Retail & Celebrity News Aug. 27

Send to KindleTweet Duncan Hines Creates Bakeware Duncan Hines, a Pinnacle Foods Group brand, will brand a new collection of bakeware, License reports, citing IMC Licensing. The Continuum Sales & Marketing company has been hired as a licensee for the products, which will be on sale this fall at grocery stores, mass merchandisers, drugstores, club [...]

The Super Seed

Canadian farmers are helping food manufacturers bring the powerful, healthy seed to the masses.

Botox & The Baster

Send to KindleTweet A woman thinks she has it all figured out–straight love that is. She thinks that she wants a love, a family, a house–but then one day all those possibilities present themselves, and they aren’t good enough. She struggles between settling and facing the reality that no perfect relationship exists. She makes the [...]

Hedgies Buy Alt Newspaper Company

Send to KindleTweet Reporters and editors at one of the country’s main alternative news weekly publishers will now indirectly answer to a hedge fund, reports Associated Press. According to an August 25 report, Creative Loafing was acquired by New York hedge fund Atalaya Capital Management for $5 million at an auction. Creative Loafing was owned by [...]

Mad Men: A Different Beast for Men and Women

Send to KindleTweet What HBO’s Mad Men does it to remind us of the fallacy that is straight marriage. The union of a man and a woman is an unrealistic endeavor based on fantasies sold to girls and obligations guilted upon boys. The sexes are different creatures, one obligated to make money to feel the [...]

Destination Indie

I have a few new obsessions and they revolve around music. What would you say to a site that offered free MP3s that puts iTunes to shame? Read on for the dirt.

Palm Plans Apps Catalogue

Palm is among the many smart-phone companies competing for a piece of Apple applications market.

Rape Victim Fights Negligence Suit

Send to KindleTweet In a shocking case, media reports say a woman that was raped at gunpoint in front of her children in the parking lot of the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa is facing a negligence suit. According to USA Today, the woman, who was raped by Gary Fricker in October 2006, was accused [...]

P.F. Chang’s Takes On America

The restaurant chain known for its much-loved lettuce wraps is launching a line of frozen entrees. Read on for the dirt

P.F. Chang’s Takes On AmericaWhat: Unilever and the Chinese restaurant chain link up to offer frozen entrees across America.

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and Unilever have entered an exclusive licensing agreement to develop a line of frozen Asian entrées for the U.S., under the P.F. Chang’s brand. The terms of the agreement were not revealed. The move is not a new one for Unilever, who launched the Bertolli Frozen [...]

Next Page »