What’s up with the Austin W Hotel?

Bizarre death of missing woman under investigation

More questions surfaced than answers on Monday regarding the bizarre death of a 26-year-old Austin woman discovered dead in a downtown parking garage’s exhaust duct system.

Austin hotel closing after third falling-glass incident

The W Austin hotel is closing indefinitely after glass fell from the balcony panels of the Austin, Texas, building for a second day in a row and the third time in recent weeks, the hotel’s parent company announced Tuesday.

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Wish I knew the whole story

  • I’d like to see an interview with this guy.
  • I’d like to know the safety procedures that are in place to prevent the worst case scenario.  You know, I’m sure things are attached a particular way and the chutes are designed with some sort of backup to prevent a soldier from being totally torn away.
  • I’d like to know about the rescue effort and if the others behind him didn’t have to jump until another flight.
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U2 to Sell 360 Tour ‘Claws’

U2’s 360 Tour will come to an end July 30 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. But “The Claw” — the alien-like, four-legged structure over the stage — will live on.

After the record-setting two-year-plus 360 trek, U2’s management plans to sell off three of the full, four-legged, 29,000-square-foot steel structures as venues unto themselves.

“It’s certainly our intention to see these things recycled into permanent and usable ventures,” U2 tour director Craig Evans told Billboard.biz earlier this month. “It represents too great an engineering feat to just use for [the tour] and put away in a warehouse somewhere.”

Evans added that the U2 camp is “now in discussions to send them into different places around the world and have them installed as permanent venues. Some major events have shown interest in these, from four different continents — and we haven’t even really put the word out yet.”

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