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Friday, May 7, 2010

Vintage Prom at The Pearl

It ain't a secret, I've said it over and over. The Pearl is my all time favorite place to dine! Get more info about the latest event (they have bad ass events ALL the time), The Vintage Prom, on The Pearl Website!!

Beach to Brewery Beer + Music Fest

Beach to Brewery Beer + Music Fest is set for Saturday May 8, 2010 from 2:00p-7:00p at our Main Brewery in Pacific Beach. This year marks the 7th year of supporting the local San Diego Surfrider Chapter.

Admission includes a souvenir taster glass and 5 samples. Tickets are $25/pre-sale and $30/at the door. All proceeds go directly to the Surfrider Foundation, San Diego Chapter.

The Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego

The Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego is a celebration of the diversity of San Diego with a focus on the cultures of the Asian and Pacific Islander Community!

The Asian Cultural Festival of San Diego will take place on Saturday, May 8th, 2010, from 11am to 6pm, at the NTC Park at Liberty Station, at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Cushing Road, 92106.

During this fun, free, family friendly, festive event, there will be martial arts, cultural dances and exhibitions, cooking demos, entertainment, games, and of course, food! The Asian Cultural Festival is a smoking-free environment.

Gator By The Bay Fest

Gator By The Bay, San Diego's 9th Annual Zydeco, Blues & Crawfish festival! A family event that is sure to delight your ears, tickle your tastebuds and move your soul!

Now 3 Days!
Mother's Day Weekend, May 7, 8 & 9 2010

All New! Friday 7th - 4:00 PM - 10:30 PM (gates open 3:30 PM)
Saturday 8th - 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM (gates open 10:00 AM)
Sunday 9th - 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM (gates open 10:00 AM)

Featuring:

* Top Zydeco, Blues & Cajun Bands
* Delicious Cajun & Creole Food

* Quality Festival Marketplace
* Southern Cooking Demos

* Fun Dance Lessons
* Kid Friendly Activities
* The Rad Hatter

* New Friday 'Gator By Night'
Zydeco & Blues in a Supper Club atmosphere
Click here for more Info

* Saturday Night Dance
with Brian Jack & the Zydeco Gamblers
9 PM at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina.
(Tickets sold separately)

* 8,000 Pounds of Live Crawfish
Straight From Louisiana!

Thursday, May 6, 2010

I want to Salsa Dance

Maybe I never get THIS good but doesn't this make you just want to get out on the dance floor and GO!? Big siiiiigh....

Need New Mexican Food?

Probably not, once you have your favorite it's hard to go elsewhere. BUT if your place is sucking or you tasted the food there when you WEREN'T plastered and discovered the Styrofoam container tasted better then check out Porkyland! It used to be over in Barrio Logan but has now moved over to Hillcrest, right by Kiki Sushi and Uncle Biff's Cookies on 6th and University. I always say if I see a restaurant being frequented by the people that match the nationality of the cuisine it's probably a good sign, and that's Porkyland for you. It was a Barrio Logan favorite and it was DELICIOUS!

Ultra Boring Gay Reveal

Sorry I got you guys all riled up for a Gay Reveal. I thought it'd be like Anderson Cooper or something. It's actually some country music singer I've never heard of. Awesome. Didn't even make CNN News man...

From People Magazine:

Country singer Chely Wright (39) has revealed her big secret to the public on May 3, 2010. Chely Wright is a lesbian. She has apparently shunned this secret to the public due to the music field she has chosen to sing Chely Wright told People magazine, "she is gay and that nothing in her life has been more magical than the moment she decided to reveal her sexuality," according to an article at huffingtonpost.com. Apparently she has had to hide her sexuality in her music.

Chely Wright has made six albums that were released to the public. The most popular album is "Shut Up and Drive."

According to an article from USA TODAY, there has never been a country music star who has ever actually said that they were gay and Chely Wright is definitely a first. She told People magazine that she had not planned on being the first but eventually decided to come out.

A week before Chely decided to come out and tell everyone she was gay People magazine announced that a star was going to reveal their sexual orientation (being gay) in the next issue, and true to their word, Chely decided to tell America her big secret.

