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Your Golden Angel
No one else can see it, but you know the secret of your Wellendorff ring – a little golden angel is hidden inside. Read the whole story which inspired us to create this new collection at: www.wellendorff.com/goldenangel
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A true story: “One day a raging fire destroyed everything I possessed, including my beloved jewellery. Only one piece survived the inferno practically undamaged: my Wellendorff necklace adorned with a golden angel. After this fire, jewellery has a completely different meaning for me; because it proves that miracles do happen.� Letter from Inga Lasmane of Riga, Latvia.
This letter is the inspiration for our new collection. It came as a welcome reminder of the true value of jewellery: To offer joy and protection.
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» 82 TOIL AND TROUBLE In recent years, the world’s theater scene has been struggling. But amid the doldrums, one intrepid British stage company hit it very, very big by combining Macbeth, Hitchcock and, most important, you, all in the creaky confines of an abandoned Manhattan hotel. BY JENNA SCHERER PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARAH WILMER
» 91 BEST BUYS Regifting—which occurs when a present misses the target so badly that the recipient can hardly bear to have it in her home—happens to the best of us. To help you avoid such a fate, we recruited experts from the tech, design, food, toy and sports worlds to offer can’tmiss picks this holiday season. BY JACQUELINE DETWILER PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA SHIN ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN JAY CABUAY
» 102 THREE PERFECT DAYS: MEXICO CITY From the leafy streets of Polanco to the bohemian haunts of Roma, we take you through the best of one of the world’s biggest and most vibrant cities.
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STANDING GUARD A traditional carving adorns the exterior of Mexico City’s Frida Kahlo Museum
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EDITOR IN CHIEF Joe Keohane EXECUTIVE EDITOR Sam Polcer MANAGING EDITOR Jennifer L. Johnson SENIOR EDITOR Jacqueline Detwiler FASHION EDITOR Nino Bauti
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FOR THIS MONTH’S holiday gift guide (“Best Buys,” page 91), senior editor Jacqueline Detwiler tapped five industry gurus and dozens of retailers to help assemble a spread of the season’s coolest and most distinctive presents. Wrangling experts—a chef, a toymaker, a designer, a golf pro and an executive at Google Chrome—was a challenge, but they ended up providing some inspired picks. “I edit the Goods section of Hemispheres every month, so I know a lot about the great new stuff that’s out there. I first saw the pink Himalayan salt blocks in a food shop in Boston, for instance. But some of the things our experts came up with, like the handheld food smoker and those odd and adorable Sing-a-ma-jigs, I never would’ve thought of in a million years,” she says. “Now I want them.”
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STEPHAN TALTY reports that driving to San Sebastián in a Porsche Panamera (“Flexible Flyer,” page 34) was a highlight of his nine months living in Spain, surpassed only by body-surfing with his young son Asher off one of the city’s stunning beaches. A journalist now living in New York, Talty writes for Men’s Journal and Playboy.
LISA SHIN is a digital still-life photographer who’s worked for Cover Girl, Vogue and Real Simple. But our annual gift guide (“Best Buys,” page 91) proved “one of the most challenging shoots I’ve ever done,” she says. “We shot the gifts, then mounted the images on cubes, painted them and shot the results to create the final images—in just two days!”
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JENNA SCHERER is a writer based in Boston, where she covers arts, culture and ephemera for the Boston Herald, Time Out and other publications. Ever since attending a performance of Sleep No More in a fauxderelict Manhattan hotel (“Toil and Trouble,” page 82), she keeps seeing Prohibition-era witches lurking in the shadows.
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CEO LETTER
Stop Air Tax Now WELCOME ABOARD, and thanks for choosing United Airlines for your flight today. It’s no secret that the U.S. airline industry has been through rough times in the past decade, losing a total of $55 billion and laying off 160,000 workers during that time. We have endured high and volatile fuel costs, a global recession, and numerous natural disasters adversely affecting air travel. In the past year or so, we’ve seen some signs of hope. Industry trends like consolidation and capacity discipline have helped airlines begin to stabilize, but the industry continues to face serious challenges. On the rare occasions when airlines are profitable, they obtain only a razor-thin profit margin. This is a sad state of affairs for an industry that is such a powerful economic engine, driving $1.2 trillion in economic activity every year and connecting people, cargo and cultures around the world. Yet Washington continues to use airlines (and their employees, shareholders and customers) as a piggy bank to be
raided by government. Today, airlines and our passengers pay 17 different federal aviation taxes and fees in the U.S., which totaled $16.5 billion in 2010. Federal taxes have increased from 7 percent of the price of a typical ticket in 1972 to 20 percent in 2011. And this excludes income tax! How would your business do if Washington took 20 percent off the top before you saw a nickel? Our industry leads all others in having the greatest number of unique taxes and fees imposed upon it and its customers by Washington. Think about what you buy—milk, electronics, clothing, etc. None of these goods is taxed at a rate of 20 percent (and if they were, you might not buy them). Airlines are taxed as a sin, at a higher rate than alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Yet we are not a sin. We are an economic good that drives our economy and offers well-paying jobs. Moreover, airlines power the economies of hub cities and are economic lifelines to small and medium-sized communities.
Yet Washington’s grab for our and our customers’ money is reaching unheard-of levels now. The Administration’s American Jobs Act proposes a new $100-per-flight tax that would cost $11 billion over 10 years. The proposal also seeks to increase the passenger security tax from today’s minimum of $2.50 per customer per flight segment to $7.50. This proposed increase would cost nearly $25 billion over 10 years. More than half that amount would not fund security, but would instead be applied to Washington’s debt. Why should airlines and their passengers be singled out to pay for Washington’s profligacy? If these major tax increases occur, the big losers will not be just our customers, who will be saddled with these new and increased taxes, but also small communities all over the country that will lose service as airlines become unable to absorb the losses caused by these taxes. These proposed additional taxes (which are on top of the 20 percent tax level currently burdening the industry) are job killers, because if they become law, the industry will be forced to lay off thousands of employees as it downsizes to eliminate routes and service that become unprofitable. For more information on what these taxes would mean to communities, customers and airline employees, go to www.stopairtaxnow.com. In the global world we serve today, U.S. airlines compete not just against each other, but also against foreign flag carriers. Many nations have an enlightened aviation policy. The U.S. has a benighted policy. It’s critical that we have a national aviation policy that supports, rather than hinders, U.S. airlines so we can continue to provide you with the service you want and our country and economy need. Thanks again for your business. We look forward to seeing you again on a future flight.
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, UNITED AIRLINES
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A Shining Example International Concierge Gloria ‘Glo’ Leitao brightens up the day for customers and co-workers alike BY A. AVERYL RE FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES call Gloria Leitao “Glo.” The nickname is a fitting one, considering how the international concierge goes about her job at New York/ Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), bringing a kind of shine to whatever she does. “When people have experience, they might become complacent about their work, but that’s not the case with Gloria,” says Michael Mitolo, EWR’s airport operations supervisor. “She’s enthusiastic and energetic, and she projects that to her coworkers. Gloria always looks at the upside.” Leitao has been with the airline since 1987, working in a number of customer
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service positions both behind the scenes and on the front lines. Twelve years ago, she found her niche when she joined the Concierge Program, and today Leitao serves on an elite team of 52 concierges who handle primarily international BusinessFirst customers. “Our customers are premium-paying customers,” Leitao says. “When you’re paying that much to travel, you expect a service that meets that dollar amount. We uphold the integrity of the BusinessFirst cabin, no ma er the situation.” In addition to meeting the needs of passengers at the airport, the concierges monitor inbound and outbound flights
to make sure passengers make their connecting flights, rebooking itineraries as needed to ensure each passenger has a smooth travel experience. Each concierge is responsible for as many as 200 passengers a day among the flights they’ve been assigned out of the 100 or so that go through Newark daily in peak season. Leitao says patience, a great attitude and the ability to listen well are her biggest assets in doing her job. “You have to keep things in perspective,” she says. “I’m grateful for everything I have—I’m grateful I can come to work, walk to my gate, support my customers. They may tell me about problems they have, and I hear them out. A customer may have a line behind him, but at that moment, he has my full a ention for as long as it takes. You can be positive or you can be negative. Positive is a be er state to be in, so I choose to be positive.” Because she works the same flights from day to day, Leitao has go en to know many loyal customers who fly regularly, and considers them friends. Yet one of her favorite job experiences involved someone who not only doesn’t fly United regularly, but also would not be strictly considered a passenger. “We had a Catholic monsignor coming in from Honolulu. My supervisor told me, ‘I don’t know what he needs, but if anyone can handle it, it would be you.’ So I went off to find the monsignor,” Leitao recalls. “He told me he was traveling with a reliquary of St. Thérèse of the Li le Flower, and ‘she’ could not be le alone. Well, I broke out in tears. I asked my supervisor if I could sit with her.” The monsignor had traveled with the reliquary throughout Guam and the Polynesian region, and was now passing through Newark on his way back to France. Leitao stayed in cargo with the remains of the saint until it was time to meet the monsignor at the airport lounge and escort him to his flight to Paris. “I wasn’t able to upgrade him,” Leitao says, “but he said, ‘If St. Thérèse can fly cargo, I can fly coach.’ “It was the most amazing assignment ever given to me,” she says. “That’s what my job does for me: Every day, I come in and I never know what I’m going to do or who I’m going to meet. It’s like a new adventure every day. That’s what makes every day exciting.”
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ASK THE PILOT With Captain Mike Bowers
Q: Why is it that flights going east to west within the U.S. take longer than flights going west to east, especially in the winter?
New Name, New Look, New Benefits United Club brings our airport lounges under one sleek, modern umbrella, while MileagePlus becomes even more rewarding IN SEPTEMBER, as part of our drive to provide a more consistent travel experience for our customers, we announced two more milestones in the integration of our two airlines’ products and services. On October 1, we marked the first milestone when our airport lounges became United Clubs, replacing United’s Red Carpet Clubs and Continental’s Presidents Clubs. Encompassing more than 50 lounges in 39 airports worldwide, United Clubs offer members and their guests complimentary bar service with snacks and beverages; business amenities such as Wi-Fi, conference rooms and workstations; and personalized assistance with reservations, seat selection, upgrades and boarding passes. In time, our remodeled clubs will provide even more business-friendly features that customers value, like additional workstations to enable them to be more productive. Red Carpet Club and Presidents Club members may continue to access any of the new United Clubs with their current membership credentials. Members also have access to participating Star Alliance–affiliated lounges located all around the globe.
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For more information about United Club and membership pricing, visit united.com/ unitedclub or continental.com/unitedclub. As for our second milestone, we recently announced the details of the 2012 MileagePlus loyalty program, including new benefits and services for United’s and Continental’s most frequent flyers, more opportunities for members to redeem their award miles and additional recognition for customers who purchase tickets in premium cabins or at premium economy fares. Premier members enjoy benefits including upgrades, Premier Access, a checked-baggage allowance, Economy Plus seating and Premier bonus award miles. Premier-level status can be reached with as few as 25,000 Premier qualifying miles or 30 Premier qualifying segments. We are building the world’s most rewarding loyalty program, and we now have more than 30 worldwide airline partners and thousands of participating hotels, car rental agencies, restaurants and retailers. To learn more about the program and all the benefits you can enjoy, go to mileageplus.com.
A: The reason the flights take more time when heading west is because you’re flying into a headwind caused by the jet stream, which flows from west to east in the U.S. Conversely, when flying east you have a tailwind. The winds at flying altitude are normally in the range of 70 to 100 mph in the summer and can be even higher in the winter. That speed is directly added to or subtracted from the aircraft’s ground speed and, as a result, makes a significant difference in flying time. Do you have a question for Captain Bowers? Write to him at askthepilot@ united.com
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Painting the Town The most prestigious art show in the Americas, Art Basel Miami Beach turns 10 this year—and in a city be er known for low-rise bikinis than highbrow art, it promises to be a world-class party. Here’s where the 260-plus exhibitors hail from (so you can be prepared to ask, “Can I buy you a mojito?” in all the right languages). ILLUSTRATION BY LA TIGRE
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Possessed by the magic of a great celebration, dancers attired in magnificent gold costumes, dance for days and days In the Mirror of the Sky, the Virgin conquered the demon by surrounding it with her burning flames, thus saving the inhabitants from destruction. That day she was consecrated as their protector and has ever since been venerated with the greatest celebration witnessed by the Land of the Sun. This celebration exists. You can see it, feel it. Peru. Live the legend.
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BERLIN
Silent Treatment Classic films of yesteryear (along with the odd sporting event) get a new sound BY GIULIA PINES
ACROSS THE WATER from Berlin’s Museum Island, the audience at the Zeughauskino waits for the lights to dim. A man in a red velvet jacket rises from the front row, crosses toward the grand piano underneath the movie screen and sits down. The theater goes dark, the film starts, the man looks up at the screen and he begins to play. The film is Frau im Mond (“Woman in the Moon”), a 1929 silent sci-fi classic by Austrian master Fritz Lang. It’s one that the cinephiles in the seats know and love, but that isn’t the only draw: The man at the piano is Carsten-Stephan Graf von Bothmer, and he’s no ordinary film accompanist, as evidenced by his lack of sheet music. Von Bothmer has improvised music for hundreds of silent films, his favorite being Lang’s futuristic masterwork, Metropolis, which he’s done 35 times. A decade ago, von Bothmer, who studied piano
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at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin, was asked by a theater manager to score the film. A er failing to write music to his own satisfaction, von Bothmer improvised a performance that enthralled the audience and launched his new career. One of his most talked-about performances was at Berlin’s Emmaus Church in July last year, during the final four games of the World Cup. He improvised a commentary on the games’ action using the church organ, throwing in familiar riffs such as “The Imperial March” from Star Wars. The fans, he says, “had never experienced a game so intensely before.” Although no such feats are planned for the immediate future, von Bothmer recently returned from a tour of South America and a performance in the Philippines. So which film will get his treatment next? “I’d really love to do The Lord of the Rings,” he says.
