Results tagged “bloomberg”

Turns out it might not be such a bad thing that the old Warwick Hotel is no more: According to government documents recently released to the UK National Archives, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent some time locked in her bathroom at the hotel during a visit to Houston in 1977. Details of the trip, which took place two years before Thatcher became prime minister, were released under a law that allows top-secret government papers to be made public after 30 years. Though the file contains assorted other goodies, the bathroom problem is what's been making headlines across Britain. To quote from the papers:

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom...

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts...

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches...

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making...

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay...

Chrisopher McCarthy, the 21-year-old Houston tourist stabbed last week on a New York City subway train, left the hospital yesterday and said he plans to get back to Houston as soon as possible. Though McCarthy lost between 60 and 70 percent of his blood after the stabbing — the knife punctured his heart — doctors at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center said they expect him to make a full recovery. The NY Times described him as "frail," but reported that he got out of his wheelchair and stood on the sidewalk outside the hospital for several minutes to talk with reporters.

As the so-called "trial of the century" (at least by Houston standards) gets rolling today, the techno-crazy Houston Chronicle keeps us up to the second with two new blogs: Legal Commentary, in which attorneys give insight into the legal wranglings of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, and TrialWatch, which gives Chron staffers the chance to tell us what's going on at the courthouse, right now. From TrialWatch, we learn that reporters from Bloomberg were the...

Though evacuees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita staying in Houston hotels got a reprieve last week when FEMA extended its hotel reimbursement program through Jan. 7, the evacuees will eventually have to find housing — and when they look for it, Houston may not have enough.