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The Truth About Building With Glass
"Everybody wants a story to tell. They want a feeling. People want something that can be photographed, that could be Facebook friendly." So said Randal Stancik, the vice president of Willis Tower's Skydeck Chicago observatory when I spoke with him in 2010 about The Ledge, the four transparent glass balconies that protrude 103 stories above street level from the top of what was once the world's tallest building.
I Got Shipped to California to Date Tech Guys
The endeavor seemed, at first, like a joke on Silicon Valley: An online start-up was crowdfunding a shipment of single women from New York to San Francisco, so the nerd-kings of tech could finally get dates. " Cross-Country Love: Help Fly NYC Women to SF " was the brainchild of Lauren Kay, the 24-year-old CEO and founder of dating start-up the Dating Ring .
Apple to Pay $3 Billion to Buy Beats
CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple, the company that turned digital music into a mainstream phenomenon, said on Wednesday that it was buying Beats Electronics, a rising music brand, for $3 billion, in a move that will help it play catch-up with rivals that offer subscription-based music services.
Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds
I was going to write about The Big Bang Theory -why, as a nerdy viewer, I sometimes like it and sometimes have a problem with it, why I think there's a backlash against it. Then some maniac shot up a sorority house in Santa Barbara and posted a manifesto proclaiming he did it for revenge against women for denying him sex.
'Mad Men' Season Finale Recap: The Best Things in Life Are Free
During a brainstorming session in last week's episode "The Strategy" - perhaps the first time Don Draper has ever addressed Peggy Olson as a true creative equal, he gifted her with a great piece of advice: "I start at the beginning again, see if I end up in the same place."
Christopher Michael-Martinez's Father Gets It Right
I don't think I've ever been as heartbroken by anything as I was, last night, by the video of Richard Martinez, whose twenty-year-old son, Christopher, a college student at the University of California Santa Barbara, had been murdered the day before. Christopher and six others were killed in a mass shooting near campus.
Misogyny Is Poison, And You're Drinking It
I don't know the full story of what happened today in Williamsburg. About 20 minutes into a showing of The Phantom Tollbooth (I know! Brooklyn is magic sometimes), a steadily increasing murmuration in the middle of the theater erupted into a man barking out "you cunts" and storming from the room.
