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Thread counts uncovered: What’s really between your sheets?

This video had us laughing our butts off when we watched it on Consumerist.com on Friday. Funny guy Aziz Ansari, appearing on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien last week, made a public service announcement after being duped by a false thread count (on sheets he expected to be hotel quality). As Consumerist reports, and…

Hotel design, American style

We happened to notice “U.S.A. All the Way,” an interesting essay about American design that appeared a couple weeks ago in a New York Times’s T Magazine style supplement. The author, Walter Kirn, gives a generous nod to the Portland, Ore., based Ace hotel minichain, praising its practice of “renovating buildings in cities like Seattle,…