http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T09:19:00Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Raleigh%20Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/2/19/10237/9786 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/AndreArkitip.jpg" class="top"> <p>It has arrived: the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/28/14644/4757/hotels/Andr_Balazs_Magazine_Centerfold">50th issue</a> of <i>Arkitip</i>, which is both focused on hotelier <b>André Balazs</b> and designed by him, dropped into our mailbox yesterday. Each magazine includes a "surface mat" featuring a design of one of André's properties, and aside from a few articles at the end, André was in control of the content of the entire edition. <p>So what did we learn about the hot hotelier? That his <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/24/123630/542/hotels/Andre_Balazs_Dark_Secret_Wine">promised wine</a>, a rosé produced near his <b><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Sunset+Beach+Hotel/local/342">Sunset Beach Hotel</a></b> on Shelter Island, is ready for mass consumption, and that he collects vintage nude photographs. Also of note is his acquisition of Jean Prouvé's <i>La Maison Tropicale</i>, a modular design by the famous architect JetSetCD 2009-02-19T11:58:06-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/21/215832/19 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/raleighhalloween.jpg" class="imgborder"> Watergate, Monicagate, The Keating Five, Iran-Contra, Kennedy, Palin, oh, that list does go on, doesn't it?<p> <p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Raleigh+Hotel/local/18"><b>The Raleigh Hotel</b></a> is hosting a hilarious, inappropriately appropriate "Scandal!!" soiree on Halloween night, only days before the national election. And their invite is salaciously creative and fun.<p> <p>Come to the hotel penthouse dressed as the characters who have plunged our nation to its lowest depths: John McCain, Poppy Bush, Todd Palin, Tricky Dick Cheney, Red Scare-monger Joe McCarthy, or even Nixon's Chief Plumber G. Gordon Liddy (ooh, that <i>crazy</i> moustache!), and you could win a prize -- we know not what -- for Most Creative, Most Scandalous, and Best Couple.<p>Lest you think it's all men who populate the annie0007 2008-10-22T10:00:44-05:00 25.7937310 -80.128483 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/