Monday, January 14, 2008
Article On The Casa
Of course this quote says it all...
The major renovations and the opening of the new luxury resort help bring in the coveted high-end tourist, says Jodi Weinhofer, president of the Lodging Association of the Florida Keys and Key West.
"There is a lot of discussion if this is good or bad for the island," she says. "But most everyone in the Keys has said they don't want more tourists - they want better tourists."
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Jon Bon Jovi's star-filled Hamptons party is a rock & roll ball of fame
BY GEORGE RUSH
DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST
Monday, September 3rd 2007, 4:00 AM
A little Hamptons dinner party turned into a summit of the rock gods Saturday night. Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, were celebrating nothing more than the end of summer when they invited some friends over to their East Hampton spread. But then their friends do include Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffett and Pink Floyd's Roger Waters.
The surf-and-turf dinner would have been enough for a crowd that included Renee Zellwegger, Naomi Watts, Howard Stern, 'Today' anchor Matt Lauer, designer Donna Karan, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and 'Saturday Night Live' producer Lorne Michaels. But, about 11 p.m., Bon Jovi jumped onstage to join the party band. Pretty soon, people were dancing. Before long, McCartney joined Bon Jovi at the mike - along with Joel, Buffett and Waters. 'Billy was wailing on the keyboards,' said one guest. 'They performed for a good hour of rock classics. Nobody could believe it. Howard Stern was really rocking "
Saturday, September 01, 2007
TheStar.com - entertainment - The complicated uncomplicated life of Jimmy Buffett
TheStar.com - entertainment - The complicated uncomplicated life of Jimmy Buffett: "The complicated uncomplicated life of Jimmy Buffett"
ep 01, 2007 04:30 AM
Sometimes Jimmy Buffett's world gets a little too complicated.
After a lifetime spent in the pursuit of uncluttered self-contentment – "some music, a couple of hours in the water, a nap in the afternoon is all I really need," the American folk-pop icon said during a recent interview – he seems to have achieved exactly the opposite.
He's the head of a massive and complex empire that embraces recording, distribution, music publishing, merchandising and concert interests; the creation of several bestselling novels and an autobiography; Internet radio; movie and stage musical productions; two restaurant chains; a brewery, and a casino resort that will open in Biloxi, Miss. in 2010, not far from his birthplace in Pascagoula.
The 61-year-old accidental mogul, who also flies and collects antique planes and regularly sails his own yacht to distant and exotic destinations, says he has "about 4,000 or 5,000" people working for him and a handful of executives who take care of the various day-to-day operations of his multi-faceted business.
But though he likes to think he has his hand on the wheel, that's not always the case. A few months ago the much-mythologized, free-spirited macho icon worshipped by hundreds of thousands of self-proclaimed Parrotheads approved a general U.S.-food industry-inspired ban on Canadian seafood in his restaurants and immediately found himself at odds with his legions of Canadian fans, as well as relatives in Newfoundland.
Labels: Music, parrot head, parrothead, Philly Parrotheads
