MUSIC

Grammy Awards 2018

Grammys 2018 Performances: From Lady Gaga to 'Despacito' and More

Content Courtesy of: US Magazine

Written by: Tatiana Cirisano and Modification by THE REVIEW

The 2018 Grammys on Sunday (Jan. 28) came with their usual slate of top-notch live acts, from Kendrick Lamar’s riveting opening DAMN. performance to Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s historic all-Spanish rendition of summer smash "Despacito."

Missed out on watching one of the awards show's performers -- or just ready to hit replay? Follow along below for videos and recaps of every live performance of music's biggest night.

Kendrick Lamar - "XXX,""DNA.,""New Freezer,""King’s Dead"

Lady Gaga - "Joanne,""Million Reasons"

Sam Smith - "Pray"

Little Big Town - "Better Man"

Gary Clark Jr., Jon Batiste and Joe Saylor - "Ain't That A Shame" and "Maybellene"

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee - "Despacito"

Childish Gambino - "Terrified"

P!nk - "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken"

Bruno Mars and Cardi B - "Finesse"

Sting, Shaggy - "Englishmen in New York,""Don't Make Me Wait"

Rihanna, DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller - “Wild Thoughts”

Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne and Eric Church - “Tears in Heaven”

Kesha with Cyndi Lauper, Camila Cabello, Julia Michaels and Andra Day - “Praying”

U2 - “Get Out of Your Own Way”

Elton John and Miley Cyrus - “Tiny Dancer” Ben Platt and Patti LuPone - “Somewhere,” “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”

SZA - “Broken Clocks”

Chris Stapleton and Emmylou Harris - “Wildflowers”

FASHION

Grammys 2018 Red Carpet Fashion: What the Stars Wore

Written by: Meg Storm and Modifications by THE REVIEW

Content Courtesy of: US Magazine

Ashanti

Wearing a shimmering gold gown with long sleeves and a high neck and Giuseppe Zanotti heels.

Credit by: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic

Pink

Wearing a pink, blue and black feathered Armani Prive gown, AS29 earring, Borgioni black diamond ring and Time's Up rose with her daughter Willow Sage Hart.

Credit By: Lester Cohen/Getty

Kesha

Wearing a navy suit, ivory silk blouse, sparkly silver boots, Coomi emerald ring and diamond rings by Roberto Bravo and L’Dezen by Payal Shah.

Credit By: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic

SZA

Wearing a white Atelier Versace gown, Chopard jewels and Time's Up rose.

Credit by: Lester Cohen/Getty

Cardi B

Wearing a white Ashi Studio dress with train, Christian Louboutin heels and Messika jewels.

Credit by: John Shearer/Getty

Jenny McCarthy

Wearing a black sequined gown with mesh detailing and gloves.

Credit By: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic

Julia Michaels

Wearing a plunging grey Paolo Sebastian gown with butterfly detailing and Chopard jewelry.

Credit By: Jamie McCarthy/Getty

India Arie

Wearing black and white shorts with a matching duster coat.

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Cyndi Lauper

Wearing a cherub-printed Moschino suit.

Credit By: John Shearer/Getty

Reba McEntire

Wearing a black beaded Jovani gown.

Credit: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic

Kimberly Schlapman

Wearing a lavender tiered Raisa & Vanessa gown with ruffled sleeves and beading, Jane Taylor ring and a Time's Up rose.

Credit By: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Alison Krauss

Wearing a red chiffon Sachin & Babi gown with flower embroidery, Temple St. Clair earrings and ring and a Time’s Up rose.

Credit By: Lester Cohen/Getty

Bebe Rexha

Wearing a nude beaded La Perla gown and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.

Credit By: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Karen Fairchild

Wearing an ivory feathered Monique Lhuillier gown and a Time's Up rose.

Credit By: Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Eve

Wearing a black Naeem Khan beaded suit, Chopard and Paige Novick jewelry and a Time's Up rose.

Credit By: John Shearer/Getty

Sarah Silverman

Wearing a black, knee-length Maggie Marilyn dress with cap sleeves, Wolford tights and a Time's Up rose.

Credit By: Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Janelle Monae

Wearing a black Dolce & Gabbana suit with flower detailing, Jennifer Fisher rings and a Time's Up rose.

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Maren Morris

Wearing a silver beaded Julien Macdonald gown with cutouts, Casadei heels and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.

