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Secrets of the Greenbrier

The future home of Zombie Congress is a massive bunker carved out beneath a luxury hotel in West Virginia decorated by Dorothy Draper and emblazoned with swastikas

Hotel tech support are ex-CIA dudes working undercover who stand ready to drive the normies off the property with their covert arsenal

When the big one hits, they’ll run right over you. And I can prove it.

By Matt Farwell

Hide the secret in plain sight. This was Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn’s philosophy in the late 1950s when they built their 112,544-square-foot Congressional doomsday bunker 720 feet underground in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, concealed beneath a posh Gilded Age resort called The Greenbrier. The bunker’s construction and operation was covered by a series of code names: Project X, Project Casper, and Project Greek Island. But even before the bunker, The Greenbrier was a swanky haven for powerful high-society types. It was the place where General George Catlett Marshall had his 60th birthday party; where President Dwight David Eisenhower liked to golf; where the chairman of General Motors could chat with a du Pont, a Rockefeller, and a Mellon all at the same time. The Greenbrier is an icon with a long history; it counts 28 Presidents as among its guests. There’s a famous photo in the grand old house that overlooks the hotel of Robert E. Lee on vacation with the Ottoman …

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Summer in Saratoga DMB

Saratoga stays loyal to a bar band that wrote the shittiest part of the soundtrack of the 1990s

‘Crash Into You’ means that he puts his hand down your pants on the SPAC lawn

It’s not the Grateful Dead, but at least they jam

By Ani Wilcenski

My hometown of Saratoga Springs has two main passions — horse racing and jam bands. These hobbies converge in the summer, when the town’s famous racetrack opens and Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the historic concert venue better known as SPAC, kicks off four months of shows. SPAC is a leafy, sprawling venue in the middle of a state park that has hosted performances by everyone from Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles to Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd. The mellow, bucolic atmosphere lends itself to a stable of regulars, with the most beloved returning act being the Dave Matthews Band, which has now performed in Saratoga 49 times. Attending your first Dave Matthews Band concert is a rite of passage for upstate New York teenagers, myself included, characterized by the solemn rituals of determining with your friends whether you should attend “Fridave” or “Saturdave,” securing cheap lawn tickets and a chauffeur who will pretend not to notice the weed fumes emanating from your clothing on the …