19 Nov 2008
“When I first came to the green market here in New York City, I thought to myself, there are lots of buildings down here, and lots of flowers, but no black…
“When I first came to the green market here in New York City, I thought to myself, there are lots of buildings down here, and lots of flowers, but no black…

We’ve written a lot about the death of the recorded music business, but in a keynote address to a music industry conference a couple weeks ago Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a…
..at least for black folks, I think. I don’t think we’ll get it until we see how close this thing really is.
Now that you’re just rich instead of super-rich, you’re gonna find out if your mistress really loves you. Will she stick around even if you can’t keep her in the manner to which she is…
Slate’s “The Big Money” has decided it’s time to start educating readers on some core financial principles, and they’re starting with the very basics, presented in a “Schoolhouse Rocks!”…
For Feast, a forthcoming series due on Channel 4 early next year, Heston [Blumenthal] interprets historical banquets and cooks an entire pig…

A new service:
“This is the first time in history that the ‘on-demand’ generation will be able to fully experience couch commerce by ordering pizza directly through their television set. You’ll…

Why do certain videos on YouTube become mass phenomena while the vast majority of videos just get a handful of views, if any?
Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently…
Turduckens and churkeys were so five minutes ago. A quaducant—following the Russian matryoshka nesting doll model of meat—would be quail’s breast meat stuffed in duck’s…
I am a self-professed “Dickhead”, dedicating two full shelves of bookcase space to the work of Philip K. Dick, one of science fiction’s most prolific and insane authors. The ebb and flow…
Ginger Anyhow has embroidered a series of romantic text messages received 02/06 to 04/07. Running through the photographs gives one a sense of the relationship’s rise and fall in a…