For a glossy boutique hotel experience, Jurys Boston Hotel (350 Stuart Street; 617-266-7200; bostonhotels.com/jurys_bostonurys_boston) is on the edge of the South End in a former Police Department headquarters.
Co-founder and COO Jared Simon says the company has already started to build an audience of devoted fans, who are attracted not just by the deals (hotel rooms can be discounted by up to 70percentt), but the app's high-quality experience and glossy look (the company hires a professional photographer to take pictures of every hotel in the system).
Pop fans with long memories will remember "Paris" from 2006, on which Hilton sang (sort of well!) about the celebrity experience over glossy robo-disco grooves produced by folks who went on to make smash hits with Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.
Watching identical emotions played out by blonder, glossier similars recasts the experience itself and the subsequent loss of it as something else, as something so common and, yeah, mythical, that the attendant alone-feelings just wear themselves out.
James Sherwood: Orsolya, you're at that tipping point of a young fashionista's career when work experience at the glossies is turning into your first commissions as a stylist and designer.
Today, they are the experiences described in glossy brochures that tout extreme vacations and adventures, at high prices.
Showing up with nothing more than notebooks, pens and a conviction that they could make money, Cohen and Steers beat out a far more experienced rival armed with glossy handouts and flip charts.
Here, in this glossy city, lies the possibility of an experience verging on extinction: a fresh breeze, a smoke (permitted outdoors), quiet conversation.
In our experience, mucoid colonies showed a wet and glossy shape in blood agar plates (figure 2), although few of them were already dried showing a colapsed, rough and "matte" morphology different to that found in non-mucoid colonies.
WHEN it comes to happiness, social scientists say it's not glossy, tangible objects that give us lasting joy — it's experiences, be it wine tasting in Tuscany or snowshoeing in Vermont.