Credit By: John Shearer/Getty Images

Giuliana Rancic

Wearing a black gown with bead detailing and a high slit, Giuseppe Zanotti heels and a Time's Up rose.

Credit By: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic

Patrick Starr

Wearing a tuxedo-inspired pink and purple mullet dress with matching over-the-knee boots.

Credit By: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Coco Austin

Wearing a curve-hugging one shoulder black dress with side cutouts.

Credit By: Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Li Saumet

Wearing a water-color inspired gown with a blue patterned wrap.

Credit By: Steve Granitz/WireImage

 ART

Pace Will Open Its Ninth Gallery, in Geneva

Written BY: Andrew Russeth and Modification by THE REVIEW

Content Courtesy of: artnews.com

The big blue-chip galleries just cannot stop opening new spaces!

Just a few weeks back, it was David Zwirner, revealing that he’ll open a new Renzo Piano-designed venue in Chelsea, where he already has a small kingdom of galleries. Today, it is the international behemoth Pace Gallery, which is heading to Geneva to open in March a roughly 3,600-square foot outfit at Quai des Bergues 15-17.

The future home of Pace Geneva.

COURTESY THE PACE GALLERY

This brings Pace’s empire to a full nine galleries, with three in New York, and one each in Seoul, Hong Kong, Beijing, London, and Palo Alto, California. Gagosian Gallery is still leading the space race—sorry—with a whopping 16, but Pace is closing the gap. (Gagosian is also the only other one of the big-gun galleries to have a space in Geneva, though Hauser & Wirth of course has a space in Zürich.)

The first show at Pace Geneva arrives on March 20, and it’s a three-person affair, with work by Louise Nevelson, Sol LeWitt, and Adam Pendleton—all artists associated with the gallery. Pace’s roster also includes James Turrell, Elizabeth Murray, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, teamLab, and many more.

HOSPITALITY

AccorHotels just predicted 7 hospitality trends for 2018

Written by: David Eisen and Modification by THE REVIEW

Content Courtesy of: hotelmanagement

AccorHotels took to Twitter on Tuesday, crystal-balling seven hospitality trends it thinks will be big in 2018. Of course, its list is a bit self-serving; they are things the Paris-based hotel company, which owns, operates and franchises some 3,700 hotels globally, is hard at work on to provide to its guests. According to AccorHotels, 2018 will be the year of...

1. 1. 1. Local Services Last year, AccorHotels launched AccorLocal, an application allowing residents who live near an Accor property to access the services of local artisans and companies. In its basic form, it allows hoteliers the ability to promote their hospitality services to non-guests. Offerings can include bouquet deliveries, yoga or other fitness classes provided on property, food deliveries, or pay-by-the-hour car rental services througha partnership with Hertz. The strategy is part of the company's shift to become a technology company, rather than solely a hospitality company.
      2. Mobile Payment 2018 will hopefully be a year of smoother mobile payment. AccorHotels is looking to be out on the lead on this. In November, the company signed a deal with First Data, a payment solution provider, who will power payments for AccorHotels for in-store, online and mobile transactions. This includes facilitating transactions for AccorHotels' online booking tool. The phased introduction of the partnership starts with properties in Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before continuing into other countries throughout 2018.
      3. Laid-back Luxury Austere and rigid no longer are hallmarks of a luxury hotel experience. There has been a palpable shift in the meaning and promise of a luxury hotel, and one of those traits, as AccorHotels correctly points out, is laid-back living. Donning a three-piece suit in the hotel dining room is no longer compulsory attire; many guests, who still want a luxury experience, want that experience in tennis shoes (the kind that might cost $500) and sweatpants (finely tailored and expensive, that is). Today's luxury consumer has the same money as predecessors, but uses it in different ways. This is especially true of the millennial generation, which is known to spend money not as much on material goods but on experiences. AccorHotels can count four luxury brands now—Fairmont, Raffles, Sofitel and Banyan Tree—and clearly it believes in nonchalant luxury in 2018.
      4. Meaningful and Sustainable Travel See above. A wide swath of travelers today want to draw meaning out of their travels, while leaving a dollop of a footprint. They also want the hotels they stay at to engage in sustainable operations, since the environment to many a world traveler is sacrosanct. AccorHotels' 21Planet program aims to do just this, outlining specific goals for 2020 based around four strategic priorities: work with its employees, involve its customers, innovate with its partners and work with local communities. Two key issues to tackle will be food and buildings, the company says.
      5. Personalized Guest Services Tailored and bespoke aren't just natty terms. In today's hospitality landscape, hotels want to know as much about their guests as they can so they can better customize an experience through amenities and services. Hotel companies, like AccorHotels, are better able to do this through platforms like a CRS, mobile apps and loyalty programs. AccorHotels uses products like Adobe to personalize the guest experience with targeted offers and other information.
      6. Chatbots Because who doesn't like talking to artificial intelligence? Last February, AccorHotels' Mercure brand launched a BOT, an up-to-the-minute instant messaging solution for Facebook and Messenger. "Offering a hotel experience anchored in a specific locality is the very essence of the Mercure brand and its venues," the company said, and "only a BOT is capable of memorizing the full range of stories from so many places around the world. This handy tool will enable travelers and neighborhood residents alike to discover the “Local Stories” thatsurround them, simply by geolocating and allowing themselves to be guided." Here's how AccorHotels further explains chatbots, or virtual assistants, while this video further clarifies