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A woman dressed in a powder-blue kimono and wooden geta sandals makes her way through the crowd near Tokyo’s oldest temple, Sensoji, in what was once an infamous entertainment district. Her name is Sayuki. And while she prefers not to reveal her age or full name, Sayuki has been well known in her adopted country since 2007, when the Australian became the first-ever foreign geisha. After gliding past the sweets stalls and tea shops lining the narrow streets, this social anthropologist (who holds both a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from Oxford) arrives at her latest tradition-bucking venture: Sayuki no Kimonoya, a store that specializes in kimonos that wearers can easily put on by themselves. Opened in March, the tiny shop is filled with brightly colored, neatly folded kimonos, many of which are recycled, but all of which are immaculate. (A used kimono set begins at around $250, or about a 10th of the price of a new one.) Sayuki’s hottest seller, however, is her revolutionary take on the traditional belt known as an obi. Little known outside the geisha community, the revamped version is called a tsukeobi: Instead of the single stretch of material used in an obi, each tsukeobi is cut into two pieces, allowing even novices to fasten it in minutes. “Nearly every Japanese woman has an obi at home,” Sayuki says, “but 92 percent of them are unable to fasten one on their own. It’s very difficult and requires strength and practice. The tsukeobi makes it easier and faster, and once it’s on, no one can tell the difference.” Sayuki notes with a polite smile that her product is perhaps not for kimono traditionalists. Considering the many customers who go straight from Sayuki no Kimonoya to the nearby Hello Kitty photo studio to have a picture taken in their new regalia, she’s probably right. —DANIELLE DEMETRIOU
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TINY BUBBLES Pu ing the “micro” in microbrewery Coney Island, meet your newest sideshow a raction. While Shmaltz Brewing Co. may brew more than 100,000 cases of beer a year, it’s debuting a side project, Coney Island Brewing Co., that claims to be the smallest commercially licensed brewery in the world. All of Shmaltz’s beers—which include a playful collection of brews featuring unlikely ingredients (pomegranate, for instance) and labels with freak-show imagery—are contract brewed by Mendocino Brewing Co. in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. But recently, Jeremy Cowan, who founded Shmaltz in 1996, got a hankering to dabble in small batches. This summer he officially opened a brewery of his own just steps from Coney Island’s legendary boardwalk. It’s a 175-square-foot box of a space where beer is brewed one gallon at a time in a ramshackle system of pots and burners on full display. “It’s a fun extension of the whole brewery experience,” says manager and art director Ma Polacheck. “We can do whatever we want without having to answer to anyone.” Beyond sampling Shmaltz’s usual lineup of beers at Coney’s endearingly clu ered sales counter, visitors can sip ever-changing, o en one-time-only concoctions. Cowan and his team rroutinely invite both professional and amateur guest brewers to man an the brew ke le, and nothing is too outlandish: Coney’s fridge recently stocked a Belgian-style ale made with apple and toasted coconut. Next up? A beer brewed with New Jersey–grown tomatoes and blueberries. Polacheck admits there are hits and misses, but that’s the beauty of it. “If something doesn’t work, we’re not flushing 100 barrels of it,” he says. “It’s only a gallon! It will literally go down our drain in no time and be gone.” —BRET STETKA
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More Than Words On a small stage in Edinburgh’s Forest Café, Colin Herd is attempting to growl. A soft-spoken Scot with the look of a college professor, he forces a breath into the microphone. He errs, laughs. Sitting at one of many tables covered with plastic cups and wine bottles, a spectator yells, “You can do it!” Herd is reading his poem titled “How to Growl: Starter Techniques,” and it culminates in a “ye-owl!!” The occasion for this strange bit of performance is the Golden Hour, a monthly “literary cabaret” that reimagines the literary event with live music and cartoons interspersed between poetry and prose performances. It’s hosted by Ryan Van Winkle, the American poet who launched it in 2006, and who hopes to expand it and take it on the road next year. Tonight’s roster also features Newcastle’s Degna Stone, who performs poems about divorce and illness, and Amy Burns, an Alabama native with a tale about going on a journey with her novel’s main character. An hour after Herd’s performance, a one-man electro-dance act called BenOfficial appears onstage in a hooded rainbow bodysuit. Later, Olivia Salazar’s Spanish-Scottish accent enhances a few a cappella songs. The final act is local darling Portnawak & the Woo, a folky, genre-busting band. “It feels like you’ve gone round to somebody’s house,” says regular Morag Edward, “somebody who’s popular and who’s got interesting friends.” The atmosphere is by turns convivial, arresting and, occasionally, messy: One slightly out-of-hand night ended with everyone being blasted with fire extinguisher foam. This performance, however, ends with a dance party. The musicians, writers and audience get sweatier, the floor cozier and its boards shakier until, near midnight, the growling ceases and the band calls it quits. —COURTNEY BALESTIER
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The Big Apple becomes a laugh riot as the New York Comedy Festival brings headliners Louis C.K., Ricky Gervais and Sarah Silverman to the city’s best theaters. nycomedyfestival.com
The Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall is a fittingly sublime venue for “Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake,” a starstudded tribute to the British folk hero. sydneyoperahouse.com
Want a new look? The exhibit “Native American Bolo Ties: Vintage and Contemporary” at the Heard Museum might inspire you to give Arizona’s distinctive neckwear a try. heard.org
You might be losing steam, but the live volcano you’re running past should be just the motivation you need to keep going during the strenuous Volcano HalfMarathon. volcanorunner.com
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Country Home Fresh off a workout at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Kristin Chenoweth is wearing black yoga pants and a gray sweatshirt over her lean (and improbably tiny) frame. Her face is flushed, shining and, at 43—without much makeup at all—flawless. She’s in town to perform at the annual CMA Music Festival. With the fall release of her first country music record, Some Lessons Learned, the coloratura soprano and Broadway star has set off down a path that will bring her a li le closer to her Oklahoma roots. “I always wanted to make a country album, but I was afraid. I didn’t know if people would accept it,” she says. For all her anxiety, Chenoweth comes by country as honestly as any newly minted Music Row talent. She started out singing in church, and at the age of 19 chased her radio-dial dreams to Nashville’s now-defunct Opryland USA theme park, where she performed as a singer and dancer. Now, a er a blockbuster run on Broadway that included a Tonynominated turn in Wicked, as well as an Emmy-nominated cameo on “Glee,” she’s returned to Nashville— closer to country music’s beating heart and closer to family—thanks to an album that began as li le more than a clause she insisted on in her contract with Sony Masterworks. And this might not be any old stop on a tour. Like Nicole Kidman before her, Chenoweth is thinking about moving here. Music City could be the perfect home for this Oklahoman, who has for years split her time between New York and L.A. “It feels right,” she says. “It feels welcoming.” A er a brief but nonetheless learned discussion about regional barbecue, it’s time to go. Chenoweth steps out of the lobby, strides over to a modest midsize sedan and drives off, all the while looking right at home. —BRANTLEY HARGROVE
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... OR NOT TO SKI Clockwise from top left, the White Turf horse race in St. Moritz, Switzerland; the Clubhouse at Spanish Peaks in Big Sky, Mont.; the front entrance of the Waldorf Astoria in Park City, Utah
THERE’S GENERALLY one in every ski party: the knock-kneed neophyte whose enthusiasm outstrips his ability, whose signature move turns out to be the Cla ering Cartwheel, a rapid descent that elicits gasps, groans and sometimes screams from onlookers. Luckily, the top ski resorts offer a variety of amenities that allow the most hapless among us to enjoy pristine winter wonderlands without risking injury or embarrassment. Everyone knows you can’t have a ski vacation—whether or not you actually ski—without hot tubs. The Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch, on the slopes of the Colorado Rockies, takes this principle very seriously. In addition to its oversize lazyriver hot tub (located in an atmospheric gro o), there are copper tubs, stargazing tubs, a heated outdoor pool and a “Roaring Rapids” hydrotherapy massage, all of
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which combine to perish even the most fleeting thought of ice. Also in Colorado, the town of Breckenridge has no shortage of ways to divert you from the expansive mountain playground that looms above. There’s a lively bar scene (try the margaritas at Mexican eatery Mi Casa), top-notch dining (don’t miss chefowner Matt Fackler’s Colorado-inspired
cuisine at Relish) and lots of outdoor fun to be had (dogsledding, anyone?). But all that is moot, really, because you won’t actually need to leave the luxurious One Ski Hill Place (which is, incidentally, ski-in/ski-out). There’s a new bar (the T-Bar), two movie lounges, a game room, an aquatics center at the spa and—get this—a two-lane bowling alley made to look like a
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HOT SPOT Japan’s Joshinetsu Kogen National Park may play host to 100-plus hotels and 21 ski areas, but not everyone here is interested in hitting the slopes—some, like the local snow monkeys, prefer to spend all day at the spa
mine sha . There’s also a bustling outdoor deck that’s the perfect se ing in which to tell your weary friends all about the funfilled day you just had not endangering yourself and others by tumbling down the slopes. Meanwhile, the stately Waldorf Astoria in Park City, Utah, has enough rustic trappings to make you feel outdoorsy without having to venture outdoors. Sink into a plush fireside sofa with a psychological thriller and a hot toddy. Try a yam-andpumpkin enzyme peel at the resort’s Golden Door spa. Then direct your glowing face at a pla er of fried dough—the beignets at the restaurant here are second only to those in New Orleans. If you do want to head outdoors, this year the hotel installed a “high-speed advanced zip line circuit” that stretches more than 2,100 feet and offers a treetop ride across a canyon.
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At Spanish Peaks in Big Sky, Mont., the slopes can feel like an a erthought. This is especially true during warmer months, when the place abounds with outdoor activities, particularly golf, but Spanish Peaks is also no slouch when it comes to wintertime fun. Have a horse-drawn sleigh take you to dinner or, for the ultimate in relaxation, have the kids demonstrate what they learned in the resort’s “Kids in the Kitchen” program. In case that doesn’t work out the way you hoped, the Clubhouse has excellent Alpine cuisine (as well as a 1,300-bo le wine cellar). In Vermont, the Topnotch Resort and Spa recognizes that the secret to any successful getaway is keeping the “li le people” happy. There’s a Wii-equipped teen center, a tennis academy and a funky hair salon, plus board games, pool tables, pingpong and fireside s’mores. The resort’s Bu ertub Bistro
offers enough sweet cocktails to ensure that the big people can’t complain either. The U.S. doesn’t hold a monopoly on the lazy ski trip, of course. In addition to the many outlandish a ractions that St. Moritz, the Swiss winter playground of Europe’s elite, has to offer—including the White Turf, a horse race on a frozen lake— there’s Badru ’s Palace Hotel, which oozes old-time romanticism. Its King’s Club, Switzerland’s oldest discotheque, has catered to actual royalty. If you absolutely demand the sensation of crisp mountain air being blasted into your nostrils, the Haus am Bach in Ramsau am Dachstein, Austria, has rides on an Alpine roller coaster. And the Shiga Kogen resort, with more than 100 hotels in Japan’s Joshinetsu Kogen National Park, invites guests to join the snow monkeys frolicking in local hot springs—with nary a ski boot nor snowboard to be seen.
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MY FIRST OBJECTIVE in driving a Porsche from Madrid to San Sebastián wasn’t to experience German engineering at its finest or to lay tracks at 200 mph with the wind blowing my hair straight back. It was to impress our doorman, Antonio. As we were free-spirited Americans living in the o en-formal Spanish capital, our casual style and rowdy children had given Antonio doubts as to whether we belonged in his bu oned-down building. I had the idea that gliding up in a white, outrageously gorgeous Panamera, Porsche’s touring car, might change all that. In America, the Panamera would look big. In Spain, a country of pocket-sized cars, it looked like the Concorde redesigned by Gaudí. A er I pulled around the block three times, then parked, Antonio came running over, eyes wide. “Muy bonita, Señor Talty. Es está su coche?” “Sí, Antonio.” First objective met. Once the car was loaded with two children and a wife, I got to judge it not as a symbol, but as an automobile. And from the first mile, it killed. Driving it actually did feel like piloting a Concorde, giving the sensation of floating through space while
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enclosed in rich leather and audiophile sound. Which isn’t to say it can’t still mash some pavement—just engage the sport suspension and the car seems to suction itself to the road. As I piloted it farther north, the barren landscape around Madrid gave way to a vista of white-foamed seas on our le and dramatic rock slopes angling down on our right. The highway signs suddenly changed to Basque. Then, as we came out of a dark tunnel, San Sebastián popped glamorously into view on our le . If you’re looking for the ideal European seaside town, San Sebastián has things that glossy Monte Carlo or even the seriously nautical Santander, down the coast, just can’t match. It has the stunning natural gem of its bay, La Concha, lined with open-air seafood restaurants and tony shops. But there’s real grit here, too: When we parked the Panamera and strolled
BASQUE AWHILE Offering sheltered, sparkling-clear water in its bay and prime sunbathing on its beaches, San Sebastián has long been a lure for visitors to Spain’s Basque country
toward the world-class aquarium, a huge fishing trawler glided up, just yards away. The ship’s crane li ed gli ering trays of mackerel onto the dock, where they were quickly wheeled away. San Sebastián isn’t like some Potemkin summer village. It’s real. It works. It sweats and dances.
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We reboarded the Panamera and I guided it toward the old town, Parte Vieja. Traveling over cobblestone streets that reflected a thousand years of love and war, we passed by the Gothic spire of the soaring Catedral del Buen Pastor San Sebastián and ended up at Plaza de la Constitución, the heart of the city, full of amorous locals evaluating the new crop of tourists. In past centuries this stone courtyard was a bullring; Spaniards would rent rooms in the surrounding hotels and hang over balconies to watch toreadors. And, in true Spanish fashion, criticize their work. As the sun burned in the sky, I steered the Panamera toward the water. The beaches of San Sebastián—from the people-watching Playa de la Concha to the quieter Ondarreta—are big and broad. We chose Ondarreta for the castle-making consistency of its sand, and from our beach towels watched sailboats glint in the sparkling water. Two men in black wetsuits holding spearguns emerged, dripping, out of the bay and marched casually down the beach, joining the socialites in their Chanel bikinis. Nobody ba ed an eye. Night fell, and the sunbathers streamed up the stone ramps, away from the beach, and San Sebastián slowly turned into a diamond necklace. Lights appeared all along the harbor, a loop of white sparks in the black night. We strolled the boardwalk, and did as the Spaniards do: gossiped, bar-hopped and picked freshly made tapas from their silver pla ers. The Panamera may be German, but it delivered us to Spain at its most Spanish: San Sebastián at dusk, swarming with those who eat life.
Before leaving Madrid for New York, STEPHAN TALTY relished his new status in the eyes of his doorman.
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Lean Cuisine AMONG THE CONSTRUCTION sites and dockyards of Hamburg’s waterfront, the Oberhafen-Kantine crouches under a set of elevated train tracks, sinking noticeably into the ground. Inside, diners steady themselves in creaking wooden booths and dig into dishes of venerable culinary reputation, such as labskaus, a traditional seaman’s meal made of corned beef, red beets, pickled herring and potatoes and topped with a fried egg. Labskaus may lack a certain visual appeal, Kantine cook Stefan Classen admits, but the hearty hash with the subtly fishy tang is sought out by those looking for “a true taste of the Hamburg harbor.” And you’d be hard-pressed to find a more suitable se ing
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than the Kantine in which to give it a try. T h e O b e r h a fe n Kantine opened its doors in 1925 on the banks of the Elbe River, in what was then Hamburg’s industrial shipping port, joining other canteens serving coffee and beef patties, or frikadellen, the quintessential dockworker’s breakKIN-DO SPIRIT fast (believed to be Anita Haendel, the inspiration for who helped her father run the modern American the Oberhafenhamburger). In the Kantine early days, the friendly face behind the counter was Anita Haendel, the 12-year-old daughter of owner Hermann Sparr. She quickly became the heart and soul of the Kantine, and worked there until she died in 1997 at the age of 83. The Kantine’s now-trademark tilt is the result of 86 years of wear and tear, including wartime carpet bombings, railroad construction and regular floods. Today, the building that houses it is one of the few original structures left in an area recently dubbed HafenCity, the site of a major redevelopment effort that will bring glossy hotels and office buildings to the once-scrappy industrial zone. Preserving the physical structure and the culinary traditions of the Kantine is a top priority for restaurateurs Tim Seidel and Sebastian Libbert, the duo behind some of Hamburg’s hippest eateries, who took over from former chef-owner Thorsten Gillert earlier this year. In addition to the labskaus and frikadellen, the Kantine will continue to feature such classic Hamburg staples as eel soup; matjes, soused North Sea herring served with onions and pickles; pan-fried scholle, white fish accompanied by sliced potatoes fried with cured pork; and weisswurst made from herring. While Seidel and Libbert did convert the former customs office building next door into an open space, dubbed Zollamt, for exhibitions showcasing the work of young Hamburg artists, not much will change with the Kantine itself. “We didn’t want to make it chic, like our other restaurants,” Seidel says. “Blemishes add character.”
