Six Notes on Juneau, Alaska

I arrived in Juneau, Alaska about 17 hours after I left the Boston area. I must confess that I did expect most people to be baseball hat and flannel wearing men with pickup trucks and maybe that’s not far off though this is also Subaru country. But, city folk need to admit that often times [...]

Data Whore: Why I Splurged on a 64GB iPhone 4S

Frustrated to near tears the other night I rang Verizon Wireless and asked if I could upgrade three weeks early. The nice southern belle on the phone got manager approval to do so and recommended, after I asked about size, the 16GB iPhone. I was thinking even if it wasn’t big enough, I’d have a lot [...]

Taschen Hosts Almodovar For Signing

Publisher Taschen is hosting Spanish Film Director Pedro Almodovar on Monday November 14 for a book signing. The man behind Women on the Verge and Volver has a new book out, The Pedro Almodovar Archives, complete with more than 600 images and a film strip from Volver. Paper Magazine Publisher and Editor in Chief Kim [...]

UK Entrepreneur Creates Texting Smoke Alarm

The UK’s Matthew Newman has created a product for those paranoid folks like myself that check their oven and door multiple times a day to make sure the former is off and the latter is locked. Newman’s company, ELS, developed a product called Firetext, which with the help of a Lithium battery and a GSM [...]

Why We Love Showtime

What Showtime does is to glamorize the failures of contemporary commoners skirting the edge of normalcy. Nurse Jackie has a soul but serves her own kind of justice while she works doubles in a NYC hospital, fueled off an affair and a little nose candy. Californication chronicles the love and mistakes of those individuals that [...]

Britain’s Next Pop Soulstress: Paloma Faith

When we hear a song with lyrics that remind us of the late Amy Winehouse and pop’s it girl Adele we can’t help but compare. Even more, when said singer, in this case Paloma Faith, has hair that reminds one of Tori Amos, and sometimes embodies Lily Allen’s street style, we tend to compare even [...]

Limelight the Movie: The New York That Once Was

By the time I got to NYC in 2004, Limelight, the subject of a new movie from Magnolia Pictures, had already been shut down. The new inhabitant of the former church turned nightclub space was Avalon. After volunteering for GLAAD, I met one of my best friends, my best friend in NYC. We bonded over a [...]

SJP’s Next Act: I Don’t Know How She Does It

Adapted from the book I don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson, the movie by the same name is the latest film starring Sex and the City Star Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s all about the balance working parents strive for in modern society. The mother who works outside the home too, as I [...]

Starwood Taps Social Media For Loyalty Program

Hospitality giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide revealed a”digital extension” to their Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) loyalty program by employing location-based social networking program foursquare. Guests can earn Starpoints(R) and Free Resort Night Awards for foursquare activity at Starwood hotels and resorts in almost 100 nations by linking their SPG and foursquare accounts here. Now through the [...]

Target’s Contribution To Beach Chic

Most people do not need another reason to shop and Trendcetera advocates smart shopping over impulse buys. That said, we all fall prey to the occasional urge for a shopping binge and hopefully those are reasonable spending sprees. Spring fever is here and Target is luring us once again, this time with a collection from [...]

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