7.                                        Smart and Wellness Rooms Everyone wants to be smarter these days—why shouldn't a room be, too? In fact, smart rooms are all the rage, and AccorHotels is tossing its hat into the ring. Back in November, AccorHotels revealed that it's testing a smart or connected room, relying on things like voice activation and the Internet of Things to enhance the in-room guest experience. Some of the features being tested include a connected tablet to adjust the room's light and music, close curtains, tilt the headboard and control audiovisual equipment; LED lighting with footboard motion sensors; sleep aids, such as Dodow, a luminous metronome that gets you to fall asleep more quickly, or Dreem, a headband that promotes better sleep; and items like Sensorwake billed as world's first olfactory alarm clock. With products like these, this room promises to sound and smell smart.

 FOOD AND BEVERAGE

A Historic Cocktail Speakeasy Sneaks Into Midtown

Gibson & Luce opened in the Life Hotel building

Written by: Serena Dai and Modification by THE REVIEW Content Courtesy of: ny.eater.com

Gibson & Luce’s bar Photo by Noah Fecks via Gibson & Luce

Midtown now has a new cocktail speakeasy — this time from once-prolific NYC restaurateur Stephen Hanson.

Hanson, who founded hospitality behemoth BR Guest before leaving in 2013, rejoined the restaurant business last month with Henry at Life Hotel, and this week, he added a bar called Gibson & Luce to the hotel’s mix at 19 West 31st St., between Broadway and Fifth Avenue.

Gibson & Luce is run by the same chef as Henry, BR Guest alum Michael Vignola. Here, he makes bar snacks like goose fat potato knishes with caviar and creme fraiche; pizza bianca with black pepper ricotta, potato, and egg; and merguez meatball pizza with chili-roasted tomato and goat cheese. A burger is also available, topped with caramelized onions, American cheese, bacon, and an option to add foie gras.

Drink-wise, the menu has cocktails, beer, wine, and lots and lots of vermouth. Cocktails include the Little White Lie (spiced rum, creme de violette, cream, lemon, laphroaig), Their First Quarrel (ginger, apricot eau de vie, amara blood orange liquor, lemon, egg white), and 1894 (blue gin, dolin dry, orange bitters). See the full menu below.

The historic hotel once housed the headquarters for Life magazine. Gibson & Luce is named for former editor Charles Dana Gibson and publisher Henry R. Luce; it’s rumored that the bar was once a secret place for staffers to party. Now, the bar can be accessed via a hidden staircase behind the elevator bank near Henry, or eventually, via the street with an access code that will likely be shared on Instagram.

Hanson is known for producing crowd-pleasing restaurants that will bring back neighborhood regulars, and he has said that’s his goal with the Life Hotel, too, which he’s a partner in. Gibson & Luce is open from 5:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. daily.

EVENTS

DON’T CALL IT A BLOOD MOON. OR SUPERMOON. OR BLUE MOON

Written by: MATT SIMON and Modification by THE REVIEW

Content Courtesy of: wired.com

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IN FEB '18, HUMANITY was treated to a celestial trifecta: A supermoon (meaning it’s relatively close to Earth), but also simultaneously a blood moon (orange or red), but also simultaneously a blue moon (the second full moon in one calendar month) passed in the shadow of Earth, for a total lunar eclipse.