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Have It Your Way Curry Queen lets Germans dial up the spice GERMANY’S FAVORITE fast food, currywurst, is synonymous with grab ’n’ go. So when Curry Queen’s lamb, bison and kobe-style beef sausages dressed in a choice of eight curries—all created by former Michelin-starred chef Ingo Holland—showed up in the esteemed Gault Millau culinary guide last year, foodies’ tongues started wagging. Whether or not critics agreed with the inclusion, the 3-year-old restaurant, which has a deli outpost elsewhere in Hamburg and a university cafeteria in Karlsruhe, has certainly spiced things up on the German culinary scene. Its curries ascend from the mild “Purple Curry,” a violet-colored mix of hibiscus, cardamom, cumin and cinnamon; to the “Curry Mumbai,” with jasmine, vanilla and orange peel; to the “Curry Anapurna,” a ho er offering with garlic and turmeric. At the very top of the piquancy scale, however, is the notorious “King Chili Killer,” a dish so hot that the elderly and anyone younger than 18 are strongly advised against ordering it. Made with the bhut jolokia, an Indian pepper considered one of the ho est in the world, this concoction sent Curry Queen owner and head chef Sascha Basler out dancing in the streets the first time he tried it. He’s probably not the only one, either. “You can tell what kind of curry diners have ordered by the mood at the table,” he says. “The spicier the chili, the more animated the customer!”
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As if building the world’s tallest skyscraper weren’t enough, Dubai will soon add the tallest, longest, widest arch bridge on earth to its list of superlatives. Slated to open in 2015, the Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Crossing will encompass a 12-lane highway, a light rail line and a pedestrian walkway, all while being anchored in shi ing desert sands. Here’s how they’ll do it.
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Following on the success of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Alexander McQueen retrospective, the Dallas Museum of Art is hosting a traveling exhibition of haute couture created over the past 40 years by fashion’s resident pop-culture interpreter (and outfi er) Jean Paul Gaultier. The designer, for his part, is both surprised and fla ered that he’s being featured. “I didn’t think I was that old,” he says, “but I am taking it as a compliment.” NOVEMBER 13
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News (in a) Flash TMI? Four amazing next-generation newsreaders make it easier than ever to cope with information overload BY TOM SAMILJAN
EVEN BEFORE THE days of tweets, Facebook links and iPhone notifications, I was addicted to news. Yet despite my absorbing five daily newspapers and the “Today” show every morning, it was manageable. Today, it’s nearly impossible to keep up— especially now that I have 50-plus feeds inundating my Google Reader. Fortunately, spurred by the iPad’s navigability combined with 24/7 Internet connectivity, a new generation of newsreaders has emerged, each promising to filter out the noise and serve up exactly what I want. Flipboard grabs pictures and text from articles and displays them in a variety of magazine-style layouts, complete with a mix of fonts, sidebars and picture shapes and sizes. You can choose from curated feeds, ranging from food and travel to celebrity gossip and sports, or select feeds à la carte or import them from your Google Reader account. Flipboard is also an ideal way to view Twitter and Facebook feeds, turning a humdrum stream of link-laden updates into pages with newspaper-style layouts, in which each
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“article” is devoted to a news link shared by your friends. Downside: It works only on Apple platforms. Scrollers, which feature stacks of pictureand-headline feeds grouped according to individual media outlets or subjects, can be easily browsed by swiping from side to side, making it a cinch to scan dozens of stories quickly. The two best scrollers, Pulse and Taptu, work on all Android and iOS devices. Pulse lets users create up to five pages of 12 feeds stacked on top of one another, which is handy for separating different areas of interest. Taptu, on the other hand, opts for a limitless stack of side-scrolling feeds (which I prefer, since it satisfies my need to dive head-first into information overload). It won’t necessarily help you filter information, but it does allow you to take big bites quickly. Then there’s News 360. What it lacks in gloss it more than makes up for in innovation. When you link your Facebook, Twitter, Instapaper, Read It Later and Evernote accounts, News 360 will learn to unearth stories it thinks you might like. Users can click on a subject category in the
le rail, and then scroll through an infinite list of the latest topic-specific headlines. At the top of each story page, News 360 inserts a list of links to every other media outlet’s version of the same story, while significant terms, names and other words are automatically hyperlinked to pop-up definitions. Plus, it remembers your settings across platforms, so the experience and story list will look the same whether you’re viewing it on an iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android tablet, Windows Phone 7 device or your PC’s web browser. Which of these will actually help find what you want amid today’s ceaseless information barrage? Well, if you’re looking for a be er way to read Facebook and Twi er feeds, then Flipboard it is; if you spend as much time on your smartphone as on your computer, try News 360; and if you’re an info hound who still wants a bit of serendipity, you’ll likely get the most from Taptu.
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Head in the Cloud At 29, Jeff Hammerbacher has been a pitcher, a poet, an autoworker, an investment banker and a Facebook wunderkind who walked away from a fortune. His next project? Curing cancer. BY PETER COHAN
JEFF HAMMERBACHER is a man of varied interests. The son of an auto assembly-line worker from Kalamazoo, Mich., the 29-year-old has tried his hand at poetry, philosophy, psychology, venture capital, baseball and, yes, automaking. He began his academic career as an English major, but ended up graduating from Harvard with a degree in mathematics. As a teen he’d been a star pitcher and looked set for a career in the major leagues; he ended up working as an analyst at Bear Stearns. You could call him hopelessly sca ered, or you could say he’s a genius. Frankly, it’s a tough call. In 2006, with his stint at Bear Stearns but a memory, Hammerbacher was hired by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (fi ingly, in a friend-of-a-friend scenario), and developed a wondrously efficient system to handle the massive amounts of data coursing through the website. Not only was Hammerbacher fast becoming an important player in the rarefied world of Silicon Valley, but he was also on his way to becoming very well-off. Then, in 2008, he chucked it all.
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Speaking from his Palo Alto office recently, Hammerbacher seems at a loss to explain his decision to quit Facebook (currently valued at upward of $100 billion). “To be honest, I didn’t run through any real calculus,” he says. “I just felt like it was time for something new.” Qui ing, he jokes, was “an egregious act of wealth destruction,” but he had faith in himself—and as it turned out, the move did little to diminish his reputation in
strategy, breaking impossible tasks into ever-smaller parts until each one became relatively simple. The same approach, he realized, could be applied to everything from telecoms to biotech to financial services. So, with newfound focus, he founded a company of his own: Cloudera. Before long, Hammerbacher teamed up with another digital high-flyer, Doug Cu ing, who’d developed data processing so ware called Hadoop, which provided the platform Cloudera needed to operate. The company has since a racted $36 million in venture capital, and its founder is again on course for dot-com riches. You’d assume, then, that this means he’ll be out within the month. But this project is different. While Hammerbacher is loath to portray himself as some sort of modern-day Marie Curie—he refuses to even comment on this aspect of his business—his talents are currently being applied to one of the greatest puzzles of human existence. The basic idea being this: If you can tell a half-billion social networkers which celebrity they most or least resemble, maybe you can do similar things with cancerous cells. To simplify it a bit, let’s say you’re asked to compare two 100-link chains and find the single link that differs between them. You could compare the two chains one link at a time and find that the 98th one differs (the serial approach), or you could cut the two chains into 10-link pairs, and give a pair to each of 10 people to search for the link that differs—all at the same time (the parallel approach).
IF YOU CAN TELL A HALFBILLION SOCIAL NETWORKERS WHICH CELEBRITY THEY MOST OR LEAST RESEMBLE, MAYBE YOU CAN DO SIMILAR THINGS WITH CANCEROUS CELLS. the industry. Itamar Rosenn, a symbolicsystems analyst, calls Hammerbacher “scary-smart, a maverick, individualistic, dynamic and a sponge when it comes to new ideas. His interests evolve quickly.” Shortly a er leaving Facebook, Hammerbacher joined one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms as an “entrepreneur in residence.” A month later, he quit. His mother, who had once shooed him out of a Michigan auto plant and back to Cambridge a er he’d dropped out of Harvard, couldn’t have been happy. He was starting to look like a man whose interests evolve maybe a li le too quickly. But he had a plan. In sifting through the trillions of bits of data that had threatened to overwhelm Facebook on a daily basis, he’d adopted a baby-steps
Cloudera uses the parallel approach to help cancer researchers find mutant proteins. The system breaks long DNA chains into chunks that it sends to small computers (instead of expensive and cumbersome supercomputers) that compare the smaller strands. As a result, researchers can find the needle of mutant protein pairs in a haystack of normal ones much faster. And that can help them come up with be er tools to diagnose and, ultimately, treat cancer. For Hammerbacher, the wandering polymath, Cloudera has provided focus at long last—a mission. He quips, echoing the poet Allen Ginsberg, that “the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” Chasing a cure for cancer, as it happens, may be just the thing to finally hold his a ention. PETER COHAN, president of Peter S. Cohan &
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ABOUT-FACE Four other restless brainiacs who quit Facebook Contrary to what you might expect, Facebook’s staggering market value and cultural icon status have not equaled employee retention. In recent years, many of its most veteran (and vested) employees have gone off to pursue new things. Here are just a few.
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CHRIS HUGHES After cofounding Facebook as a Harvard student, Hughes left in 2007 to oversee social media strategy for the Obama campaign. Then, in 2010, he started Jumo, an “online platform to connect [those] working to change the world.”
DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ Another Facebook cofounder, Moskovitz left in 2008 to launch his own software firm, Asana, meant to be “to your work life what Facebook is to your social life.” He took Justin Rosenstein, a top Facebook engineer/ evangelist, with him.
RUCHI SANGHVI Hired in 2005, Facebook’s first female engineer was key in rolling out the site’s news feed—a hugely controversial feature at the outset, with much of the ire directed at Sanghvi. She left last year to become a freelance adviser and investor.
CHRIS PUTNAM By pulling off a series of playful Facebook hacks, Putnam got more than the firm’s attention—he got a job as a software engineer. After creating Facebook Chat and Facebook Video, though, he left last year, and has yet to reveal his next act.
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Bill Cosby More than 20 albums, a dozen books and countless accolades have established him as bona ďŹ de comedy royalty. With another book on the way, The Cos looks back on his early inspirations, his Philly childhood and one unfortunate mishap involving a whole lot of cologne. BY DAVID CARR ILLUSTRATION BY JEFFREY DECOSTER
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HEMISPHERES: When you were getting ready for your
date with Bernadette, you didn’t just splash on a little bit of cologne—you took the whole bottle, dumped it in the tub and soaked in it. COSBY: My dad had this bo le of Canoe that was unopened and I thought that’s what you did with it. HEMISPHERES: But that was the least of your
problems. You also had to get past her dad, who made it clear that, should anything happen, he knew exactly where you lived. COSBY: Whether it was a father or a mother, when you went to visit a girl, you came to that gauntlet. It happened at my house as well. HEMISPHERES: The book is full of such vivid recollec-
tions of things that happened when you were a kid. Do you have some kind of superhuman memory? COSBY: When I started out, we didn’t have all the television and computers that we have now. What you saw is what you remembered. I developed a style early on: from the mind, to the page, to the stage and back to the page. That has not changed. I don’t think it has anything to do with photographic memory; I think it has to do with a kid who loved comedy and tried to remember it all and talk about it. HEMISPHERES: Why comedy? COSBY: Well, back then, if you were black and wanted to be in the entertainment business,
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ENTERTAINMENT FIGURES, generally speaking, have problems with punctuality. Not so Bill Cosby. Two minutes before we were scheduled to call him about his new book, the phone rang. But what was expected to be a publicist apologetically postponing the interview turned out to be The Cos himself, announcing, in his best voice-of-God intonation, “You. Have. Two. Minutes. To. Call. Cosby.” Thus prompted, we dove right into I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was), Cosby’s new book, out this month. It would take a separate book just to enumerate the man’s accomplishments, but suffice it to say Cosby has led a full life. A er ge ing his start in standup, he broke through as the first African-American co-star of a television series in “I Spy,” winning three consecutive Emmys. “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” which Cosby created and produced, animated tales from his upbringing in Philadelphia and won an Emmy as well. His television work culminated in “The Cosby Show,” a sitcom that set aside racial stereotypes and found the comedy common to all families. The Huxtables and their day-to-day triumphs and travails spawned many imitators, as well as a spinoff (“A Different World”), and reigned as the No. 1 show for five years in a row. In between all that, and a whole lot of Jell-O commercials, Cosby found time to make more than 20 comedy albums and write a dozen books, many of which sprang from his live shows, which he continues to perform. Talking to Cosby, 74, is less a ma er of finding things to discuss than it is of struggling to keep up as he riffs in the manner of his jazz heroes. (Let’s just say that in the conceit of the Q&A, there was more A than Q.) But we figured a good place to start would be his ill-fated first date, with the “fine” Bernade e Johnson, recounted in the book to great effect. A GOOD COS From left, Bill Cosby at Temple University’s commencement this year; working it onstage at Radio City in 1986
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THE HEMI Q&A: Bill Cosby you didn’t run away to the circus. So I began studying comedy, listening to Jack Benny. I knew I loved it, I knew I loved to laugh with these people, and I wanted to retain some of the things they said and somehow learn to do it myself.
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Navy before you got into comedy, right?
“I saw a fellow talking to friends in a restaurant. He wasn’t performing, and people were just having a ball laughing. I said, ‘That’s what I want to be.’” HEMISPHERES: Like Chris Rock.
HEMISPHERES: And college added
literature to your bag of comedic tricks. COSBY: When you read Mark Twain, you begin to view books as something to be enjoyed, something you don’t have to just plow through. I was assigned a composition about doing something for the first time, and I decided to write about the first tooth I’d ever pulled. And that’s where my approach to humor started to come to me, the very close observation of things that I knew. It was a lot like radio in those days. Radio was like listening to books. My humor is like listening to “The Lone Ranger” on the radio. You have to guide the action by what you say. HEMISPHERES: The approach you
ultimately hit on was pretty novel. It ended up influencing some of the greats who followed you. COSBY: I’m a comedian. There are some comedians who really don’t want to be known as just the guy who’s on the stage telling jokes; they want to be thought of as someone deeper than that.
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borrow money from you and they don’t pay you back, you can’t fire them or tell them to go away.
COSBY: Or like Flip Wilson—Flip would come off the stage and he was almost insular. Richard Pryor would be offstage a er his stories and become very so and quiet. George Carlin was sort of humble in the same way.
COSBY: That’s right. You are stuck with them and they are stuck with you. You’re all in the same lifeboat. You might as well work together.
HEMISPHERES: What about Cosby?
HEMISPHERES: I’ve always thought that
COSBY: I’m the same no ma er where I am. I have people meet me and say to me, “You’re the same as when you’re onstage. That’s really you up there.” HEMISPHERES: So, no persona? COSBY: I don’t want one. My performing style came to me when I saw a fellow talking to friends in a restaurant. He wasn’t performing, and people were just having a ball laughing with and at him. I said, “That’s what I want to be—I want to be a friend.” HEMISPHERES: In the book, you point out
that your children are not your friends, because you can’t get rid of them. If they
the thing that made your stuff work so well through the years was this ability you have to make people see each other in a different light. COSBY: I’ve had the Jackie Robinson role put on me, but I’m not a hero. The only thing I really adhere to from my learning is not to embarrass my race, to make a point of sounding educated and to respond to negative behavior toward my color. Other than that, my job is to come to your town and hurt your face. To make you laugh so much, your face hurts.
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DOWN THE STRETCH Coil, second from right, with jockey Martin Garcia, just before launching into his winning stride during the Resorts Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J.
president Carter Carnegie. “It is a determining factor in terms of greatness for a horse. It’s the difference between a horse being worth $20,000 for [each session of] breeding and being worth $45,000.” And the Classic’s $5 million purse doesn’t hurt. Karl Watson, co-owner of Coil, is among those hoping to reproduce past Breeders’ Cup experiences. In 2007 and 2008, his horse Midnight Lute won the sprint. As for today, “We’re optimistic,” he says, standing outside his private box, where boosters lunch on crab cakes. “But this is a day of firsts. Coil is running on dirt for the first time and running without blinkers for the first time. Bob [celebrity thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert] is trying to get him to relax a li le bit.” Taking a breath and smiling tightly, Watson, who supports his horse habit with a string of car dealerships, adds, “Coil is facing some major competition. He really needs to step it up this a ernoon.” Down below, the snowy-haired Baffert, pulling off a bumblebee-yellow necktie/ pocket-square ensemble with élan, is oozing confidence as he makes his way to the stables where Coil needs to be prepped. “The Breeders’ Cup is special,” he says. “Every great trainer and every great horse is there. You want to be there and you want
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Raven’s Pass becomes the fifth European horse to win a Classic since 1999. In the process, he sets a record for Santa Anita Park, the venue for the Breeders’ Cup that year.
