The Journal has alerted us to an inexplicable product: A note pad where you can write out (yes, with a pen or pencil) a tweet.
Stationery makers have had a consumer insight: People who email a lot, tweet a lot, and update Facebook a lot, like to write a lot. The paper-peddlers are Read More
Social media has transformed college students into a bunch of Jane Austen characters, suggests a study called The Breakup 2.0 by Ilana Gershon. Online, young people’s romantic lives are played out in public, governed by rigid protocol, and subject to relentless judgment—circumstances that would have been familiar to the 19th-century crowd.
Writing for the Barnes Read More
The fight over Trump City is about to have a reprise.
Extell Development’s planned 2,500-apartment development on the westernmost portion of the Upper West Side is slated to start the city’s seven-month rezoning process Monday. This sets into motion debate over the future of the last parcel of the larger Riverside South development, a Read More
Maybe because we’re such big fans of Lost we expect too much. Because despite dwindling ratings (dirty little secret of 2009: Lie to Me is doing better on Wednesday nights than Lost), plenty of people seem to be onboard with the direction the show has taken. Even last night, the best episode of the season Read More
It’s 2 AM and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.
Need a movie to keep you Read More
Great Scott! Back to the Future, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Oklahoma! and 12 Angry Men were among the 25 selections entered into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry this year.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the entries this morning. “Even as Americans fill the movie theaters to see the Read More
