Fire up those Netflix queues. Lucas Joaquin recommends films to watch during the recession.

Recession and the movies. As Daily Variety will tell you, hard times equals good box office business. That’s because Hollywood assumes that during a recession you, the moviegoing public, crave escape from your misery, and that the easiest place to […]

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New Visual Artists, originally uploaded by sloatie.

Holly was the start of the party last night, as Print magazine honored her and a bunch of other soon-to-be-somebodies (Holly already is a somebody, PS). Check out this […]

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Image: Garfieldminusgarfield
Recipe courtesy of Carl. We ate it during the thrilling conclusion of Project Runway. Everyone was very happy.
A WHOLOTTALASAGNA (VEGETARIAN)

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Tip #2: Make Your Own Coffee
I started doing this a long time ago for multiple reasons:
1. I find most coffee isn’t strong or tasty enough
2. I am too lazy to leave my office or apartment.
3. A cup of coffee is usually about $2. A week’s worth of delicious home brewed coffee costs about […]

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NEW THINKER OF THE MONTH
Innovative individuals are doing some creative problem solving by re-thinking things we take for granted. Noah Horowitz, an NRDC engineer, took a look at the energy hogging vending machine.
There is now one soda machine for every 100 Americans! Some 3 million machines are humming away 24 hours a day, 7 days […]

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…the voting fever! But not the Obama fever, I’m afraid.

Nothing interesting happened today at my polling place, mostly because we still have the same voting machines that we’ve had since New York became a state. (Fuck HAVA!) So instead I’ll share with you my experience from voting in the 2004 primary. (Sharpton ‘04, totally not […]

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I have no idea what this movie is about, although from what I understand it is a remake and it is science fiction. I’m 99% sure Will Smith is in it.I am more excited about this work of art than anything else in the world right now, however, because in this movie some kind of […]

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Lately, I’ve basically become obsessed with Andrew Kuo’s blog, a model of excellence which contains many of my most favorite things: infographics, bright colors, and music. It’s been around forever – long enough for the NYT Arts Section to commission him to inform and entertain, which means a really long time. The excitement of the […]

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