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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. In fact, I find them rather charming. Walking through Williamsburg often feels like a random...
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 city block and 3 avenue long bar, gym and sushi restaurant east of the Upper...
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, or even physical danger, usually a target of The Cad; whom she may have mistaken...
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 I had yet to have gone to sleep. His instant text sneered “that’s like a...
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, I did not read more than the first couple paragraphs of this New York Times...
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 who privately held a water bottle to their lips as a microphone in performance for...
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 deplorable, stimulating and yet also mind numbing, erotic and limp, a visceral turn on, and...
Notes on a Dandy: Grounded on the principles of leisure, performance, and good taste rather than mere lineage
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 wunderkind editor of Teen Vogue ; homosexual and effortlessly chic, Hastings is nonetheless utterly against...
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 of them just fear and the rush of money going up in flames. Me- I’m...
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 other hand is the next satellite station roaming freely and amply around your ego- an...
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 years ago, along with the Music Genome project, he has undertaken one of “the most...
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 they walk, long legged, ravishing, adored. Here we sit, gawking, envious, infatuated.
For years, media trends...
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 University’s Handsome Boys Film School.”
What follows is evidenced in 2 parts. Part 1 – above:...
American Scandal- Paula Abdul throws herself off the ‘Idol’ Boat.
One would never assume, in a time of heavy recession with humanitarianism at a full blown high, that the New York Times’ most popular article of the much revered Arts section details Paula Abdul’s decision to quit American Idol. But,...
Guy Jacobson out to stop ‘human trafficking.’
Guy Jacobson, film producer and human rights advocate is, first and foremost, a businessman endowed with the patina of a collegial professor. More than once during our interview he asked for a blank sheet of paper and pen. Diagrams...
