New Affirmations iPhone app helps overcome stress and anxiety during these tough economic times. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, Ontario -(March 12, 2009)– ACQYR.com has released the iAmHappy iPhone app with over 500 positive affirmations to help people through these uncertain times.  With all...

WASHINGTON - For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. On Tuesday, museum curators confirmed it was true. A watchmaker used tiny tools to carefully pry open the antique watch at the National Museum of American Histor...

Rick Wartzman is not some Twitter-happy newbie who naively pimps New Media and technology. He's the former Business Editor at the Los Angeles Times, and was the editor of the......

Andy Newman is the editor of the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill version of “The Local,� a newly minted hyper-local blogging experiment by The New York Times. “I’m about as newbie as you get,� he admitted when asked about previous blogging experience. He’s so new, in fact, that he spent the bet...

While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

How long should a dead Timesman have to wait before getting an obituary in his own damn paper? It used to be that a gig at the Times was a life-long, perk-filled sinecure. These days all it gets you is a guaranteed wedding announcement and a timely obit. Robert J. Cole, a former business reporter fo...

Hooray! The Times found their new token conservative! Taking over for Bill Kristol: Mr. Ross Douthat. Douthat is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he blogs. He is one of those "reasonable" "centrist" conservatives, like David Brooks except not so much of an asshole. Yes, he thinks fertilized eg...

I have a lot of respect for Pastor David Wilkerson. I'm inspired by his moving to New York in the late 1950s to minister to gang members and drug addicts, a story recounted in The Cross and the Switchblade. I also admire his current activities, serving as a pastor of Times Square Church in NYC. ...

In your blustery Wednesday media column: the newspaper industry burns, News Corp can't handle hardcore music, NPR needs more black people, and the NYT sells a jet: What is happening in the land of dying newspapers today? Only the usual tragedy and grief. The Miami Herald is laying off a fifth of its...

So claims one USA Today reporter: Modesty in young women's clothing is getting a boost from the dismal economy. When consumer spending was in overdrive, retailers could sell to the masses and ignore the more muted voices asking for, say, a decent supply of sleeved shirts or prom dresses that show mo...