What do these new Five-Star hotels, restaurants and spas have in common?
FORBES: 18 New Forbes Travel Guide Five-Stars To Visit In 2012
Though Chinese restaurants still make up the majority of included eateries, the new two-star options are pricey Japanese joints: Sushi Yoshitake and Ryu Gin.
Lighting is also decisive in another new Michelin-star restaurant interior in the Eixample district, where Catalan-Canadian chef Jordi Artal relaunched Cinq Sentis, his 8-year-old restaurant, last fall.
Mr Huang tells me that so voluminous was the flow of public cash into the luxury hotel industry that it was distorting the market with new five-star establishments planned and built on the back of it.
When we visited new Five-Star winner Mandarin Oriental, Boston, for example, everyone from the housekeeper to the bellhop knew our name, and the room service attendant who delivered breakfast suggested we take a house umbrella on a rainy day before we even thought to do so ourselves.
FORBES: 18 New Forbes Travel Guide Five-Stars To Visit In 2012
Imagine if a new so-called four-star restaurant paid a New York Times reviewer to give it a top rating.
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Others like ex-New York Giants star Lawrence Taylor, a Chapel Hill stand-out who last year pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct, have not gained entry to the club despite appearing on the ballot.
Now the hit ITV1 show is back with a third series set in the roaring 1920s with a new Oscar-winning star.
Today, we have an enlarged NATO with increasing (though still far from adequate) capabilities, a good plan for streamlining NATO's command structure, a new NATO four-star command focused specifically on military transformation and an affirmative answer once and for all to that old chestnut, can NATO take on a mission out of area.
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In their first meeting since a verbal clash led to Anthony's one-game suspension, New York's All-Star forward scored 28 points and the Knicks ended an 11-game losing streak in Boston with an 89-86 victory over the Celtics on Thursday night.
Has the fashion world found a new risk-taking style star not seen since Cate Blanchett in the actress from the surprise hit Easy A?
The 34-year-old Youkilis joined Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson on New York's star-studded disabled list Tuesday because of a lumbar spine sprain.
Spokesman Matt Sloustcher said Coda is going for a four- or five-star New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) rating, which it plans to have in place by next year.
The company recently signed New York Yankees All-Star Robinson Cano.
Come fall, there will be four comedies--including new star vehicles for Kelsey Grammer (Hank), Courteney Cox (Cougar Town) and Patricia Heaton (The Middle)--sharing the schedule with three new dramas and a reality competition show.
Even homes-away-from-home--new college dorms--have gone four-star upscale with things like (energy hogging) 10-foot ceilings, granite tabletops, bigger common rooms, etc.
That was apparently the touch of Tom Ford, an American who has breathed new life and a rock-star sexiness into Gucci's image since he became its chief designer in the early 1990s.
This year, 18 new hotels, restaurants and spas earned a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating the most new Five-Stars achieved in recent memory.
FORBES: 18 New Forbes Travel Guide Five-Stars To Visit In 2012
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "A Jazz New Year's Eve" features the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with the singing quartet New York Voices.
The Roys' big moment came in 1998, when they inked a five-year contract to produce all the programming for Star News, Star TV's new 24-hour news channel.
This renowned lightness of foot has inspired the title of Dancing Shoes - a new musical celebrating the life of the ex-Manchester United star which has opened in Belfast.
The Dodgers' new ownership has assembled a star-studded roster, creating championship expectations in Los Angeles.
The New York Post and the Star-Ledger reported that XLVIII officials are also worried how the weather could hurt a halftime show.
It's absolutely an all-star lineup of New Orleans jazz and blues performers.
Shivinder Mohan Singh sat down a year ago with Naresh Trehan, an eminent cardiologist and business partner, at a five-star hotel in New Delhi.
The father and son - and Michael's father, veteran actor Kirk Douglas - star in a new film which opens in the US on Friday.
Also in US Weekly's bottom five: an exclusive interview with Britney Spears on her "new life" and reality-TV star Bethenny Frankel on overcoming an eating disorder.
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This year marks the first time that Couture Fashion Week moves from the Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Waldorf Astoria New York to its new home in the New Yorker Hotel.
But with the new upscale shopping centers and five-star hotels that have recently opened, coupled with a planned redevelopment of the old Kai Tak airport where planes used to fly in next to skyscrapers, Kowloon is looking up.
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"There's nothing that's comparable to playing in an All-Star game in New York, " Mets third baseman David Wright said Wednesday at a City Hall news conference announcing festivities leading up to the July 16 showdown at Citi Field.
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