Archive for September, 2009

news you can use: weekend edition

somehow we made it through the week and we hope to help you make it through the weekend by makin’ you the most informed person at the cocktail or dinner party, aerobics class, coffee meet up, blind date, or kids sports match you end up at this weekend.  here’s the week that was ending september [...]


the new face of swine

rachel maddow, marilyn manson, sanjay gupta and now anderson cooper?  seems like the h1n1 might’ve decided to get some celebrity endorsements to combat all the negative publicity.  last night anderson found out that it might’ve been more dangerous than he thought when he was out in afghanistan.
and cause it’s all hip now, h1n1 even has [...]


and tell auntie flo i hated it!

fresh off of the u.s. open, serena williams’ advertisement for tampax will soon begin appearing in teen magazines across the country.  because of her fine-yielding temper tantrum, the ad is causing some stir because as you can see, she is using her powerful forehand to knock the sense out of a fictional mother nature for [...]


this might explain her eyebrows

if you thought latisse, the make-your-eyelashes-longer-fuller-darker product being pushed by brooke shields, was going to change your life you might’ve been right. it just might not be in the way you think. the fda sent a warning last week to allergan, the maker of the product, accusing them of “misleading because they omit and minimize [...]


not sure if i want this rumor to be true

there’s a small buzz going around that soon (if you consider a couple of years soon) we might be seeing the sacred bird (anderson cooper) during the daytime.  word is that anderson might be the first in line to replace regis philbin when he retires in 2011.  personally, i think andy should stick to real [...]


high brow raises an eyebrow

for the first time in the history of new york’s metropolitan opera, the audience booed the production team headed by switzerland’s luc bondy because his production strayed greatly from the very famous and familiar production of puccini’s tosca.  according to an account in the huffington post the production team’s ” appearance on stage at the end [...]


‘i die’

that’s what steve ballmer said when he heard the news that bing, the search engine microsoft debuted in july is actually making making a small dent in  google’s search engine dominance. in fact bing’s market share has grown while google’s has shrunk a bit. web researcher john batelle says that this shift, however slight (google [...]