Chely told People that she felt that earlier in her life she thought that she could pray and change the way that she felt but could not and decided to finally tell everyone after trying to hide it after so many years. Chely told Access Hollywood that she believed she was "living a lie" and that when she realized that Brad Paisley as showing a marriage-type interest in her she felt like she could not hid her secret any longer and immediately stopped seeing him. Apparently, this is not the only man she had seen either and this announcement really raised some eyebrows. According to an article from the Examiner, it is not uncommon for the record label to cover up the fact that one of their singer's are gay in order to prevent controversies and they may even try to arrange dates in order for the celebrity to remain "normal" in America's eyes.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Breaking News: Some Famous Person Is Going To Come Out Today

People Magazine allegedly has the exclusive and the celeb is booked on several major talk shows that week including "The View."

PR powerhouse Howard Bragman, who has successfully -- some might add brilliantly -- orchestrated several celeb outings in the past decade talked about his next coming out project at the GLAAD Media Awards red carpet Sunday (Apr. 17).

Who do think it will be!?!?! I wonder if they were pissed Ricky Martin stole some of their coming out thunder....ok Ricky didn't steal any thunder, I think we all got on with our lives about 7 seconds after that news....but what if this is a biggy!
From Nerve Blog

Cinco de Drinko y Drunko de Mayo

Yes, you smug little assholes, we KNOW that Cinco de Mayo isn't Mexican Independence Day and no, we really DON'T care what it is. For Americans, especially those in Southern California, it's an excuse to get fucking PLASTERED on a week day and excuse any bad decisions made on that day, let it be! The tequila is flowing, the Tecate cheaper than ever and the delicious Mexican food abundant. Check out live Cumbia music, fiestas, drink and dinner specials and more all over town today!!!

VIVA CINCO DE MAYO!!
Click Here for a bevy of Cinco De Mayo Haps from SignonSanDiego

Ok, Ok I'll tell you what May 5th really is.....(Or Wikipedia will....)

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a voluntarily observed holiday that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.^[2]^[3] It is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla and in the United States.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.^[8] Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day,^[9] the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.^[10]

Texan Claims Oil Spill an "an act of God"

Welp, then God must be a total dickhead. The leak took 11 lives and threatens the Gulf coast’s vast fishing industry.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a theory about what caused the recent oil spill that's still spreading throughout the Gulf of Mexico: It was "an act of God." While speaking at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Perry argued against further regulation of the oil industry and said that "from time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."

Read More on Politico

Word on the street is that God also caused the recent smattering of earthquakes. What an asshole!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Photocopy Roll and Miso Xerox

The other day I woke up with a hangover and had to make some copies. Don't you hate when that happens?? ha. Anyway I vaguely remembered a Kinko's on 6th and University near my house in Hillcrest and headed over, walked in and instantly smelled shrimp tempura. I was in a fucking sushi joint. It was called Kiki Sushi, written in the same damn font as the Old School Kinko's logo. I wonder how many other people have made that mistake?! I was too hungover to eat sushi and I've never gone back, incidentally the FedEx Kinko's was one block down University Avenue. Weird.

Weird Lyrics: Tim McGraw's "I Need You"

I heard this song the other day, Ok I admit, I like some country music, only when it's sung by women though. Had to sound off on these lyrics, my comments are in red. Still confused.

I wanna drink that shot of whiskey
I wanna smoke that cigarette
I wanna smell that sweet addiction on my breath
(Ever smelled cigs on breath? It sure ain't sweet...)
I wanna ride cross West Virginia on the backseat of a Cadillac
(Pray tell, who is driving? And WHY West Virginia??)
You know some cowboys like me go out like that so I need you
(Pretty sure cowboys don't get driven around like fuckin' Ms. Daisy....)

