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Publication: Worth magazine Sleep disorders affect more than 60 million Americans, and we’re sleeping 20 percent less than we did a quarter-century ago. How much sleep do we need and how can we get it? 1. Most of the day, I’m sitting behind a desk—how much sleep do I really need? Sorry, desk jockeys: “You…
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Publication: Worth magazine Walt Disney holed away with Hollywood bigwigs at Club 33, Parisian cinephiles built a cinema beneath the Trocadéro. International artists create forever hidden work in abandoned New York subway tunnels. Man’s fascination with the clandestine is strong. Today, secret places are more likely to be luxe and exclusive than dangerous or debauched.…
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Publication: Worth magazine The camps on this list provide opportunities for your children to develop their passions, whether they’re travel or sports, computers or the outdoors. But if you’re interested in signing your child up, don’t delay—slots in these camps don’t stay open long. 01 THE EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING The Experiment in International Living…
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1.) Pisticci: Pisticci may be city’s first 100% carbon neutral restaurant, but don’t expect any eco-sanctimony from this cheery Morningside Heights Italian. While a lot of thought has been put into the decor–the small, brick-walled space is decked out in full Victorian study regalia, with faux bookshelves, tufted leather couches, and twee floral wall paper–the…
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Website: Curious Cooks Queens Boulevard stretched long and wide, its twelve lanes hemmed by convenience stores, Chinese restaurants, and combo law office/taxi driving schools. “Stop!” I cried. The tiny woman and her non-wheelie suitcase scrambled to the median after giving us a relieved finger. We kept going. And going. “So that’s Lefrak City,” my driver…
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Website: The TopoFiles Project: Researching regionalism and sense of place in American lifestyle blogs. When I tell people about this project, the question I get asked the most is a variation of “what region has the best blogs?” Deep South is a close runner up, but Mid-Atlantic takes this one. The Mid-Atlantic bloggers as a…
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Employer: New York Post Published by: Page Six Magazine Who’s That: Summer Rayne Oakes Model Summer Rayne Oakes doesn’t care if you’re green with envy, as long as you’re green. “Eco-model” could be an eye roll–inducing label, if only its owner, Summer Rayne Oakes, 24, didn’t cause jaws to drop instead. At 13, she became…
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Employer: Guest of a Guest Inc. Website: Guest of a Guest Hamptons Why The Crimson Love Their Choos: An Interview with Chester French Chester French is the architect who designed the Lincoln Memorial and “The Spirit of Life.” He’s also a synth-rock band signed to Pharrell’s Star Trak label, a band masterminded by two fresh-out-of-Harvard,…
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Website: Boston T Parties By the time I left work last night, it had stopped raining. The air was somewhere between sultry and humid and it clanged with voices, the way summer nights in cities are supposed to. It’s about a mile from my office to the T in Porter Square, and because the night…
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Employer: Myself Website: Boston T Parties The Trouble With North End Street Festivals… Is that the streets are narrow, and cramped. Five feet into Hanover Street (way before I hit Salem Street, where Saint Anthony’s Festival started), and already I was at an impasse, blockaded by vast hordes of dogged pastry pursuiants. I took a…
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