Social Media Today • 6th March 2024 The corporate newsletter goes social “When a corporation with a tradition of rigidity allows a thousand blossoms to bloom, wonderful things can emerge in unexpected ways. One of my favorite examples is Chris Luongo . . . ."
Global Innovation Outlook • 20th March 2024 From trash to treasure "When one compares the value of the natural resources embedded in the earth versus the ones buried in the world’s landfills, the landfills win—hands down."
The Wall Street Journal • 24th July 2017 McGovern is making the rounds with the inn crowd Business travelers know the feeling. After spending countless nights in hotels on the campaign and lecture trail, George McGovern once told friends: "Some day I'd like to run a place the way it should be run."
Artist Bio • 13th April 1988 Solitude Standing by Suzanne Vega "If striving for getting beneath the surface and uncovering the feelings and thoughts that we all harbor within ourselves is a theme that seems to recur throughout many of Suzanne Vega's songs, that's understandable. Suzanne is someone who knows all too well that our perception of things can often be very different from what they actually are."
Youtube • 5th January 2023 The tale of Vern Watts The life and times of an IBM engineer and inventor...told through my simple narration and illustrations.
Vimeo • 3rd January 2023 How It Works: Analytics "Information is flowing like mighty rivers from a trillion connected and intelligent things . . . ."
This is New York • 10th November 2017 The pleasures of the harbor In the thick of the city, among the mountainous skyscrapers and valleys of avenues, it's easy to forget that New York is, in fact, an island flanked by two major rivers with its southernmost tip hemmed in by one of the most important ports on the East Coast.
Global Innovation Outlook • 11th March 2024 Shoring up shipping "As fluid as the world's global supply chain appears, it's quite shocking that its backbone, the shipping industry, still relies on techniques and processes that are more than a century old . . . ."
The Hour • 27th August 2017 Spinning the story of Gray on Gray "Does anyone know what I'm supposed to be doing tonight?" The actor-monologist Spalding Gray walks tentatively out to center stage inside the Norwalk Community College theater Saturday night.
This is New York • 8th October 2007 Around Washington Square Every spring the sidewalks, stoops, fence posts and fire escapes surrounding Washington Square blossom with eye-catching canvases, wild watercolors, still lifes and sculptures.
The Hour • 29th July 2007 Wine season: A tradition in the making These men of few words stood blowing into their frozen, cupped hands, puffing on cigarettes, and bouncing in place on a sidewalk sticky with blotches of juice and squashed skins that would sometimes end up on the soles of their shoes . . . .
The Hour • 27th January 2005 Cultivating a taste for the 'bizarre' "Look out!" Two agile teens whiz by on skateboards across the cavernous hall. Club crawlers dance to funk music vibrating through the floor. The totally-tattooed man shows you his chest and then bares his soul. And a few dim-eyed, aging hipsters look like circus roustabouts as they smoke in the shadows before the urge to guzzle beer tugs them back to the bar.
The Hour • 16th December 2004 Martha Stewart cooks up a lesson Dozens of well-dressed women and a handful of stiff-looking men sit at long tables beneath tulip chandeliers for a holiday dinner Monday night.
The Hour • 9th January 2004 Athol Fugard shares life secrets The poetically resonant dialogue of his plays alone mesmerizes audiences in theaters from Johannesburg to New Haven. And when his lithe figure appears at the doorway of the White Barn Theatre, many of the guests just stand motionless and send him admiring and fascinating stares.
This is New York • 21st August 2001 Only history changes at Chumley's There is no music so that conversation is possible. The room is square, absolutely simple, with little tables set against walls that are decorated with old book jackets.
This is New York • 9th May 2001 Hidden streets of New York: Grove Court Dusting off the bookshelf, you might come across a dog-eared copy of O. Henry’s short stories. In it you’re bound to find “The Last Leaf,” a charming story about a lovely young woman who is lying in her sickbed waiting out the days until the last leaf on the vine outside her window falls to the ground.
Downtown • 10th August 1995 Luka Bloom's acoustic motorbike Luka Bloom is a traveler, a nomad. It's no accident the Irish singer-songwriter's three albums have names inspired by geography or vehicles; they reflect the songs, which are linked by their sense of place and motion. Of course, Bloom has been a traveling kind of...
The Hour • 9th December 1994 Artists at work in their Sono lofts Anyone who ever wonders about the relationship between the artist's creative act and the vision of reality seen daily before his or her eyes has to only enter the old factor building near the seaport at 18 Marshal Street.