[Chorus]
Like a needle needs a vein
(DOES a needle need a vein? Is that a thing? What kind of junkie is writing this shit?!)
Like Uncle Joe in Oklahoma needs a rain
(Why does Uncle Joe need rain so much? I'm assuming he has crops but he also might have an upcoming white water rafting trip...)
I need you like a lighthouse on the coast
(This is a country song. What the HELL do you know about coasts!?)
Like the father and the son needs the holy ghost
(Pretty sure in Sunday school they said the Father, Son, AND the ghost that Christians pray to is all one person. It'd be insanity to miss YOURSELF right? I'm sure some Pastor could explain this one right?? Also, isn't it weird how Christians believe in and pray to a ghost?? Nuts.)
I need you

I wanna get lost in some corner booth
Cantina Mexico
(If you're LOST in a booth it's best you put down the tequila and start making some better decisions)
I wanna dance to the static of an a.m. radio
(You gotta have really good drugs to dance to static man....)
I wanna wrap the moon around us and lay beside you skin on skin
Make love 'til the sun comes up and the sun goes down again cause i need you
(You gotta have really good drug to alter the universe for your sexual benefit man)

[Chorus]
Like a needle needs a vein
Like Uncle Joe in Oklahoma needs a rain
I need you
Like a lighthouse on the coast
Like the father and the son needs the holy ghost
I need you

I wanna drink that shot of whiskey
I wanna smoke that cigarette
You know some cowboys like me go out like that I need you

Somebody get Palin a History Book

The Plum Line
Greg Sargent's blog

Palin: Founding Fathers Wouldn’t Agree With Separation Of Church And State

A bunch of people have already had some fun with Sarah Palin’s claim, at a religious gathering in Kentucky, that religion shouldn’t be “separated” from the state.

Word of Palin’s assertion came in an article in the Louisville Courier-Journal about an evangelical women’s conference featuring Palin. It quotes Palin as saying: “God shouldn’t be separated from the state.”

But I’ve got a full transcript of Palin’s remarks, and it’s worse than you might have thought: She cited the Founding Fathers as proof that God shouldn’t be separated from the state. Peter Smith, the Courier-Journal reporter who broke the story, sends over the full context of her remarks:

I beg you, Women of Joy, to bring light and be involved, loving America and praying for her. Really, it is our solemn duty. Praying for true spiritual awakening to overcome deterioration. That is where God wants us to be. Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our Founding Fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life.

This is substandard history. In reality, the separation of church and state, thanks in part to the efforts of those very same Founding Fathers, is enshrined in the Bill of Rights:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

And the phrase “separation of church and state” is generally associated with a letter written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson in which he interpreted the above clause along those lines.

There was a time when this sort of thing would provoke widespread media mockery and perhaps even be seen as a potential disqualifier for the presidency.

This blog’s homepage is here.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Lovin' Passive Aggressive Notes.com!

If you've ever lived with a roommate or worked with co-workers you've probably seen a passive aggressive note. Dirty microwaves, hair in the tub, forgetting to lock the door, all these things are sources of not so subtle bitchy notes that people leave, and they can be hilarious! I found a whole website of them and also submitted a passive aggressive roommate note that one of my best friends roommates left (see the top note, lower note is from the website)!

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE NOTES.COM

Worst Titties I Ever Did See!!

Gabrielle Reece, Kelly Bensimon, Laird Hamilton and Reece Hamilton attend the 23rd Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner to Cure Paralysis at the Waldorf Astoria on September 22, 2008 in New York City.

Ok Kelly Bensimon is a Real Housewife of NYC, can't she afford to remedy her freaky ass rack?

Greg Laswell's New Album

I love local musician Greg Laswell, he went to my alma mater so I've known his music intimately and seen him through vast touring schedules, album releases, a move to LA and even a romance with Mandy Moore. His latest album is out on May 4th and you've gotta check it out. Can somebody please tell me why he isn't ultra famous yet? His voice is gorgeous, his lyrics unique and for a girl like me who generally loathes guy-n-guitar music Greg takes the genre to a whoooooole 'nother level.

GREG LASWELL WEBSITE

Greg Laswell "Take Everything" from Vanguard Records on Vimeo.

Friday, April 30, 2010

CityBeat Festival of Beers

Saturday May 1, 2010
12pm-6pm
The Lafayette Hotel 2223 El Cajon Blvd

The CityBeat Festival of Beers is back in San Diego on Saturday, May 1st from 12noon to 6pm at a brand new location – right in front of the Lafayette Hotel on El Cajon Blvd. in North Park – featuring live music and all of San Diego’s best craft brewing companies.

