Friday in the Times Center in Manhattan, NYU Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway discussed his rankings of the digital IQ's of 109 leading luxury brands. Marc Jacobs, the awesome man, not the awesome brand, may be into blogs, as this article from Conde Nast Portfolio shows. But...

Aspiring Brandon Tartikoffs (NBC's boy genius who created the Cosby Show, Cheers,  Miami Vice, The Golden Girls and a dozen other shows that have inspired Halloween costumes for decades), ready to launch your own series? Produce for the web, but don't expect your show to be television as usual. The...

Sure, you can grab a hot dog or slice of pizza in New York for cheap, but a balanced meal for $10 or less? In Manhattan? That's the idea behind the new site CheapEatery.com.

At first it seemed too good to be true. When

If you're like me, you like to eat Nutella at your desk, out of the jar and offer your spoon to any busybody co-worker who walks by, looking disgusted.

On one such blissful occasion, I smeared a dollop of Nutella on my desk, to see if...

Friday night, in the razzling-dazzling Waldorf-Astoria, Bette Midler entertained a packed ballroom of ghostly and goofy guests, raising over a million dollars and counting, for the New York Restoration Project.

Dressed as a Moulin Rouge madame, Midler and comedienne/gay rights activist, Judy Gold--a theater-joke crackin' Abe Lincoln--worked the crowd,...

Everyone's favorite satirical news source, The Onion, is coming out with a brand new book, Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, And Moral Rectitude From America's Finest News Source, just in time for the holidays.

The book shows you vintage Onion, going...

What do you get if the 1960s and a banker on Wall Street had a baby? Social entrepreneurism. Though it has a long history, it's been a buzzword since Muhammad Yunnus and his Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for lifting people out of poverty through microloans.

Hawaii and New York have absolutely nothing in common, except for making Bette Midler the Eco-Diva she is today.

This Friday, October 30th, Ms. Midler is throwing her annual Hulaween Ball, a lavish Halloween wonderland in the Waldorf Astoria, with a little hula-flavor--a nod to her Hawaiian...

Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project is at it again. The non-profit, which works to revitalize parks and public spaces throughout New York City, built a community garden in one of New York's toughest neighborhoods, in the Bronx.

(To see the video of Bette Midler opening NYRP's Target Bronx...

Just in time for Halloween, Walletpop's Consumer Ally, Mitch Lipka, discovered that these adorable mini flashlights for children catch fire. Since Lipka's report, Target pulled them from the shelves, but take a good look at this product and make sure you haven't already stockpiled them for Halloween. From Walletpop's Consumer...

Everybody loves a good party. And in the publishing world, Conde Nast is as skilled at throwing memorable fetes as it is in churning out glossy magazines.

When the now defunct Conde Nast Portfolio, where I used to work, first opened over two years ago, bottles of...

The New York Times Styles section had this great article on the growing hunger for spirituality as the new obsession for New York's Carrie Bradshaws. Sure, the pop culture reference is fun, but spirituality is a lot more than visualizing your perfect husband or landing an article in the...

What does fashion have to do with climate change? When you have new "It" bags and shoes coming out every season, made with toxic dyes, often with leather, flown and driven to stores across the globe, it's safe to say fashion's carbon footprint...

The Webby Awards, or Oscars for websites -- just as fun and fancy, but without the stiffness (of Hollywood botox that is! Hey, now!) -- is asking for entries. The awards show is best known for its five-word limit on acceptance speeches, which still manage to pack an emotional...

Retail therapy is real, and it is dangerous. Who hasn't succumbed to shopping's siren call when things are this bleak, even if your checking account can't handle it? If you must feed the beast, do so with these affordable, useful, and hot shopping fixes. Walletpop's Megan Angelo round-ups 10...

Love him or hate him, our president can give a speech! During President Obama's health care address to Congress last night (full text here) one couldn't help but wonder if even the most hardened of birthers and deathers--those who fight against health care reform by spreading false rumors, such...

Forget the Hamptons! (No, seriously, forget the Hamptons.) The hottest parties of the summer have been the increasingly crazy health care rallies. They started off innocently enough--anti-reform protesters carrying loaded guns and Nazi signs--but now, like all good parties, things have gotten weird.

Wednesday night, at a...

And you thought playing Risk over the holidays was exciting! In the greatest game of tech world domination, Microsoft has been holding secret "Screw Google" meetings, according to Sam Gustin at Daily Finance:

"The meetings are part of an ongoing campaign by Microsoft (MSFT), other Google...

Lots of news to report: Tom Daschle is a lobbyist, there's weed killer in our tap water, cold summertime soups look delicious and difficult to make, and John Hughes is still missed. Damian Kolody, an independent filmmaker in New York, on why some people were really affected...