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Hotel Blog Watch: Stan d'Arde Blog is Below Standard

amandak — 2008-06-03T09:00:01-05:00

A few months ago the marketing persona of the Standard Hotel group, Stan d'Arde, was kicked off Facebook since he's not a real person. But in the background since December, Stan's been quietly blogging away on the Stan d'Arde blog. You can't keep a good man down.

Los Angeles: Guess The Hotel :: At Which LA Hotel Did Singer Morrissey Kick Out a Magazine Editor?

juliana — 2008-05-13T09:36:39-05:00

<![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/morrisseyLA.jpg" class="imgborder">Singer Morrissey, former frontman for the Smiths, pulled one of the most outrageous diva acts in a hotel that we have yet to witness. Seriously, we would have rather he thrown a TV out of the window than this.Apparently, Morrissey discovered that a a magazine editor of the music publication NME was staying in the same hotel as him. Since the mag printed an interview last December which suggested the singer was racist, Morrissey asked the hotel to remove the editor from the hotel, which they did.However the demand backfired for Morrissey. The editor, Conor McNicholas, was actually upgraded to a penthouse suite at a sister hotel. So HotelChatter mavens, can you guess the L.A. Hotel which

Beverly Hills: Where to Shack Up in Beverly Hills for The Oscars

juliana — 2008-02-21T09:00:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/oscarrates2.jpg" class="imgborder">Note: Deals they be 'a changing. We scoped these out on Wednesdsay, February 20th and the prices listed here are subject to change.There aren't many hotel deals to be found in <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotels/city/us/CA/Beverly%20Hills">Beverly Hills</a> this weekend when the Oscars come to town but there are rooms available. We checked our trusty <a href="http://hotelrates.hotelchatter.com/SearchResults.aspx?fileName=Beverly_Hills&languageCode=EN&checkin=2008-02-23&checkout=2008-02-25">rate finder</a> and found five hotels in Beverly Hills that have rooms open. We checked for February 23-25 and most surprisingly the celeb-fave <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Peninsula+Beverly+Hills/local/550">Peninsula Beverly Hills</a> has rooms open for $625 a night. Maybe <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/10/5/113337/190/hotels/The_Britney_Spears_Trainwreck_Making_Station_Stops_at_Los_Angeles_Hotels">Britney Spears'</a> pre-mental ward antics wreaked too much havoc on past guests. That or people are just balking at paying $600+ a night. Afterall, the industry is still recuperating from

Standard Hotels Launches New Website

juliana — 2008-01-03T13:36:35-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/standard_newsite.jpg" class="imgborder"> Aside from releasing a calendar of <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/1/2/145815/4483/hotels/Andre_Balazs_Pin_Up_Calendar">hottie staffers</a>, Andre Balaz's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/standard%20hotels">Standard Hotels</a> have also relaunched their website.What was once a very white and minimalistic site has been transformed into a comprehensive, informative and entertaining site. On the home page, you are greeted with video from each location--Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles, Miami Beach and the upcoming New York. While it looks like live cam video on the site, we highly doubt that the rooftop pool in downtown LA is packed at 10am on a January morning.Nevertheless, when you click on a location, you are taken to a new page. So each hotel now has its own URL, which makes us geeks feel like order has been

Armistead Maupin's Thoughts on Mandarin Oriental, Kimpton's Goldfish and Hotel Porn

juliana — 2007-07-25T12:43:47-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/maupin_blog.jpg" class="imgborder"><a href="http://www.armisteadmaupin.com">Armistead Maupin</a> if you don't know him, is the author of the Tales of the City series about life for a group of eclectic individuals in San Francisco. Basically, he was Candace Bushnell (the author of Sex and the City) of the late 1970s except he's a gay man who doesn't seem to have a Manolo Blahnik obsession--that we know of. He even had a character named Connie Bradshaw. Hmmm...draw your own conclusions. Maupin is also a pioneer for the LGBT community because during a time when these topics were still considered taboo, he wrote about the random sex, gay men, lesbian socialites, transsexuals, and AIDS. Yet he always made love--searching for it, having it, losing it--