But supermoon? Blue moon? Blood moon? Yeah, let’s go ahead and pump the brakes on those terms, because the first was created by anastrologer, the second is highly subjective, and the third was only recently popularized by this-must-be-prophecy types.

First, some basics on the grand astronomical event. A total lunar eclipse is, of course, when the moon passes through the shadow of the Earth. But the Earth doesn’t actually cast one super-delineated shadow. There are two components: the penumbra and umbra.

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“The reason there are these two portions of the Earth's shadow, umbra and penumbra, is because the sun is not a single small point, it's got this big disk,” says Noah Petro, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. So the penumbra is more a partial shadow, caused by a portion of the sun being blocked by the Earth.

Check out the diagram above. You can see that light sneaking through in the penumbra. If you glimpse the moon when it’s there, it still won’t have the reddish or orangish or brownish hue it takes on during the so-called blood moon. “Only once it passes completely into the Earth's umbra does it turn that red color, and the reason for that is because it's very, very dim,” says Petro. “So just having any part of the moon illuminated by sunlight during an eclipse, washes out that red color that you would eventually see when it's in totality.”

That bizarre color comes from Earth itself. As sunlight passes through our atmosphere, it interacts with particles like dust, scattering certain colors. Specifically, blue, which has a shorter wavelength. Red and orange with their longer wavelengths will pass right through.

Think about the different kinds of light you see here on Earth. We get blue skies during the day because when sunlight hits us head on, the blue light scatters toward us. “When we have a sunset, the sunlight is going through a thicker portion of the Earth's atmosphere, and so more of the blue light is scattered away,” says Petro. Thus the reds and oranges of a particularly magnificent sunset.

So we had ourselves a “blood” moon. But … hold on. “I think the term more recently, really in the last decade or so, has become popular by these religious zealots that keep proposing that it's the end of time and this lunar eclipse is going to be the last one,” says Fred Espenak, scientist emeritus, also of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Indeed, take a look at the Google Trends of “blood moon” below.

GOOGLE TRENDS

 

INNOVATION AND TECH

Arianna Huffington Tech Addiction Is More of a Problem Than People Realize

Written by: Charles Platiau / Reuters and Modification by THE REVIEW

Content Courtesy of: NBC News

We are at an inflection point in our relationship with technology. Technology allows us to do amazing things that have immeasurably improved our lives. But at the same time, it’s accelerated the pace of our lives beyond our ability to keep up. And it’s getting worse. We’re being controlled by something we should be controlling. And it’s consuming our attention and crippling our ability to focus, think, be present, and truly connect with ourselves and the world around us.

The numbers only confirm what we all know to be true — we’re addicted. A 2015 Bank of America report found that over 70 percent of Americans sleep next to or with their phone. This addiction comes at a cost. A Pew study from the same year found that 89 percent of phone owners said they’d used their phones in their last social gathering, and 82 percent felt that when they do this it damages the interaction.

It’s gotten so bad that the phone doesn’t even need to be turned on for it to negatively affect our relationships. One study found that when two people are in a conversation, the mere presence of a phone can have, as the authors write, “negative effects on closeness, connection, and conversation quality,” leading them to conclude that the mere presence of mobile phones can create a psychological hindrance.

There’s also plenty of research suggesting a link between heavy social media use and depression, especially in young people. - the Think newsletter.

 The problem lies not with our desire to connect, but with our form of connection.

The problem lies not with our desire to connect, but with our form of connection. Our technology gives us a form of connection with the whole world, but at the same time it can limit the depth of our connection to the world around us, to those closest to us, and to ourselves. Technology has been very good at giving us what we want, but less good as giving us what we need.

And what we need is to re-calibrate our relationship our technology. This is one of the most important conversations of our time. And ironically, conversation is the very thing our addiction to our screens prevents. We’re so busy scheduling our lives, documenting them, logging them, tracking them, memorializing and sharing them that we’re not actually living them.

Importantly, our ability to have this conversation won’t last forever. The rise of AI, and the increasing hyper-connectivity of our daily lives, has the potential to erode our humanity even further.

Isaac Asimov saw this coming back in 1988. “The saddest aspect of life right now,” he wrote, “is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” And right now, we’re drowning in data, but starved for wisdom.

