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Launched in October 2010, Instagram (if you’ve been living under a rock) is the extremely successful photo-sharing app acquired by Facebook in 2012. The social networking service lets you take photos and short videos, and apply filters or alter the brightness, contrast, and saturation of them, before posting them under your handle for all of…
New York Fashion Week may have come have to a close, but don’t fret — London Fashion Week has just arrived. And with hot U.K. labels like Stella McCartney, Temperley London, and Burberry Prorsum, we know that the catwalk will be just as innovative across the pond as it was here in New York. Plus,…
Thanks to their luxe guest rooms, chic interiors, and stunning gardens, hotels are often chosen as the set locations for films, television shows, and music videos. Whether they appear on networks like MTV or go viral on YouTube, it ends up providing some great exposure for the hotel…that is, if viewers know which hotel it…
We know that you only have to wait a few more hours till tonight’s episode of The Bachelor, but if you’re anything like us, you’re dying to know what’s going to go down. And if Week Five is even remotely as salacious as the previous four, it’s going to get pretty steamy — especially since…
Courtesy of Universal When “Fifty Shades of Grey” debuted as a trilogy several years ago, hotels across the country were quick to offer guests naughty packages inspired by the story — which features plenty of sexy (and sometimes scary?) hotel rendezvous. Well, now that the film is set to be released in just a couple…
The reaction of Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte upon checking into their suite in “Sex and the City 2” Fans of “Sex and the City 2” will almost certainly remember the opulent, over-the-top hotel the girls stayed at in Abu Dhabi. Turns out, the hotel is actually in Marrakech, Morocco, and Oyster recently visited to…
Any writer worth his weight in hardbacks knows that one of the most essential aspects of a story is setting; it sets the scene, provides conflict, controls character interaction, and creates a mood. It only makes sense, then, that authors return again and again to hotels in particular to fill the backdrop of their stories.…
The third Hunger Games movie (Mockingjay: Part 1) is coming to theaters on November 21st — which means the world is going Katniss crazy once more. (Although, did we ever really stop?) Katniss is one of the most badass female characters of all time, after all, so it’s not surprising people just can’t get enough.…
Photo by Liz Allocca, Oyster.com It could be any typical Saturday in Brooklyn. My husband and I are at a quirky collectibles shop browsing the goods, which include a jar of clown heads, Pez containers, a ventriloquist’s dummy, and old political pins of Republicans who lost their elections. A record machine plays 50s doo-wop. A…
Photo by Ed Schipul Superstition is a touchy subject. Even the most rational traveler might take a pause before booking a flight on Friday the 13th — although he or she may never actually admit it to friends and family. While researching the most haunted hotels in the world, we ran into a number of…