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Limos used to be the snazzy way of moving around town, but now luxury transportation is being redefined. Here's what happened to the limo and what's replacing it.

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☆ The Stretch Limo, Once a Luxury Transportation Option, Is Dead
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

It used to be that you saw a stretch limousine and excitedly wondered who was inside — maybe a corporate executive or a celebrity or some other classy, mysterious type. The limo industry isn't dead; it's just leaving the classic black stretch version of itself behind. Trade shows and expos for limousines and luxury transportation no longer have many, if any, actual classic stretch limos on their floors. He said they keep a stretch limo around for nostalgia's sake more than anything. A CEO gallivanting around in his or her fancy stretch limousine is gross.

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☆ When the Oscars Were Held Against the Backdrop of Another Divisive War
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Sarah Bahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On March 23, 2003, as the rest of the world watched televised images of captives and corpses identified as American soldiers, limos carrying high-fashion-clad celebrities rolled up outside what was then known as the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. The United States had invaded Iraq just three days before, and, until that morning, there was still the possibility that the Oscars wouldn’t go on. As A-listers like Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry and Steve Martin — the host — were herded through metal detectors amid a large law enforcement presence, a few blocks away, police officers holding clubs faced off with demonstrators trying to get closer to the theater (none did). This year, another war is in the headlines as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mounts another Oscars. So far, almost no one has spoken out at precursor awards shows, but it was very different in 2003.

Persons: Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Steve Martin — Organizations: Kodak Theater, United, Academy of Motion Picture Arts, Sciences Locations: Los Angeles, United States, Iraq

☆ Randy Meisner, Eagles co-founder who sang 'Take It to the Limit,' dead at 77
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 27 (Reuters) - Randy Meisner, a co-founder of the Eagles who sang lead on the 1975 hit "Take It to the Limit," died on Wednesday of complications from lung disease, the band said on its website on Thursday. "The whole thing started to end when we started taking separate limos," Meisner told Rolling Stone magazine. "I liked to be out of the spotlight," Meisner said, according to Rolling Stone. Years later, Meisner said he asked to sit in with the band for a show in Los Angeles but was denied, he told Rolling Stone in 2008. Before the Eagles, he placed bass for Poco, and was also bassist and vocalist with Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band.

Persons: Randy Meisner, Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, Leadon, Joe Walsh, Timothy B, Rolling, Stone, Glenn, Rick Nelson's, Daniel Trotta, Diane Craft Organizations: Eagles, Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, Stone, Thomson Locations: California, Scotts Bluff , Nebraska, Knoxville, Los Angeles

☆ The Long Demise of the Stretch Limousine
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“There wasn’t one stretch limousine on the show floor,” said Robert Alexander, president of the National Limousine Association, a trade group. “Not one.”Decades ago, stretch limos were a symbol of affluence, used almost exclusively by the rich and famous. Over time, they became more of a common luxury, booked for children’s birthday parties or by teenagers heading to the prom. These days, it seems as if hardly anyone is riding in a stretch limo. While the limousine name has stuck, the limo industry has shifted to chauffeur services in almost anything but actual stretch limos, which have largely been supplanted by black S.U.V.s, buses and vans.

☆ Finding Love in a Fake World
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Julia May Jonas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A lightly varied collection of conventionally attractive heterosexual humans compete to marry a single conventionally attractive human of the opposite sex. Argy’s heroine did not submit an application for the reality TV show “The One,” the novel’s stand-in for the “Bachelor” franchise. Instead, she was plucked off the streets by Miranda, a producer who has devoted her adulthood to working her way up the ranks. Each producer is responsible for a group of girls on “The One,” and the more prominently their girls feature, the more the producer is rewarded. The win will provide Miranda with job security, remuneration and confirmation of her own excellence.

☆ How I Am Reducing the Stress of Returning to Business Travel
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Alexandra Samuel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Some fretting about traveling for business again is just a matter of reacclimating. Before I knew it, we were deep in conversation about our respective experiences in the tech world. After two years without business travel, I was ravenous for the excitement of establishing a new professional connection. But the flip side of excitement is anxiety—and my return to business travel has brought plenty of it. When is it worth the risk of taking off my mask in a room full of strangers?

☆ A British guy crashed her Thanksgiving dinner. They’ve been married for 20 years
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-26 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Thanksgiving 2021 and was updated and republished for Thanksgiving 2023. CNN —It was November 1997 and Dina Honour was hosting Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. Courtesy Dina HonourWhen he’d traveled to New York, Richard had been seeing someone back in London. Here's a recent photo of Dina, Richard and family in 2023. Courtesy Dina HonourWhen Richard and Dina first moved to Cyprus, they tried to recreate traditional US Thanksgiving traditions.

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☆ Here's what the limos of 8 world leaders look like
▼ + stars: | 2019-06-12 | by ( Mark Matousek | Graham Rapier | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Many world leaders travel in luxury vehicles. US President Joe Biden, for example, rides in a $1.5 million Cadillac nicknamed "the Beast." NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementMany world leaders travel in style, using armored luxury vehicles to get around. These are eight of the limousines used by world leaders:

Persons: Joe Biden, —, Charles III, Bentley, Queen Elizabeth II, England Organizations: Service

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