The recent donnybrooks at the Crowne Plaza JFK make Fawlty Towers look like a model for hotel management. Not only has the hotel operator been treating his employees like dirt—the staff members, which once numbered 70, have not gotten regular paychecks since October; not only has the State Departm...

Some of you have asked me what I was doing for Crowne Plaza in London. I was chosen as a "Crowne Plaza Innovator for 2008." That essentially means I was a paid spokesman for their brand. This is part of Crowne Plaza's ongoing "Innovator" series (for the 82 European Crowne Plaza p...

My Video Blog As I was leaving LimmudLA last month, I was given three boxes of food to take to SOVA to feed the homeless. Figuring that I was only a canceled credit card away from being homeless, I appropriated the food and put it to a holy purpose — me. After all, as Rodney Dangerfield pointe...