New York City Runs on Dunkin’

The Center for an Urban Future, a nonpartisan think tank based in Manhattan, released its first-ever ranking (PDF) of the national chain retailers with the most stores in New York City.

Perhaps surprisingly, Starbucks did not even make it into the top three, though the Seattle-based coffee chain does have the biggest presence Read More

A Very Happy Daddy’s Day! DVDs , Constructed Bras

Father’s Day is usually a lugubrious kind of affair. A colleague told me that the only thing he ever got for Father’s Day was a lousy shirt-and-tie ice-cream cake from Baskin Robbins, “and the kids ate the fucking thing while I was upstairs unblocking the toilet.”

This June 18, surprise the old geezer with one Read More