Zenyatta wins the race as the first filly to ace the Classic. Her performance is so stunning that star trainer Bob Baffert claims to not mind that his own horse lost in the wake of the history-making run.
Race fans were pulling for a repeat performance from Zenyatta, who had logged 19 wins in a row before the 2010 Classic. Heartbreakingly, she’s beaten by a proverbial nose.
to be there big.” That being said, he likes his chances. “With Coil,” he says, “I’ve got them over a barrel.” FANS BEGIN CHEERING as soon as the starting gate flies open and eight horses thunder down the opening stretch. Coil gets a bad jump and is having a hard time keeping up with the competition, appearing to be out for a morning constitutional while the other beasts run for all they’re worth. Shackleford threatens to take the lead at the half-mile point, coming up from the outside, and Ruler on Ice holds back in fi h place. Then, Shackleford bursts into the lead, Ruler on Ice steps up to second and, suddenly, at that moment, coming around on the outside, Coil locks in. He starts making up for lost time. Storming down the middle of the track, taking the normally inadvisable long way, he bears down. In no time, he’s chewing up the other horses. Then he’s past them. Then, amazingly, he wins the race. Winners in the stands are jumping up and down, screaming, hugging one another. It was a nail-biter for fans, but it was a heart-stopper for Karl Watson and Coil’s other owners. A er they celebrate in the winner’s circle, Watson wonders aloud why Coil got such an unpromising start. “I didn’t know what to think,” he says, accepting a glass of champagne. “I had never seen him running so slow.” Friends and reporters press in, wanting to hear what he has to say. He obliges them, but you can see that his mind is already somewhere else—at Churchill Downs in November, most likely, where he hopes to see Coil make one more run for glory. Anyway, he shrugs about the day’s drama, waving his champagne, “that’s a nice thing about owning a racehorse. It keeps life interesting.”
Hemispheres contributing writer MICHAEL KAPLAN has yet to leave the track a winner.
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How one renegade British stage troupe
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I HAD TO PRESS MYSELF FLAT AGAINST THE WALL TO KEEP THE HOTEL CLERK FROM KICKING ME. HE AND A GUEST—A GLAMOROUS WOMAN IN A TRAVELING COAT—WERE WRESTLING ON THE RECEPTION DESK, FIGHTING OVER A SET OF ROOM KEYS. I PROBABLY HAD NO BUSINESS BEING BACK THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT NOBODY HAD TRIED TO STOP ME—OR, IF THEY HAD, I HADN’T NOTICED. I WAS TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT THE SINISTER MAN I’D ENCOUNTERED A FEW MINUTES EARLIER, WASHING HIS HANDS IN A BATHTUB. A LITTLE LATER, I FOUND MYSELF WANDERING THROUGH A CEMETERY, FAIRLY CONFIDENT THAT THE SHAPES LOOMING IN THE DARKNESS WERE JUST STATUES—UNTIL ONE OF THEM MOVED. IT WAS A MAN, A HULKING FIGURE WEARING AN APRON, FUMBLING IN THE SOIL. This may sound like a dream brought on by bad seafood, but it’s not. It’s Sleep No More: a show that takes your preconceptions about what a night at the theater should entail and completely sha ers them. The work of pioneering British company Punchdrunk, Sleep No More is a sprawling, immersive performance piece that’s part Shakespeare, part vintage Hitchcock and part live-action video game. The show takes place in a renovated warehouse in New York’s Chelsea district. It’s a disconcertingly large venue, spread out over six floors and more than 100 rooms. Audience members—if that’s what you can call them—are invited not only to watch the events unfolding in the make-believe McKi rick Hotel, but also to throw themselves right into the thick of it all. Here’s how it works: Upon entering the set, you are led through a dimly lit maze into a Prohibition-era bar, complete with a lounge singer crooning the standards. A er a drink or two, a na ily dressed but nonetheless ominous man hands you a white beaked mask, which you’re required to wear for the duration of the show. From there, you’re ushered into an elevator, whose operator gives you the lowdown: no talking, don’t touch the actors, head back to the bar if you need a break. The elevator lurches to a halt and he adds, “Fortune favors the bold.” The door opens to a misty darkness. Showtime. The story loosely follows the plotline of Macbeth, Shakespeare’s twisted tragedy, with a bit of Hitchcock’s Rebecca thrown in. But that’s all I can tell you for sure, because the rest is up to you. No two playgoers’ experiences are ever the same. You may spend the evening wandering deserted rooms, picking through le ers, photographs and bits of macabre detritus. You may choose to follow a specific character all evening, chasing him from floor to floor, or to abandon that character for another one halfway through. You’ll be privy to very intimate moments. If you’re lucky, you might even get yanked into a secret room by one of the characters for a private tête-à-tête. The point is, it’s up to you. You shape your own WANT MORE? For cast interviews narrative according to where you go and other behind-the-scenes and what you do. It’s an entertaining, extras, download our iPad app.
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surprising and invigorating experience. Punchdrunk has been pu ing on shows like this since 2000, when a 22-year-old drama school graduate named Felix Barre first founded the company. Its specialty is adapting dark, reality-bending tales, ranging from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death to Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade, and the troupe stages its work in derelict tunnels and abandoned buildings, with the only constant being that the audience is flung headlong into the action. The shows sell out wherever they go, and the response has been so positive as to appear, at times, a bit unhinged. “All I can say is ‘WOW.’ I don’t believe that I’ve ever experienced anything remotely like this,” gushed a woman on a Broadway World discussion forum. “I can’t stop thinking about it.”
THE PAST DECADE or so has not been kind to traditional stage productions. People are too busy poking, tweeting and texting to sit still in a theater for two hours. The public demands brevity, interactivity or at the very least a pair of 3-D goggles. The form has tried to update itself, but with the exception of a few brilliant outliers (The Book of Mormon, for instance), Broadway seems to have resigned itself to its fate. A endance is down, ticket prices are up and there’s li le relief on the horizon. Punchdrunk, on the other hand, flourishes, owing its success in part to the fact that it anticipated the tastes of a public saturated with media and bogged down by the demands of the digital age. Its shows provide the engagement of social networking, the visceral jolt of a Hollywood thriller, the blood-lurch of an amusement park ride. “Our whole desire is to put an audience at the heart of the action,” Barre says. “You’re completely empowered to make any decision you want to. It’s the opposite state to conventional theater: that amazing danger that’s inherent within giving the audience a choice.” Conceived and directed by Barrett and choreographer Maxine Doyle, the New York production of Sleep No More represents Punchdrunk’s most ambitious effort to date. The show opened in 2003 as a modest 10-person production in a former Victorian school in London. Six years later,
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an expanded version came to another shuttered schoolhouse, this one in Brookline, Mass. Produced with Harvard Square’s highbrow American Repertory Theater, it was Punchdrunk’s first show outside the U.K. Since Sleep No More hit New York, it’s been looking poised to make the leap from cult phenomenon to full-on sensation—in part because of its blockbuster production values and in part because, well, this is New York. “We always wanted to do a show in New York,” Barre says. “It’s such a vibrant, passionate theater city. We were really excited about that audience and how they might hurl themselves into the work.”
YOU COULD ARGUE that the biggest star of Sleep No More’s New York run is the venue. Barre is drawn to spaces that reinforce the mood of a piece, and the warehouse on West 27th Street could have been purpose-built for his needs. “I only saw it for an hour, but I knew it was the right place. It was love at first sight,” he says. “It’s got that feeling of excess and decay, perfect for the power-hungry, obsessive elements of the storyline.” Another important element of Barre ’s productions is music. The film noir soundtracks of the 1940s and the gilded tunes of the swing era were an early inspiration for this show,
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and, other than the occasional gasp, groan or mu ered verse, their eerie strains are pre y much the only sound you’ll hear. Punchdrunk aims for a physical, sensory style closer to interpretive dance than to scripted theater. Rather than expressing anguish or desire through words, performers crawl up walls, clamber onto furniture, wrestle on pool tables or suddenly take off at a dead run. Sleep No More plays with all the senses: Lady Macduff ’s neglected apartment smells like ro ing food, and the air in the graveyard is tangibly cool and damp. You’re invited to rifle through drawers, steal a discarded piece of candy, pick up the phone to see if there’s anyone on the other end (sometimes there is). Barre ’s approach to theater means no lazing around or stepping back. The harder you work at Sleep No More, the more you’ll get out of it. “We fight against passive obedience, the formulaic si ing there quietly in a theater seat that only stimulates your brain,” he says. “If the body is stimulated as well, if you have to actually make decisions and have ownership, the repercussions fall on your shoulders.” Some people balk at this kind of participation, but most throw themselves into the experience. A few go a li le overboard. Conor Doyle, who plays several roles and is also the show’s assistant choreographer, once saw a woman a empt to stop a character giving another a glass of poison. “She’d completely forgo en that it was a show and it was fake,” he says. “She cared about the character in that moment. She genuinely wanted to save her.” Barre , for his part, recalls a night when a man made for an open coffin, lay down inside it and slept through the entire show. “People have done some really amazing things. I look at them and I think, Wow, you’re doing that right now! OK,” says Tori Sparks, who plays Lady Macbeth. “It’s hard for a lot of people, to just be shot off into the dark and le to their own devices. I think that your reaction is very telling of who you are as a person.”
PUNCHDRUNK ISN’T THE only company intent on demolishing traditional boundaries between audience and actor. The trend’s epicenter is in the U.K., where experimental outfits like Il Pixo Rosso, Belt Up Theatre and Shunt employ gimmicks such as video goggles, Victorian parlor games and wild goose chases beneath London Bridge. In the U.S., the American Repertory Theater’s The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is performed on and around a sweaty dance floor.
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Few, though, have generated the kind of enthusiasm that’s greeted Sleep No More. Celebs including Trey Parker, Kevin Spacey and Amy Adams have slipped behind the mask. The show has seen its run extended over and over since opening in March, and continues to sell out. There are online communities devoted to it, whose members, in an a empt to get to the heart of the show’s narrative, spend hours piecing together the fragments of their experiences. While Barre is quick to point out that Punchdrunk’s productions aren’t meant to supersede the traditional model of stage, actors and viewers in seats— “Conventional theater has its place, and I love it,” he says—he does seem intent on further deconstructing the form. This fall will see the launch of Punchdrunk Travel: Participants arrive at an airport, collect plane tickets and a bundle from a locker, and fly off to a mystery venue for three days. “As soon as you leave the airport, you’re inside the show,” he says. “It’s going to be completely global.” Of course, secrecy being paramount to Punchdrunk’s mystique, Barre is loath to divulge any details on his forthcoming travel agency or the inevitable follow-up to Sleep No More—though he and his company are most assuredly up to something. “I can’t tell you when or where,” he says. “But it’s coming.”
Boston-based drama critic JENNA SCHERER has to remind herself not to follow random strangers around actual hotels.
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EXPERT PICK NOTEWORTHY Children’s toys, like children’s movies, require a certain degree of absurdity to hold the attention of adults as well as that of their target audience. These adorably ridiculous, award-winning Sing-ama-jigs Duets, which open their mouths to belt out notes like opera singers, have exactly that. “They’re cute monsters that sing and make strange sounds when you squeeze them,” says Barry Kudrowitz, toy designer and University of Minnesota assistant professor of product design. “Just like me!” $19 / thesingamajigs.com
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ALL DOLLED UP What better way to learn the intricacies of modern home décor than with Brinca Dada’s contemporary Dylan dollhouse? Pick one up, and in no time at all, your kids will be walking into rooms and saying things like “Great space!” $149 / brincadada.com
UP TO SPEED When your own kids are tearing around the living room on Acorn’s retro silver speedster, your father won’t be able to yell, “Slow down! When I was your age, we didn’t have speedy-lookin’ racers like that!” Because, honestly, they probably did. $110 / acorntoyshop.com
BLOCK PARTY Like a combination of tangrams, Legos and origami but with a little more edge, Paper Punk building blocks are perfect for your budding Claes Oldenburg. Just keep an eye on his mohawk—most kindergarten teachers frown on those. $19 / paperpunk.com
BRIGHT LIGHTS, LITTLE CITY Kids are always building cities out of building blocks, so why not give them a leg up with a prefabricated version of New York City or Tokyo from Muji? That should give them plenty of time to focus on building tiny bankers, taxi cabs and pigeons. $14 / muji.us
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One of the world’s biggest cities is bursting at the seams with energy, culture, great food and enough surreality to keep it endlessly fascinating BY JOE KEOHANE PHOTOGRAPHS BY HOLLY WILMETH
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MEXICO CITY GOOD GOURD Lifting the lid on an artful dish (baby corn in coffee mayonnaise) at upscale eatery Pujol; opposite, the Catedral Metropolitana
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MEXICO CITY, a.k.a. “El Monstruo.” The
is booming. Real estate prices are rising; the film, French poet André Breton called it the most publishing and music industries are among the surreal place on earth, while writer Salvador strongest in the Spanish-speaking world; and Novo said you don’t live in Mexico City, you a new mayoral administration has launched a merely practice it. For generations, writers, slew of programs to cut smog, improve mass wanderers and musicians have flocked here transit and enhance public safety, making it from around the world, drawn by the city’s easier to enjoy the city’s 160 world-class musemad improvisational energy and deep culture, ums, countless acres of beautiful parks and its freewheeling lifestyle and seeming lack of some of the best food going. any organizing principle. An endlessly surprising, utterly fascinatFormerly Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, Mex- ing mix of the sublime and the surreal, D.F. ico City still suffers from a reputation earned is beloved by its people, known as Chilangos. in the later years of the past century, but the Come here and they’ll squander no opportunity city known by the roughly 20 million to tell you about it, argue about it, sing WANT MORE? residents in its metro area as “D.F.,” for its praises. And here’s the thing: A er Download our iPad app. Distrito Federal (akin to D.C. in the U.S.), a few days, you will too.
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DAY ONE | It’s Saturday morning, and the push of a bu on on the bedside console in your corner suite at Las Alcobas (1), a stylish new hotel in the wealthy Polanco neighborhood, opens the curtains, revealing, through the gracefully curved window, an uncharacteristically quiet street below. You have the front desk call you a taxi. By the time you get to the lobby—more like the front hall of a grand residence than a hotel foyer—the car is waiting to take you a few miles south to Coyoacán. Step out at the Frida Kahlo Museum (2), in the Casa Azul, the former home of painter and global cultural icon Frida Kahlo, where she learned to paint while bedridden after an accident and where she later lived with her equally iconic husband, Diego Rivera (and, for a time, an exiled Trotsky). The rambling home
LOS COLORES DEL DISTRITO FEDERAL This page, from left, a VW Beetle takes a breather in Coyoacán; a waitress on the move with pulque, a sacred Aztec drink made from fermented cactus, at La Nuclear in Roma. Opposite, from left, a barista grinds the beans at Café El Jarocho; Frida and Diego’s whimsically autographed kitchen at the Frida Kahlo Museum
is airy, full of light and clu ered with art, pre-Columbian po ery and books; on a kitchen wall, “Frida” and “Diego” are spelled out in hundreds of tiny teacups. After an hour of wishing you lived here, you walk out and follow Avenida Ignacio Allende past vendors se ing up stands of woolen plush toys, lucha libre masks, clothes and food. You follow the mariachi strains to El Jarocho (3), a lively corner café. Coffee in hand, you take a seat on a sidewalk bench and catch up on the local gossip. Farther down, you cross Plaza Hidalgo (4), a stately public space with the old city council building on one side, ringed by cafés and ice cream shops, and
then pass through the shady, manicured Jardin Centenario to Francisco Sosa, a leafy street lined with colorful colonial homes. You cross the major avenue La Paz and make your way to the Plaza San Jacinto in San Angel, home of El Bazar del Sábado (5), D.F.’s legendary weekly art fair. Chilangos pack into the bazaar building to peruse handmade jewelry, iron solar system mobiles and impossibly detailed sculptures carved out of single toothpicks, while outside, hundreds of artists sell their paintings, which range from conventional to subversive to exuberantly kitschy. Wind your way along cobblestone residential streets to San Angel Inn (6), a
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DAY TWO | Start with breakfast at Las Alcobas, with the fresh fruit plate, a sculptural tower of kiwi, apple, melon and dragon fruit, sprinkled with pomegranate seeds and drizzled with honey. It is, without question, the lightest thing you’ll eat all week. To make sure your stomach doesn’t get the wrong idea, you chase the fruit with a plate of eggs in rich mole sauce.
