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Forbes
20-05-2025
- Automotive
- Forbes
Summer Superyacht Season Starts In Style At The Monaco Grand Prix
The F1 field race out of turn one uphill next to the port during the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco at ... More Circuit de Monaco in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images) Every race on the Formula 1 calendar attracts cool, famous, wealthy, and powerful people. But, when it comes combining royalty, intrigue, history, and most of all, superyachts with raw Formula 1 power, few events can compete with the Monaco Grand Prix that takes place this weekend Anyone who's been to the Monaco Grand Prix before knows how hard it is to get a prime spot to watch the races from the deck of a superyacht moored in the harbor. I'm sorry to report I can't invite you to all of the onboard parties (frankly, I don't have too many invites either!), but I can give you a little glimpse of some of the yachts that are there already and will be there for the race. Kismet Kismet will be in Monaco for the Monaco GP this weekend I'm just going to call Shahid Kahn's Kismet the 'Queen' of the fleet. I mean, what more can you say about this 400-foot-long superyacht (which was built by Lürssen, features an exterior design by Nuvolari Lenard and an interior design by Reymond Langton Design and is available for charter with Cecil Wright) that hasn't already been said? Kismet's large beach club area Well, she's fresh off being named Motor Yacht of The Year at the World Superyacht Awards in Venice. She costs well north of $3 million per week to charter. And oh yeah, she has cinema on the lower deck—complete with an underwater seating area—and a 7-star wellness area that's two full stars better than a 5-star wellness area. King Benji King Benji Here are the facts. The 154-foot-long King Benji was built by Dunya Yachts and launched in 2024. The interior was designed by Design Unlimited, and the exterior styling is by Gregory C. Marshall. Now, here's my take after giving the King Benji's hot tub a rigorous test during the Palm Beach International Boat Show earlier this year. King Benji's dual hot tubs I think the hot tubs—plural—on the foredeck might provide great viewing. The massive aft deck may provide one of the best viewing platforms of any of the yachts that are moored stern-to the racecourse, and it might turn into the ultimate dance floor when the parties kick off after the race cars are back in pits. Kamalaya Kamalaya has a large top deck for watching the Monaco Grand Prix While I won't go so far to say Kamalaya's interior is just like Claridge's £60,000/per night penthouse. I will say that Kamalaya's interiors were designed by Remi Tessier who designed Claridge's £60,000/per night penthouse which spans the entire rooftop of the hotel and features 75 works by Damien Hirst. The Zen-like interior of Kamalaya I will also say that when Kamalaya is not trackside at the Monaco Grand Prix, she's can be found cruising anywhere from Svalbard to San Tropez. Lady Trudy Lady Trudy at anchor Some people say the 42.6-meter long Lady Trudy built by CRN is the perfect charter yacht for the Monaco Grand Prix in that size range because exterior deck spaces are comparable to those found on a 50 meter yacht. Now, I can't say for sure just how big the deck spaces are. But I will venture a guess that the outdoor cinema and comfortable outdoor seating might just make for a perfect Monaco Grand Prix viewing experience. Extra Time Extra Time underway The Conrad C144s Extra Time was launched last year and features a Reymond Langton Design exterior, a M2Atelier-designed interior, and naval architecture from Diana Yacht Design. And it will be a killer spot to watch the race simply because, no matter what yacht you are on, no other sporting event connects with the fans quite like the Monaco Grand Prix. Stay tuned as I'll be adding more yachts to this list as I learn about their presence at the Monaco Grand Prix.
