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The Shawshank Renovation

From descriptions that appear on the websites of former jails that have been converted to hotels. liberty hotel, boston In 1973, prisoners incarcerated in the Charles Street Jail revolted because…

Chamber of Secrets

by Sophie Calle,

During her time working as a chambermaid at a Venetian hotel in 1981, Calle took photographs of the rooms she was assigned to clean. The Hotel, which includes her observations…

Turndown Service

From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…

Church and State

by Will Ford,

Buddhism meets the Chinese economy

Vulgar Materialism

Translated by Anthony Lydgate,

From an online petition submitted in April to Piero Fassino, the mayor of Turin, requesting that he persuade the Spanish multinational NH Hotels not to name its new four-star location…