Entrepreneur Profile: Sun Putty

Most people are probably wondering if the public needs one more sunscreen but scrutinize most labels and you’ll see the answer is most definitely yes. The family-owned business, Sun Putty, is run by a husband and wife couple, each of whom hold down full-time jobs while raising three children. After moving from the Los Angeles [...]

Glasgow Gets Swanky Budget Hotel

This fall marked Dutch hotel group citizenM’s first opening outside Amsterdam. The hospitality house opened its third location, in Glasgow, Scotland, further expanding its offerings and marking its place in the “affordable luxury” hotel business. The company, whose name refers to the concept “mobile,” introduced the new 198-room hotel in what was once a troubled [...]

Lord Foster To Design London Hotel

The man behind the Great Court at The British Museum in London and Hearst’s Gotham headquarters is teaming up with Spanish hospitality company Sol Melia to build a hotel in London’s financial district. A household name in architecture circles, Norman Foster will design an ME by Melia hotel near Trafalgar Square ahead of the 2012 [...]

Love, Music & NYC

Everyone knows dreamers don’t marry for they are already married–to their dream. When you are young, the kind of love you will have with a dreamer is intoxicating and powerful. You think you are lucky to have met such a person, to have that movie kind of love, to realize that it is possible to [...]

NY Passes HIV Testing, Needle Program Amendments

New York Governor David Paterson has signed a bill (S8227/A11487) that will force doctors to offer patients ages 13 to 64 an HIV test. New York has the highest rate of AIDS in the nation, with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene noting that AIDS is the third leading cause of death for [...]

Quality of Life Ranking Shines Light on Europe

The 2010 Quality of Living survey from consulting giant Mercer revealed that many European cities again topped the list of the best places to live. Taking the top slot was Vienna, Austria, followed by Zurich, Switzerland, and Geneva, another Swiss city, in third. After that, Vancouver, Canada, and Auckland, New Zealand, tied for fourth. The [...]

Starbucks: A LEED Store, Happy Hour & Custom Drinks

Though the country may still suffer from nearly 10% unemployment, we have begun a recovery and so has Starbucks. Late last month, the company announced that its SoHo, NYC, store on Spring Street is registered for LEED certification as part of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Volume chrome://foxytunes-public/content/signatures/signature-button.pngCertification pilot program. The design is a blend [...]

M.I.A. & Freedom of Speech

M.I.A., the British rapper of Sri Lankan descent, has released a new video that tests our first amendment rights and speaks to issues including discrimination and war. This comes at a time when we are about eight years into an Iraqi war and Arizona has just passed laws that essentially enable racial profiling. Some media [...]

Zac Posen For Target: A Perplexing Collection

It is with great displeasure that I reveal the best of the looks from Zac Posen’s collection for—yes, who else, Minneapolis-based retail giant Target. I usually have a blah feeling about some piece in all of the GO collections but Posen’s line is just plain confusing. For one, it is disappointing because it feels like [...]

HBO Has Another Winner

Anyone that’s lived in NYC for an extended period of time has at some point gone through a trying period. From friends leaving the city to tired jobs, lack of money or a creative personal drought, the city can drain and excite you at once. This often leads to sexcapades and overindulgence in the consumption [...]

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