India and Japan.
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OCTOBER 26, 2011 - LOS ANGELES: Investigators from the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section and detectives from the California Department of Insurance are announcing two arrests in connection with a vehicle arson on January 9, 2011 that led to the serious injury of an LAFD Fire Captain.
Suspect Rigoberto Diaz , age 37 has been charged with Insurance Fraud, Arson of Property, Arson with Great Bodily Injury, attempted Grand Theft, and Conspiracy. The charges are all felonies.
Anyone who believes they recognize this person as being tied to any other crimes or fires is encouraged to contact law enforcement or LAFD Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section Investigators at (213) 893-9800.
UPDATE: On February 5, 2013, Rigoberto Diaz pled guilty to 1 count of Arson with Great Bodily Injury and was sentenced to 14 years in the California State Prison system.
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We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
We made a short notice booking to Copenhagen, Jayne had the first week in September booked off and we wanted to try and do a city break. Five nights hardly seemed enough but the short flight was ok. We flew over home heading east on a beautiful morning. I love flying over an area that I know and being able to see it from above. We had been warned that Copenhagen was expensive-it was! I hadn’t done any research before we set off but on the flight over, I read that taxis were expensive, so it was best to use the Metro from the airport, it isn’t far in to the city and the Metro was fairly easy to use. However! We should have caught the train, I read this whist we were sat on the Metro it has to be said! The nearest Metro stop, which I was frantically trying to work out, using my phone, travelling in and out of tunnels, turned out to be a 1.5 mile walk from our hotel, the rail station was .5. Never mind we were there to walk-subject to my lately diagnosed arthritic ankle, we just didn’t want to be towing suitcases over cobbled pavements at the same time.
We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
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We were staying in the Tivoli Hotel which was described as central, it is near Central Station but you wouldn’t describe it as central to the city. Our room wasn’t ready but we could upgrade for a modest amount plus we realised it would be a good idea to include breakfast in the upgrade deal. A good move as it turned out. Our room overlooked the train lines-all twelve of them!! We could already hear train brakes squealing along with the thump thump of steel wheels rolling over points and joints. It’s true to say that Central Station is a 24/7 operation. The overnight noise didn’t bother Jayne but I could hear it all night.
We dumped our stuff and I loaded up with the backpack and camera and we were straight out there. Copenhagen is a relatively small city but there is a lot to see. We were soon finding out that it has an extensive network of canals and bridges and these are a major feature of life in the city. Pan flat, the cyclist rules, There appeared to be twice as many bikes as residents, with countless thousands propped up everywhere you went. Where ever you looked there was silent conveyor of sit up and beg cycles being ridden in all directions. You soon got used to looking over your shoulder before making a move. The vast majority of bikes are left unlocked and almost no one wears a helmet ( I’m a no helmet man, much to the annoyance of the helmet zealots). Copenhagen is reputedly the happiest place in the world and it certainly came across as friendly and relaxed. It is, though, one of the most expensive cities in the world and two burgers and two small glasses of wine at Nyhavn cost us £50. Comically, there were four people, local to us, shouting out Jayne’s name, they had seen us going past and we had a laugh about the prices, They were sat drinking beer at £8.50 a pint. Despite the expense, the place was packed with people parting with their money. Wages are very high locally, as are the taxes. The high wages and high costs must feed each other in an upward spiral I would have thought.
Unfortunately the cost of entering buildings to go up towers etc. for a higher view of the city was also very expensive (to us). The tower at Christiansborg Palace is free but restricted by the lift system and you don’t get to the top, it does also open later than the others so you have a chance of seeing sunset over the city. Unfortunately the lifts were out of order on one of our best weather days. We did get to go up the day after but it was dull and I wasn’t overly impressed. The spiral tower across in Christiana, The Church of Our Saviour, was far more impressive. We climbed the tower here just after it opened on a stunning morning and the views are fantastic. There will be incredible bottlenecks when it’s busy though on the corkscrew stairs that get progressively narrower towards the top. Some people hog it to take endless selfies at the top and it is extremely tight up there, you can’t move up until they come down.
As usual, we tried to get to some out of the way places, with only five days and mixed weather though we had enough mainstream destinations to see. We had a day of heavy rain so we went back to the rail station which was a good indoor (and free!) destination, and made umbrellas and the rain the focal point of that days photos. The entire Danish navy seemed to be at anchor, we just missed an open day on one ship. Some I could photograph, others were guarded and had restrictions, I got the evil eye from a couple of guards as the spotted the big Canon in my hand. I can’t imagine that they could police the Japanese and stop them from getting their photos and selfies though. I always act very openly with the camera and if people look at me suspiciously I smile and give them the thumbs up. In a rail station I usually ask the police. In Central Station the police were in their station and I never saw one move out, it is covered by extensive CCTV but there were some very unpleasant people, drinking and watching for people being careless with their belongings. We were lucky to be in the station on Sunday as a tourist steam train arrived, it sat at the platform belching smoke and steam for fifteen minutes, it was also coming back in an hour so we had an expensive coffee and waited to see it again. There was big military event outside the Christiansborg Palace on Monday, with a parade through the city that came past just as we were in a good spot to view it. The area was full of soldiers wearing their medals. We haven’t discovered the reason, although someone suggested a passing out parade for new recruits. Maybe the ships were in port for this as well.
Tivoli Gardens is another big draw and we went in, again it was fairly expensive, it had been a stunning day and the biggest problem was contrast, with deep shadows and a bright blue sky. We stayed until dark, it opens late and is very colourful. We went on the world’s highest carousel and got flung around 260 odd feet in the air. Luckily, we also found a bar that served wine at ‘only’ £5.60 a glass so we sat and watched people have fun screaming and shrieking above us.
There are many buildings with copper domes, entire copper roofs, even modern buildings are often clad in either brass or copper to blend in with the ancient buildings around them. Like every city we have visited, tower cranes are in abundance. There is a lot of development going on and unfortunately a lot of it is around buildings that you would want to photograph. We walked 12 to 14 mile every day and took in most of the sights. We didn’t really do any interiors, only towers and the railway station. At the time of writing I haven’t looked at what I’ve got, I have around 3000 shots, some on the G1X which I used when it was raining heavily as it easy to put in a pocket. I have a lot less time for editing these days so it will be a long process I think. To save time I am going to create a list of generic tags that I can copy and paste to each upload – the time saving is enormous – so apologies to anyone who gets a photo of a canal when they wanted a steam train or vice versa.
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