New York Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Craving More of ‘The White Lotus'? Read These Books Next
Smart, funny and compulsively watchable, HBO's 'The White Lotus' is the rare TV satire that strikes a perfect balance between vicious and empathetic, skewering the superrich while also humanizing their often outlandish foibles. The series, which just wrapped up its third season, follows a formula that's as familiar as it is addictive: A flock of wealthy, ill-mannered tourists descends on a far-flung luxury resort for one week, dreaming of escape — only to find that the very problems they hoped to flee are swiftly and mercilessly closing in on them, with deadly consequences. Part of the pleasure of the show is how it manages to make these doomed holidays seem so appealing. Lives implode, relationships crumble and people wind up dead, but you still want to be there regardless. If you're not quite ready to check out of the White Lotus, we've got 10 novels that channel the spirit of the show, from ruthless depictions of moneyed vacationers to murder mysteries set at high-end resorts. If you want to open on a dead body Kismet Much like the White Lotus in Thailand, Sedona, Ariz., has a reputation for spirituality that attracts all manner of gurus, yogis and so-called wellness aficionados. Their pretensions are witheringly lampooned in this comic thriller about Ronnie, a Pakistani American who tags along to the desert enclave with her friend turned life coach, Marley. It isn't long before the dark side of paradise reveals itself, in the form of a dead body — the first of many that soon turn up in various states of dismemberment. Akhtar has a keen eye for the hypocrisy of the namaste-espousing elite, and no vampire facial, jar of manuka honey or hot yoga session is spared from her mordantly funny wit. The Hunting Party Flitting between the past and present, this mystery novel is more than a mere whodunit: Although the story begins with a murder, Foley conceals the identity of the victim, describing the body in vague terms before rewinding to the start of the week. The cast of this locked-room drama comprises nine 30-something friends from Oxford University who have assembled at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands for their annual New Year's Eve party. When a raging blizzard traps the group inside, secrets, lies and betrayals all bubble to the surface, and the question of who will die — and who will do the killing — becomes more and more intriguing. Bad Summer People In Rosenblum's Salcombe, a fictional summer getaway for the rich in the heart of Fire Island, the tennis pros steal, the loving wives lie, and everybody bad mouths, screws over and sleeps with everyone else — sometimes all at the same time. Rosenblum charts the intricate rivalries and obsessions ping-ponging around this cloistered idyll with an anthropologist's rigor, tracing in sharp detail how this complex web of relationships could escalate from affairs to larceny and all the way to murder. If you like the rich behaving badly Long Island Compromise Carl Fletcher, a second-generation immigrant and the owner of a polystyrene factory, is kidnapped one morning, in broad daylight, outside his Long Island home. He's eventually returned in one piece, but the trauma — which he steadfastly refuses to acknowledge — has repercussions that last decades, looming over the lives of his three children as they clumsily transition into adulthood. Like 'The White Lotus,' this novel by Brodesser-Akner, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, is in part about how money doesn't solve your problems, just reconfigures them — and about how even the most dogged efforts to preserve a veneer of normality and stave off a breakdown are doomed to fail. I Eat Men Like Air Alex Sable is the kind of 20-something patrician in the making who is attuned to the subtlest gradations of class — a billionaire's scion who knows in an instant whose blazer is from J. Crew, and who'd rather be caught dead than in something other than Brunello Cucinelli. As the novel opens, Alex is himself caught dead, found in the bathtub of a New Hampshire mansion with his wrists slashed and his Patek Philippe watch broken. Berman flashes back through the lavish bacchanalia of Alex's last months, through the eyes of a podcaster trying to unravel the mystery of his death, to reveal the knotty story behind the apparent suicide. Memento Mori Few writers were as capable of scalpel-sharp dissection of the rich as the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark, whose magisterial social satires remain relevant even half a century later. 