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...Oscar eve this year, as it has for each of the last 22, the red carpet at Film Independent's Spirit Awards ceremony, sometimes referred to as the Indie Academy Awards, leads to a beachfront tent full of celebs in their best dressy casual, sharing cocktails and off-color jokes and honoring movies made for budgets slightly less than the cost of the jewels Fred Leighton will loan out to Oscar hopefuls the next morning...
...Dubai is a work in progress, then the Royal Mirage is a work of art - and a huge one at that. The sprawling beachfront resort consists of three stylish hotels (the grand Palace; the smaller, exclusive Residence & Spa; and the bustling Arabian Court with its domes, arches and intoxicating shisha aroma), eight restaurants, 15 boutiques and 26 hectares of gardens. But if you become overwhelmed and crave a little more intimacy, then retreat to the resort's traditional Hammam (Turkish bath). This beautiful, warm sanctuary, with its intricate mosaics and splendid dome, is a place where the outside world melts...
...Year's Eve, or Reveillion, is one of Rio de Janeiro's most important holidays, second only to Carnaval. Extravagant beachfront celebrations unfold along Copacabana, attracting some 2 million revelers clad in white (to bring good luck and peace in the coming year). Live music ranging from samba to rock blasts from four stages along the beach. New Year's is also a day to honor Iemanjá--goddess of the sea and mother of the waters--with ritualistic offerings stowed in small wooden boats and launched in the surf. Tradition holds that if the goddess is pleased with a boat...
Patrick used his closing remarks to address the Cape Wind project, saying that those people who are against the project are not all beachfront property owners, and those who support it can not be easily labeled either...
Like many before him, Sheldon Gordon came to Atlantic City, N.J., confident that he would win big. Standing on a glass walkway between his new beachfront shopping mall and Caesars casino, he surveys a boardwalk full of people on a humid June afternoon and says, "There's no mall in America that has this amount of traffic on a Monday." If he were playing poker, Gordon's face would be a dead giveaway: he is obviously quite happy with his hand. At the end of the walkway is the Pier, a $210 million green glass complex holding 90 shops...