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...these are not considerations that most politicians and prudish public health missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy,” and expressed disbelief...
...these are not considerations that most politicians and prudish public health missionaries have taken because this ban is not really about helping bar employees but about enforcing a way of life. A certain group of people, whether they be Starbucks swilling gym-junkie yuppies or the spiritual heirs of 1920s Prohibitionists, would like to see smoking banished from their gated kingdom. Their hand has been tipped by the most notorious of their lot, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has repeatedly called smokers “stupid” and “crazy,” and expressed disbelief...
Fashion-world favorites such as Jacobs and newcomers like Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler projected a sense of cheery optimism with a generous palette of citrus colors, sweet floral prints and soft, 1920s-style dresses right out of The Great Gatsby. Old Guard designers like Ralph Lauren and Carolina Herrera revived the breezy silhouette and jaunty stripes of Chanel's early days in Deauville...
Driving down 1525 West, a quiet road in Farmington, Utah, you pass meditative cows, grassy fields, a few modest houses. Then, on the west side of the road, a mirage looms: 10.5 acres of colorful, pint-size railroad trains chugging out of a replica 1920s station house, snaking through tunnels, over bridges, past waterfalls and man-made mountains. Here live Steve Flanders and his accommodating wife Susan, who over eight years watched her husband turn their farm--and her carefully tended flower beds--into a model-railroad park...
...region. Now travelers to Poland can finally stop complaining and check into the Hotel Rialto, Warsaw's first boutique luxury hotel. Housed in a 100-year-old building on quiet, tree-lined Wilcza Street, the Rialto's 44 rooms are done up in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 1930s; owner Iza Smolokowska spent two years traveling the world to pick the 300 pieces of original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics an Orient Express compartment, complete with Cristal mirror and leather-covered seat. The Art Deco restaurant...