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Getting it Right: What Valentine’s Means for Girls
Valentine’s Day is a Hallmark holiday. It’s commercial, it’s forced, and it’s based on a massacre. But the point is: so what? It’s still a day that each woman becomes a girl (yes, we said it) and wants to have the perfect grand romantic gesture. It’s the day when each girl runs through her favorite ...
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What’s Wrong With Chris Brown?
As the Grammy’s gained more viewers last night in anticipation of the comeback of Adele and the tribute to Whitney Houston, one thing that wasn’t expected was the performance(s) and win of Chris Brown. For those of you non-pop-culture lovers, Chris Brown was on the fast track to fame until he was arrested – and publicly chastised for ...
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Slavery is Bad. No Exceptions.
It has become news that an Atlanta teacher resigned after an investigation over third-grade students being assigned math homework with slavery related word problems. Our questions is – why isn’t it news that these teachers were not fired? The investigation by Gwinnett County schools concluded into four teachers who gave out these assignments at Beaver Ride Elementary. Gwinnett ...
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The Green Revolution Just Got Cool: Jesse Ash Brings the Environment to the Screen
Jesse Ash is no ordinary filmmaker. An affable, emerging artist in New York City, Jesse is unassuming about his talents. A recent Tisch graduate, Jesse showed his filmmaking prowess early on, having won awards and getting screened remarkably early in a promising career. He won a Webby award for his animated short “Magical Cure,” which ...
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Occupying Wall Street May Get You a Job There as Well
Tracy Postert was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement until quite recently. She stood in Zuccotti Park banging drums, protesting the 1%, and demanding change. Tracy also holds a doctorate in biochemistry. Unlike the picture painted by media, many Occupy Wall Streeters are there because they are simply frustrated by the economy. It is not all ...
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Entrepreneurs & Contracts: the basics
Before you even start a company, or else plan on developing professional relationships with external agencies, prospective partners and employees, it is critical to understand the laws of contract. When there is a dispute, and often there is at least one during the development phase, all parties will look to the contract. As such, having a lawyer on ...
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Start-Up Budgeting: Basics & Tools
With an upsurge in the start up world, many entrepreneurs are jumping on the bandwagon without doing due diligence on their proposed business ideas. Their focus, understandably, is selling their product or service, which is seldom enough to create profitable business. Due diligence in building your start up venture is critical, and the first step is to ...
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Winter Belly Bulge
Winter is taking its toll on everyone, and summer seems to be an eon away. But before you know it, bikini season will be here and the belly bulge from winter will have no place to hide. To combat the hibernation weight gain, here are some healthy, good-tasting foods that will help you fight that ...
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PGA Golfer, Swim Coach and 40 Others Arrested in Child Sex Sting
Just when we were beginning to move forward from the likes of Bernie Fine and Jerry Sandusky, a new string of names has popped up in a large Florida child sex related sting operation. ”Operation Red Cheeks,” the name given to the child sex sting, began January 8, 2012 and involved several different crime-fighting organizations in ...
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Lay Offs at Rocawear, Drama at Hospital: the birth of Blue Ivy
The day before the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy, half the staff of Rocawear was laid off. According to documents filed at the New York Department of of Labor, 28 of the 56 workers at the fashion label were laid off on January 6, 2011. Cuts were made to the men and boys’ division of ...