(5) El Bazar del Sábado Plaza San Jacinto (6) San Angel Inn 50 Diego Rivera; Tel: 5616-1402 (7) Pujol 254 Francisco Petrarca; Tel: 5545-4111 (8) La Nuclear 161 Orizaba; Tel: 5574-5367 (9) Mama Rumba Eje 3 Pte. Medellín; Tel: 5264-4316
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The world’s richest man opens D.F.’s newest museum Mexico City has no shortage of great museums, but none has inspired more buzz than Museo Soumaya, a shining, top-heavy $70 million structure in Polanco showcasing the personal collection of one Carlos Slim Helú: the world’s richest man. Named in honor of Slim’s late wife, who kindled his love of art, and designed by his son-in-law, the museum contains some 66,000 items, including Picassos, da Vincis, Renoirs and Rodins (most notably a version of The Kiss). Slim—whose net worth clocks in at more than $74 billion— claims he erected this temple not to show off that he has the means to amass such a collection, but for a purer reason. “All desirable things,” he has said, “must be accessible.”
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HEADSTRONG This page, from top, Aztec art at the Museo Nacional de Antropología; a corner suite at Las Alcobas. Opposite, elote—corn on the cob with mayonnaise, chili powder, lime and salt—a street food staple
Outside, you walk down Calle Oscar Wilde, past a park with a tranquil pool in which older men pilot their remotecontrolled boats on the weekends (one man with a submarine is wreaking havoc on a cheerful orange vessel piloted by another in a captain’s hat), and head for Bosque de Chapultepec (1), the main park in a city that should be be er known for its green spaces. Paseo de la Reforma, D.F.’s ordinarily congested central artery, is closed to cars on Sundays. Savor the peace and quiet while you admire the art exhibits mounted on the fences lining the park, and the sculpture garden running along the median. The next stop is the Museo Nacional de Antropología (2). Inside, you find an unmatched collection of Mayan and Aztec artifacts, including an otherworldly jade mask discovered in the tomb of seventhcentury Mayan ruler Pacal, and an exhibit on pulque. Here you learn that the Aztecs limited consumption of the highly alcoholic drink lest they fall under the spell of Cenzon Totochtin, or “Curse of the 400 Rabbits.”
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MASKED MEN The guilty pleasures of lucha libre Lowbrow, melodramatic and often hilarious, lucha libre is second only to soccer in the hearts of Mexican sports fans. Of course, it’s less sport than it is frenetic, muscular soap opera. Rudos (bad guys) and técnicos (good guys), clad in colorful masks and attended by beautiful women, clash in a series of elaborately scripted battles, while a rowdy all-ages crowd representing all points along the socioeconomic spectrum bellows its support. The fans at ringside tend to go for the técnicos, while those up in the cheap seats throw their support behind the rudos, particularly when the latter gang up on their goody-goody opponents, as they’re prone to do. Matches can be caught on Fridays and Tuesdays at the Arena Mexico or on Sundays at the Arena Coliseo, and tickets (and masks) are available online.
ART OF THE CITY Opposite, clockwise from top left, a nicely crafted cappuccino at Café Toscana; a ceramic offering at El Bazar del Sábado; Pujol’s avocado flautas stuffed with crystal shrimp; a Diego Rivera mural at Palacio de Bellas Artes
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¡QUÉ BELLO! The stunning Palacio de Bellas Artes, next to the lively Alameda Central, a park that’s full of food and music on weekends
You amble west along Madero, taking in a pedestrian mall teeming with performers, riotous drum bands, mariachi musicians walking to work, teenagers and guys in homemade movie costumes posing for photos. (Batman is doing a brisk business; Predator, who is fashioned largely from washers and vacuum cleaner hoses, is less of a draw.) Pass the Palacio de Bellas Artes, and arrive at the Alameda Central (6). The park is packed with vendors and Chilangos hustling and hanging out on a pleasant Sunday. There are bands playing in different corners of the park, each inspiring whirlpools of impromptu salsa dancing. The sun has gone down, and you’re feeling the altitude, so you make your way back to Chapultepec, buy some mango slices and roasted fava beans in chili powder from a vendor (most restaurants are closed on Sunday nights) and return to the hotel. Thus se led in, you order up a glass of wine, climb into the spacious tub by the window overlooking the street and call it a day. DAY THREE | Having go en a good night’s sleep, you call for a car to take you to bohemian Roma, and get out at Café Toscana (1), a coffee shop popular with the local creative types, with windows that open to the sidewalk and excellent coffee and baked goods. When you finish your cup, take a stroll past the neighborhood’s indie design stores, small bookstores and bike shops, plus a film shoot. Though buzzing with energy today, Roma was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1985, and even now many of the old colonial and beaux arts residences slump and lean. On Zacatecas, stop at La Valise (2), a store owned by a French expat that sells only design pieces and random curios that can fit in a suitcase. On the way out you smell something good, and step into Broka (3), next door. The li le year-old restaurant and bar (the space was previously a piñata store) serves one dish per day. Today, it’s chicken stuffed with mushrooms and covered with spicy poblano salsa. Delicious. A 20-minute walk takes you to Roma’s trendier sister, Condesa, where you do a lap around Amsterdam, a street that circles the Parque Mexico, one of the city’s pre ier parks, then stray south down Tamaulipas to the Centro Cultural Bella Epoca (4), a vast, spotless bookstore and cultural center. You buy a CD by Chavela Vargas, one of Mexico’s great singers, then—to achieve that very Mexican balance of high- and lowbrow—proceed across the
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“One of the buildings downtown that surprises me is the Secretaría de Educación Pública. It was built during the 16th century, but between 1923 and 1928 it was decorated, mainly by Diego Rivera, with some of the most magnificent murals you can find in Mexico City.”
“Be sure to try pulque, the Aztecs’ smoothie-like sacred beverage, at La Hija de los Apaches in the Doctores neighborhood, where retired lightweight boxer Epiphanio ‘Pifas’ Leyva warmly caters to students, punks, workers and grandmothers like an extended family.”
“Have lunch at a cantina in El Centro for a true D.F. experience. At most cantinas, traditional food comes free with your drinks. At La Mascota, children and grandparents are welcome.”
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street to El Hijo del Santo (5), a small boutique and shrine to Mexico’s greatest lucha libre wrestler that’s full of T-shirts, toys, watches and posters bearing his visage. You can’t help it—you buy a silver mask. For dinner, you have a reservation at one of Condesa’s trendier eateries, Azul Condesa (6), a modern, colorful space popular with young, well-heeled types. You order the chile en nogada: a roasted poblano pepper stuffed with spicy-sweet diced pork and smothered in walnut sauce and pomegranate seeds. For dessert you have the chocolate tamale with crème anglaise, chocolate sauce and almonds. The corn keeps telling you it’s not dessert, while the rest of the steaming dish definitively informs you otherwise. During your postprandial walk through Condesa, you spot a tiny concrete bunker of a mezcalería called La Botica (7). On one wall is a pop art cactus; on the other, a jukebox full of great Mexican rock ’n’ roll. Dozens of varieties of mezcal are displayed in glass medicine bo les, behind a glass case of Star Wars figures posed with their arms held aloft in inscrutable triumph. You order the top-shelf añejo and the waitress climbs a ladder into a crawlspace over the bar to retrieve it, then serves it with a dish of sliced oranges coated in chili powder. It’s smooth and smoky, with no burn, completely delicious, and the fruit chases it beautifully. You had planned to do some more strolling, but instead you opt to end the night here, feet up, doing what you should be doing: feeling the pulse, pondering it, practicing it, watching the street life teem, here in one of the world’s most fascinating cities.
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When most people from outside of West Virginia think of the state, they mining sites. usually think of the wild and wonderful “Reclaimed surface mine projects in 12 mountains, whitewater ra ing on the counties have created more than 13,000 Gauley or New Rivers, mountain biking, jobs,” says Burde e. rock climbing and other eco-tourism Mined lands have been redeveloped activities. But West Virginia also has for schools, medical centers, malls, inbeen an energy-producing state since dustrial parks and government facilities before it joined the union in 1863. And such as the FBI complex in Clarksburg, most of that energy comes in the form WV. Notably, the new permanent home of a reliable energy source that America of the National Scout Jamboree is transhas relied upon for centuries: coal. forming a prime post-mine site into a “We supply roughly the entire summer camp for more than 50,000 Boy eastern third of the country with coal,” Scouts near the New River Gorge. says Keith Burde e, West Virginia’s With all its eco-tourism, West Virginia Secretary of Commerce. is naturally interested in protecting Coal, however, is not the only form its environment, as well as the many of energy produced in this mountainenvironments where coal is being ous state. consumed. There are “We are also home to many new emerging the largest wind power clean coal technologies, development in the some of which are Eastern United States,” being developed at West says Burde e. “But it is Virginia University. only a small fraction of Coal is also a lot safer our energy production, and reliable than many not only in this state, but energy sources. in our nation as a whole.” “You can say what Every form of energy you want about coal,” production has its downsays Burde e. “But it’s side, and wind energy, abundant. It’s affordable. while perceived as being And it’s reliable. Rhetoric a very clean form of is cheap. But at the end of energy, does have its the day, people still want drawbacks. The turbines the lights to come on.” play havoc with birds, There is a new source KEITH BURDETTE Secretary of ComBurde e says. “Plus, in of energy being tapped merce for the State of West Virginia our state, because the in West Virginia. It turbines are so big and have to be placed comes in the form of natural gas from up high on the mountains in order to the Marcellus Shale, an extensive work, people complain that they detract deposit that underlies several states, from the view,” Burde e adds. including West Virginia. While West Underscoring the state’s energy Virginia has always been a natural gas dexterity, several large wind projects producing state, and the Marcellus have been developed on former coalShale will only add to that production,
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the real benefit will ultimately come from a byproduct of natural gas production called ethane. “That’s the real game changer,” says Burde e. “Ethane is the feeder stock for the production of a lot of different products, including chemicals and plastics.” By building a stable, low-tax environment for long-term business investment, West Virginia is now hoping that a new world-class ethane “cracker” plant will be built in the state. It’s a move that could bring tens of thousands of jobs to the state. The plant also will provide a low-cost and more energy efficient means of producing plastic and chemical products, which are used in everything from the automotive industry to everyday household products. “The competition for that plant is in full swing,” says Burde e. “We are competing well and are optimistic about our chances.” And for a lot of good reasons. Not only does West Virginia have good system of highways, rail and navigable rivers, it also has a history of working well with industry. It’s also built a very stable environment for business, having a balanced budget and cash reserves. “The fact is, we’re not raising taxes here, we’re lowering taxes,” says Burde e. “We’re not only lowering business income taxes, we’re eliminating business franchise taxes.” All of which makes the State of West Virginia an ideal location for responsible energy production well into the late 21st century.
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amenities. Fort Bend’s leadership plans for the future with significant infrastructure upgrades, and award-winning masterplanned communities such as Cinco Ranch, Riverstone, Sienna Plantation and Telfair consistently rank as the very best in the country. Energy companies need unmatched infrastructure, global reach, and a highly trained workforce. Add a businessfriendly climate and superb quality of life amenities, and the case for choosing Fort Bend is clear. Convenience and proximity to multiple international airports – including Sugar Land Regional Airport, a fixed base operation airport with U.S. customs – three different rail systems and multiple transportation corridors give energy leaders immediate access to destinations around the globe. While oil and gas historically anchor the energy sector – for example, Fluor Corporation and Schlumberger Technology Corporation are the largest private sector employers in Fort Bend County – Fort Bend is home to a diverse cross-section of energy firms. Nalco Company’s Energy Services Division and Tyco Valves & Controls have pioneered new products via research and development. They join Puffer-Sweiven, National Oilwell Varco, Flextronics, Yokogawa Corporation, Hudson Products, FairfieldNodal, Champion Technologies, Noble Drilling Services, Thermo Process Instruments, Sunoco Logistics Partners, Suntron, Global Flow Technologies, and other firms providing products and services throughout the combined energy sectors. Interested in learning more about Fort Bend County? Call the Greater Fort Bend Economic Development Council at 281.242.0000 or visit www. FortBend County.com.
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Entertainment & Information ENTERTAINMENT 126 DIRECTV速 128 Film & Television 132 Audio Programming 134 Crossword 136 Sudoku INFORMATION 139 Route Maps 144 Customs & Immigration 145 Our Fleet 146 Terminal Diagrams 150 Safety & Travel Assistance 152 MileagePlus 153 Alliances & Partnerships 160 Food & Beverages
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DIRECTV®
DIRECTV® IS OUR LATEST UPGRADE, allowing you to select from
more than 100 channels of live television along with blockbuster Hollywood movies, sitcoms and dramas. Purchase DIRECTV® and stay entertained for your entire flight. Use your Continental Airlines Chase MasterCard and receive a special $2 discount.
Available on select 737 aircraft
What you want to watch
OVER 100 CHANNELS You can get more than 100 of your favorite TV channels. Movies, sports, family programming—we have the best in entertainment.
MOVIES Choose from four Hollywood movies: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Nights in Rodanthe, The Island and Space Jam. Or, browse for movies on live TV.
AND MORE! Never miss a play from inside the 20 on DIRECTV’s Red Zone Channel®, which brings you the final yards of every scoring drive on one dedicated channel.
Your favorite TV channels INCLUDING: NETWORKS
NEWS
SPORTS
ENTERTAINMENT
FAMILY
HOW TO USE 1. Swipe your credit card* to begin. 2. Select your channel or movie and start watching. 3. Listen using your own headset or feel free to use the complimentary headset provided on board. Your purchase is good for the entire flight, even when the aircraft door is open before takeoff, and you can turn the TV on and off throughout your flight. *MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover accepted. TV and movies are complimentary in First Class.
A&E ABC FAMILY ANIMAL BABY BBCA BET BIG TEN BIO BLOOMBERG BOOM BRAVO CARTOON CBS CENTRIC CHILLER CLOO CMT CNBC CNN COMEDY COOK C-SPAN C-SPAN2 CW DISCOVERY DISNEY
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DISNEY XD DIY E! ESPN ESPN CLASSIC ESPN2 ESPNEWS ESPNU FOOD FOX FOX BUSINESS FOX MOVIE FOX NEWS FOX SOCCER FUEL FX GALA GOL TV GOLF GOSPEL GREEN GSN HALLMARK HGTV H2 HISTORY
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HLN HUB INVESTIGATION LEARNING LIFETIME LIFETIME MOVIE LINK MILITARY MLB Network MOUNTAIN MSNBC MTV MTV2 NAT GEO NBC NICK NICK JR NICK TOON NRB OUTDOOR OVATION OXYGEN QVC REDZONE SCIENCE SOAP
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SPEED SPIKE SPORTSMAN STYLE SYFY TBS TEEN NICK TENNIS TNT TRAVEL TRUTV TURNER MOVIE TV GUIDE TV LAND TVG HORSE TWC UNI USA VERSUS VH1 VH1 CLASSIC WGN WORD
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SATELLITE COVERAGE AREA Since the programming is live from DIRECTV®, a flight may take you out of the satellite coverage area. If this happens, prerecorded TV shows and movies will still be available.
