Downtown Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world, briefly opened in January with a stunning celebration. In photographs, the building’s inauguration, replete with fireworks and video projections (more…)
Frank Gehry is known for his easily identifiable style: big, swooping titanium and glass forms that seem to float like sails on the wind or the skirts of a dancer. Some compare his architecture to Disneyland, larger than life and a bit too whimsical (more…)
New York is a city of islands: Manhattan, Roosevelt, Governors and Staten, not to mention Long Island, which is anchored on the west end by Queens and Brooklyn. In fact, the Bronx is the only borough attached to the mainland. (more…)
We are showered with a deluge of icons, symbols and images by screens that cover every previous unused inch of public space, and personal computers and the Internet continues the exposure in the privacy of our home.
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So, you got a Facebook account. Of course you did. And now you can’t stop spending hours checking your friends’ status updates, uploading pictures or finding out which Sex and the City character you most resemble.
But what’s the point, you moaned to your friends in your pre-Facebook days.
And now you know the secret. There is no secret.
While social networking sites (more…)
I’ve been a label snob since junior high school. Like most teens, I had to have the latest trends and generic brands would not suffice. Now 45, having designer everything continues to be an important aspect of my life. I recently purchased a pair of Armani sunglasses for $138.00 on eBay. (more…)
So-called experts typically don’t even know a recession is taking place until years after the fact.
Let me be the first to tell you in live time: things don’t look good.
In case you missed the massive financial meltdown, the multiple national banks failing and the general panic overtaking (more…)
