First time I met her was a Monday morning, 9 a.m. freshman Intro to Advertising. After an hour of no teacher and 65 students chirping about walking out, Lynette walks in, slams some books on a desk and yells, Hey! Anybody got a cigarette?! It was classic. Kthfrontcovsmall111008 copy 1 We all hit the...

Winter will end, one day, and when it does, you should go to Tabaq’s rooftop lounge to enjoy the lovely weather. The whole bar is wrapped in glass, with a retractable roof (!) they close in case of rain. Don’t let the stout buildings of its U Street locale fool you; Tabaq has one of the ...

Unsurprisingly, U2 topped Billboard this morning, with No Line on the Horizon selling 484,000 copies — 21k less than Britney's Circus did in its first week. As Idolator chart guru Chris Molanphy put it in an email (which I hope he won't mind me quoting here): "That's either terrible compared t...

War on art! A famous Japanese pop artist was doing just a little bit of vandalism down in the subways, and was arrested. Why doesn't Mayor Bloomberg just let people draw in the streets? Yoshitomo Nara was in town for his gallery opening in Chelsea last month, and got a little drunk and went on down ...

Apologies for the delay in posting; this was due to circumstances far beyond my control. Whew. Okay. A moment before the Purim holiday ends, let’s take a look at days gone by, in particular the Adloyada parade. “Adloyada” is a bastardization of the phrase “ad lo yada” o...

Filed under: Money & work, Resources In 1956, Coach Jerry Sacharski couldn't turn away the little guys who showed up wanting to be part of his summer baseball program, so he started the first PeeWee T-ball league to teach the six -to-eight-year-old set the fundamentals of baseball and a thing or...

Maybe some smarty pants MBA can help me out—but preferably not one of those guys who pretends to understand those gee whiz Weapons of Financial Destruction known as derivatives. Last week that day finally arrived when you could buy a share of Citigroup at the Dollar Store. And in the pattern that ...

In your meaty Tuesday media column: rumors of coming layoffs (and a die-off?) at OK! magazine, a golf magazine is killed, advertising plummets, media companies may default, and Americans don't know a damn thing: We hear that OK! Magazine is, sadly, well on its way to becoming a mere shell of the gra...

We already know the recession sucks for journalists because—to generalize slightly—they have been laid off. But it sucks for working journalists, too. Guess who else got laid off: all their sources! Imagine, if you will, that you're a business reporter. You spent years schmoozing and hob...

Rush Limbaugh as Frank Sinatra/Major Bennett Marco? No, I don't think so ... Not in a million years, and all the CGI you can generate. Kevin Hassett, on Bloomberg today, has a column calling President Obama "The Manchurian Candidate" , because, after all, Obama has launched a War on Business and is ...