Author: Ms. R.

Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Joey Weiss: Upstairs is where we have our classical instruments room. Dylan Thuras: Oh, I see. I see. Okay. What’s downstairs then? That’s like your synths? Joey: Downstairs is our 1950s room. Dylan: I see. Cool. This is Joey Weiss. All right. So Joey is, he’s my friend. He’s also my neighbor. He lives like five minutes up the road. He’s a really talented musician. He’s a……

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Completed in 1964 and designed by Edward Durrell Stone, this architectural gem would be entirely at home in an episode of Star Trek. A modern take on a Roman temple, the building exemplifies New Formalism, the mid-20th century architectural style Stone helped pioneer. Rejecting the rigidity of Modernity, the movement blends classical architecture features with contemporary materials, especially concrete.  The white, circular structure has a seating capacity of 1,136 and regularly hosts concerts, lectures, dance, and theater performances. Beckman……

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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: I’m here and no one’s here yet. This is a mailbag episode, and so we’re going to chat and ask each other questions. But it’s just me right now. So I’m going to eat some clementine and get some ASMR of me eating a clementine. People don’t like the sound of other people eating, but too bad. I wonder who figured out ASMR first. Like……

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The Battle of the Somme may have been a relatively short-lived offensive, lasting only five months from July 1 to November 18, 1916. The resulting carnage, however, claimed the lives of well over 300,000 French, British, and German soldiers.  The deadly detritus of the world’s first industrial-scale slaughter is displayed in this remarkable museum’s exhibits: bullets, shell shrapnel, rifles, pistols, mustard gas canisters, grenades, bayonets, and machine guns. The museum features an extensive collection of wartime attire and accessories,……

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Olso. Capital of Norway. Gateway for many to the country’s stunning fjords. The city is home to some of Norway’s iconic sights, like the King and Queen’s Palace, Vigeland Sculpture Park, and the Viking Ship Museum. While strolling the through the great Nordic city, you might sense the call of nature, and begin a frantic search for a public toilet. If you’re in the Spikersuppa area, you’re in luck! But you might be surprised by the three public toilets……

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Every day, in conversations with hoteliers like you, we hear the same revenue beliefs pop up. Old habits and assumptions that quietly drain profits, cost bookings, and steal the hours you’d rather spend delighting guests. It’s time to change that. In this article, you’ll learn seven of the most common misconceptions in revenue management and The post 7 Hotel Revenue Management Myths Costing You Money appeared first on Revfine.com….

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A former Australian prison, Fremantle is now preserved as Western Australia’s only World Heritage-listed building. Visitors can still explore its cellblocks, perimeter walls, gallows, and and underground labyrinth of tunnels—once home to imperial convicts, colonial prisoners, enemy ‘aliens’, prisoners of war, and maximum-security detainees.  Although Western Australia began as a “free” colony, economic hardship led it to ask Britain to send prisoners, who then built the very prison meant to contain them.  When transportation ended in 1868, Fremantle became……

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Walking around Germany today, one sees few signs of the brutal years of Nazi rule. Aside from concentration camps and a handful of larger sites like Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and the Nuremberg Rally Grounds preserved as memorials, Germany has scrubbed away signs of its dark past and replaced them with memorials remembering countless victims. From the early 1930s until 1945, swastikas and Reichsadlers (“eagles of the Reich,” which usually held swastikas in their talons) were splashed over every German……

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In lifestyle and full-service hotels, Food and Beverage (F&B) can generate 40–50% of total revenue. Sustaining profitability means attracting and retaining high-value guests, boosting in-house spending, ensuring satisfaction, and controlling costs. Yet data silos make this difficult, with PMS, POS, and finance systems often disconnected. While hotels focus on room revenue, F&B is equally essential, The post Food and Beverage Analytics Driving Hotel Profitability Growth appeared first on Revfine.com….

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When this theatre opened in 1925, it brought in top Hollywood talents in the worlds of silent films and vaudeville. The biggest star of that era, Mary Pickford, dedicated the theatre on opening night, May 28, 1925. It was the second of the three classics designed by the Los Angeles architecture firm Meyer & Holler, along with Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre (1923) and Chinese Theatre (1927) in Hollywood. In the years that followed, many big names performed on the Fox Fullerton……

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What did you think when ChatGPT first came out? Maybe you were in the “nice, but useless gadget” camp. Or did you immediately see it as a powerful tool that will shake up our industry? The latter has proven true. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools have only been available for a short time. But you can The post AI in Hospitality: New Trends in Booking Behavior and Distribution appeared first on Revfine.com….

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