'Memento Mori,' one of her most assiduous, tells the story of a group of well-to-do Britons who are thrown into an existential crisis by a series of threatening phone calls, which could be a criminal conspiracy, a prank or the literal embodiment of death. (In typical Spark fashion, it's probably a combination of all three.) The characters are petty, duplicitous, conniving — and also, somehow, strangely sympathetic. It's an acidly funny book that's as smart as they come. If you want a far-flung locale Tangerine It's 1956 in Tangier, Morocco, and Alice Shipley, a housewife struggling to find herself, is sucked into a twisted whirlwind when Lucy Mason, her enigmatic college roommate, unexpectedly shows up at her door. The book's sun-kissed setting and atmosphere of diaphanous unease are reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith, and there's a trace of 'The Golden Notebook' in Mangan's canny rendering of incipient feminism in the aftermath of World War II. But as the novel gains violent momentum, the tension that takes hold is pure 'White Lotus.' Havoc The premise seems charming: Maggie Burkhardt, an 81-year-old widow taking up semi-permanent residence at a palatial hotel in Luxor, Egypt, passes her time during the tail end of the Covid lockdowns by attempting to 'liberate' unhappy couples with a bit of meddling. Her mischief takes a dark turn, however, when she makes an unlikely nemesis: an 8-year-old boy named Otto, whom she engages in a cat-and-mouse game too irresistibly diabolical to spoil. Bollen's storytelling more than matches 'The White Lotus' for I-can't-believe-they-just-went-there nerve, and when it's not outright shocking, it's outrageously, scandalously delightful. Death on the Nile Long before Mike White set his murderers loose among the superrich, Agatha Christie made a career of it — staging one locked-room mystery after another in exotic locales around the globe and rounding out their ensembles with tycoons, socialites and other members of the upper crust. One of her best-known and most beloved novels in this mode, and probably the closest cousin to 'The White Lotus,' is 'Death on the Nile,' which finds the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot sussing out clues among vacationers on a luxury river cruise that turns deadly. If you want to stay with the Thai theme The Resort Scuba divers, influencers and hard-partying tourists converge on the glamorous Koh Sang Resort in this sleek holiday thriller. There's an unspoken rule among Koh Sang's community of expats, known as the Permanents, not to pry into anybody's past. But when dead bodies start turning up on the Thai island, it becomes clear that some of the residents' pasts aren't done with them. Ochs draws out the lush details of the idyllic environment, and even as the body count steadily rises, the island remains strangely appealing.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
NEWS OF THE WEEK: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend adopt rescue dog
Taking to Instagram on Sunday, the TV personality and musician announced that they had recently adopted an adorable dog named Dudley. After sharing the surprise via the account for their pet supplies company Kismet, Chrissy explained that they first noticed Dudley in a video posted on the Wags & Walks page. "In honor of National Puppy Day, meet Dudley - the newest member of our fam!! When we first met Dudley, he was fighting for his life. Thirteen days in the hospital, endless love from his foster family, and an incredible recovery later - he's officially home."
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Pet of the Day: Adopting Kismet is your destiny
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Meet Kismet, our FOX8 Pet of the Day! If you're interested in adopting this pet or any other pets at Guilford County Animal Services, please call (336) 641-3401 or visit the . Guilford County Animal Services is located at 980 Guilford College Road in Greensboro. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Ya Biladi
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Ya Biladi
Adrien Brody's train journey to Tangier in Kismet, Monos' cinematic travel campaign
Adrien Brody, fresh off his Best Actor win for The Brutalist, steps into another starring role—this time as the face of Monos' new Aluminum Luggage Collection. The campaign takes him through the streets of Tangier, where he reflects on travel's power to dissolve borders. As part of this campaign, the short film Kismet follows the two-time Oscar winner on a journey through Morocco. It begins on a train and leads him to Tangier, a city long beloved by iconic figures who roamed its medina and reveled in its vibrant nights—among them Paul Bowles, Henri Matisse, and many others. «Growing up in New York—a city full of diversity and unexpected encounters—ignited a thirst for adventure. I often find myself on location in different places while working on films, which is exciting; I love to explore, to travel, to get lost and find my way», Brody shared with Rolling Stone MENA while on set during the cinematic shoot for Monos in Tangier. «Traveling reminds me that borders are irrelevant. No matter how different cultures or people may seem, we're all just people living our unique stories», he continued. Shot by filmmaker Alexis Gómez, Kismet follows Brody as he explores Tangier. The short film is a nod to The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson's 2007 film about three estranged brothers on a soul-searching train journey across India, much of which takes place on a train. In the film, Brody carries Monos' all-new aluminum suitcase, available in Aspen Silver, Champagne Gold, and Caviar Black. Since its launch in 2019, Monos has earned a reputation as «the Apple of suitcases», crafting minimalist, high-end travel gear with thoughtful design.
