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Recently the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and Wells Fargo released a study of affordable housing in the U.S. that, surprise surprise, found New York and San Francisco to be the most expensive cities in the country. If you’re looking for affordable housing, head for the Midwest. The mystery city pictured at right came [...]

By the time you read this post, New York Governor David Patterson will have announced his pick to replace Hillary Clinton as New York Senator. The winner, after Caroline Kennedy dropped out, is Kirsten Gillibrand (pictured at right), an upstate Democratic Representative. Though we see Patterson’s fixation on finding a female replacement for Clinton in [...]

We’ve all noticed the recent saturation of microhistories on bookstore shelves. You know, there’s Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, A History of the World in Six Glasses, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Society, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1434: The [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]

We’ve always felt that the sums of money being spent on professional sports – and the attendant industries of endorsements and entertainment – were a little obscene, and the good folks at Forbes recently confirmed that suspicion with a listicle of the most valuable franchises in the world.
So try not to think of the number [...]

Friday night we were talking about our favorite cocktails and, when pressed on our like of dirty martinis, couldn’t explain what made them different from other martinis, nor what made other martinis different from dirty martinis. We suddenly realized that our alcohol history is sorely lacking, so went looking for a crash course guide to [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

With streets, neighborhoods and entire cities increasingly surveilled around the clock by cops, cameras and private security forces, street art has never been so vital. Not surprisingly, it’s also practically impossible in wealthy neighborhoods, so the areas with the richest street culture tend to be the poorest and most officially neglected, a kind of sweet [...]

MTV airs the fourth season finale of cautionary Los Angeles tale The Hills this evening. The show’s reality quotient has shifted as the quartet of stars and their hangers-on (Brody Jenner, Heidi Montag’s new chin) have seen their fame rise. So naturally, they’ve become more aware, more camera-savvy. To balance this out, the producers [...]