An ad for Target by Andre Dubois. 

Target is taking over the New Yorker next week, buying all available ad space. But they don’t have any stores in Manhattan! New York Times’ Stuart Elliot wrote. “Many of Target’s special ads are aimed at New York City for reasons that include a desire to burnish the image of […]

Every week I get an email from E magazine. Sometimes these folks cry hysterically, such as when they claimed that every baby in the world is born polluted on the inside. But often they have good news about alternative ways to do things. Roddy Scheer reports today: “Biofuels” such as […]

Today we finally saw the first press mention as a result of the Associated Press story filed on Monday. The Boston Herald ran the short item in their “Take Offs” section, the story said in part…”Off the beaten path Far from the world of all-inclusive resorts, motorcoach tours, and standard […]

Gadling is a highter tier blog, and Erik does a great job. Here is his howl to the moon about Burning Man, the famous fall desert extravaganza. “Yes, dear people, the official countdown has begun. The raggedy hordes are assembling, brightening their tattoos, oiling their dreadlocks, and buffing their bongs, […]

Abe Hirschfeld once attempted, in 1993, to run the New York Post for 16 days. Finally, a full-scale staff revolt published an entire issue trashing him, including a page 1 picture of Post founder Alexander Hamilton shedding a tear. The eccentric self-made millionaire, who died this week, was famous for […]

Christopher Goffard of the St. Petersburg Times did some digging about the most famous CIA employee in the U.S. Outed CIA spy   She married and soon divorced her college boyfriend. As a new recruit at the Farm, the CIA’s training facility, her skill with an AK-47 stunned classmates. She […]

Jennifer Wilbanks briefly spoke when the mower’s engine died in tall, wet grass. Daniel Yee of AP met her in Lawrenceville, GA. “I’m doing well,” said Wilbanks. “I need to get back to work. I don’t want to get into trouble,” she added. Her lawn mower then kept dying in […]

Hiking the Jewish Meadow in Hungary. 

Naush Boghossian writes in the LA Daily News about the wake-up call of ABC’s anchor’s death from lung cancer. “John Wayne, Bob Marley, Steve McQueen and Peter Jennings. Each man was among the best in his profession, and each, in his own way, epitomized cool. But the mystique was shattered […]

Arthur Frommer was profiled in the Seattle Times by Jay Boyar of the Orlando Sentinel. “We lived very close to the bone,” Frommer recalls. Still, to hear him tell it, life in Jefferson City was largely carefree. When he was 14, though, his father found a better job and the […]

A heart surgeon once told me that the best way to increase the number of available human hearts for transplant is to get rid of helmet laws. Suddenly there are many healthy hearts available from unwitting organ donors. CNN just published this similar story. “Motorcycle fatalities have risen sharply in […]