Participating craft breweries include Airdale Brewing Company, Allagash Confluence Ale, Angel City Brewing, Ballast Point Brewing Company, Black Market Brewing Company, Bayhawk Ales, Bosteel Breweries, Cold Spring Moonlight Ale and Honey Almond Weiss, Coronado Brewing Company, Deschutes Brewery, Firestone Walker Fine Ales, Gordon Biersch, Green Flash Brewing Company, John Hentry Three Lick Spiker Ale, Karl Strauss, La Jolla Brew House, Laguinitas Brewing Company, Lightning, Lucifer, Marin Brewing Company, Maui Brewing Company, Mendocino Brewing Company, Cerveza Mexicali Beer, Mission Brewery, Big Sky Moose Drool, Nectar Ales, New English Brewing Company, North Coast Brewing Company, Oggi’s Pizza and Brewing Company, Palm Breweries, Pizza Port, Pyramid, Rock Bottom, Samuel Adams, San Diego Brewing Company, Sea Dog Brewing Company, Shipyard Brewing Company, Tailgate Beer, and Trumer Pils. And, participating craft beer taverns include: Blind Lady Ale House, Live Wire and Hamilton’s. Is that enough beer for you? Ya, that’s what we thought.

While you sip down San Diego’s finest craft beers, CityBeat will host live music on the Bar Pink stage. Festival of Beers bands include Apes of Wrath, The Softlightes, The Styletones, Geezer and Red Tiger.

Proceeds from the 3rd Annual CityBeat Festival of Beers benefits the San Diego Music Foundation. Tickets start at $30 for general admission and are available online at citybeatbeerfest.com.

My Crazy Ass Blind Date

I got a call a few weeks ago from a man I didn't know. Turns out one of my clients gave him my phone number and my business card with my picture on it and told him that he HAD to call me because I was a "towering beauty." Wow. I don't know which angle to go with there, wrong on so many levels, giving out my number without asking? Comparing me to an Amazon temptress? Forcing someone to ask someone else on a blind date? Anyway I was so blindsided when he called that I ended up agreeing to brunch at The Pearl after my vacation to Seattle (with a different guy I'm dating). When I was returning from my trip, my blind date to be left this message below. WOW again.I thought maybe I shouldn't go but I LOVE The Pearl, LOVE brunch and mimosas and LOVE free meals. oh I also LOVE a good story so I went. He was a hot tall silver fox who dressed and talked like a gay man, pretty sure he was but we had fun. No surprise at all though, after our date he e-mailed me a picture. Him in a clown wig playing frisbee....god I love dating, when you're a woman who isn't saddled with the pressure of finding a mate and a baby daddy you can enjoy the free meal and great story after!
My Blind Dates Message He Left Before our Date:

Hey Heather, Welcome Back!
Before I say another word, there's really a question I need to ask you, and if your answer is No then all bets are off, and that is:
Are you still as tall and black as when you left and we spoke last week?
'Cause if your not, coffees off, dinners off, idle conversations off.
But if you are it'd be my pleasure to take you out and do something.
This is ****, I hope your mornings going well, I hope you had a nice trip.
And if you've Googled me and seen all my nefarious criminal relatives just know that I'm the black sheep of the family, the only upstanding honest one.
So give me a call, at ***-***-****
Talk to you soon

Missing the time when we took sun for granted SD?

THE WORLD IS ENDING!!! It rained in April in San DIEGO!! I was that bitch who complained when it was sunny for 6 months straight last year. When not a rain drop fell, when no cloud passed above, when no wind rustled the palms. It's FREAKY to not have weather for that long. So now San Diego is getting its revenge, acting like it's Seattle and shit. I can't take it, I want SUN. This weekend, which will bring us into MAY is going to be sunny finally but only in the mid 60's!?!?! Just creepy but anyway, Im gonna spend it outside. Here's some outdoors stuff to do where you can will the sun to stay out for awhile before were cast into June Gloom!

