We’re quickly approaching our one year anniversary and have been diligently working on new content. The first in our documentary series with Billykirk is due out in September. New features include interviews with architects, hoteliers, and interior designers. And something that we’ve been wanting to start since the beginning, a Hotels section. We’ll include some local hotels in Manhattan as well as upstate getaways. It’s been a busy summer, you’ll see what we’ve been up to soon enough.

Rock stars and hotels go hand in hand, so it was a perfect combo last week when Ace landed in SXSW. Only this time it was the hotel that went to the rock stars, tempting every musician’s fantasy of trashing a hotel room. It was all a part of a promotion organized by Levi’s and Fader Magazine which invited musical acts ranging from Peter, Bjorn, and John to Rick Ross. Levi’s asked Ace to set up a lounge that was dubbed Room 501. Sampling from their Portland and New York hotels, the lounge included signature items like a Music Hall turntable, an Epiphone acoustic guitar, Pendleton wool blankets and of course a decked out Smeg refrigerator.