Wisdom would require thinking about the qualities we consider essentially and uniquely human – about what is sacred and irreducible about our humanity — and then thinking about how can we redraw and protect the borders of that humanity as technology is mounting a full-scale invasion.

And the answer isn’t to stop technology or go backwards. That ship has sailed — and mostly for the better. The answer is smarter and better technology. In fact, I think this is going to be one of the next frontiers in technology — and it’s one of the things we’re doing at Thrive Global with our technology platform — creating apps and tools and even AI that helps rebuild those barriers around our humanity, and reclaim the time and space needed for real connection.

The increase in automation and AI, what some are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is obviously going to bring profound changes. In the workplace, it’s going to put a premium on essential human qualities like creativity, intuition, decision-making, and wisdom.

The paradox is that these are the exact qualities that are impaired by our addiction to technology. So our ability to succeed in the technology-dominated workplace of the future depends, in no small measure, on our ability to — right now — take back control of our technology, and our lives.

ADVERTISING AND BRANDS

WATCH THE NEWEST ADS ON TV FROM TARGET, GOOGLE, ADIDAS AND MORE

Content Courtesy of: adage.com

Published on January 29, 2018.

Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than seven million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time over the weekend.

A few highlights: Target serves up what's essentially a full-blown music video featuring Zedd and Maren Morris that clocks in at three-and-a-quarter minutes and debuted during the Grammy Awards telecast Sunday night. Google presents a gallery of photos and clips of "real people" who were captured using Google Pixel 2 phones. And Old Spice baffles with an ad that's entirely in French, with no subtitles (as Ad Age's Alexandra Jardine notes in today's Ad Age Wake-Up Call, "People were really confused, and that was intentional").

Target: 2018 Grammys Zedd + Maren Morris: The Middle

Premiered on: The 60th Annual Grammy Awards, CBS

Target data for the last 30 days

Impressions: 1,135,729,490 (41% of industry)

Est. TV Spend: $18,858,378 (59% of industry)

Attention Score: 83.61

Attention Index: 77 (23% more interruptions than avg.)

Old Spice: Red Sweater

Premiered on: The 60th Annual Grammy Awards, CBS

Old Spice data for the last 30 days

Impressions: 513,973,648 (15% of industry)

Est. TV Spend: $6,569,297 (19% of industry)

Attention Score: 96.59

Attention Index: 144 (44% fewer interruptions than avg.)

adidas: Original Is Never Finished

Premiered on: The 60th Annual Grammy Awards, CBS

adidas data for the last 30 days

Impressions: 77,085,840 (10% of industry)

Est. TV Spend: $5,813,384 (40% of industry)

Attention Score: 96.53

Attention Index: 152 (52% fewer interruptions than avg.)

Tide: Bradshaw's Locked Out

Premiered on: Will & Grace, NBC

Tide data for the last 30 days

Impressions: 1,747,130,963 (33% of industry)

Est. TV Spend: $19,372,835 (35% of industry)

Attention Score: 91.31

Attention Index: 110 (10% fewer interruptions than avg.)

Google Phones: The Picture Perfect Life

Premiered on: The 60th Annual Grammy Awards, CBS

Google Phones data for the last 30 days

Impressions: 952,135,002 (24% of industry)

Est. TV Spend: $27,947,193 (22% of industry)

Attention Score: 87.21

Attention Index: 104 (4% fewer interruptions than avg.)

Data provided by  iSpot.tv, Attention and Conversion Analytics for TV Ads

 TV Impressions - Total TV ad impressions delivered for the brand or spot. Est. TV Spend - Amount spent on TV airings for the brand's spots. Attention Score - Measures the propensity of consumers to interrupt an ad play on TV. The higher the score, the more complete views. Actions that interrupt an ad play include changing the channel, pulling up the guide, fast-forwarding or turning off the TV. Attention Index - Represents the Attention of a specific creative or program placement vs the average. The average is represented by a score of 100, and the total index range is from 0 through 200. For example, an attention index of 125 means that there are 25% fewer interrupted ad plays compared to the average.

February is up next with Fashion week and the exciting and inspiring event of a stepping down of one and the swearing in of another South African President!

Our hearts go out to all effected by the school shooting in Parkland Florida. Let us focus much more on gun control and keeping these harmful weapons out of the hands of as many as possible. More on this and what many brave and incredible people are doing about it up next. Hint: #ACTION is the name of the game.

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