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Paper Towel Smack Down: Which leading brand gives the best bang for the buck?
If you’re like me, you like to eat Nutella at your desk, out of the jar and offer your spoon to any busybody co-worker who walks by, looking disgusted. On one such blissful occasion, I smeared a dollop of Nutella on my desk, to see if the desk wanted some. OK, actually, I was running…
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At Bette’s Hulaween: Mayor Bloomberg “Dressed” as Matt Damon
Friday night, in the razzling-dazzling Waldorf-Astoria, Bette Midler entertained a packed ballroom of ghostly and goofy guests, raising over a million dollars and counting, for the New York Restoration Project. Dressed as a Moulin Rouge madame, Midler and comedienne/gay rights activist, Judy Gold–a theater-joke crackin’ Abe Lincoln–worked the crowd, shaking people for $2,500 a tree.…
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The New Recruits: Can Capitalism Save the World?
What do you get if the 1960s and a banker on Wall Street had a baby? Social entrepreneurism. Though it has a long history, it’s been a buzzword since Muhammad Yunnus and his Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for lifting people out of poverty through microloans. Social entrepreneurism isn’t charity; it’s business…
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The Onion: just as divisive as regular news, now with new book
Everyone’s favorite satirical news source, The Onion, is coming out with a brand new book, Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, And Moral Rectitude From America’s Finest News Source, just in time for the holidays. The book shows you vintage Onion, going back to 1988, to the satirical paper’s University of Wisconsin-Madison days,…
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Can Conde Nast Cut Costs and Keep the Luster?
Everybody loves a good party. And in the publishing world, Conde Nast is as skilled at throwing memorable fetes as it is in churning out glossy magazines. When the now defunct Conde Nast Portfolio, where I used to work, first opened over two years ago, bottles of Perrier-Jouet champagne were given to all Portfolio staff…
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A Course in Miracles: The Book for Our Time
The New York Times Styles section had this great article on the growing hunger for spirituality as the new obsession for New York’s Carrie Bradshaws. Sure, the pop culture reference is fun, but spirituality is a lot more than visualizing your perfect husband or landing an article in the Style’s section. It’s seeing love–God–in all…
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Coolest Find on Craigslist? Mansion Living in Seattle, Just $650/Month
Wouldn’t it be great to live in a mansion on the water, Gatsby-style, with your best friends and make art all day? That was the fantasy of Celene Ramadan, a twentysomething filmmaker and musician living in Seattle, who rented a lake house in Chicago with 17 friends while attending an improv festival. The rental only…