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All About André Balazs in Arkitip

It has arrived: the 50th issue of Arkitip, which is both focused on hotelier André Balazs 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.

So what did we learn about the hot hotelier? That his promised wine, a rosé produced near his Sunset Beach Hotel 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 La Maison Tropicale, a modular design by the famous architect which Balazs has currently lent to be on exhibition outside of the Tate Modern in London.

We wish we could have scanned some of the magazine for you, but it is almost not worth it; after a few vaguely presidential images of André in his office, the rest of the magazine is almost solely official photos of his properties and the products available therein. Now we're stuck with four copies, which is probably what we deserve for semi-stalking "One of the Most Stylish Men in America".

[Images: Arkitip]

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Halloween Hotels :: Scandal at The Raleigh

Where: 1775 Collins Avenue [map], Miami, FL, United States, 33139

Watergate, Monicagate, The Keating Five, Iran-Contra, Kennedy, Palin, oh, that list does go on, doesn't it?

The Raleigh Hotel 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.

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 crazy moustache!), and you could win a prize -- we know not what -- for Most Creative, Most Scandalous, and Best Couple.

Lest you think it's all men who populate the political scandals of today and yesterday, you can come as Lady Di, Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter -- or maybe Rose Mary Woods, responsible for deleting those crucial 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes.

But we'd personally like to see a couple come dressed as Barney and Spot, those two crazy Scottish terriers who allegedly saved W from fatally choking on that scandalous pretzel. Rates start at $265.