Even if I wasn’t engaged, I would still be a fanatic of the TLC show Say Yes to the Dress. It’s one of the most soothing reality shows out there — it doesn’t make you feel depressed about humanity, like Jersey Shore. And the setting — a 69-year-old bridal boutique in downtown New York — …
One of my favorite museums in the world is the Frick Collection in New York — and I am a museum junkie. A lavish early 20th-century mansion built by industrialist Henry Clay Frick to house his priceless art collection, the Frick is also one of the most beautiful. My mother, a former art teacher who …
I was recently having dinner with an old friend, discussing astrology over steamed dumplings. While my friend was skeptical, I insisted I believe in it. I suggested she check out the only published horoscopes I swear by — in Elle magazine. They have proved, in my experience, uncannily accurate. The next day I received an …
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Around the same time Michael Weinstein, the C.E.O. of Ark Restaurants, was wading through the horrors of our health care system trying to help a friend pay for a critically needed surgery, he got a call from another friend, a Democrat in the House of Representatives looking for money for his campaign war chest. The …
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January 21, 2010. A day that makes me feel as though we are living our very own Star Wars Episode 3. For all the wonderful people and places in Washington, DC, let’s face it, Bush’s legacy is still making our government seem more and more like the Death Star. With the Supreme Court’s radical decision …
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Imagine fertilizing your garden with car parts. That’s the dream of Debbie Mielewski and her team of bio-engineers at the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn, Mich. I was invited to check out how Mielewski’s Plastics Research Group is engineering an earth-friendlier plastic, at a time when crisis-levels are choking the Pacific Ocean. The …
“But as much as I love New York, New York refuses to be loved. Whenever I’m all warm, fuzzy and ready to give the city a carefree, trusting bear hug, it repels me with some crazy, only-in-New-York type of crap to deal with–like our cab, suddenly speeding up and swerving from lane to lane as …
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Trying to do a story on a dollar store is like infiltrating a Chiquita Banana compound in Columbia. Everything is so secretive because dollar stores carry the goods that manufacturers are desperate to unload, which means said goods could still be available in mainstream stores and at fancier prices. So if it’s more or less …
In a letter to friends, F. Scott Fitzegerald wrote, “A writer not writing is practically a maniac within himself.” Those bitten by “the bug” would agree, but what about writing as a soothing outlet for everyone? That is the idea behind the New York Writers Coalition, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that organizes writing workshops for historically …
Remember Schoolhouse Rock!? Meet Flocabulary, a program that teaches science, Shakespeare, SAT words and ancient civilization through hip-hop. The music, developed by producers who have worked with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige, is the reason students take it seriously — it’s used in more than 10,000 schools. The idea for Flocabulary came when Blake Harrison, …