The Lifestyle Life: Andrew Casperson on Moving Into Upscale, ‘Authentic’ Hospitality
09 Apr
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The Lifestyle Life: Andrew Casperson on Moving Into Upscale, ‘Authentic’ Hospitality

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Lifestyle Andrew Casperson Headshot Coury Hospitality President Andrew Casperson recently spoke withLODGINGfrom Bentonville, Arkansas, where he was visiting the AC Hotel Bentonville, a Marriott hotel, set to open in the spring of 2025. In addition to sharing details of his career path and the people who influenced it, he discussed challenges such as attracting team members—called “experience curators” at Coury—that can support the company’s mission to provide exceptional experiences for guests, and how this lifestyle-brand focused management company is now extending its services to more traditional brands through its Concert Hospitality entity.Early CareerCasperson’s career dates to high school in the mid-’80s, when his first task at a Holiday Inn in Burlington, Massachusetts,...
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Beyoncé’s Grammys Wins Prove That Black Women in Country Are Getting Their Due
04 Feb
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Beyoncé’s Grammys Wins Prove That Black Women in Country Are Getting Their Due

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Lifestyle Updated on Feb 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM Tanner Adell fell in love with country music young.She grew up splitting her time between Los Angeles and Star Valley, WY, which created a stark contrast — but it was the country lifestyle, and specifically the music, that held her heart. Adell remembers falling in love with Keith Urban when he released "Somebody Like You." And every summer, when she and her mom would set out to drive back to LA from Star Valley, she'd sit in the back of the car and "just silently cry my eyes out as we'd start on this road trip back to California," she remembers.These days, Adell is a rising country music star. And at the Grammys on Feb. 2, she was part of a watershed moment for Black women in...
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Social-climbing ‘property guru’ Sasha promised his investors the world. But behind his lavish lifestyle and jet-setting marriage was a trail of lost millions. At long last, his empire is crumbling
04 Feb
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Social-climbing ‘property guru’ Sasha promised his investors the world. But behind his lavish lifestyle and jet-setting marriage was a trail of lost millions. At long last, his empire is crumbling

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Lifestyle A disgraced property guru is living a life of luxury with his cashed-up bride, after hundreds of mum-and-dad investors lost more than $27million to his schemes. The pair call each other Bonnie and Clyde - and it's easy to see why. Sasha Hopkins, 37, was once celebrated for his rags-to-riches story. He went from aQueensland kid booted out of school for stealing computers, to the owner of a $55million property empire at 31. But on May31, 2022, his legal troubles began. The Federal Court froze the assets of Hopkins and his company, The A Team Property Group. Hopkins was also ordered to hand over his passport and remain in Australia. For years, he had been collecting money from mum-and-dad investors - in many cases their life savings or superannuation. In June 2022, the Federal Court amended Sasha Hopkins' travel ban....
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The Wonder of Word Origins
22 Jan
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The Wonder of Word Origins

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Lifestyle Lifestyle It’s estimated that we speak around 16,000 words a day, but have you ever thought about where they came from?Etymology shows that language has an amusing if not downright laugh-inducing sense of humor at times. Here are just a few examples of curious word origins. DudeThis is a word that has certainly done a 180-degree turn: in the 1880s, instead of referring to a laid-back man, it described one overconcerned with his appearance. FreelanceCredited to Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 novel Ivanhoe, this was a name for a warrior who fought for whoever was the highest bidder (presumably using whatever free lance was available for battle). GeniusIn fourteenth-century Rome, this moniker belonged to a person’s guardian spirit—a force that watched over them from birth and guided them through life. MuscleMusculusthe Latin word muscle comes from, literally means “little...
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