Innkeepers in Vienna's legendary wine district fear their art is dying
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Beethoven drank here. So did Brahms, Freud, and more recently Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren.
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It's an elegant but somber memorial to Austria's deadliest peacetime disaster: a stone building with 155 glass columns, one for each of the skiers and snowboarders killed when fire engulfed a crowded alpine ...
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The normally muted elegance of one of Paris's chic hotels, the Concorde Lafayette, has been shattered by noisy protests from workers complaining about management practices imposed by the property's new US owners.
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The New York hotel that inspired  writers and artists from Mark Twain to Sid Vicious has removed  the longtime manager who nurtured their sanctuary, raising  concern about the future of an institution.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood &#151; too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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PARIS  - Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzled over the mysterious destruction of large swaths of two vineyards in Alsace, a region along the German border known for full-bodied white wines.
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Efforts to shore up the European wine industry by tearing out vineyards have set the stage for a debate as Europeans contemplate the cost of their love affair with the grape.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood: too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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Paris Hilton's impending visit to Vienna is the talk of the town &#151; for all the wrong reasons.
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For weeks people have been coming into the Heritage Book Shop in Los Angeles in tears, saddened by the seemingly sudden decision of Louis and Benjamin Weinstein to close their antiquarian book business.
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The guide ushering tourists into the  former monks' dining hall that houses Leonardo da Vinci's faded  masterpiece "The Last Supper" tried in vain to interest her  audience in art history, technique and aesthetics.
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"You can't cut back a genuine palm"  " It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" - " a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth - " faces the ax. via The Toronto Star
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The practice causes a snit in the world's culinary capital, with critics seeing it as the demise of French culture and others calling it the democratization of fine dining.
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Custodians of Michelangelo's David are thinking of blasting air at dusty, sweaty tourists to stop them sullying the Renaissance sex symbol.
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For decades, European travelers have had to choose hotels based on conflicting ratings.
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Standing on the indoor tennis courts of the Park Hotel Waldhaus in Flims, it's hard to imagine you're looking at a future seat of the Swiss parliament.
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They are two of the most recognized  works of art in the world, and they have lost out to an  autographed toilet.