Exact channel numbers and programming schedules are subject to change. DIRECTV® service is not available on flights outside the continental United States. The signal may be lost in turbulence and/or if banking of the aircraft is required. DIRECTV® and Continental Airlines are not responsible for interruptions of service that are beyond our control including, without limitation, acts of nature, power failure, or any other cause. ©2011 DIRECTV® Inc. DIRECTV® and the Cyclone Design logo are registered trademarks of DIRECTV® Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
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Creating a better flight plan.
Building the world’s leading airline means centering it around you. The finest people in the industry providing superior service. World-class lounges and a modern aircraft fleet for reliability and comfort. And a frequent flyer program backed by an unparalleled route network means more rewards and more options. In other words, we’re building a better way to go. For information and reservations, go to united.com.
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ENTERTAINMENT
FILMS ARE SHOWN on flights of three hours or
longer. Movies are available on most 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, A319 and A320 aircraft flights. Schedules and selections are subject to change. En el canal 10 encontrará películas y programas de televisión disponibles en Español.
Film & Television ENJOY THESE MOVIES AND SHOWS ON THE MAIN SCREEN
Films DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS WILL SHOW THE FOLLOWING MOVIES EASTBOUND
WESTBOUND
NOV 1-15
Larry Crowne [T]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes [T]
NOV 16-30
Monte Carlo [T]
Life in a Day [T]
NOV 1-15
Monte Carlo [T]
Life in a Day [T]
NOV 16-30
Larry Crowne [T]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes [T]
NORTH AMERICA
HAWAII
SOUTHBOUND
LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN
NORTHBOUND
NOV 1-15
Rise of the Planet of the Apes [T]
Larry Crowne [T]
NOV 16-30
Life in a Day [T]
Monte Carlo [T]
• Flights between Chicago or Denver and Hawaii will show both films. • Select films are shown on flights within Micronesia and on intra-Asia flights on 737 aircraft.
Television SELECT FLIGHTS MAY FEATURE THE FOLLOWING TELEVISION PROGRAMMING 30 Rock [T] Rules of Engagement [T] Inside the Actors Studio [T]
The Big Bang Theory [T] The Office [T] Suits [T]
Suburgatory [T] Cash Cab Only in America With Larry the Cable Guy [T]
The Simpsons [T] Monk Hawaii Five-0 [T]
Rules of Engagement [T] Friday Night Lights [T] The Middle
Parks and Recreation [T] 30 Rock [T] The Big Bang Theory [T]
[T] = Adult themes
You may purchase a headset onboard Continental-operated flights for $3 and keep it for future travel. Applicable on all video-equipped flights of at least 1½ hours’ duration within the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Canada, as well as to/from select destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean and the mid-Pacific.
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MOST FILMS HAVE BEEN EDITED for
airline use. However, customer discretion is still advised. Content guidelines are provided as a courtesy to help our customers decide whether to view a film.
CUSTOMERS ARE WELCOME to view their own video entertainment aboard a United aircraft as long as they are able to show that the programming has an MPAA rating of “R” or less.
Larry Crowne [T] Having lost his job to corporate downsizing, Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) heads to a local college to start over. There, he finds camaraderie among a colorful group of outcasts—and a romantic interest in the form of his teacher (Julia Roberts). FEATURING Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Sarah Mahoney DIRECTED BY Tom Hanks
Life in a Day [T] 1 hr. 38 min.
Monte Carlo [T] After embarking on their dream vacation to Paris, three young Americans become entangled in a case of mistaken identity and soon find themselves leading the high life—and falling in love—in glamorous Monte Carlo. FEATURING Selena Gomez, Katie Cassidy, Leighton Meester DIRECTED BY Thomas Bezucha
WHAT DO YOU THINK of our programming? We’re open to suggestions. Please send them to play@united.com or visit united.com/play.
Created from some 4,500 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users, this remarkable documentary chronicles July 24, 2010, as it was experienced by individuals living in nearly 200 countries. Exhilarating, moving and funny, Life in a Day is the story of our world—told by us. DIRECTED BY Kevin Macdonald
1 hr. 30 min.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes [T] 1 hr. 49 min.
Medical researchers unwittingly set off an epic battle between man and beast as one of their genetically enhanced test subjects, a chimp named Caesar, uses his heightened intelligence to lead other apes in a fight for freedom. FEATURING James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto DIRECTED BY Rupert Wyatt
1 hr. 45 min.
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Film & Television THE FOLLOWING FILMS ARE AVAILABLE ON INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS
INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE TRACKS (G) Synchronisierte Versionen finden Sie auf Kanal 2 und 3 (wenn verfügbar). (J) 日本語の吹き替えはチャンネル2番および３番でお聴き いただけます。（一部英語音声のみとなります。） (C) 如果可 用，在第2频道和第3频道将提供语言录音 (K) 채널 2,3에서 더빙버전이 제공됩니다
(K) Korean (G) German (C) Chinese (J) Japanese
B747 Mainscreen Programming FROM U.S. Rise of the Planet of the Apes [T] 1 hr., 45 min. Life in a Day [T] 1 hr., 30 min. U.K.
2 hr. 2 hr.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins 1 hr., 37 min. 2 hr.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (G) [T] 1 hr., 45 min. Life in a Day (G) [T] 1 hr., 30 min. 2 hr.
Larry Crowne (G) [T] 1 hr., 38 min. Monte Carlo (G) [T] 1 hr., 49 min. 2 hr.
Captain America: The First Avenger (G) [T] 2 hr., 1 min. Cars 2 (G) 1 hr., 46 min. 2 hr.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (G) 1 hr., 37 min. Zookeeper (G) [T] 1 hr., 42 min. 2 hr.
Larry Crowne [T] 1 hr., 38 min. 2 hr.
AUSTRALIA
Larry Crowne [T] 1 hr., 38 min. Monte Carlo [T] 1 hr., 49 min. 2 hr.
Captain America: The First Avenger [T] 2 hr., 1 min.
GERMANY
TO U.S.
Monte Carlo [T] 1 hr., 49 min. Mr. Popper’s Penguins 1 hr., 37 min.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes [T] 1 hr., 45 min. Life in a Day [T] 1 hr., 30 min. Captain America: The First Avenger [T] 2 hr., 1 min. 2 hr.
Cars 2 1 hr., 46 min.
2 hr.
Zookeeper [T] 1 hr., 42 min.
4 hr.
2 hr.
Larry Crowne (J, K) [T] 1 hr., 38 min. Monte Carlo (J, K) [T] 1 hr., 49 min. JAPAN & SOUTH KOREA *JAPAN FLIGHTS ONLY
2 hr.
2 hr.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (J) 1 hr., 37 min. 2 hr.
Zookeeper (J, K) [T] 1 hr., 42 min. 2 hr.
Larry Crowne (C) [T] 1 hr., 38 min. Monte Carlo (C) [T] 1 hr., 49 min. CHINA & HONG KONG
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (J, K) [T] 1 hr., 45 min. Life in a Day (J, K) [T] 1 hr., 30 min.
2 hr.
Captain America: The First Avenger (J, K) [T] 2 hr., 1 min. Cars 2 (J, K) 1 hr., 46 min. 2 hr. 2 hr.*
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (C) [T] 1 hr., 45 min. Life in a Day (C) [T] 1 hr., 30 min. 2 hr.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins (C) 1 hr., 37 min. Zookeeper (C) [T] 1 hr., 42 min. 2 hr.
Captain America: The First Avenger (C) [T] 2 hr., 1 min. Cars 2 (C) 1 hr., 46 min. 2 hr.
FROM JAPAN Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (J, C) [T] THAILAND & TAIWAN *THAILAND FLIGHTS ONLY
2 hr., 10 min.
Something Borrowed* (J, C) [T] 1 hr., 52 min.
TO JAPAN Kung Fu Panda 2 (J, C) 1 hr., 31 min. Midnight in Paris* (J, C) [T] 1 hr., 40 min. 2 hr.
2 hr.
2 hr. = Two-hour block of television [T] = Adult themes
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DIGITAL MEDIA LOADING occurs between
the 25th of one month and the 5th of the following month. As a result, please understand if your flight features a different lineup before or after the start of each month.
Captain America: The First Avenger [T] Army scientists transform a scrawny but brave GI (Chris Evans) into a “super soldier” who takes on the Nazis. FEATURING Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving DIRECTED BY Joe Johnston
Cars 2 2 hr. 1 min.
Kung Fu Panda 2 Po’s new life is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain who plans to use a secret weapon to destroy kung fu. VOICES BY Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman DIRECTED BY Jennifer Yuh
1 hr. 46 min.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins 1 hr. 31 min.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [T] Captain Jack crosses paths with a former flame on her way to the Fountain of Youth, and ends up in trouble yet again. FEATURING Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush DIRECTED BY Rob Marshall
A shot at the World Grand Prix title lures Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater into international adventures. VOICES BY Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, John Turturro DIRECTED BY John Lasseter/Brad Lewis
Jim Carrey plays a workaholic divorcé who’s clueless about family—that is, until six little penguins waddle into his life. FEATURING Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury DIRECTED BY Mark Waters
1 hr. 37 min.
Zookeeper [T] 2 hr. 10 min.
When a zookeeper (Kevin James) decides he needs a more glamorous job to land a girlfriend, the animals are not pleased. FEATURING Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb DIRECTED BY Frank Coraci
1 hr. 42 min.
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Featuring songs by Roy Orbison, Cream, Fleetwood Mac and more
Featuring songs by Meat Loaf, Toto, Cheap Trick and more
Featuring songs by Duran Duran, Tiffany, Starship and more
Featuring songs by Brian Eno, Enya, Runestone and more
Featuring a chronology of Michael Jackson songs
Featuring compositions performed by orchestras from New York to Stuttgart
Featuring songs by Martina McBride, Trace Adkins, Toby Keith and more
Featuring Chinese popular music including cantopop and mandopop
Featuring songs by DJ Fresh, David Guetta, Duck Sauce and more
Featuring songs by Joss Stone, Snow Patrol, Josh Groban and more
Featuring songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London, George Benson and more
Featuring songs by Exile, AKB48, Sukima Switch and more
Featuring songs by Johnny Pacheco, Sergio Mendes and more
Featuring songs by Paramore, Foo Fighters, Sublime With Rome and more
Featuring songs by Akon, Jordin Sparks, John Legend and more
Featuring songs by Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, the Shirelles and more
Featuring songs by Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and more
Featuring songs by Adele, BeyoncĂŠ, Lady Gaga and more
Featuring songs by Femi Kuti, Annie Trousseau, Balkan Beat Box and more
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CHANNEL 9 Listen for your flight number to hear live communication between the flight deck and FAA air traffic control. This feature, unique to United, may not be available on all flights, including oceanic crossings with limited audio communication. Available at your captain’s discretion.
Audio Channels by Aircra CHANNEL
777*
SELECT A320
A319 & A320
747
737 & 757-300
757 & 767*
1
Movie (English)
Movie (English)
Movie (English)
Movie (English)
Movie (English)
Movie (English)
2
Today’s hits
Today’s hits
Today’s hits
Movie (Dubbed)
Today’s hits
Today’s hits
3
R&B
R&B
R&B
Movie (Dubbed)
R&B
R&B
4 5 6 7 8
Classical
’60s
Classical
Classical
Classical
Classical
Country
Country
Country
Country
Country
Country
’60s
Classical
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’60s
’60s
’60s
’70s
’70s
—
’70s
’70s
’70s
’80s
’80s
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’80s
’80s
’80s
9
From the flight deck
From the flight deck
From the flight deck
From the flight deck or R&B
—
From the flight deck or modern rock
10
Movie (Dubbed)
Movie (Dubbed)
Movie (Dubbed)
Today’s hits
Movie (Dubbed)
Movie (Dubbed)
11
Modern rock
Modern rock
’60s
Teen pop
Modern rock
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12
Latin
Latin
’70s
World
Latin or J-pop on Micronesia flights
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Dance
Dance
’80s
J-pop
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Ambient
Ambient
Modern rock
C-pop
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Artist spotlight
Artist spotlight
Artist spotlight
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Jazz
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J-pop
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Easy listening
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Teen pop
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*For aircraft with seatback entertainment, please refer to the Play guide for audio selections.
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ALL THEME CLUES ARE IN BOLD If you fill in the crossword, please take the magazine with you so it’s replaced. Answers found on page 60.
Crossword OPPOSITES ATTRACT BY GREG BRUCE
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1. Family Name 3. Birth Date (DD/MM/YY) 5. Sex (Male or Female)
6. Passport Issue Date (DD/MM/YY)
7. Passport Expiration Date (DD/MM/YY)
8. Passport Number
9. Airline and Flight Number
10. Country Where You Live
11. Country Where You Boarded
12. City Where Visa Was Issued
13. Date Issued (DD/MM/YY)
14. Address While in the United States (Number and Street) 15. City and State 16. Telephone Number in the U.S. Where You Can be Reached 17. Email Address
CBP Form I-94 (05/08)
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection
OMB No. 1651-0111
Departure Record Admission Number
000000000 00
Expedited Passport Control and Customs Clearance in the U.S.—Global Entry™
Manchester
Gainesville Daytona
Sarasota/Bradenton West Palm Beach
Gulf Of Mexico
5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3) Privacy Act Notice: Information collected on this form is required by Title 8 of the U.S. Code, including the INA (8 U.S.C. 1103, 1187), and 8 CFR 235.1, 264, and 1235.1. The purposes for this collection are to give the terms of admission and document the arrival and departure of nonimmigrant aliens to the U.S. The information solicited on this form may be made available to other government agencies for law enforcement purposes or to assist DHS in determining your admissibility. All nonimmigrant aliens seeking admission to the U.S., unless otherwise exempted, must provide this information. Failure to provide this information may deny you entry to the United States and result in your removal.
All passengers (or one passenger per family) are required to complete a Customs Declaration before arrival in the U.S. Write in English, in capital letters. Be sure to include the street name and number, city and state of your address in the U.S. If you are transiting through the U.S., you may write TRANSIT and your final destination country. Please read both sides of the declaration and place your signature at the bottom of the form.
Portland
N.H.
Jacksonville
Tampa/St. Petersburg Corpus Christi
Item 9 - If you are entering the United States by land, enter LAND in this space. If you are entering the United States by ship, enter SEA in this space.
18. Family Name 19. First (Given) Name
20. Birth Date (DD/MM/YY)
21. Country of Citizenship
CBP Form I-94 (05/08) See Other Side
STAPLE HERE
Left, U.S. Customs Declaration; right, U.S. I-94 form, which all U.S. visa holders must complete.
Countries participating in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP): Andorra Australia Austria Belgium Brunei Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary
Iceland Ireland Italy Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands New Zealand Norway
Portugal San Marino Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom (British citizen or with unrestricted right of abode)
Codeshare / OnePass Service
Pensacola
Ft. Walton Gulfport/ Beach New Biloxi Orleans
Laredo Route lines reflect flights operated by United Airlines, Continental Airlines, Inc. and/or their regional partners. For accurate flight schedules, please see www.united.com or www.continental.com. © 2011 United Air Lines, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
200 Kilometers
Lake Charles Lafayette
Atlantic Time Zone 8:00
Train Routes
Baton Rouge
When all items are completed, present this form to the CBP Officer.
