With no obvious candidate to lead the Republican party (and one having just stepped down), some are looking to Jeb Bush. Which is news to him.
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Beck & Tom Waits: A Conversation
There’s something maybe uncomfortable now to just hearing somebody’s voice in a room singing.’
Michael Anthony Steele: Kids Screenwriter, Novelizationist, Ad Man
“It’s different for each age group. For example, one of the original Barney writers, Steve White, had a good piece of advice for writing for preschool kids and kids in general. He said, you can use all the vaudeville pratfalls and the oldest joke in the book on these kids because they’ve never seen it […]
New York’s Indispensable Institution
The NYPD’s crime-fighting sparked the city’s economic revival and is essential to its future.
Street Farmer
Like others in the so-called good-food movement, Will Allen asserts that our industrial food system is depleting soil, poisoning water, gobbling fossil fuels and stuffing us with bad calories. Like others, he advocates eating locally grown food. But to Allen, local doesn’t mean a rolling pasture or even a suburban garden: it means 14 greenhouses […]
Tom Williams: Hired By Apple at 14. His Full Story
I was recently in Vancouver Canada for a week, considering moving there, when my friend Ariel Hyatt said, “You have to meet this amazing guy Tom Williams. He got hired by Apple when he was only 14. I think the company had to, like, legally adopt him to do it. He’s a go-getter like you. […]
How blogs changed everything
As old media struggles for relevance, the once-maligned blogosphere proves it’s as transformative as the telephone