-Carlsbad Flower Fields
-Anza Borrega Dessert
-SD Hiking Trails
-Torrey Pines State Beach
-Mission Trails Regional Park
-Lake Poway and Mt. Woodsen
-Cabrillo National Monument and Sunset Cliffs
-Balboa Park Gardens
-SD Botanic Gardens
-Cuyamaca Rancho State Park
-Florida Canyon
-Cleveland National Forest
-William Heise County Park

Thursday, April 29, 2010

I'm sorry but....

Does FUSE Tv Interviewer Toure not look like the black version of SNL comic Andy Samberg?? Come on...

Buy Local, Hit Up Your Nearest Farmer's Market

Buying local is an easy way to get cheap and fresh veggies. Not only does it fatten your wallet and slim your waist but it also cuts down on the horrendous fuel prices of shipping all that crap in and packaging it at a store. You can support local farmers and the local economy and have fun doing it. Bring your own bags to kick up an even Greener edge. Some markets sport live music and they are all good for people watching and maybe even scoring a date (if it's not to early and no banana/cock jokes bros). And Farmer's Markets don't just have produce. You can find unique crafts, fresh flowers, fresh fish and delicious desserts and foods like hummus, crepes, kettle corn, cookies, tamales, jams, salsas and much much more!

Get your specific Farmer's Market INFO HERE!!

MONDAYS
Escondido - Welk Village

TUESDAYS
Alpine
Coronado
Escondido
Mira Mesa
Otay Ranch
Rancho Bernardo
UCSD/La Jolla

WEDNESDAYS
Carlsbad
Ocean Beach
San Marcos
Santee
Tu Mercado (USD)

THURSDAYS
Chula Vista
Horton Square
Lakeside
North Park
Oceanside CFM
Oceanside Sunset
Rancho Santa Fe
Valley Center

FRIDAYS
Borrego Springs
Fallbrook
Imperial Beach
La Mesa
Mission Valley
Rancho Bernardo

SATURDAYS
Barrio Marketplace
Carlsbad
City Heights
Del Mar
East Village
Jamul
Little Italy
Pacific Beach
Poway
Ramona
Scripps Ranch
Vista

SUNDAYS
Bonsall
Fallbrook
Gaslamp District
Hillcrest
Julian
La Jolla
Leucadia/Encinitas
Point Loma
Rancho Santa Fe
Solana Beach

It's Ok to NOT want children

Hey the CNN house psychologist said it! He also said that it's widely known in research circles that a huge amount of research shows that the happiest adults and couples are ones that have chosen to NOT have children. Hmmm, I wonder why...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

It's 31 cent scoop night at Baskin Robbins !

WEDNESDAY APRIL 28th from 5pm to 10pm

Join us for 31 Cent Scoop Night at Baskin-Robbins® and help us honor America's firefighters. The Baskin-Robbins Community
Foundation is donating $100,000 to the National Fallen
Firefighters Foundation™ (NFFF).

Participating stores will reduce prices of ice cream
scoops to 31 cents*. At some locations, you may also have
an opportunity to make a donation to your local fire charities.

Something you never ever see

An Asian Male Homeless Dude. Think about it.....

Notre Dames First Black Valedictorian You Never Heard About

Ok COME ON NEWS! I seriously read a news story about Lindsay Lohans Dad trying to get HER some help the other day. Also read a story about some 17 year old schmuck selling a fake kid on Craigslist. There are SLOW ASS news days ok? So whhhhhy the hell did NO ONE hear about the first black valedictorian in like 61 years (which is EVER)??? Lame, but congrats Katie Washington. As a 2.9 average GPAer I can't fathom the time and homework load it took to achieve that, good lord, but carry on and discover great things!

(WBBM) -- History is being made at the University of Notre Dame this spring

In the 161 years the University of Notre Dame has been awarding degrees, never had there been an African-American as valedictorian. Until this year.

She’s Katie Washington of Gary, Indiana. She carries a 4.0 GPA majoring in biology and minoring in Catholic social teaching.