V T.
MISSISSIPPI
Mobile
This form is in two parts. Please complete both the Arrival Record (Items 1 through 17) and the Departure Record (Items 18 through 21).
U.S. Customs Declaration
Halifax
Albany Midland/ Boston Rochester Ithaca Muskegon Grand Saginaw Sarnia Buffalo/ Hartford/M A S S . Hyannis Sacramento Reno/Tahoe Rock Springs Milwaukee Rapids Niagara Falls Binghamton SpringfieldR.I. Flint I OWA Nantucket C.T. Providence Newburgh London JamestownElmira Scottsbluff Oakland Lansing SAN FRANCISCO Madison Salt Lake City Wilkes Barre/ Alliance New Haven Modesto White Detroit Windsor Laramie South Erie Bradford Scranton San Jose Long Island/Islip Vernal Hayden/ Plains NEBRASKA Cedar Mammoth Lakes Cheyenne Bend/Elkhart/ CLEVELAND New York (La Guardia) FranklinClearfieldWilliamsport Rapids/ Mishawaka Omaha Steamboat Fresno N.J. North Platte U TA H (J.F. Kennedy) Des PA Iowa City State Akron/Canton COLORADO Monterey Allentown NEW YORK (NEWARK) Grand Springs Moines Dubois College Visalia OHIO Peoria Junction Vail/Eagle DENVER Ft. Kearney Pittsburgh CA L I F O R N I A Moline Harrisburg Philadelphia Lincoln Moab Wayne Columbus Johnstown Aspen McCook Baltimore Altoona ILLINOIS Inyokern I N D I A NA Morgantown Colorado Springs St. George MARYLAND D E L . San Luis Obispo Montrose Dayton Gunnison/ Bakersfield WASHINGTON, DC (DULLES) Clarksburg Springfield Crested Indianapolis Hays Las Vegas Telluride Parkersburg Shenandoah Salisbury Butte Santa Maria Page/ Cincinnati WV Valley (Reagan National) Cortez Pueblo Durango K A N S A S Kansas City Lake Powell St. Louis Santa Barbara Charlottesville Burbank Huntington Charleston Louisville Alamosa Garden City Lewisburg Richmond Farmington Great Bend LOS ANGELES Long Beach Lexington Beckley Lynchburg Ontario Dodge City Norfolk/Virginia Beach Flagstaff Wichita Orange County Roanoke V I R G I N I A KENTUCKY Newport News/Williamsburg Liberal A R I Z O NA Springfield Carlsbad Tri-Cities Regional Prescott Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem Palm Springs Raleigh/Durham NORTH M I S S O U R I Paducah Amarillo Show Low Tulsa San Diego Knoxville CA R O L I NA Albuquerque Nashville Imperial Northwest Greenville New Bern Phoenix/Scottsdale Oklahoma City Charlotte Arkansas Asheville Fayetteville/Ft. Bragg TENNESSEE Yuma ARKANSAS Greenville/ Jacksonville OKLAHOMA Spartanburg Chattanooga Memphis Lubbock Little NEW MEXICO Wilmington Tucson Rock Huntsville/ Columbia Florence Myrtle Beach Decatur SOUTH Atlanta CA R O L I NA Hobbs Charleston Dallas/ Augusta Birmingham El Paso Fort Worth Dallas (Love) Hilton Head Island Monroe Midland/ ATLANTIC Montgomery GEORGIA Odessa Jackson Shreveport TEXAS Savannah A L A BA M A Waco OCEAN Tyler Riverton
N E VA DA
Type or print legibly with pen in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Use English. Do not write on the back of this form.
2. First (Given) Name
Ottawa
M I C H I GA N
Appleton/ Fox Cities
MAINE
North Bay
Sault Ste. Marie
Wausau Minneapolis Eau Claire Green Bay
Fredericton
City
Sudbury
Houghton
Duluth
Moncton
Saint John
WISCONSIN
SOUTH Gillette Rapid City DA KO TA
U N I T E D S TAT E S
Presque Isle
O N TA R I O
Sheridan
Worland Jackson Hole
Chico
Thunder Bay
NORTH DA KO TA
Billings
Cody/ Yellowstone Idaho Falls
Klamath Falls
Eastern Time Zone 7:00
OMB No. 1651-0111
Welcome to the United States I-94 Arrival/Departure Record Instructions This form must be completed by all persons except U.S. Citizens, returning resident aliens, aliens with immigrant visas, and Canadian Citizens visiting or in transit.
4. Country of Citizenship
P R I N C E E DWAR D Sydney NEW ISLAND B RU N SW I C K Charlottetown
Saguenay
Williston
Lewistown M O N TA NA
Îles de la Madeliene
Bathurst
Glasgow Great Falls
Gulf Of St. Lawrence
Mont-Joli
Regina Winnipeg
Portland
PACIFIC OCEAN
Gaspe Baie-Comeau
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Customs and Border Protection
All travelers who hold a U.S. visa are required to complete an I-94 Arrival/Departure Record (one per person, including infants). Write in English, in capital letters. Be sure to include the street name and number, city and state of your address in the U.S. If you are transiting through the U.S., you may write TRANSIT and your final destination country. The Customs and Border Protection officer will place the I-94 Departure Record in your passport after inspection. Make sure you return the Departure Record to the airline representative before boarding your return flight.
Newark (Liberty)
New Haven Stamford New York (Penn Station)
Philadelphia Wilmington Washington, DC
Australia Brunei Hong Kong (SAR; with HKG identity card)
Japan
For detailed information, go to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection site, globalentry.gov.
ATLANTIC OCEAN
George Town
600 Kilometers
Countries participating in the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program (VWP):
1111
144
Malaysia Nauru New Zealand Papua New Guinea Singapore South Korea
Taiwan (direct flight to Guam with passport and national ID card)
United Kingdom (including BNO)
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Our Fleet
787 UPDATE United has always been at the forefront of aviation developments; the first airline to operate both the 767 and 777, United will also be the first North American airline to put into service the revolutionary Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The 787’s innovative design will provide an unrivaled level of comfort. Larger windows offer a view to the horizon from any seat on the airplane, while a quieter cabin helps passengers feel less fatigued when they arrive at their final destination. Sweeping arches arc and more natural light create a feeling of spaciousness. Additionally, the overhead bins are the largest in the industry, enabling every passenger to fit a standard-size carry-on bag inside them.
Fleet Facts AIRCRAFT
CRUISE SPEED CAPACITY
PROPULSION
WINGSPAN
747-400
777-200/ -200ER
767-200ER/ -300ER/ -400ER
757-200/ -300
737-500/ -700/-800/ -900/-900ER
A319/A320
567 mph
550 mph
540 mph
540 mph
530 mph
530 mph
374 passengers (12/52/310)
Between 253 and 348 passengers (10/45/198) (12/49/197) (8/40/221) (50/226) (36/312)
Between 174 and 244 passengers (25/149) (6/26/151) (35/200) (34/210)
Between 110 and 216 passengers (12/26/72) (16/159) (24/158) (24/192)
Between 114 and 173 passengers (8/106) (12/112) (16/144) (20/153)
Between 120 and 144 passengers (8/112) (12/126) (12/132)
Four Pratt & Whitney PW4062 turbofan engines, rated up to 63,300 pounds thrust each
Two General Electric GE90 or two Pratt & Whitney PW4077/4090 turbofan engines, rated up to 94,000 pounds thrust each
Two General Electric CF680C2B or Pratt & Whitney PW4060 turbofan engines, rated up to 63,300 pounds thrust each
Two Rolls-Royce RB211-535 or two Pratt & Whitney PW2040 turbofan engines, rated up to 43,700 pounds thrust each
Two General Electric CFM56 turbofan engines, rated up to 26,400 pounds thrust each
Two IAE V2500-A5 turbofan engines, rated up to 27,000 pounds thrust each
211 ft., 5 in.
199 ft., 11 in.
Up to 170 ft., 4 in.
134 ft., 9 in.
Up to 117 ft., 5 in.
111 ft., 11 in.
PRODUCT INVESTMENT United recently announced an investment of more than $500 million to enhance our customers’ flying experience. We plan to roll out more flat-bed seats in our United First and United Business cabins, further solidifying our position as the North American carrier with the most flat-bed seats. In addition, we will be adding Wi-Fi to more than 200 Boeing 737 and 757 aircraft as well as expanding Economy Plus across the entire mainline fleet. HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM • NOVEMBER 2011
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INFORMATION
Terminal Diagrams
IAH | HOUSTON GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT TERMINAL C Continental United United Express
TERMINAL A TERMINAL B Continental Express United Express B86
B85A B85 B84A-S
B87 B88
C17
C20
C16
C21
C15
C22
C14
TERMINAL D Continental Lufthansa Singapore Airlines
USO
2 D1
0
1
D1
D1
D8
D9
D6 A
D7
D5
D6
D4
Station
D4
A
C23 D3
B86A
5
A2 A1
B79 B77A B77 B76A B76
C19
C2 4
Bus Station (A2)
B80 B81A B81 B83A B83
B79A
North Concourse
C2
A14 A12 A10
A15 A11 A9 A8 A7
C18
C2 6
Continental Connection Air Canada
D1 D2
(North Concourse)
C27
TerminaLink Connects Terminals A, B, C, D, & E via train
Station Station International Arrivals
A17
(Lower Level)
South Concourse
C42
C35
C41
C36
C40
E1
E1
E1
E2
E23
E15 E9
E3
C37
4
1
0 E1
E1
2
E24
5
4 C4
C4
C34
C4
3
C29 3
B67 B66 B65 B64 B63A B63
C3
B60 B61 B62 B62A
2
B75 B74 B73 B72A B72
C3
A20 TERMINAL A (South Concourse) US Airways
B68 B69 B70 B71 B71A
1
A19
0
A24
C3
A18
A25
C3
A26
(Lower Level)
E4
E8
E5
E7
TERMINAL E Continental
E16
E22
E17
E21
E18
E6
C39
E20 E19
EWR | NEW YORK/NEWARK LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
TERMINAL C
B3
B2
B1
TERMINAL A Continental Express United United Express Air Canada US Airways
TERMINAL C Continental Continental International Arrivals Continental Connection
P4
146
Newark Liberty International Airport Station — Connection with Amtrak and New Jersey Transit
X 26 A/ /26 26 A2 25/25A
128 139 138 137 136 135 134 133
127 126 125 124 123 122 121 120 2 13 131 130
98 99 97 96 94 95 92 91 80
115 114 112 110 108 104 102
113 111 109 107 105 103 101
81 83 85 87 88
90 72 75
70 71
73
82 84
86
74
(Upper Level)
17 16
4A /2 24 A 23/23 20/20A
TERMINAL B Continental International Arrivals EVA Air LOT Polish Airlines Lufthansa Scandinavian Airlines Singapore Airlines SWISS TAP Portugal AirTrain Virgin Atlantic
28/28A 27/ 27A
A3
A1
P1, P2, P3
(Lower Level)
Continental Express flights may arrive/depart at Terminal C.
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ORD | CHICAGO/O’HARE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Concourse E Concourse C
TE R M I N A L 3
Concourse L
Concourse C C28-C39
C40-C50 B5 9 B6 1 B6 3 B6 5 B6 7 B6 9 B7 1 B7 3 B7 5
Train
B8 1 B8 3 B8 5 B8 7 B8 9 B9 1
B7
9
B77
B93 B95
Concourse A
B8 B80 B82 B84 B86 B98 B90 2 B9 4
Concourse K
Continental United United Express US Airways
B3 9 B4 1 B4 3 B4 5 B4 7 B4 9 B5 1 B5 3 B5 5 B5 7
Concourse H
Concourse B
B3 8 B4 2 B4 4 B4 6 B4 8 B5 0 B5 2 B5 4 B5 6 B5 8 B6 0
E10
C2 C1 C4 C6 C3 C8 C5 E3 C10 C7 E2A C12 C9 E2 C16 C11 E1A C18 B2 B3B4 C15 E1 C18A B1 C17 B5 C20 B6 C22 C19 B7 C24 C21 B8 C26 (Lower Level) C23 C28 C25 B9 C30 B10 C27 C32 TE R M I N A L 2 B11 C29C31 United Express B12 B13 Air Canada TE R M I N A L 1 B14 US Airways B15 Continental B16 (Gates B1-B4) B17 United B18 B19 United Express B20 Elevated Airport ANA B22 B21 Transport System
Concourse G
B1 5 B1 7 B1 9 B2 1 B2 3 B2 5 B2 7 B2 9 B3 1 B3 3 B3 5 B3 7
F14 F12 F11 F10 F9 F8 F7 F6 F5 F4 F3 F2 F1
B1 6 B1 8 B2 0 B2 2 B2 4 B2 6 B2 8 B3 0 B3 2 B3 4 B3 6
Concourse F
DEN | DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Air Canada Lufthansa
A24-A39
A40-A53 A58-A68
Pedestrian Bridge
Lufthansa
Concourse B TERMINAL WEST
Concourse M
TERMINAL EAST
TE R M I N A L 5 International
United, ANA, Asiana Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, SWISS, Turkish Airlines
SFO | SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
IAD | WASHINGTON/DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
TE R M I N A L 2
Continental United United Express C2-4
78 79
TE R M I N A L 3
77
80 82
85 Secure 89
C6-8
C10-14
C5-7
C9-11
C18-26
C28-30
D2-8
D10-16
D18-26
D28-32
TE R M I N A L 1 US Airways
A2
A4
A6
A3
A5
C17-27 A14
A22
A15
A21
D1-7
D9-11
D15-21
A25
A32
B38-B48
D23-29
72 Gates 20-36
81 83
88 90
C1-3
71
Shuttle
84 86
Continental United United Express
Train
68 76
Continental United United Express
Concourse D
Concourse C
Gates 40-48 Gates 60-67
75
A1
(Lower Level)
Concourse A Continental Express United Express Copa Airlines South African Airways Virgin Atlantic
Walkway G92 G94 G96 G98 G91 G100 G102 G93
87
G101
G95 G97 G99
I N T E R N AT I O N A L TE R M I N A L United, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, EVA Air, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, SWISS
Gates A1-A12
B35-B51 Shuttle Bus
Z Gates US Airways 1-4
B63-B79
Concourse B ANA Austrian Lufthansa Scandinavian Airlines Turkish Airlines
MAIN TERMINAL
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LAX | LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
CLE | CLEVELAND HOPKINS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Concourse C
TE R M I N A L 3
TE R M I N A L 2 Air Canada Air China Air New Zealand Virgin Atlantic
TE R M I N A L 1 US Airways
C17
C18 12
C16
C19
8 4B
Continental Continental Express United United Express Air Canada
C11
C14
C20
C9
C7
C2
C5
C3
(Lower Level)
C21 C22
TO M B R A D L E Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L TE R M I N A L ANA, Asiana Airlines, EVA Air, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, SWISS, THAI, Turkish Airlines
C24
60 62 64 66 68A
67B 69A 69B
80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88
70A
71B
70B
73
72
75A 74 76
75B
68B
77
TE R M I N A L 7 United United Express
TE R M I N A L 6 Continental United Copa Airlines
Fourth Floor 37
41
36
38
45
35
31
33
Third Floor 27
D10
D3 D2
D7 D9 D8
D28
Concourse D Continental Express Continental Connection
D21 D17
US Airways and some Continental international flights arrive at Concourse A.
