Transracial is always on the look out for new and noteworthy airline innovations including this doozy we’ve just learned of: Sky Nannies. It appears as if Gulf Air – which share home bases in the Arabian Gulf nations of Bahrain and Oman — has launched an in-flight babysitting program to give air-weary parents some relief. [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
AFRICAN INGENUITY (4): Sembuse
Fresh out of Kenya comes Sembuse, which has just launched and is being billed as the first-ever social networking platform developed by Africans, for Africans in both African and the African diaspora. Based on conventional SMS platform technology, Sembuse allows users to text some 1,000 individual characters in a single message — up form 160 [...]
STYLE ALERT: Sophie Théallet
Gracias to the ladies over at Mrs-O.org for alerting us to the work — and wisdom — of French-born/US-based fashion designer Sophie Théallet. Not only is the former Alaia right-hand a favorite of Mrs. O herself — in one of Théallet’s designs at today’s Sojourner Truth celebratory event — but Théallet totally bucked fashion industry [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Alexa Chung
Way down in viewership and clamoring for revived cultural relevance, MTV has picked English model Alexa Chung to host a new pop-culture-meets-media-2.0 show beginning June 15. Dubbed “The Alexa Chung Show”, the daily gab-fest will feature Chung mixing and mingling with all kinds of pop-culture types while interacting view views back home via all sort [...]
REBRANDED IN ISRAEL: Swine Flu to be Called "Mexican Flu"
Israel is on high alert as the first suspected cases of Swine Flu begin to appear in the Jewish nation. But ever mindful of religious law, Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman has asked that Israelis call the affliction “Mexican Flu” rather than “Swine Flu”. How Kosher! Minister Litzman — an ultra-Orthodox Jew — said Israel [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Table 8's Govind Armstrong
Transracial and AG spent Saturday night a la table at Table 8, the new restaurant at the hip Cooper Square Hotel. We arrived early and sat at the raw bar — where a lovely lady prepared fresh sashimi and small plates of cured meats — and enjoyed the talents of chef Govind Armstrong, who’s recently [...]
LAUNCHED: Pet Airways
Even as the travel industry spirals downwards, odd new concepts continue to emerge — including the latest, Pet Airways. Launched this past week, the new airline is the first-ever aimed directly at transporting pets in the air. The idea is that instead of being relegated to B-list seating with check-on luggage or in over-head bins, [...]
CALIENTE: Paraguayan Prez Fernando Lugo a Big-Time Baby Daddy
Newly elected president of Paraguay Fernando Lugo has been hit with three — yes three! — paternity suits by local ladies claiming he’s fathered their babies. As a bachelor, Lugo does not have a scorned wife at home dealing with tales of betrayal. That’s because before Lugo was a politican, he was a Catholic Bishop [...]
DISCOVERED IN CHICAGO: Icream Cafe
Transracial was in Chicago over the weekend where he bumped into the newly-debuted Icream Cafe, which we suspect might just be the future of ice cream. Located in groovy Wicker Park, Icream is the brainchild of founder Cora Shaw, who has given an unexpectedly scientific spin to this most favorite dessert. Rather than ordering by [...]
IN COURT: Starwood vs. Hilton
A juice battle is brewing between hotel giants Starwood and Hilton, who are currently in court battling over the fate of some 100,000 documents the former claims was stolen by the latter! Yowza! It appears as if former Starwood exec Ross Klein — who built the mass-boutique W brand (W Seoul above) — has now [...]