According to the Northwest Indiana Times, Washington plans to continue her studies at Johns Hopkins University and follow in her father’s footsteps into medicine.

Washington says she’s humbled by the honor of being named valedictorian.

More information from Notre Dame University:
Katie Washington, a biological sciences major from Gary, Ind., has been named valedictorian of the 2010 University of Notre Dame graduating class and will present the valedictory address during Commencement exercises May 16 (Sunday) in Notre Dame stadium.

Washington, who earned a 4.0 grade point average, has a minor in Catholic Social Teaching. She has conducted research on lung cancer at the Cold Spring Harbor labs and performed genetic studies in the University’s Eck Institute for Global Health on the mosquito that carries dengue and yellow fever. She is the co-author of a research paper with David Severson, professor of biological sciences.

Washington directs the Voices of Faith Gospel Choir at Notre Dame, is a mentor/tutor for the Sister-to-Sister program at South Bend’s Washington High School and serves as the student coordinator of the Center for Social Concerns’ “Lives in the Balance: Youth Violence and Society Seminar.”

Upon graduation, Washington plans to pursue a joint M.D./Ph.D program at Johns Hopkins University.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

MInute to Win It Rules!!

I had dinner over at a friends and she and her husband rushed us through dinner in order to catch this bad ass game show, Minute to Win It. Basically contenstants have one minute to complete these super hard but seemingly easy tasks, if they finish it they go to the next level, each level having a higher and higher cash amount they could win ala "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." You can even practice the games at home. My friend already has plans to have a 'Minute to Win It" drinking party!

Timothy

When's the last time you met a full on Timothy, not a Tim, or even a Timmy, but a Timothy. After awhile it stops sounding like a real name.

No New LOST Episode Tonite:(

Bummer! It's the LAST season guys, jesus christ, there are only four more episodes left! You think you could eeek one more storyline out, tie up even more loose ends ya know? Tonight they will air "Ab Aeterno" in its place, arguably the fucking freakiest episode this season with a flashback to Richard Alpert's 1800's beginnings and arrival on The Island on The Black Rock. The next episode, The Candidate, airs on May 4th.

Project Reason Button

From The Project Reason Website

Probably my favorite atheist quote is “Atheism is a belief like not collecting stamps is a hobby.”

So I was thinking, what would be the best symbol or logo to put on a pin? I do really like Dawkins’ scarlet letter A, but I feel a littlle confrontational when I wear mine, and I pick and choose the venues for it. How about a blank white button as an alternative? I don’t think white has been “taken” yet, and it seems right in so many ways. White is the absence of color and has a quality of purity. It is the opposite of confrontational, it can not be construed as a put-down or as self-righteous. It just doesn’t say anything. It will attract some questioning and then the wearer can then explain any way he/she chooses. It’d be the cheapest pin to make or have made and it will work in all sizes! There’s no need for an organization to sponsor it; unlike the “A” it’s not a logo and has no affiliation. It’s almost a semi-secret way of stating one’s position. And it’s so great that the blank white pin has not yet been used for anything!

I think this idea is in line with Sam Harris’ opinion that atheists don’t have to be strident, and include all manner of people.

Blank white button. What do you think?

Monday, April 26, 2010

Pretty Sure Anderson Cooper is Gay

From Gawker:
Page Six today has a not-very-thinly-veiled item about Anderson Cooper going on a very gay vacation with his very gay boyfriend who owns a very gay bar. Enough: Anderson Cooper is very gay. It's time he said it.

Here's the New York Post's gossip column item about Cooper going to the "best hotel in the world" in India:

Anderson Cooper has been consoling himself over falling ratings by living it up in Jaipur, India, at one of the world's most opulent hotels. The CNN star was spotted Tuesday with his muscular friend, Benjamin Maisani, an owner of East Village bar Eastern Bloc, at the Rambagh Palace, named the best hotel in the world by Conde Nast Traveler. Cooper's $3,200-a-night room features a four-poster mahogany bed and views of the gardens of the former Maharaja palace. Our source said, "Anderson's room has a large round bathtub. On the first night it was filled with bubbles and sprinkled with red rose petals." CNN declined to comment.