If the windows separating the terminal from the tarmac suddenly shattered, and if the weakness I felt after the previous night's debauchery suddenly dissipated, I could've hit the plane with a spitball. It was that close. The time: 9:15 p.m. Scheduled take-off time out of Sao Paulo: 9:45 p.m. In 30 minutes the plane was [...]
Three years ago, I published “The Wow Factor,” an article about the grand opening of the nightclub and restaurant, Tao, inside Las Vegas’ Venetian hotel-casino. The story, like most of the clubland dispatches I filed at the time for CityLife, Vegas’ alternative weekly paper, was unremarkable—another metaphor-laden, borderline-turgid essay describing another new venue—save for the [...]