GUM | GUAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
23 22
34
21
Security Checkpoint
North Wing
South Wing TERMINAL 1 Continental United Air Canada Air China 51 ANA 52 53 Asiana Airlines 54 Austrian EGYPTAIR 55 Lufthansa 56 Scandinavian Airlines Singapore Airlines 57 SWISS THAI 58 Turkish Airlines
17
18
16 15
11
12
14
Satellite 1
Café
MAIN TERMINAL Continental
Food Court
11
17
19 21 20
5
6
7
9
8
10
12
14
16
18
B46
Gates D1-D54
B47 B48 B42
B45 B44 B43 B1-B41
Pier B
TERMINAL 1 United (ORD, IAD, SFO, LAX) Aegean Airlines Air New Zealand Asiana Airlines Austrian bmi Brussels Airlines Croatia Airlines LOT Polish Airlines Lufthansa South African Airways SWISS TAM TAP Portugal US Airways
Lufthansa Tower Lounge (Level 5)
B26
Heathrow Express
B25 B24 B22
B10-B20
er C
Gates C1-C9
Pi
Pi
er
A
Pier D
B27 B28 B23
LHR | LONDON/HEATHROW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Gates A1-A65
Pedestrian Tunnel
Continental United Aegean Airlines Adria Airways Air Canada Air China ANA Asiana Airlines
148
15
Air New Zealand flights arrive/depart at Terminal 2.
Sky Line Train
TE R M I N A L 2
13
4
(Lower Level)
FRA | FRANKFURT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Pier E
(Lower Level) Underground Tunnel
C27
Satellite 2
25
47
Gates E1-E26
C4
D25
TE R M I N A L 8 United United Express
24
26
32 46
C25
D12 D11 D14
NRT | TOKYO/NARITA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 43 42 44
C6
D4 D6 D5 71A
67A
TE R M I N A L 5
C8
C26
61 63 65
TE R M I N A L 4
C10 C29
C23
TE R M I N A L 1
Austrian Croatia Airlines EGYPTAIR LOT Polish Airlines Lufthansa Scandinavian Airlines Singapore Airlines
South African Airways Spanair SWISS TAM TAP Portugal THAI Turkish Airlines US Airways
TERMINAL 5
TERMINAL 3 Air Canada Air China ANA Blue1 EGYPTAIR Scandinavian Airlines Singapore Airlines THAI Turkish Airlines Virgin Atlantic
Transfer Shuttle
TERMINAL 4 Continental (EWR, IAH) Gates 1-25
Secureside and non-secureside buses serve all terminals
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INFORMATION
MAKING YOUR CONNECTING FLIGHT Whether your next flight is on United or one of the Star Alliance partners around the world, you can use the terminal diagrams on pages 146-148 to plan your connection. In addition to gate locations, these maps show ticket counters and interterminal transportation.
Safety & Travel Assistance SAFETY INFORMATION NEED TO KNOW Customer safety is our primary concern. Our flight attendants are trained thoroughly in all safety procedures. But as expert as they are, in the event of an emergency they need help from you, the customer. You should be aware of the following:
NEVER PERMITTED The Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration prohibit hazardous materials in either checked or carry-on baggage. Substantial fines can be imposed for violations.
EXIT Location of the nearest emergency exit
The correct procedure for exiting the cabin in an emergency
Where your oxygen mask will appear, how to start the oxygen flow and how to use the mask
Please look carefully at the safety information card located in the seat pocket in front of you
Liquid and solid explosives
Flammable gases and compressed gas
Radioactive and magnetic materials, corrosive and oxidizing agents
Poisons
Smoking is not permitted. Federal law imposes fines of $1,000 for smoking and up to $2,200 for any attempt to disable an aircraft’s smoke detectors. We prohibit the use of electronic simulated smoking devices (cigarettes, pipes, cigars, etc.) on our flights.
It is a violation of federal regulations to drink alcoholic beverages during a flight unless they are served by our personnel. Also, airlines are forbidden to serve alcoholic beverages to anyone who appears to be intoxicated.
Travel assistance for delayed or canceled flights At United and Continental, our priority is safety and keeping an on-time schedule. On occasion, canceling or delaying a flight is the only option to assure we maintain the highest safety standards. Flight canceled? We will automatically confirm you on the next United or Continental flight with available seats. Kiosks located in the concourse will assist you with information and a boarding pass—they will also help you stand by for an earlier United or Continental flight if one is scheduled. If you want to travel standby and aren’t boarded, we will transfer your name to the next United or Continental flight to your destination until you are onboard.
you with a hotel and meal voucher. For uncontrollable events—such as weather—we may be able to help you locate a local hotel at a discounted rate; however, United and Continental do not cover hotel or meal expenses in this event. If we cannot retrieve your checked bag, overnight kits containing toiletries are available. Please see an agent. What if the reason for my travel no longer exists? If as a result of the delay or cancellation you decide not to travel, call United reservations (1-800-UNITED-1) or Continental reservations (1-800-523-FARE) to get information on your options.
What about my bag? Baggage is boarded on the next flight if space is available. This means your bags may arrive before you. United or Continental will secure the bag until you claim it. See a baggage claim representative.
Help us help you keep informed. Sign up for Trip Alert, our messaging service. If your flight is canceled or delayed, Trip Alert will inform you. Enroll at united.com or continental.com. At home? Go to united.com or continental.com for information or to check in and print your boarding pass.
What if I have to stay overnight? If a flight is canceled to address a mechanical issue or a similar issue within our control, we will provide
Your safety and satisfaction are important. We appreciate your business and apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.
Staying Fit INFLIGHT FLEXIBILITY
150
Knee Flexion: Lift knee toward chest, decreasing the amount of joint space at the back of the knee. Repeat with other leg.
Dorsiflexion: With heel on floor, point toes upward, decreasing the angle between the foot and the front of the leg. Repeat with other foot.
Eversion: With foot on floor, gently roll the sole of the foot inward. Repeat with other foot.
Knee Extension: Straighten knee, increasing the amount of joint space at the back of the knee to its full range. Repeat with other leg.
Plantar Flexion: Lift heel and keep toes pointed toward the floor, increasing the angle between the top of the foot and the front of the leg. Repeat with other foot.
Inversion: With foot on floor, gently roll the sole of the foot outward. Repeat with other foot.
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CUSTOMER CARE We are committed to providing quality service, and we want to hear about your travel experience with us. In addition, if you think a certain employee or an action taken on your behalf deserves special recognition, please let us know. Please give us your feedback at ualsurvey.com.
Rechargeable batteries have a risk of overload or fire when not stored properly. Rechargeable batteries should be stored in their electronic devices or properly protected to avoid contact with metal or other batteries during flight.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES STAGE OF FLIGHT
DEVICES PERMITTED
DEPARTURE: at gate, only when cabin door is open ARRIVAL: taxiing to gate area
Mobile phones and two-way pagers
Advanced mobile phones, PDAs and other personal electronic devices with wireless capabilities may be used in flight when switched to “airplane” mode. A visible airplanedisabled mode should be identifiable and shown to a crew member upon request. Flight attendants will notify mobile phone and two-way pager users when it is safe to begin placing or receiving phone calls or pages after landing. One-way pagers may be used to receive messages at any time.
PDAs and other electronic devices
MUST BE TURNED OFF: during taxi, takeoff and landing
IN FLIGHT: above 10,000 feet in altitude
Noise-canceling headphones
GPS devices
ON GROUND: when main cabin door is open
Calculators
Cameras
Shavers
Personal computers*
Entertainment players and recorders (audio and/or video, such as iPods; e-readers; tape/ CD/MiniDisc/MP3/ DVD players; and camcorders)*
Aircraft power ports for laptops
Electronic games*
* must be used with sound off or with headsets at all times
MUST BE TURNED OFF: during taxi, takeoff and landing
NEVER PERMITTED TVs
Radio receivers and/or transmitters (including AM/FM/SW, CB and scanners)
Remote-control toys and personal air purifiers
PLEASE NOTE Customers may always use any medically prescribed physiological instrument, such as a hearing aid or a pacemaker. Customers wearing hearing assistance devices may request a special headset from a flight attendant. Passengers are allowed to use non-noise-canceling headphones during taxi, takeoff and landing on aircraft that are equipped with DIRECTV® and Audio Video On Demand (AVOD). The in-seat power system may be used only above 10,000 feet, when other approved personal electronic devices are permitted. Use of the system is at your own risk. Do not remove batteries. We are not responsible for loss of data or damage to computer hardware or software.
ONBOARD PHOTO AND VIDEO The use of still and video cameras, film or digital, including any cellular or other devices that have this capability, is permitted only for recording of personal events. Photography or audio or video recording of other customers without their express prior consent is strictly prohibited. Also, unauthorized photography or audio or video recording of airline personnel, aircraft equipment or procedures is always prohibited. Any photography (video or still) or voice or audio recording or transmission while on any United Airlines aircraft is strictly prohibited, except to the extent specifically permitted by United Airlines.
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GLOBAL REACH. WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION. EXCELLENT TRAVEL SERVICES. United and Star Alliance member airlines provide seamless air travel around the world. Star Alliance is the world’s largest global airline alliance, with more than 21,000 daily flights departing to more than 1,100 destinations. United customers have access to a comprehensive global network, frequent-flyer travel benefits and worldwide lounge access on all Star Alliance member airlines.
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Chef’s corner WE LCOM E ABOAR D Sit back, relax and enjoy your flight. We are pleased to introduce our chefs who create tasty selections with regional and global influences. Their menus are designed exclusively for customers seated in our premium cabins. To complement your meal, be sure to sample one of our specially selected wines.
Corporate Chef Gerry Gulli is responsible for United’s menu design and development. In this role, he combines his love of food with his interest in aviation. He has been widely recognized for his creativity in designing menus with broad international and regional appeal. In his free time, Chef Gerry enjoys trying new recipes with family and friends. We invite you to dive into cioppino by trying one of his favorite recipes.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY-STYLE CIOPPINO ¼ cup olive oil 2-4 cloves garlic, minced ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes, optional 1 large yellow onion, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped 1 tablespoon fresh oregano, chopped ½ cup dry white wine 6 cups tomato sauce or diced canned tomatoes 2 cups clam or fish stock 1 pound cod or halibut, cut into 1 inch cubes 1 pound clams (Manila or Littleneck) 1 pound mussels, cleaned and debearded 1 pound prawns (16-20 count), peeled and deveined 1 pound jumbo lump crab meat, cooked 12 ounces bay scallops Sea salt and pepper to taste Heat the oil in a large pot over medium high. Sauté garlic and pepper flakes (if desired) for 1 minute. Add the onions and sweat until translucent. Turn heat to high and deglaze with the wine. Cook for 2-3 minutes until wine is reduced by half. Reduce the heat and add the tomato sauce, fish stock, basil and oregano. Bring to a boil, and then reduce to a gentle simmer. Add all fish and shellfish except the crab meat. Bring to a boil, and then simmer for 5-7 minutes or until the clam and mussel shells open. Add the crab meat. Season with salt and pepper. If desired, add additional tomato sauce or stock to thin the cioppino. Ladle into large warmed bowls. Garnish with fresh basil leaves. Serve with toasted French or Sourdough bread to soak up the rich and flavorful broth. For a twist, serve in bread bowls. Recipe yields 8 servings.
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PRINGLES® ORIGINAL POTATO CRISPS $2.99 2.6 ounce can TWIZZLERS® STRAWBERRY TWISTS $2.99 4 ounce box M&M’S® PRETZEL CHOCOLATE CANDIES $2.99 2.8 ounce box TWO-BITE® CINNAMON ROLLS $2.99 3 mini rolls BLUE DIAMOND® ROASTED SALTED ALMONDS $4.99 6 ounce can
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TWO-BITE® CINNAMON ROLLS $2.99 3 mini rolls YOGURT PARFAIT $5.49 Low-fat vanilla yogurt with mixed berries and granola. CHEESE & FRUIT PLATE $7.49 Brie, Gouda, Muenster and cheddar cheeses, dried fruit and pecan halves. *HAM & CHEDDAR RUSTIC CIABATTA SANDWICH $5.79 Shaved ham and cheddar cheese on a rustic ciabatta square served with Dijon mustard-mayo sauce (served cold). AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON MOST NORTH AMERICA AND LATIN AMERICA FLIGHTS. MOST FLIGHTS ACCEPT CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS ONLY.
*HOT BREAKFAST SANDWICH $5.99 Jimmy Dean® sausage, egg and cheese sandwich, accompanied by fresh fruit and condiments. * These breakfast items are available on select flights only.
lunch & dinner ON MOST AFTERNOON AND EVENING FLIGHTS OVER 3.5 HOURS
ASIAN NOODLE SALAD $5.49 A chilled noodle salad topped with stir-fried vegetables, sweet chile chicken breast and green onions. GRILLED CHICKEN SPINACH SALAD $9.49 Chicken, cherry tomatoes and carrots over spinach and romaine lettuce, topped with crispy onions and served with balsamic vinaigrette. CHEESE & FRUIT PLATE $7.49 Brie, Gouda, Muenster and cheddar cheeses, dried fruit and pecan halves. THAI CHICKEN WRAP $8.59 Chicken breast, romaine lettuce, carrots, and red and yellow bell peppers wrapped in a tortilla with Thai aïoli sauce. *TURKEY SANDWICH $7.99 Smoked turkey with provolone cheese and lettuce on a pretzel roll with stone-ground mustard-mayo sauce. *ANGUS CHEESEBURGER $7.99 Premium Angus beef with melted cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles and onion, served with traditional condiments. * These lunch/dinner items are available on select flights only.
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beverages N O N - A LC O H O L I C Complimentary and available on most flights. Coca-Cola,® Coke Zero,® Diet Coke® Sprite,® Sprite Zero® Minute Maid®: Cranberry Apple Juice Cocktail, Orange Juice Mott’s®: Apple Juice, Tomato Juice
Mr. & Mrs. T’s® Bloody Mary Mix Seagram’s®: Ginger Ale, Seltzer Water, Tonic Water Bottled Water Freshbrew™ Journeys Coffee Decaffeinated Coffee Hot Tea
AVAI L A B L E O N S EL EC T RO U T E S Cappuccino, Espresso and Specialty Regional Teas
A LC O H O L I C Alcoholic beverages are available on most flights. Complimentary in premium cabins. Priced as shown in economy cabin.
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MOS T N O RT H A M ER IC A FL IG H TS E XCEP T HAWAII Salvador’s® Margarita $7 M OS T U. S . M AI N L A N D F L I G H T S TO/ F ROM H AWAI I Trader Vic’s® Mai Tai $9
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Special wine selections are available for premium cabin customers. Please ask your flight attendant about today’s selections.
S P I R I T S $7 ABSOLUT® Vodka Bacardi® Superior Light Rum Bombay Sapphire® Dry Gin Canadian Club® Whisky
Dewar’s® “White Label®” Blended Scotch Whisky Jack Daniel’s® Tennessee Whiskey Jim Beam Black® Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
L I Q U E U R S & C O G N AC $7
Bailey’s® Irish Cream
Courvoisier® VSOP Fine Champagne Cognac
M OS T I N T E R N AT I O N A L F L I G H T S The Glenlivit® Single Malt Crown Royal® Canadian Whisky Scotch Whisky DISARONNO® Amaretto* Grand Marnier® Kahlua®*
Jelly Belly® Assorted Flavors
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Mild Salsa
Granola Bar
Fruit & Nut Mix
Dark Chocolate Covered Pretzel
* Also domestic premium cabins Alcohol is complimentary in economy class on United-operated flights within Asia and trans-Pacific international flights. Save $2 on alcoholic beverages when you use your Continental Airlines Chase MasterCard® on Continental-operated flights. Alcohol may be served to customers over 21 only. Customers are limited to one alcoholic beverage at a time during service. We are proud to recycle aluminum cans, newspapers, and plastic bottles on eligible flights.
Menu and beverage options may vary by flight. We apologize if your preferred choice is not available.
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