Cargo–Ergo Sum: I Shop, Therefore I Am So Bummed!

In the ideal world of shopping, there are no failed products; there are only failed consumers. “My feeling is, we were ahead of our time,” said Ariel Foxman, editor of the suddenly defunct Cargo magazine.

Mr. Foxman was on the phone from his 15th-floor office at 4 Times Square on March 28, 24 hours Read More

Cargo–Ergo Sum: I Shop, Therefore I Am So Bummed!

In the ideal world of shopping, there are no failed products; there are only failed consumers. “My feeling is, we were ahead of our time,” said Ariel Foxman, editor of the suddenly defunct Cargo magazine.

Mr. Foxman was on the phone from his 15th-floor office at 4 Times Square on March 28, 24 hours after Read More

Breaking Times Styles News: Bruce Pask Still Hasn’t Shaved

On the downtown streets of New York, in the hipster hangouts of Los Angeles and on college campuses in between, the young and style-conscious are affecting a look that until recently could not claim to be either. In the few years since Luke Wilson sported a full beard as an anachronistic oddball in ”The Royal Read More

From the Cockpit: The Editor

A dispatch from our irregular men’s blog, The Cockpit.


Heh. Ass.

The Editor
Dude, you know how when we walk over to City Bakery to look at the lonely divorced yoga chicks, we always pass that fucking clothing store at the corner of Fifth and 18th? So uh, what’s up with that stuff Read More

Off the Record

The old debate about the value of a journalism degree became slightly more interesting with the creation of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, and the Monday-afternoon appointment of Stephen B. Shepard, the current editor in chief of BusinessWeek, as its new dean.

The school is scheduled to Read More