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A Modern New York City Girl’s Dilemma
The “New York-ette”, we (who live in the city or surrounding 50 mile radius) have all been exposed to her. But what makes this...
The Etiquette of Plastic Surgery.
When our writer Natalie Fasano told me she wanted to interview a plastic surgeon she had met at a function I was at first...
Gentrification- A Daring dash for Real Estate…
It all began with a Hasidic.
This isn’t to say that I mind those of the Jewish faith or culture, no matter how fundamentalist....
The Death of Murray Hill.
Once the refuge for the terminally uncurious and those who wished to create a suburb within a city, Murray Hill was the best 10...
The Hollywood Ingenue.
According to Wikipedia the definition of Ingénue is thus: The ingénue is beautiful, gentle, sweet, virginal, and often naïve, in mental or emotional danger,...
Observations of a Sleep Deprived Blogger.
One of the kids who writes with me at this journal/blog started laughing when I commented that at ten am on a Monday morning...
Philadelphia: Not the Smartest town on the Map.
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
“Philadelphia will be the first major U.S. city to not have it’s own newspaper…”
To be honest,...
Everyone wants to be a ‘Rock Star.’
Whether you were once the type of child who grooved and sang atop their family fireplace for anyone who might watch or the type...
My dalliance with a Sugar Daddy…
Of the most lethal things one can wrap their mind around, it is -sex and money. At once desirable and at the same time...
Notes on a Dandy: Grounded on the principles of leisure, performance, and good taste...
Elegant, fashion-forward, and constantly in the know about the latest designer, Kimball Hastings is averse to the term ‘dandy’. At 28, Hastings is the...
Observations of a Wall st Trader.
The stock is already down seventeen percent and the vultures are starting to pounce every which way. Some of them smell blood, but most...
Twitter or Narcissism?
Reality shows are the new visual medium. Facebook the ‘tell all’ syndrome and picture perfect version of your supposed ‘real’ life. Twittering on the...
Tim Westergren- ‘Pandora’s,’ bearer of hope and curiosity..?
Tim Westergren has been instrumental in the way we understand and consume music today. Founder of Pandora.com, a portable loading internet radio station three...
Media Obsessed Starvation, and other myths.
Anorexia: Media Obsessed Starvation amongst celebrity and idealized images of contemporary women to the detriment of health.
We have models to turn to for beauty.
There...
Rejection Letter From Columbia University’s Handsome Boys Film Academy.
The facts are as follows: Recently one of our most esteemed writers and admittedly untoward writers- Cyrano de Bulgerac applied for admittance to “Columbia...
