September 2009

DC: Capital of Cool?

Guest post by Amanda Hirsch. You can read more about Amanda on her site and follow her on Twitter. Washington DC is cool again. At least, that’s the word on the street now that one Barack Hussein Obama has taken up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania. Then again, some cultural gatekeepers were calling the capital cool [...]

September 30, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Conquering The Monster Within

Guest post by Jennifer Monahan-Searles. Yesterday while walking to my client’s office, I saw a man pushing a toddler in a stroller coming toward me. The sidewalk was a bit uneven, so he momentarily lost control of the stroller and slid across the sidewalk. He quickly regained control of the stroller, but not before the [...]

September 28, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Book Review: The Cheese Monkeys

Guest post by Josh Hanagarne, the brilliant creator of World’s Strongest Librarian. You can follow Josh on Twitter. Chip Kidd is best known for designing book jackets. Google his name, check out his portfolio, and you’ll understand why. Fortunately, knowing nothing about art and less about graphic design, I am more drawn to Chip’s writing. [...]

September 26, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Book Review: Even God is Single, So Stop Giving Me a Hard Time

Post written by Laura Cococcia. You can follow Laura on Twitter. I think my mother gave me Karen Salmansohn’s Even God is Single, So Stop Giving Me a Hard Time ages ago after a sad breakup. She also was a nun before she married my father, so had to throw in the God part somewhere. [...]

September 23, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

What Can You Do To Help The World’s Women?

Post written by Christa Avampato. You can follow Christa on Twitter. Last weekend, I went to 92Y to hear Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discuss their new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. The book chronicles their travels through Africa and Asia, interviewing women who are enduring unbelievable circumstances and [...]

September 20, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

Learning By Eating: An Ode To The Culinary Culture Tour

Post written by Laura Cococcia. You can follow Laura on Twitter. I confess: I can’t cook. Well, maybe that’s too extreme. I *can* cook if we’re referring to pouring milk on cereal, opening a can of Diet Coke or heating up a Hot Pocket. My mother keeps trying to reform me, telling me that one [...]

September 19, 2009 CONTINUE READING →

The 80s Fashion Revival Can’t Buy Me Love

A guest post by Kellie Fitzgerald. Does the recent 80’s fashion revival scare the hell out of anyone else? Anyone, Anyone, Bueller? It seems to me that the recent passing of 80’s movie master and narrator of my youth, John Hughes, coincides with fashion designers getting all nostalgic about the decade that I deem a [...]

September 17, 2009 CONTINUE READING →